by skimhenson | Sep 14, 2011 | renovations for home and life
Living in our 4,000-square-foot home was comfortable. We bought the fixer-upper on meager salaries. Within months, my husband and I were offered better paying jobs and renovating the old place got a lot easier. We sealed the nearly 100-year-old rambling house with...
by skimhenson | Apr 18, 2011 | pain, renovations for home and life
Everything went right that year. After writing thousands of words and submitting to dozens of publishers, I finally saw my stories in print. The editor who mentored my work asked if I’d like to write a human interest column for her newspaper. Right up my alley....
by skimhenson | Jan 3, 2011 | holidays, renovations for home and life
My husband and I are moving toward resolutions for 2011 we never would have thought to make without the help of a broken waterline. Our home in Upstate South Carolina, the one we have for sale, ended up with puddles of water on the newly redone hardwood floors, as...
by skimhenson | Nov 18, 2010 | renovations for home and life
Of all the things I’ve done in my life, renovating homes has landed in the top two as being the most challenging, fulfilling, exasperating, exciting, and panic and passion-producing. I’ve also probably learned more from my homes than just about anything or anyone....
by skimhenson | Oct 4, 2010 | renovations for home and life
My husband’s younger brother and sister host the majority of his family’s gatherings like Thanksgiving and Christmas. When his older brother comes into town, he and his wife treat everyone to drinks, dinner and desserts. And us? We used to take our turn hosting,...
by skimhenson | Sep 6, 2010 | listening and talking, renovations for home and life
I heard the noise when our son pushed his chair back from the dining room table. “Be careful. We just redid the hardwood floors,” I said in a not-so-nice tone. That was about a week after my husband, John, and I finished a do-it-yourself project,...