Merriman Park

So I decided to do the bricks in a reddish-pink color, after all.  The stonework is turning out sort of limestone-y and I love the look of o...

I loves me a black and white marble, checkered floor!   Always have.  Even as a child, when it dawned on me that someday I'd eventually...

I added three little cherub bas-relief carvings to the ceiling of the portico.  I simply abhor a flat ceiling!

It gets bloody cold here in Minnesota.  Part of the reason I'm building Merriman Park is to keep busy during these bleak, bone-numbing...

The chimney pots stay!  (Thanks, Karin).

I  learned the other day (from reading an architecture book I picked up) that the chimneys of Merriman Park are not historically accurate ...

Finally got the gouge exchanged to the proper size.  Karin Corbin suggested I make my own gouge, but alas ! I did not have any mini brass...