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  i’m sorry, sort of.

  02.12.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  My first inclination is to apologize for the lapse in blog posts but I don’t really feel sorry. I think having a blog (or in my case two blogs, a constantly updated flickr stream, facebook pages, twitter updates, and a small business) is just a little nuts. I’d like to think that blogging isn’t completely [...]

• all posts, design, garden

  $2,200 Tepee, yes it’s worth it.

  08.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  If I had wads of cash just lying around our construction project, I’d buy this Tepee. Ever since elementary school, when an Native American man with three thumbs would come to our school and set up his Tepee, I’ve been pining for one. Joe even built a Tepee inspired shower for our brave weddings guests [...]

• all posts, garden, resources, san francisco

  farm fresh to you…organic produce home delivery

  07.08.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  So this isn’t quite renovation-worthy but it is a great Bay Area service that Joe and I just discovered. Since the days I lived in Chicago, I’ve wanted to sign up for a produce delivery service that comes straight from an organic farm. In those days though, I was living alone and would have had [...]

• all posts, architecture, design, garden

  modern shed in Seattle

  02.26.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  One of my favorite things to do is search for other renovation projects around the globe and a few months ago, I noticed Meredith’s modern shed project in Seattle…

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  Tara’s 9 tips for creating a garden you can be proud of

  02.22.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Joe and I have been thinking about what we’d like to do with our very big and painfully overgrown yard. Do we want a modern shed, an entertaining area, a vegetable garden, a place to compost, maybe even some grapes (this is Northern California afterall)…

  

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House & Fig is Sarah Wert & Joe Hebenstreit. Joe is a ‘Maker’ in all meanings of the word as well as a Product Design Lead. Sarah spends most of her time photographing very cute kids Modern Kids Photography. We got hitched in July of 2007 and about a month later found ourselves tearing down walls in our new home. You could say we're newlyweds living in a construction zone.

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