Work has begun!

Hello from Cape Cod, Massachusetts.  We are here for a week.  Our last vacation for a while. Anyway, work has finally begun on the House house (figures it starts the week we are gone, but still, it has started and that’s all that matters)!  After many, many months of planning and waiting, and going back and forth with contractors, architects, etc it has officially begun. Hall-e-lu-jah! Step one is demolition.…

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Vacation time over and permits approved!

My family and I just got back from a 2 week vacation. We visited 8 states in 15 days, and went to a fun family wedding along the way. It was so great to see so many of my cousins, aunts and uncles, who I hadn’t seen in years, at the wedding.  The whole trip was awesome and we saw some really amazing sights.  My intent was to blog a few times along…

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Appliance shopping? Oh my!

Last week we got to pick out appliances for our new kitchen.  Yawn…..bo-ring, am I right?  Well, it actually wasn’t as boring as I thought and, dare I say, was sort of fun.  My husband and I have only had to pick out appliances when they needed replacing;  a new dishwasher and fridge when we bought our current house and once years ago a dishwasher for our Boston condo.  Never have we had to…

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Waiting for Permits Stinks!

We have been waiting for permits for weeks.  It stinks!  Apparently this is normal in the county in which we live, but it still stinks.  You’d think since it is so hot here in the summer that it would be a slower time for builders, making it easier to get permits, but that is not true.  Many of the luxury high-rise condo’s here have restrictions that state no renovations during ‘season’.…

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A New Kitchen!

Hey y’all!  I am so excited.  For me, designing my own kitchen is probably the best part of this whole remodeling process.  After all, the kitchen is the ‘heart of the home’, right?  This week we had an appointment with Lyndsey Davis Nicklas at Kitchens by Clay right here in Naples.  My husband and I met with Lyndsey several weeks ago to discuss the project and today she showed us 3 different layouts for our…

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Welcome to ‘the House house’!

Hi, I’m Jodi House. I’ve always wanted to start a blog and I’ve always wanted to remodel a house and now I am doing BOTH.  Yay me! It only seemed fitting to name my blog ‘the House house’ since our name is House and we are remodeling a house.  Get it?   🙂 Here’s my story… My husband, our 2 young boys and I moved to Naples, FL from Massachusetts over…

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