Britton Homes is a fine-home remodeler serving Eastern Massachusetts that is built upon the principles of meticulous project management married with beautiful execution. What distinguishes us from our competitors is that we offer an extremely high-level of customer service and pride in quality workmanship. Those who choose to work with us have usually done quite a bit of research and ultimately select us because of our consistently-high reputation on Angie’s list, The Better Business Bureau, and from current and past client referrals and references.
Jim Britton, founder and co-owner of Britton Homes, began his career in 1979 building homes in the Greater Boston area, as well as remodeling projects. He soon found his passion lay in remodeling homes and he went about creating a company with the mission of bringing his clients’ remodeling ideas to life while exceeding their expectations of service.
It was this passion for impeccable delivery that lay the foundation for the Britton Homes team today. From start to finish—we want you to come away saying, “Wow! That was a fantastic experience.” Many of our clients with larger renovation projects will come to us with architectural plans already created. We welcome the collaboration with you and your architect and our clients often remark that we make the process effortless. And for clients who have an idea–but need help with the next step, we are thrilled to use our design experience or refer an architect where appropriate and tailor a solution to your specific tastes.
Whether you are looking for low-key luxe, modern and clean, classic New England traditional or somewhere in between–our job is to take your vision, get the team in place, relentlessly manage the timeline, and move your project to successful completion. Every member of our team respects you, your home, and your time. As such, sites will be picked up every day and you will find our skilled workers to be mindful of your need to live and manage within your home while the project takes place.
Our materials are selected to endure and project managers regularly inspect work to ensure it maintains our highest workmanship standards. At the end of the project, we want you feeling like you made a fantastic decision to work with Britton Homes.
We have been recognized on multiple occasions for the quality and beauty of our work by the National Association of the Remodeling Industry.
Peppery pork buns and Taiwanese congee with doughnut dipping sticks for breakfast, and for lunch, handmade noodles and pork-fat-infused rice.
In much of Asia, Taiwan has a reputation for being one of the best food destinations. In Sydney, though, there are hardly any Taiwanese restaurants, and the cuisine doesn’t really have the same gravitas. Arthur Kuan-Lung Chu is hoping to change that.
His family founded Mother Chu’s, a tiny and once-loved vegetarian Taiwanese restaurant in Haymarket. His grandma, mother Chu, and uncle Paul Chun-Po, left the business some years ago but Chu hopes to continue their legacy at his new restaurant, Hungry Paulie. “My uncle was like a father figure to me. He taught me everything I know about Taiwanese cuisine. He passed away four or five years ago. This is partly why I wanted to do Hungry Paulie.”
Chu’s plan is already on track; his new Eastwood market-stall restaurant (it’s tucked in Eastwood’s new outdoor food market) has gained a strong reputation for the same things that made Mother Chu’s great.
At seven every morning Chu wheels the restaurant’s cart down to the street. He’s already spent three hours handling dough and pots of stewing rice, and the cart is stocked with a bubbling pot of congee, sushi-like glutinous rice rolls and a variety of Taiwanese bready snacks.
If you’re ordering congee, get Chu’s homemade youtiao as a dipping tool. “The translation means ‘oily stick’, but most people call it a Chinese doughnut,” says Chu. If not, try shāo bǐng (unleavened, flaky sesame-topped bread buns) or one of Taiwan’s most popular street snacks: hújiāo bǐng (a doughy, crunchy-edged bun filled with heavily peppered pork and shallots).
It’s mostly on the saltier and meatier end of the breakfast scale but that’s where the soy milk comes into play – to balance those flavours out. “I'm really proud that we make it here. We get complaints that it's too plain but no, that's the flavour of real soy milk,” says Chu.
Once the morning rush is over the roaming cart retreats to the market space where Chu switches his attention to his beef broths and noodle making. Taiwanese beef soup is a mainstay in almost all Taiwanese restaurants outside of Taiwan, and Chu says he takes his recipe from Taiwan’s modern soup makers. “We use pork tail bones and chicken feet as well as beef shin bones – it gives body to it. We also add apples, carrot, tomato and white radish. Once they’re done we blend them and put them back into the soup.”
