Weekly Roundup
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I recently discovered a website that will automatically enhance and colorize your old photos with a click of one button. Needless to say, I’m obsessed. I’ve been uploading old family photos and admiring the clarity and the extra life that color adds to the images. The image above is a photo taken in 1911 just a few years before my house was built on the corner of a nearby street. The architectural photo is really cool, but you have got to upload people’s faces - it’s incredible! Be sure to try the “enhance” feature and the “colorize” feature.
California is severely short on firefighting crews. Why? Because the prison populations, who have been California’s primary firefighting hand-crews on wildfires, are too sick with COVID-19 to go. Learn more about prison labor here.
Do you participate in the housewarming pineapple? I had no idea!
A friend told me she tried watching a really slow, tedious movie and could only make it through the first five minutes. She suggested I tune in and see if I could make it past the five-minute mark. Joke’s on her because I ended up watching the whole thing and loving it. It is slow and it is tedious, but I think it’s really well done and serves as a mood piece in an all-too-common yet unfortunate situation. If you’re up for it, give it a watch. But whatever you do - don’t watch the trailer first because it gives ALL of it away. Go in blindly.
Interested in some satisfying painting and block printing? Check out these pros making wallpaper.
If you eat today, remember this.
I asked folks on Instagram to recommend accounts featuring old house renovators, old house educators, old house DIYers, and old house advocates. The recommendations flooded in! I saved them to highlights, but I ran out of time to show off the hundreds of accounts, so there are even more in the comments of this post. Go check them out if you’re looking to admire more old homes and follow the stories of preservation.
This is perhaps the prettiest tile I’ve ever seen in a kitchen.
I used to clean the dryer lint that got past the filter and jammed up in the vent with a wire coat hanger. It took me like, 30 minutes to clean every few months, so enough was enough. So I got myself one of these and I think it’s going to be a real game-changer.
Kitchen renovation progress has been going on behind the scenes even though I haven’t talked about it on the blog recently! I took a break when it felt too trivial to discuss it, and now I have so much footage and content to share with you, that I’m overwhelmed with how to pick back up and get into it. Have no fear, though! I’ve put my assistant (Ross) to work culling footage for me, so I can share the progress with you soon. Spoiler: We hit a few really disappointing snags but also made such great progress, too!
See you next week!
