• The Sleeping Porch

    sleeping porchSchool is out and summer is here which, when I was a kid, meant it was time for Lisa and I to sleep out in the patio every night!  This was one of the best parts of the summer.

  • Summer Luxury

    I am lucky actually to have a large porch and two patios.  I have the porch and a patio at my home, and a patio at my cottage. 

    My love of screened-in porches (a patio) started many years ago.  My mom and dad had a patio installed on the back of their house.  This offered wonderful cozy summer nights and days bug-free.  This patio became the center of living during the warmer days of spring and summer.

  • Trading Spaces

    Having moved from a tri-level home to a larger two-story house was a bit of a challenge to get used to.  You learn to live one way and then have to refigure a new environment.  We had our family room on the lower level and grew to love that idea.