So much progress in the last couple of weeks.  There is a ton of trim going in, which is completely changing the look of the house. Wainscoting in the formal areas.  Week 19 the trim was installed, week 20 filled and prepped and now the guys are taping the walls so it...

The housing market has turned—at last.

The U.S. finally has moved beyond attention-grabbing predictions from housing "experts" that housing is bottoming. The numbers are now convincing.

Nearly seven years after the housing bubble burst, most indexes of house prices are...

Once upon a time (i.e., 2006) in a magical place called the Bay Area, the real estate market got so heated that it became commonplace to hear coffee shop patrons trading stories about their little old million-dollar houses. It became equally commonplace for this excess...

So many changes in the last few weeks.  I seemed to time it wrong on my visits, so I wasn't able to get pictures a few weeks in a row, but here we are at week 18 with all sorts of changes.  Week 14 brought new paint and what a difference it makes.  Week 15 and 16 broug...