Welcome to Marginally Insane

Welcome to my new blog, Marginally Insane, which chronicles the adventures of two first-time homeowners in Central MA.

We purchased our 1924 Crafstman Cottage last May, from a woman whose job relocated her 3 months after buying (and starting to refinish) the house. She painted it, stripped the floors, tore up the carpet, and did a variety of other partial "flips" before she was called away. Most were in various states of completion, but few in the final state. This is where i hope to record stories of what we do to the house and the property. We have already done most of the interior work, though i would like to go back and jot down some details of what we already did for posterity. I hope to post weekly about the work i get done on the yard and garden this summer, and use this blog to link to the photos i'll be taking of the progress.

I was inspired to start this blog after reading the Making of a Craftsman Home: http://goingcraftsman.blogspot.com/ I was searching for info on crushed brick, when i spotted all of their lovely landscaping, and i got hooked when i saw the house was the same age and size as our house. Hopefully, my blog will be interesting to someone else down the road looking to remodel a Craftsman home. Cheers!