Sentences with phrase «old house their home»

The owners spent a lot of time creating a unique and eclectic mix of furniture and furnishings that would make this big old house their home.

Not exact matches

Having spent much of his career developing housing for seniors, the 68 - year - old is building something different for his own retirement, a waterfront dream home on 10 acres.

Take the housing bubble, for example: The disconnect between average home prices and wage growth had become massive, despite the fact that the fundamental link between the two is as old as time.

They bought 2.07 million new homes in total, a 7 percent jump from 2016, and a big reason for this is that the oldest members of the millennial generation have started looking for houses as they exchange student loan debt for marriages and children.

For the record, a quick list of things that need to be done: Sell or rent your current house, find your new home, squat in temporary accommodation in between, pack and move, close out old utilities, set - up new utilities, update your health insurance and driver's license, ditto with banking and vehicle registration, deliver said vehicle to new location, ensure spouse and children have jobs and school / daycare placements, find childcare in between if necessary, settle everyone in.

Our strategy includes repairing older homes to bring them up to code and building new housing developments to offer affordable homeownership opportunities to first - time homebuyers in safe Habitat communities.

For those who do own a home and are beginning to grow older, the Canadian housing market poses a remarkable solution, though, to the problem of retirement.

Sensing an opportunity, I made the move to on the one hand increase passive income by renting out my old house and on the other purchase my ideal San Francisco home for the second half of my life.

On a special episode of Ask This Old House, the show heads to Texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey to profile nonprofits working to tear down, clean out, and rebuild homes that were destroyed during the storm, among them Jake Wood's Team Rubicon.

For future homeowners preparing to close on a foreclosed or older home, a professional inspection can also reveal the condition of whatever is inside and outside of the house.

While he's somewhat sympathetic to those caught in the recently fallen housing market, older home buyers would probably never have considered buying a new home before selling their old one.

That could mean buying a smaller house, getting a townhome instead of a single - family detached property, buying further away from work or opting for an older home.

These repeat - sales indices control for compositional shifts in the stock of houses sold in each quarter, and changes in the average quality of newer homes compared with older homes.

The bibles are thought to be up to 200 years old and were lent to the church by the Hopetoun family, who own the Hopetoun House stately home and 6,500 acre estate in West Lothian.

An older brother took charge and insisted that the younger kids clean the house in preparation for dad when he got home.

Jenny and I had just moved into a new home, and unlike our old place, this house had central air conditioning.

Josh Hart, who is the brother - in - law of 18 - year - old Allen Wright, said the teen had left a friend's house a little after midnight to walk home.

In manhood, he needs wood to build a house and, later, still more wood to build a boat on which to ship out in midlife escape; and the tree, each time, obliges to the point of reducing itself to a stump on which the exhausted old man finally comes home to rest.

In an old - fashioned Chinese home, the girl from her twelfth year on did not go outside her father's house until she went to her husband's, and a Japanese girl when grown could say that she had never come so near a man, even her own brother, as to touch his hand.

A family opts to live on less money after the husband refuses to accept a job transfer that would have him designing weapons and the wife decides she wants to stay at home with their children; to act on these values, the family renovates an old house, relies on bicycles instead of a car, and grows some of its own food.

It came when the twelve - year - old Gilligan returned home from camp to find that her mother had asked her beloved grandfather, Popsy, to move out of the house and find his own apartment.

They built lively and vibrant institutions of learning — St. Olaf, Concordia, Augsburg, Augustana, Luther Seminary — as well as hospitals, orphanages, old people's homes and publishing houses.

ok lets put it this way so everyone can understand what i mean that god said in the bible that it should be one man and woman to be married and god is the opne that wrote the bible and god is the one that die for us but if you all what to say that god is wrong and u are right then that is your choose but for me and my house we will serve the lord and we will go by what god says in the bible and if you think the bible ios wrong that is your choose but this world was better back in the old days in my home we do nt watch to much tv because it says in the bible do not put no evil before your eyes

One winter day when I was eleven or twelve years old, I came home from school to find the house cold and empty.

I have an old - fashioned notion that a house is never a home until the minister has been there and blessed it.

If you really miss the texture of traditional sweet potato casserole, you might prefer this recipe from Old House to New Home for skinny smashed sweet potatoes.

We live in a very old house and it is quite hard to get bread to rise without a lot of effort and wasted energy so the proofer would be an incredible asset and it is from Massachusetts my home state.

