Start At the Beginning

Sometimes its just easier to start at the beginning…
It’s okay if your curious…. 
Below are my posts in chronological order. Enjoy! 


Are We Really Going to Do This?

If you are reading this first post on Our Philly Row, it is either because you are one of a tiny handful of friends who ...

Why Philadelphia

Why Philadelphia? I will get to that... But first, to know me is to know that I am an old house kind of guy. I ...
/ Backstory, Before The Move

Let the House Hunt Begin

After coming to the conclusion that we needed to reconsider our lives in New York City, and then deciding to look into Philadelphia as an ...
/ Backstory, Before The Move

Visit Number One — Open Houses Already?

Neither Y nor I had spent any real time in Philly beyond a few day trips over the years, so when we planned our first ...
/ Backstory, Before The Move

Visit number Two (Part 1) – Snow and the WOW House?

After our first visit to Philly, we were eager to return to explore more. We quickly made plans for our second visit the weekend after ...
/ Backstory, Before The Move

Visit Number Two (Part 2) – Snow and the WOW House?

[Continued from Part 1] We had already decided that the Federal Street house was just too far outside of our zone of acceptability, but the listing ...

Haggling For Our Rowhouse

After our first visit to Philadelphia in early December, we pretty much made up our minds that we wanted to make the move to the ...

It’s Ours! OMG, It’s Ours!

It's ours! We took possession of Our Philly Row today. As soon as our realtor dropped us off, we dropped our bags and I did ...

Okay, So We Have A House… Now What?

It’s been about six weeks since settlement day when I shot the official first walk through video shortly after arriving at our new home after ...

Knob and Tube No More!

So we quickly learned that getting homeowners insurance on an old house has its challenges. I have come to learn that my view of how ...

OMG, I Have an EZ-Pass!

And it's attached to a new car! Yep! It's true, and I am still pinching myself about it. We own a car... While most Americans ...
/ Before The Move, The Car, The Car

Daydreaming is Good, Right? — Part 1

So in the midst of all of the chaos going on in our lives between resolving all of the structural issues at our new (old) ...

Daydreaming is Good, Right? — Part 2

In the midst of all of the chaos going on in our lives between resolving all of the structural issues at our new (old) Philly ...

Daydreaming is good, right? — Part 3

In the midst of all of the chaos going on in our lives between resolving all of the structural issues at our new (old) Philly ...

Score in the Bedroom!

During all of our preparations to sell our New York apartment, and transition our lives to the lovely city of Philadelphia I have been coming ...

Meanwhile, Back in Manhattan

I haven't thus far gone into much detail about our lives in New York City (I wrote out plenty about it on HalfClassicSix), but suffice ...
Ultimately, Nest seems to be the best solution to managing the temperature at the house when we are away.

How and Why to Nest

The last Thursday of 2017 as I was turning in for the night, I checked the weather for the weekend and temps were looking mighty ...

Moving Along…

OK, it is still a couple of weeks off, but we are super excited to finally be at the point where we have movers scheduled ...
Fitzwater Street towards Front. The street is only about seven feet wide.

The Newly Minted Philadelphians

After more than a year of searching, planning, and changing everything, we have finally made the complete move to Our Philly Row. Last week a ...

We Were In Cuba! – Part I, Havana

Work on the house has been non-existent this past week (as has my online life) and for good reason.... Y and I just returned from ...
/ Cuba, Travel, Travel

Putting Lipstick on a Pig – Kitchen Facelift Project

We have been in the house just over a month now and after our week in Cuba, I took a week to do absolutely nothing ...
/ Bixby, Face-Lift, Kitchen, Kitchen

Lipstick on a Pig – Our $400 Kitchen Facelift Reveal!

Our "Lipstick-on-a-pig" kitchen facelift is done!!! Yay! Well.... It has been mostly done for about ten days, but I am finally getting around to posting ...

Analysis Paralysis – Me? Overthink Much?

Analysis paralysis (or paralysis by analysis) is the state of over-analyzing (or overthinking) a situation so that a decision or action is never taken, in ...

The Medallion Miracle! (Part I)

In my last post, I mentioned that I overthink everything, which is true... But I also will research something to death just to find what ...

The Medallion Miracle! (Part II)

To pick up from where I left off last week on my hunt for the perfect ceiling medallion, I get to tell you about my ...
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