Things have been running at an all time insane pace over here at Old Town Home lately. We're in the middle of our big master bathroom renovation, Alex has been working to repair the shoddy attic ductwork and insulation we inherited with the house, we've been working tirelessly to keep...
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I have a theory. When you live in your home long enough, and you spend a lots of time working on your home, you get to a point where you often ignore tasks or problems that should be glaringly obvious. These can be big or little, important or innocuous, and...
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I have to be honest here. Wendy does at least 90% of the cooking in our household. Though I pride myself on the fact that I try not to succumb to gender stereotypes, this is one area that I often fail. It's not for lack of effort, but the planning,...
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There are few things that raise ire in Wendy like that of an often requested, but long unfinished project. Add into the mix the fact that the project seems like it should be relatively easy, yet it remains incomplete, and you've got yourself a bit of a Wendy volcano on...
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Here at Old Town Home, our proximity to our nation's capital gives us a little extra incentive to celebrate the birth of The United States. Ever since we moved to DC in 2000, we've always made a point to be in the area on the 4th of July. There's just...
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As you may have seen from our various gardening inspired posts, we've been extremely hard at work trying to keep all of our plants alive through the ridiculous heat spikes we've been experiencing. The pendulum of Mother Nature has been swinging quite far in either direction from week to week,...
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Are you hosting friends and family this 4th of July? Maybe you're looking for a few simple ways to up the patriotic quotient at your shindig? Here's a quick and easy patriotic tablescape I put together, using items I already had on hand around the house.
After scrounging around in our...
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