posted by K | filed under Tours, Wishing | 7 Comments

Because I could think of nothing else for the two days following our first encounter with the house at 1601 Main, because I am a crazy person and my husband is just crazy enough to go along with me, I called the realtor and made an appointment for us to see the house. On the [...]

posted by K | filed under Eutaw, Tours, Wishing | 2 Comments

We’ve decided the new motto for Eutaw should be, “Lookin’ good!” because we all love going around and spying on each other’s projects and making such proclamations. This weekend we took a stroll around the block with some of our neighbors (gathering more as we went, actually) to check out the Little House on the Corner [...]

posted by K | filed under Eutaw, Tours | 9 Comments

Since we’ve stopped dead so very close to the end of our bathroom project - I guess we don’t have fear of commitment but fear of completion - I’ll tell you about the wonderful work two of our neighbors are doing. I refer to everyone in Eutaw as my neighbors (though especially the ones in a two-block radius), but these guys [...]

posted by Kristin | filed under History, Tours | 1 Comment

Before and after pictures are in short supply this week, so I’ll post this photo I took on Friday afternoon of the Jemison-Van de Graaff Mansion, a Tuscaloosa landmark. I just love houses with cupolas, don’t you? Remember in grade school when you’d play MASCH? You’d draw a square with the letters MASCH above it, [...]

posted by Kristin | filed under Eutaw, Friends, Tours | 3 Comments

I spent my Saturday as a guide for the Greene County Historical Society Tour of House Porn. Okay sure, they call it something a little more prim (because Eutaw is nothing if not prim), but we housebloggers can read between the lines. Interior and exterior home tours with no restrictions on photography? Yes, that my [...]

posted by Kristin | filed under Tours | 6 Comments

This is the first in an occasional series of interior/exterior tours of some of my favorite houses in Eutaw. It may be the last in the series because I haven’t secured permission from anyone else, but we old house people love to show off our houses, so I bet many of our friends can be [...]

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