Archive for December, 2011

In late 2010, I purchased a 1950's rambler-style house in coastal Georgia. In keeping with my usual method of madness, I deliberately chose a fixer-upper home

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"What's the most environmentally friendly way to remove the snow from my sidewalk?" This is one of the most popular questions that I get from readers. My favorite answer is "wait till spring." If that's not practical for you then try these methods.

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Now that the holidays are here, so are the Christmas lights and candles burning into the night. That makes this time of year the most dangerous for house fires.

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In 1928, the Felt Estate (Shore Acres) in Michigan's Saugatuck Dunes was powered with a series of windmills feeding electricity to all the buildings. Remarkably ahead of its time, a wave undulation machine was installed which pumped fresh water from Lake Michigan up the hill to irrigate the homestead fields. At Shore Acres, renewable energy allowed a life of opulence and excess.

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Every few weeks there will be a nice write-up, complete with video, of an old house lifted onto a platform and rolled through the streets to a new property.

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