If there’s drinking involved, Taiwanese cuisine will drop the soups for don-like rice bowls – Chu does a particularly drink-friendly iteration with pork-fat-infused rice topped with shards of crackling and shallots – and sides of pungent seaweed, garlicky beef stomach or maybe some chilli-oil-braised pork ears. “My father, uncle and grandma used to give [pork-fat rice] to me, it was the cheapest food to produce. We never threw away anything,” says Chu.
PBS today announced its Winter/Spring 2018 schedule lineup, which includes the much-anticipated second season of MASTERPIECE's hit series "Victoria" (Sundays, January 14-February 25),starring Jenna Coleman, Tom Hughes and, this season, Dame Diana Rigg. Also coming from MASTERPIECE is LITTLE WOMEN (Sundays, May 13-20) with Emily Watson, Angela Lansbury, Dylan Baker and Michael Gambon in this new adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's timeless classic, and "The Child in Time" (Sunday, April 1), based on Ian McEwan's acclaimed novel and starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kelly Macdonald.
Additional highlights include the debut of the new series WE'LL MEET AGAIN (Tuesdays, January 23-February 27) with Ann Curry, which explores some of history's most dramatic events through the personal stories of those who experienced them, reuniting people whose lives intersected at pivotal moments (view clip here). NATURE's three-part miniseries "Animals with Cameras" (Wednesdays, January 31-February 14) is a fascinating look at the secret lives of animals, filmed where no human cinematographers can go.
The arts continue to shine on PBS with the premiere of TONY BENNETT: THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GERSHWIN PRIZE FOR POPULAR SONG (Friday, January 12); GREAT PERFORMANCES concerts from the groundbreaking artists Nas (Friday, February 2) and will.i.am, as he reunites with the Black Eyed Peas for Landmarks Live in Concert: AGREAT PERFORMANCES Special (Friday, April 13); and "Live From Lincoln Center Presents at the Appel Room" (beginning Spring 2018), a concert miniseries that puts a spotlight on Stephanie J. Block, Sutton Foster, Leslie Odom Jr., and Andrew Rannells with four new episodes, one for each performer, illuminating their journeys to musical stardom, revisiting favorite songs and offering glimpses of future projects.
PBS will also be home to supersized event programming this season, with the nine-part CIVILIZATIONS (Tuesdays, April 17-May 15, June TBA), which tells the story of art from the dawn of human history to the present day - for the first time on a global scale - and THE GREAT AMERICAN READ (Tuesday, May 22), which kicks off a national campaign to choose "America's Best-Loved Book."
PBS will honor Martin LUTHER King, Jr. Day and recognize the 50th anniversary of King's assassination with a slate of programs that celebrate his legacy, including the Academy Award-nominated film from INDEPENDENT LENS, "I Am Not Your Negro" (Monday, January 15). The film examines the lives and successive assassinations of three of James Baldwin's close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin LUTHER King, Jr. Programs airing around Dr. King's birthday and in honor of Black History Month include AMERICAN MASTERS "Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart," about the A Raisin in the Sun playwright (Friday, January 19), INDEPENDENT LENS "Winnie," about the wife of Nelson Mandela (Monday, February 5) and an encore broadcast of AMERICAN MASTERS "Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise," about the activist, poet and author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Friday, February 16). In April - the anniversary month of Dr. King's assassination - PBS presents encore broadcasts of Dr. Henry Louis Gates' AND STILL I RISE: BLACK AMERICA SINCE MLK (Tuesday, April 3 and Wednesday, April 4) and AMERICAN EXPERIENCE "Roads to Memphis" (Wednesday, April 4).
?PBS will present its Winter/Spring programming slate during presentations at the Television Critics Association Press Tour on Tuesday, January 16, and Wednesday, January 17, and will include appearances by Angela Lansbury, Emily Watson, Maya Hawke, Annes Elwy, Willa Fitzgerald and Kathryn Newton from MASTERPIECE's "Little Women," plus Benjamin Bratt and activist Dolores Huerta, PBS icon Bill Nye, acclaimed director Stanley Nelson and more.
The PBS Winter/Spring season includes many additional shows, series and specials, with most program descriptions listed below. More announcements about PBS SPECIALS and thematic programs will be made in the coming weeks, including programs for Earth Day and Memorial Day. Please check full listings below.