Collecting My Thoughts

Most of these were written during the summer of 2008 and 2009. There has been more remodeling, more upgrades, more rules, but essentially La...

Instead of buying off the shelf storage units for the garage, we had some new shelves and a tall closet built to hang out with the former ki...

You may recall my enthusiasm for garages--I did a little photo essay on Lakeside's garages this past summer because garage architectural...

Yesterday as I stepped through the door of Panera's, Tina gave me a shout out--"Norma! We don't have any coffee!" I could ...

Garages--the extreme makeover Garages pt. 2, attached Some garages were attached, then incorporated into the house; others became another co...

The early attached garages Early on, Lakesiders must have started attaching the garage to the house, especially if they didn't have larg...

Early 20th century garages It’s rare that I can’t find a topic on the internet by googling a few sets of words, but I think I’ve found one: ...