In The Beginning...

I will be primarily talking about tea, and baking, and hospitality on this blog, but since my family has spent the past year largely focused on rehabbing our 101-year-old tea room, I thought I’d share a little bit of before, during and after. It’ll take several posts, I’m sure, but here’s Part 1:

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We closed on the future tea room on September 13, 2017. We knew when we made an offer on the house that the exterior was going to need a lot of work. In fact, I think that is why it was on the market long enough for us to buy it. The structure of the house itself was sound, but there were several things that needed repaired and replaced.

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