by Sears Homes | Feb 18, 2012 | Uncategorized |
I’m mighty happy to be in my new home, but one of the things I miss from the old place is my little 96-square-foot house. David Strickland designed it and built it in September 2008, and it is a real beauty. It has more than 250 linear feet of crown molding, a...
by Sears Homes | Aug 5, 2011 | Uncategorized |
When you own an old house, it’s extra tough to find a reliable, honest, trust-worthy contractor that “gets it” and will love and respect your old house, but I found one. And now I’m worried about losing him. Yesterday I got a call from David...
by Sears Homes | Jun 1, 2011 | Uncategorized |
When I give tours of my home, I usually tell people, “This old house is actually a beautiful piece of artwork, and wood was the artists’ medium of choice. And this wooden sculpture is incredibly practical, because we get to live inside of it.”...
by Sears Homes | May 30, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Saturday morning, my dear husband arose at 5:30, had his morning coffee and by 6:00 am, he had started on his assigned chore: painting the kitchen in old 1925-built Colonial Revival. I helped a bit, but he did the lion’s share of the work on Saturday. Sunday...
by Sears Homes | Aug 22, 2010 | Uncategorized |
My cutie-pie husband is from Elkins, West Virginia (see picture below). Wayne graduated from Davis and Elkins College in 1977, and Washington and Lee (School of Law) in 1980. This weekend (August 20th), we drove from Norfolk to Elkins to attend his cousin’s...
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