Providing Context to an "Older Home"

Daneen and I are keenly interested in helping our city government, and the residents of our city, to understand what comprises our particular "older home."

We as a family and the house we occupy share a now six-year history. We share a longstanding connection. Doesn't that count for something? For some serious consideration?

I installed this coat rack in our kitchen not too long after we moved in. It was Daneen's idea.

  

These back steps have required some repairing over the years.

I helped a family friend install this bathroom fan after a few years of roasting in the summer post-shower.

I braved vertigo and the risk of personal injury in order to replace
missing mortar and to repair existing mortar on our chimney.

I helped my brother-in-law, John D., to install a
stainless steel sink in our kitchen a few years back.

The old cast iron sink is, naturally, now part of a flower bed.

Home, sweet home.

This appropriate message was scrawled by
one of the children on a wall of our garage.