Drilling holes in your pristine walls can be highly annoying, especially when it is just to hang a few lightweight frames or a small mirror. All a renter or homeowner longs for is a beautifully decorated space without turning their…
There was a time in the first place I put down on my own as an adult when I had to put up with a bathroom that you just want to shut the door on and forget about. You had…
You put a lot into a mattress over the years, such as sweat, dead skin, dust mites and all the other things your family has left in it. Let’s be honest, after five years of that, there’s a good deal…
I put in a request to the landlord before I moved into my first rental and he gave me his ok to paint the bedroom. So I did, but nothing dramatic, just a soft grey that would fit in anywhere.…
With a set of permanent hookups in place, your yard or driveway is as good as your own private campsite. You put an end to the business of lugging jugs of water or running extension cords in through a window;…
You don’t have to be in our summer place in Volos to know the mosquitoes are there. They show up in June as sure as the heat, the hordes of visitors and that distinct odour the sea has in the…
I can put in a new light switch because my dad showed me how when I was twelve or so! We don’t do things by the book in Greek families; he was at it, I was on, and before I…
For years, the attic in our Volos summer house was just a place to put things. Not the tidy kind of storage, but the sort where you let it pile up: boxes from one year to the next, odds and…
Like clockwork, the same thing happens in our kitchen every June. Marina figures out what she’s going to get her teacher around three weeks before school is out, and she has a very definite idea. This idea will use quite…
The summer house is supposed to be the quiet place. That’s the idea anyway. You leave the city, you leave the noise, you arrive somewhere slower and more peaceful and you decompress for a few weeks before going back. That’s…
