Eleanor's News

Here’s the theme of my new Tableau for the mantlepiece. It’s a pretty bunch of wooden daffodils mixed with paintbrushes in a Jonathan Adler vase!

Here’s a blast from the past (just a few weeks ago, really!) when Petey, Eoin, and I moved out a full truckload of trash. Yuck!

I just closed the other day on the new South Philly house. It’s got a lot of potential, but it’s a real fixer-upper for sure. Eoin, Peter, and I worked on the demolition for the past few days and got most of the awful kitchen ripped out; that includes hacking through two layers of wood paneling and one odd layer of drop ceiling tiles as insulation, destroying a bunch of crappy cabinets, and removing the filthy old range. I got to rip up carpet upstairs on my own while the guys worked on chipping away the kitchen floor tiles. We had to take Eoin to the ER today; he cut himself quite badly on a sharp tile! One more thing, I read a great tip for peeling up impossible-to-remove vinyl tiles: use a hair dryer to heat up the adhesive while peeling with a chiseling tool. Works like a dream! (Pics to come…)