Sentences with phrase «in old houses»

I think I liked living in the old houses better — repairs were more staggered, you could trust the quality more, and I didn't have to work so hard to add character.

Our house has a lot of nooks, which I think comes with the territory in old houses, so I look at each area as an opportunity to make the most of it.

People used to say the exact same thing when they came in our old houses, that they had a good «feel» to them.

In our old houses we wore coats inside in the winter to save our heat bill.

I can not tell you how many times we had to repair or update something in our old houses only to find out they don't make those parts any more, or it would be difficult to repair due to the age or layout of the house, or the steps to repair would require special costly improvements or unusual skills.

the mysteries in old houses!

Lead paint and asbestos are also common in old houses.

Choose one who specializes in old houses and understands the difference between «charming» and «a serious problem.»

Always scope the sewer lines in old houses, folks.

I just wasn't sure if the (potential) lack of insulation is fixable, deal breaker, or just something people live with in old houses.

While Flint is mostly known, it is only the tip of an iceberg: Elevated blood levels are widespread in the USA because there are still many deposits of lead: old factories, lead paint in old houses and water contamination with lead plumbing.

His thesis is entitled Architectures at the cross roads of time, a study of life evolving in the old houses of Dhaka in the pre-partition period before 1947.

Let's just hope that those in a similar position to Micah (who was ultimately forced to cancel his pre-order) can quickly get friendly with those living in their old houses.

In addition, it is possible to stay in the old houses on the farm — the mill house, the shed and the old farmhouse — while food serving takes place in the old barn.

The area around Chao Fah Pier also hosts a good choice of restaurants and bars in old houses, giving great vintage - style photo ops.

If the book is about making plumbing repairs, your customers are folks who live in old houses among others.

As an aside, never play hide and seek in old houses.

He could fix anything that went wrong in an old house.

A family member lives in the old house with me covering all costs; this is a non-negotiable item, unfortunately.

My family could not stay in our old house because the new owners needed to move in, and our new house was unfinished and at risk of being foreclosed on by the bank.

I've spent the evening — well, what was left of it after dinner and baths and stories and the rosary and people wanting to keep their lights on after lights out and other people wanting to take showers upstairs at the same time that the dishes were being washed downstairs, which is problematic in an old house — scrolling through the website of the Jennmaur Gallery, which

I live in an old house not far from Victoria, Vancouver Island and now that we have a direct flight to San Francisco I am very tempted to experience all the wonderful eating and cooking cultural experiences available there.

The memory in old house is precious.

We live in an older house and our windows are drafty.

I remember having this issue in my old house.

Our washer and dryer were actually in a closet in our master bedroom in our old house, which equals MASSIVE amounts of bed laundry... I got tired of it and got rid of half of our clothes.

The Sassy Johnny Jump Up is absolutely brilliant for those with taller door frames and even for those of you living in older houses with beautiful molding.

But my Office in the old house was something like 15 x 16.

I live in an older house with limited closet space.

In my old house my office was fairly large.

Even with that, and the «new» windows in this house, and a few extra layers of insulation going in, and all the other weather - tightening we can do in this old house, judging by the number of layers I'm wearing on November 3rd, I'm thinking it's going to be a cold one.

I have teens now so things are a little different in the old house but I'm still reaching for the gin!

We live in an old house, so radiators are just a part of our home decor reality.

Some may threaten to live in the tree house or stay in the old house by themselves.

This was a creative solution to cover a vent hole on a kitchen cabinet under our sink in our old house.

We are real book worms and when we moved to a bigger place, we discovered we had been hoarding so many books in our old house, stacked under beds and in cupboards and the garage, that we had to invest in another bookcase!

Schumer's comments add to the growing call for action in Buffalo, where elevated lead levels have been a problem for years because of the presence of lead paint in its old housing stock.

I grew up in an old house in Forest Ranch, California as the eldest of four boys.

In Bisbee, Ariz., according to the authors of the Arizona wildlife park study, kissing bugs seem to have become domesticated and are «resident throughout the year in older houses and feed regularly on humans with all life stages present in the homes».

On a side note, I am now glad I live in an older house....

Last time we had chickens, in our old house, we started out with a chicken coop smack in the middle of the yard.

I had painted it when we were living in the old house for our guest room and it still had crystal knobs.

I used to craft in our basement in the old house.

This bedroom is much smaller than the bedroom in our old house, so hanging curtains high and wide trick the eye and make the ceiling look taller.

I had to comment because after saving for years, have just had our small kitchen in an old house done and also like you we worked with the layout we had and didn't do the popular thing of knocking down walls.

It was love at first sight about a year ago, I was on the Amalfi Coast (see why here) in a gray and rainy day in February and there, under a gray sky in an old house perched on a rock I fell in love with the force of the sea, the blue of the waves and the slow flight of the gulls, I fell in love as rarely happens, a strong and lasting love that I still have, and that will be a part of me forever.

I had a lot of green in my old house, now I'm not sure what I'm going to do, colour-wise.

I am renovating a kitchen in an old house, and have been trying to come up with the right island, and I am going to steal your adorable breakfast bar idea.

I live in an old house.

My folks had it in their old house and I always loved it.