1821 hacienda

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If these walls could talk…

If these walls could talk…

As we pack up this old Hacienda we've called home for the past seven months, I find it hard to not imagine all of the stories that have taken place within these walls and on this property. As a piece of property surrounded by Native lands, one might imagine the sorrow, anger, displacement that may have (probably) occurred as outsiders…
March 16, 2015
1821 Hacienda Home Tour ::: Bathrooms & Laundry Room

1821 Hacienda Home Tour ::: Bathrooms & Laundry Room

Alright, so I promised I'd show you the whole house...so you've now, officially, seen the whole house ;-) OK, OK...I know this post only shows snippets of the bathrooms and Laundry Room, but who really need to see toilets, washer, dryers, and our misc. toiletries? Exactly! So, beyond their utilitarian purposes and funny quirks, what are the highlights?  The things…
January 6, 2015
1821 Hacienda Home Tour ::: Bedroom

1821 Hacienda Home Tour ::: Bedroom

Well, you've seen our Kitchen, Dining Room/Office and Living Room, so I guess that means that today is the day you get to peek into our (miraculously clean, even if just for the photos) bedroom! Excited? Good ;-) Now, what can I say about it beside the fact that it's huge (420 sq. feet), is where we sleep, has good morning…
December 17, 2014
1821 Hacienda Home Tour ::: Living Room

1821 Hacienda Home Tour ::: Living Room

If you've seen our Kitchen and our Dining Room, you know by now that all of the rooms in our hacienda are quite large, right.  Well, let me just tell you that, at ~475 square feet, our Living Room alone is larger than the little studio apartment my oldest daughter and I lived in for five years when she was…
November 25, 2014
1821 Hacienda Home Tour ::: Dining Room/Office

1821 Hacienda Home Tour ::: Dining Room/Office

After last week's Kitchen Tour, it seemed only fitting to move into our hacienda's Dining Room/Office this week :-) Now, let me just say that our Dining Room is huge and is not quite complete yet, but is fully functioning as an actual Dining Room as well as pulling double duty as my home office. How huge is the space?…
November 5, 2014
Life begins…

Life begins…

The last couple of months have been a whirlwind around here. Self imposed chaos, yes.  But chaos none-the-less. In August, we were sitting comfortably on the couch in the Living Room of our Urban Farm preparing for...well, not a whole lot.  The garden was winding down, the chickens were happy, the apple trees were heavy with this year's abundance and…
November 3, 2014
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