More than 200 Balti restaurants exist in Birmingham alone, and the Balti Page commented: «Balti in Europe started attracting notice over the last few years in Birmingham in England — particularly in the city's Sparkhill and Sparkbrook areas, home of some of the oldest and best Balti houses, and now increasingly known as «the Balti Belt.

The channel chronicles the wide spectrum of the global culinary experience and the diverse voices that are pulling us forward: chefs and home cooks, makers and consumers, the politics and policies of food, «front» and «back of house» restaurant life, old wives tales and innovative news, and culturally significant indicators in the modern food world.

My 11 year old SON came home from his friend's house begging for me to get this recipe immediately!

Mary's cooking and baking skills were legendary, and Kate would fantasize about the all - day, open - house holiday parties Mary would host at her old home in Chester, Pennsylvania, halfway between Philly and the Delaware border.

Housed in a century - old structure that has been home to a trading post, auto shop and notorious saloon, its newest incarnation as a pub is equal parts rustic and modern.

Housed in the old kitchen building of the Victorian - era home, the low - lit narrow space has rustic brick walls and high ceilings of dark - wood rafters, the better to accommodate the shelves and shelves of whiskey that Chef Brock loves.

PUBlic House, also located in Old Town Temecula, serves up an innovative menu in a restored home from the 1950s.

Travel back in time by touring the city's Historic District featuring several preserved buildings: The Whitaker - Jaynes House serves as the city's local history museum; the Bacon House is one the oldest surviving structures in the area; the Tice House, a charming cage and the Stage Stop Hotel, is currently home to the only California Welcome Center in Orange County.

Van Wyk and Snyder could wax poetic about why they make good knives out of an old shed a stone's throw away from the house, but perhaps the most succinct explanation is that a good knife is essential to the lifestyle they want to lead — and a work - from - home - in - the - country situation is, too.

In Madison, Wisconsin, after 45 minutes of play, the home crowd jumps along in disturbing unison to a decades - old song from faux - Irish rap group House of Pain.

Sometimes I worry that Arsenal have cribbed their transfer policy from an old Tom Vu infomercial about targeting «distressed properties»... scan the obituaries in newspapers to learn about homes of recently deceased and low - ball the grieving families, or find out about recent divorces and take advantage of the acrimony and get a good price on a house you can then flip for profit.

Not everyone lives in a «4,700 square - foot Tudor home» or wants to, but without a doubt, more people, especially older people (like — * sigh * — me) are interested in having a room — if not a whole apartment or house — of their own.

This is the first post I've read of your blog I read it last night, I got a chuckle, I have dogs, but the people who read this blog and have left comments are terrible, I run a daycare in my home, 4 months 9 months 18 months 2,3,7,7, and today at nap time when everything goes nuts, my dog follows me around as I take the littles to cribs she goes and snuggles the olders for quiet time I couldn't appreciate her more, her needs are a bowl filled a blanket lifted so she can snuggle under with you and a door opened occasionally she is te easiest in this house can't imagine life with out her < 3 btw the last comment is the best LOL!

Chicago's old housing means lead pipes bring water into most homes, and the city's efforts to modernize the water system may be making contamination worse.

I have a 2 yr old who has been potty trained since she was 15 months old (her choice) she will use the potty at home and either tell me or go on her own and at other peoples houses but she refuses and screams when she has to use the potty in a public place and she will not tell you, she would rather pee on herself.

If your child is old enough to stay on his own and is stable, there's nothing wrong with letting him stay home or go to a friend's house if you take some safety precautions.

Eight - year - olds may begin to ask for sleepovers, although parents should not be surprised if some children want to go back home and do not make it through the entire night at a friend's house.

The streets of pastel houses with wrought iron railings at the windows are home to art galleries and paladars alike, and we caught a glimpse of an incredible old library on the way to Plaza Mayor.

If you have old books around the house, or you brought home a haul from a yard sale, they might be smelling a little musty.

I was pregnant, working part - time from home, moving into a new house, chasing around a two year old adventurer and teaching two overlapping Birth Boot Camp series.

The Solomon Richardson house, built in what is now East Brookfield, Massachusetts, is portrayed in Old Sturbridge Village as a parsonage, the home of the local minister.

I have 2 week old twins and we tandem breastfeed at home with the My Brest Friend nursing pillow, but I'm nervous about how to do this out of the house.

Celebrate Mom in the beautiful setting of the Historic Banta House, a century - old arts and crafts inspired home.