DesVu House

DesVu House DESVU [day - voo]:
Meaning: The awareness that this current moment will soon be a memory. An adventurous family in the Fingerlakes of NY.

Follow along as we fix up an 1800’s Victorian home.

A quick little project for our back room laundry. This room has a hatch to our basement and felt like you were stepping ...
09/19/2025

A quick little project for our back room laundry. This room has a hatch to our basement and felt like you were stepping into a horror film. Had to move a wall to fit the machines in snug. Nothing fancy… just a nicer, less murderery room.

Happy bday to our good friends at Overlook Coffee Co. ! A place that really connected us to our new community. We couldn...
07/24/2025

Happy bday to our good friends at Overlook Coffee Co. ! A place that really connected us to our new community. We couldn’t make it in today… we got stuck somewhere else. Lo siento amigos. Pura vida!

Sometimes when you get distracted in the middle of gutting a bathroom you take an old beam you pulled from an old shed y...
05/30/2025

Sometimes when you get distracted in the middle of gutting a bathroom you take an old beam you pulled from an old shed you knocked down a couple months ago to build a floating shelf, take some flowers from your local florist ( ) and a bottle from your local coffee roaster ( ) to make a lil mini bouquet, and put it with a book you snagged a warehouse booksale last weekend to jazz up the Airbnb bathroom a lil more. Semi-high functioning adhd / frustrating husband at its best.

A little before and after in the same photo. The home has one fantastically beautiful front entrance with an impressive ...
05/27/2025

A little before and after in the same photo. The home has one fantastically beautiful front entrance with an impressive amount of layered paint coverage. Slowly slowly we have been chipping (pun intended) away at restoring it to the original wood. At first we didn’t think the wood was going to be good enough quality after years of wear, but with some love and sore arms we are finding beauty underneath.

DESVU [day - voo]: Meaning: The awareness that this current moment will soon be a memory. We’ve come to realize that our...
05/08/2025

DESVU [day - voo]:
Meaning: The awareness that this current moment will soon be a memory.

We’ve come to realize that our name has slightly confused most- both in regard to pronunciation as well as meaning. Those that know Erica, myself, and our children understand our loving embrace and proclivity towards chaos. However we also believe that chaos is difficult to appreciate without the balance of living and breathing in the current moment. As we renovate and bring this property back to where it belongs, we also have a deep desire to create a space that the current moment, wether chaotic or peaceful, can be celebrated and a memory created. Life moves fast. Keep notice of the memories created at every turn.

The best time of year. The vineyard is alive and bright.
05/05/2025

The best time of year. The vineyard is alive and bright.

05/01/2025

160 tons down… and counting. 😳

The other day I jumped into the woods a little bit up the street from us. I heard there used to be an old sign that had ...
05/01/2025

The other day I jumped into the woods a little bit up the street from us. I heard there used to be an old sign that had fallen down that was a small billboard to let passers-by know that the tasting room at our house was coming up. So obviously I had to go find it. It’s a little beat up but a still pretty awesome hand painted sign. Now the question is… where do we put it? A big wall inside or somewhere outside on the property. Hmmmm…. 🤔

Storytime.As many of you know our property once was the home of Cascata Winery and The Professors Inn. Being that the pr...
04/10/2025

Storytime.
As many of you know our property once was the home of Cascata Winery and The Professors Inn. Being that the property was not large enough to have a vineyard that could produce production levels of grape growth, they partnered with Lakewood Vineyards right up the road to create their wines. While Cascata may now be a beautiful memory of the past, we are trying to make sure some of those memories continue to engrain themselves into the home. For anyone that stays in our inn keepers apartment for a couple nights or more, we set out a bottle of Lakewood’s Riesling to enjoy. If you’ve heard of fingerlakes wine, you most likely have heard that Riesling is a central point to its terroir. All that to say… come stay, hang out, and enjoy some history/wine. 😁

04/09/2025

A little rewind to when I started clearing the vineyard and Zeno spent most of his time getting stuck in patches of briars or getting tied up in vines.

😮‍💨 it’s been a long few weeks of the second season of ‘Let’s get this Vineyard back.’ When we first bid on this house ...
04/08/2025

😮‍💨 it’s been a long few weeks of the second season of ‘Let’s get this Vineyard back.’ When we first bid on this house we didn’t even realize there was a vineyard on the property. We just thought we had an enormous 1/2 acre pricker/briar patch. After seeing a satellite view image of the property we saw that there was actually a vineyard hiding! Last year we cleared the rows just to see if the vines would pop back alive and they did. 😁So this late winter/early spring has been the time to rid the lines, rows, and field of years of dead vine, prickers, weeds, and everything in between. Now’s the time to repair broken/loose lines, reinforce a few poles and do some vine tying. Fingers crossed we have some grapes this season. 🤞🏼

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Watkins Glen, NY

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