Victorian House Renovation in Bloomingdale, DC
Buying a house – new or old – is sort of like having a baby, you have the urge to document all the firsts. Like first thanksgiving turkey. on march 11, we will have been here a year – it will be our second spring. wow.
here’s our first christmas tree:
and our first special ornament – 2010 holly snowflake – a housewarming gift from a jane.… Read the rest
These, and many other Russian and American delicacies were enjoyed by friends and family for Thanksgiving at the VIB. It was our first time hosting a big holiday meal at our house, which I bet has seen more than one festive occasion. Cheers to all and happy holidays.
tasty and delicious cabbage pies (Taken with instagram)
We have had our wheels spinning a bit between the fireplace and the damn dryer that may never get its (gas) hook up.
so, naturally, we thought to hell with it all, we’ll just redo the kitchen. we are sort of serious. we are going to be coming into obama money (the $8k homebuyers credit) which could help us quite a bit with that. my imaginations wheels are in high gear, although right now i am overwhelmed with all the options and considerations.… Read the rest
we will be checking out the situation (sorry couldn’t resist) in Jersey Shore and then capping the week off in Philly. As always, I will try scour a few house/design related finds. In honor of that, i’ll be checking out design*sponge guide to philly
if anyone has further suggestions on where i can find some cool stuff in philly, please drop us a note!… Read the rest
Thank you to friends from near and far for coming to the VIB housewarming!
it was so good, we are afraid our deck will have a hard time recovering… )
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So, this happened. At a housewarming party in DC.
Two weeks ago I randomly won tickets to the first-ever Washington DC Antiques Roadshow. Obviously, I was very excited, even though I was quite certain that I had zero antiques to have assessed. On Saturday, Sergey and I ran around the house trying to find anything that was possibly worthy of an appraisal.This is what we came up with:
And off we went to the Convention Center, where we waited, and waited, and then once we got to the top of the line, we were assigned tickets for specific categories, such as silver and decorative arts, and then we waited some more in the appraisal lines.… Read the rest
Several months back, Sergey got me tickets to see the Arcade Fire in Baltimore, so we decided to make a weekend of it going around to salvage stores, and doing some touristy stuff. Let me just say, Baltimore was fantastic!
I loved all the old buildings and rowhouses. Baltimore did not feel like DC at all – to me it seemed bigger and maybe grittier?
On a non-VIB topic, can I just say that the national aquarium is totally worth the money, as long as you get the tickets to the dolphin show.… Read the rest
I was super proud of Sergey when he was asked to design posters for the annual Climate Rally concert on the mall. So I got three of his posters framed (I think the plan is to rotate the three different prints in this spot above the kitchen table).
Even those the posters were standard 11 X 17, apparently there are no mattes and frames that are pre-made.
My next thought was getting a custom frame, which would have been a very nice way to show Sergey that he is awesome.… Read the rest
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