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15 May 2023

So you want to get a shed in GHI…

by Susan Harris | posted in: Home and Garden |

by Kate Murray It’s finally time to clean out your understairs closet and get an outdoor shed for your GHI townhouse. It’s a bit of a process and takes some planning but it’s doable. Here’s what I’ve learned if it’s … Read More

Greenbelt Homes, shed
9 Jun 2019

Greenbelt’s Historic Architecture and Co-op Rules

by Susan Harris | posted in: History, Home and Garden |

When people first buy a home in Old Greenbelt’s housing coop (GHI), they become members (not owners), and begin to learn what living in co-ops means, especially if they’re historically significant co-ops like ours. So for reference by new and … Read More

Art Deco, Art Moderne, Greenbelt Homes, International Style
30 Apr 2019

Spring Garden Consultations for GHI Members

by Susan Harris | posted in: Home and Garden |

Greenbelt’s historic housing coop has a new Gardening Subcommittee, which I’m part of, and we recently visited the yards of the three members who won our random drawing for a garden consultation. It was fun and we thank the winners … Read More

Gardening Subcommittee, Greenbelt Homes
6 May 2018

Great Start for GHI’s Supersized Rain Garden

by Susan Harris | posted in: Home and Garden |

Appropriately on Earth Day this year, Greenbelt Homes Inc dedicated its largest-ever rain garden, located in 20 Ridge Road. That unlucky court is where large quantities of rainfall were gathering and rushing into nearby Still Creek, causing erosion and harming … Read More

Chesapeake Bay Trust, GHI, Greenbelt Homes, rain garden
22 Nov 2017

GHI Office Garden Make-Over

by Susan Harris | posted in: Home and Garden |

GHI members and visitors will remember this main entrance to the office on Hamilton Place, where old, overgrown Junipers encroached on the doorway and were then sheared back with electric tools. This is the view leaving the building’s other entrance, … Read More

GHI, Greenbelt Homes, landscape make-over
29 Jun 2016

Bold Colors for Small Rooms

by Susan Harris | posted in: Home and Garden |

I remember being advised, when I first moved into my small GHI home, that I’d better keep the walls all white so the rooms would look larger. I may have mumbled I like color but quietly I was thinking “Boring!” … Read More

bold colors, Greenbelt Homes
I've Warmed to our Blocky International-Style Homes
27 Dec 2015

I’ve Warmed to our Blocky International-Style Homes

by Susan Harris | posted in: Home and Garden |

I’m no architectural historian, and when I first moved here I wasn’t initially a fan of the look of the 1937 block homes, including my own. It’s just so plain. But some education has turned me around. I’ve learned (via Wiki) that … Read More

Greenbelt Homes, International Style
7 Jul 2015

GHI Launches Garden Contest

by Susan Harris | posted in: Home and Garden |

You all remember GHI’s recent kitchen and bathroom renovation contests, right? The winners are here (kitchen) and here (bathroom), with photos and their tips for us. The contests were conducted by the Architectural Review Committee chaired by Lola Skolnik, and … Read More

garden contest, Greenbelt Homes

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