A kitchen at last!

A few pictures of our new IKEA kitchen and our dining room.  Only the floors and a few last minute things and the kitchen will be finished!!!

Leo the Constructor

Meet Leo the construction dog...He's big and he's bold...

You've been framed!

A Work in Progress

A History Lesson

From 1908–1940, Sears, Roebuck and Co. sold about 70,000 - 75,000 homes through their mail-order Modern Homes program. Over that time Sears designed 447 different housing styles, from the elaborate multistory Ivanhoe, with its elegant French doors and art glass windows, to the simpler Goldenrod, which served as a quaint, three-room and no-bath cottage for summer vacationers. (An outhouse could be purchased separately for Goldenrod and similar cottage dwellers.) Customers could choose a house to suit their individual tastes and budgets.

Sears was not an innovative home designer. Sears was instead a very able follower of popular home designs but with the added advantage of modifying houses and hardware according to buyer tastes. Individuals could even design their own homes and submit the blueprints to Sears, which would then ship off the appropriate precut and fitted materials, putting the home owner in full creative control. Modern Home customers had the freedom to build their own dream houses, and Sears helped realize these dreams through quality custom design and favorable financing.

Then...

And Now...

Welcome...

This site was created as an avenue to document our restoration/renovation of a 1927 Sears Bungalow kit home.  Our adventure with West Wylie St. began in November of 2007 when we bought the house and started down the long "road to restoration."  Thus far, it's been an entertaining and exhausting project.  Enjoy the images of our progress!

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