by Sears Homes | May 1, 2019 | Uncategorized |
There are so many reasons to loathe the Open Floor Plan concept. HGTV (Houses Getting Totally Vandalized) is the most egregious offender, encouraging every old-house homeowner to rip out a home’s interior walls, and decimate its historicity, charm and appeal....
by Sears Homes | Dec 22, 2015 | Uncategorized |
How many homes must a nation tear down, before they can say it’s enough? Old kit homes, that is. Earlier this week, I wrote about a kit home in Haymarket, Virginia that is now on Death Row. Through the years, I’ve written about many kit homes that have...
by Sears Homes | Dec 28, 2014 | Uncategorized |
More than 10 years ago, Dale Wolicki and I went tooling around Ohio, looking for kit homes. That was a lot of fun. Dale was an especially patient driver, pulling over repeatedly, whenever I would screech, “STOP THE CAR!” Back in those days, I was more...
by Sears Homes | Dec 27, 2014 | Uncategorized |
If a mother could have favorites, the Sears Lorain would be on my Top Ten list. I’ve always had a soft spot in my house-shaped heart for Cape Cods, and the Lorain is a classic example of a 1930s Cape Cod. In 1933, The Lorain was offered with the rounded dormer,...
by Sears Homes | Jun 1, 2012 | Uncategorized |
When I first started researching Sears Homes in 1999, I was living in Alton, Illinois. By 2002, I had driven the city many, many times, finding all the Crescents, and Gladstones, and Starlights and Craftons and Westlys – in short, all the most popular,...
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