Anyone who owns or is renovating a mid-century home should see the Simpsons Episode – ‘The Day the Earth Stood Cool’. I just watched it last night and died laughing. It’s a tongue in cheek on Portlandia, hipsters and ‘urban nomads’. http://curbed.com/archives/2012/12/10/watch-the-simpsons-tackle-dwell-neutra-architecture.php “Last night on The Simpsons, hipsters swarmed Springfield, taking over Moe’s Tavern, […]
Author: Michelle
Welcome to The Napa Project, where I write about our five year remodel of a mid century home in Napa, California.
A little DIY project
I’ve not posted in awhile, the reason being I was sick with a cold. So exasperating. After boasting about not being sick for over 2 years, karma gave me a whopper. Then I snatched a bite of Shawn’s toast one morning and gave it to him. For 2 weeks, all I heard about was ‘the […]
Mid Mod-ing the Cats
One of the difficulties of moving to a mid century modern home was that none of our furniture matched. So we got rid of most of it and started fresh. But the cats needed their cat condos so we brought those along. We have 3 cats – Annie the calico, Benny the terrorist, and Sunshine […]
Speaking of Eichlers….
It seems to be Eichler week! The San Francisco Chronicle had a nice article yesterday about Eichlers in Upper Lucas Valley, which is just north of San Francisco. This is where my husband grew up (with 7 brothers and sisters – eek!). In fact, one of the pictures is on his old street! Lucas Valley […]
Jumping on the Eichler Bandwagon
Been a couple of weeks since my last post, so a belated Happy New Year! We stayed in, cooked an amazing duck on the Bar-B – and then – and then – on New Years Day we did a 5K run in Yountville to support the Vine Trail. Considering our big dinner and the fact […]