Casa Petrie

The girls and I were visiting my family last week.  We had lots of fun with the family and I tried to take lots of pictures. We had a wonderful time, but we’re happy to be back at Casa Petrie. Have a relaxing weekend.

Start with the first installment of My Parent’s House: The Front Yard.   The second installment is My Parent’s House: The Living Room. The third installment is My Parent’s House: The Dining Room. The fourth installment is My Parent’s House: The Sun Room and Breakfast Room. The fifth installment is My Parent’s House: The Kitchen. The sixth installment is My Parent’s House: [...]

Start with the first installment of My Parent’s House: The Front Yard.   The second installment is My Parent’s House: The Living Room. The third installment is My Parent’s House: The Dining Room. The fourth installment is My Parent’s House: The Sun Room and Breakfast Room. The fifth installment is My Parent’s House: The Kitchen. The sixth installment is My Parent’s [...]

Start with the first installment of My Parent’s House: The Front Yard.   The second installment is My Parent’s House: The Living Room. The third installment is My Parent’s House: The Dining Room. The fourth installment is My Parent’s House: The Sun Room and Breakfast Room. The fifth installment is My Parent’s House: The Kitchen.   The laundry room adjoins [...]

Start with the first installment of My Parent’s House: The Front Yard.   The second installment is My Parent’s House: The Living Room. The third installment is My Parent’s House: The Dining Room. The fourth installment is My Parent’s House: The Sun Room and Breakfast Room. The kitchen was the room that required the most renovation in my parent’s house. [...]

Start with the first installment of My Parent’s House: The Front Yard.   The second installment is My Parent’s House: The Living Room. The third installment is My Parent’s House: The Dining Room.   During the early 1900s people ill with tuburculosis flooded the Southwest for the dry, hot air.  They thought it would help their lungs.  Houses [...]

Thanks to Hooked on Houses for hosting Hooked on Fridays. My parent’s home is made for entertaining.  The dining room is a large room and a beautiful focal point from the living room.  It is flanked by the living room, sun room, breakfast room, kitchen and a hallway.  You can imagine the door situation was a [...]

Start with the first installment of My Parent’s House: The Front Yard. When I was a kid, my brother and I would play handball against the wall in this room.  Man, we had no respect!  The room looks quite different now: beautiful rich furniture and interesting art.  My parent’s home is approaching 100 years old [...]

I’ll start the tour with the newly landscaped front yard.  Let me give you a mental picture of what the house looked like when we moved in when I was 5: the house was white with blue trim.  There were no brick walkways, only concrete.  The entire yard was grass.  There were two trees on [...]