EDITOR’S LETTER
making progress We recently bought a 1922 Colonial Revival near our headquarters in Des Moines, and I’m happy to report it’s a beauty. With squeaky wood floors and a staircase that creaks and pops like a percussion section, it’s full of the charm you can only get from an old house. A recent visitor said, “This is a house with a heart.” The interior didn’t need much more than refreshed paint colors and furniture for specific rooms, like the sunroom in the photo above. Most of the other spaces aren’t completely pulled together. I’m doing this house slowly, partly for budgetary reasons and partly because I think that’s how the “after” of a “before” comes out best—when you have time to settle in and feel certain how you’ll actually use the…
