Category: Houses
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We decided to move back to the East Side of Milwaukee. We have been here a few months now. We have loved the energy of the neighborhood, the variety of things to do, the great restaurants at our door, and of course Lake Park and Lake Michigan. After living in so many other spaces, we…
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I was on a Fulbright to Iceland two years ago. I had a hard time finding a place to live in Reykjavik, but finally landed this 500 square foot beauty. It was small, but well designed. The neighborhood was fun and near a lot. I’m standing by the back porch of my garden apartment. Despite…
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We lived here over ten years (our longest stay). This was a great Bungalow with a number of fun spaces in the house. Like other houses, the garage was on the alley, but it had a whole workspace on the 2nd floor of the garage. Kathleen made the gardens a showplace and a “way-station” for…
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We liked this house, the garden, the block, the garage on the alley. What we didn’t see when we were making the purchase is that the house next door was lit up more than a baseball stadium. It is not an exaggeration to say that we didn’t need lighting at night in our house. When…
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We made a decision to take our sabbatical near Kathleen’s parents. The house was lovely, it had a pool, it was on a canal. It was the textbook “move to Florida” home. It was the first place we had lived where we got to meet and know almost no neighbors. Even out walking the dog…
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I got a new job and Kathleen insisted that we move closer to it so I wouldn’t be on the road late at night. I protested, but she was right. This was a beautiful place by the harbor and we enjoyed it, but when the job was over we missed home and wanted to move…
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We expected to live here a very long time, but it wound up being just a few years. It was our first house with an alley which we loved and we never owned another house with a driveway. We got a better price on it because the previous owner had turned the dining room into…
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We were both on sabbatical for the first time and working at Arizona State that year. We were told by neighbors that when the homes on the street were built, you could smell the orange blossoms from nearby orchards. By the time we got there, the development extended past us for many miles. There were…
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Our next house was a plain white colonial with no plantings in front. Kathleen took on the challenge of making the front yard a spectacle of color and flowers all summer long. For the record, we were here for a long time as well. (Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin 2004)
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Our first house was a bungalow with beautiful woodwork and stained glass. It was exceptionally sturdy. The driveway can best be described as an adventure in “narrowness.” Although we have move a lot, we were here for 9 years. (Shorewood, Wisconsin, 1995)
