Pam Erickson/ Eden Prairie MN

Many things to be thankful for on Thursday.  My newest and now favorite one...a past client has invited me and my family to their Thanksgsiving table.What a privlege and honor.  This is an example of all the pricless gifts this industry gives us.  I will humbly bow my head at their table. 

My husband and I decided it was time to upgrade the 1997 kitchen.  Just bought new stainless appliances, redoing hardwood floors, new pulls on the maple cupboards, new light fixtures and of course, the all important granite counter tops.After a full day of "shopping", our most enlighting meeting ...

Sears, Roebuck and Co was one of seeral companies that sold complete home building kits by mail order between 1906 and 1946.  Sears was not the first: "Sears didn't even jump on the bandwagon until 1915", said architectural historian Rebecca Hunter, author of "Putting sears Homes on the Map".  Be...