I recently wrote about the two old houses in Berkeley, California that belonged to the University of California. Most of my blog entries have been about families purchasing old houses to make them their homes, but another good method for saving old houses is for organizations to purchase them. The University of California appeared to have used at least one of the old houses for offices, unfortunately the need for ...

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  Home prices seem to be continuing to decline throughout most parts of the country. The First Time Home Buyers Tax Credit has been extended, and expanded, to allow current homeowners a $6500 credit if they have lived in their current home at least 5 years. It sounds like a great time to purchase an old house, and it is. If you are considering buying an old house, and I hope you ...

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In Part One of this piece we discussed some very-important-not-to-be-overlooked-or-underdone structural elements of raising and/or moving a bathtub. Here in Part Two of our bathroom remodel, we talk about the bun that makes that beefy patty look and taste real yummy--trim details. For me, trimming a tub includes more than what my eight year old daughter refers to as "curly wood." It's about how a tub feels when you get ...

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