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homebuilding in da ‘hood
A while ago I confessed to running out of money to build our home, and mentioned a Plan C. That has come through for us now. A morsel of backstory:
Fjeldheim is a Norwegian-style vacation home my dad built in the 1970s as a sanity project. My brothers and I learned to ski […]
Another possible name for this house, taken from Norse mythology: “Tyrheim.”
Tyr was the Norse god who, in order to save all of Asgard and Midgard, offered to put his right hand into the mouth of Fenrir the Destroyer, so that Fenrir would submit to the magic silken ribbon which alone would restrain him until Ragnarok. […]
Hello and welcome to the first thrilling episode of Name That House!
The rental home I own and operate in South Lake Tahoe has a strong unified persona that is summed up in its name, “Fjeldheim”– Norwegian for “Mountain Home”. It is Norwegian because my Dad is proud to be the son of Norwegian immigrants and […]