July 26th, 2010
Chapter 6 In 2006, what I loved about the Sugar Hill Inn was its potential to be great some day. It had 15 acres, great views, and a farm house dating back to 1789. However, the roof was bad, the paint was peeling, the plumbing was old and the water smelled bad among other things. [...]
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Tags: Bed and Breakfast, Country Inn, Interior design, New Hampshire, Old Homes, Renovations, Sugar Hill, White Mountains
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April 24th, 2010
Chapter 5 Even with the seventy hour work week, I enjoy being an innkeeper. It is the most demanding but best job I have ever had. Until buying the Sugar Hill Inn I was never known as a workaholic. Being an innkeeper is more a life style then a job. For those that can totally [...]
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Tags: Country Inn, Lifestyle, White Mountains
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April 4th, 2010
The cool thing about staying at a country inn is that every establishment has its own character and personality. That personality comes from its history, location and most importantly the owner.
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Tags: Country Inns, Interior design, Sugar Hill, White Mountains
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March 12th, 2010
There I was in Chef School with this vision of buying a country inn. All students at the French Culinary Institute were required to meet with the career placement office even if you did not want or need a job.
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Tags: Business Broker, Buying a Bed and Breakfast, French Culinary, New Hampshire
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March 4th, 2010
I have always been a day dreamer. It’s important to me to have time alone to think. One day I was watching the HGTV Dream Home Giveaway show. It was a beautiful water front home. They give away a new home every year if you haven’t seen the show.
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Tags: Bed and Breakfast, French Culinary Institute, Glen Rock, Life Style
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March 3rd, 2010
I think of myself more as an artist then a business owner and the Sugar Hill inn is my canvas. In this blog I am going to talk about the art of inn keeping. This blog should be of interest to anyone interested in travel, hospitality, design, art, fine wine and food, the White Mountain, environmental issues and enlighten business management.
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Tags: art, design, environmental issues and enlighten business management, fine wine and food, hospitality, the White Mountain
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March 1st, 2010
You may not notice a lot of changes from where you’re standing, but we’ve updated our website so that it now runs on WordPress. This makes it easier for us to maintain the site, but also opens up for us the ability to blog! While updating our site, we’ve taken the opportunity to add in [...]
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