I’m apparently really good at posting here about every six months, but aside from that, it’s just a spambot’s paradise. When I started getting significantly more [spam] comment alerts in my email, I realized it was probably time to write an update. It doesn’t seem like much has happened around the house since the drainage […]
Back in November, shortly after our last post, our basement flooded. Technically, it flooded a few times in the span of a week or two; but the worst deluge approximated to five inches of water, wall to wall, in our 600-ish square foot cellar. We wouldn’t have even known about it had our tenant (whose […]
As evidenced by our apparent four-month-long blog hiatus, Trevor and I have been absolutely swamped with work and haven’t been able to work on the house as much as we’ve wanted, let alone write up blog posts about it. Just a few weeks after we had spent all that time and energy hauling away over […]
I realized I should have probably kicked off Hello, Hilltop! with a bit of a house tour, or at least share the floor plan, but you’re going to have to settle with some shrubbery to start. On Monday morning, I had just dropped Trevor off at work when I spotted this billboard: Now, most people […]
This is a story about a house—or, more specifically, a duplex. A 1910 Craftsman duplex situated atop a large hill (adorably dubbed Queen Anne) just north of Downtown Seattle. This is also a story about Paige & Trevor, the couple that lives there. A couple that has endured much, love much, and consider themselves so incredibly […]