Carla Minosh

Before we ever discovered Danville, we loved to look for antique furniture.  We started small, browsing through little antique shops and antique malls discussing pieces that interested each of us.  We compared our tastes and aesthetic sensibilities, trying to find out what exactly it was about a piece of furniture that appealed to us.  We […]

We enjoy the hunt for authentic period antiques and architectural pieces to use in our home, and that hunt takes us up and down the East Coast, as there are many Victorian pieces to be found in old cities which once flourished.  One foray led us to a small town in Connecticut where we were

The Architecture I Grew Up With; Westford, Massachusetts My interest in Victorian Architecture has long roots leading down through the history of my life.  From the moment I acquired a driver’s license, I would spend hours driving the back roads through the little New England towns near my hometown, trying to find the village squares

A wise man once told me that one day I would be buried deep in the ground, and my gravestone would bear but one word…DONE… (Thank you, Dr. Schwartz.)  A truer statement I have never heard. Though Tom and I roll up our shirtsleeves every other weekend and work on renovation projects, and though we have

Though our project at #878 Main Street, the Sublett-Miller house, has always been about the journey, not the destination, this project at #841 Main Street, the Flinn House, has been all about the destination.

While our every-other-weekend schedule of traveling down to Southern Virginia has become relatively routine for us, one of the things we have always taken for granted is how easily adaptable our parrot has been.  For ten years, Sara the blue-fronted Amazon has made that trip with us each time, with few exceptions.  Since the beginning of

During the period when I was working part time at the hospital as a CVICU nurse and going to school working on my Masters degree, I received a phone call from Tom one afternoon, asking me what I had on my schedule for the next day.  I checked, and let him know that I had

Anyone who owns an old house is used to finding the occasional mouse dropping inside or paper wasp nest hanging outside among the eaves.  I guess we are more likely to encounter little critters because of the inevitable holes in the foundation and elaborate exterior woodwork that makes it attractive to insects to build their

Back in early 2000, we were full into the throes of seeking out architectural antiques, interesting pieces, and things we could fit into or build into the house.  We searched the pages of our favorite antiques periodicals; The Bee, Maine Antique Digest, Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Antique Week, and others. we looked at every auction ad we could

As of this writing, we are now into year six of our twelve-month renovation of the Flinn House at #841 Main Street.  Putting that in perspective, I suppose it’s not so much worse than the fact that we are also now thirteen years into our five-year renovation of the Sublett-Miller House at #878 Main Street.