Oh man...should I go??
 

My daughter in law is friends with a young lady who lives in the first house me and my husband owned. We bought it 28 years ago and labored long and hard remodeling it to it's grandeur. We owned an antique shop at the tme so the entire house was lovingly restored and furnished to the period the home was built. We stripped and refinished all of the woodwork and hard wood floors which included taking the stairway apart, numbering it and putting it back together once we had it done. The stairs go up to a landing and then up to the second floor so there was a lot of woodwork involved. We also put an inground pool and concrete patio in the back yard, had a new stone fireplace built etc... Well, now I've been invited to see the house again...but...she told me they painted all of the woodwork white :eek: This house has big pillars going from the entry into the parlor and huge pocket doors going from the parlor to the dining room and she said it's all white now but they took the pocket doors out and built a wall to divide those rooms.

I know the people we sold it to didn't take very good care of the house (actually, the did a lot of damage) so it did need to be remodeled but...I'm so nervous and curious all at the same time! Should I go? Would you go? I ust remember how much work it was and how hard we worked to refinish all of that woodwork...windows, stairs, floors, doors...and now it's all white. I know it's no longer my home and all of that but man...I'll probably have nightmares tonight now! LOL!

They have a show similar to this on TLC, I think it would be fun to see how they have done it over and Im sure thier memories of redoing it are as fond as yours. You said 28 years have passed.. I think it would be a lot of fun to see your house and think back to your memories and for her to share hers. I would go in a minute;)

I agree.

But to me things are just things... I would treasure the time I spent in the home and hope someone else was making memories there... I think of the house me and my sister grew up in and hope someday another set of kids sit in the same little alcove and play school, or play airplane on the stairs, etc.

I wouldn't be able to stop myself from going - I'd be too curious. But then again, you know what that did to the cat so not sure you should take my advice! ;)

LOL me too!

I always heard curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back. LOL

I too would be too curious but I wonder if I would regret it.

I would HAVE TO GO!!! It would be very hard, and I'd have to "hold my tongue" not to upset the new owners about how the wood was much better before than in its present "white" state, but I'd HAVE TO GO!!! Please share with us what you decide!!! Sweet dreams tonite! :D

I don't think I would go, you both did so much work (I know how hard striping paint is) and to see it with all that paint back on would just get to me.

GO!! It'll be fun. :)

I would go BUT--from the sound of things, I probably would not like what they did. Sounds like they did not maintain the integrity of the original house.

My husband and I bought an old house with wall to wall carpet, wallpaper EVERYWHERE (much of it water-damaged), and ugly '70s fixtures. The previous owner had even carpeted the kitchen with those adhesive carpet squares. It was hideous, but the house was solid.

We restored the wood floors, stripped wallpaper and painted the plaster walls, and put in nice fixtures in the bathrooms (no more pink toilet!). Eventually we gutted the kitchen, and had new shaker-style cabinets, oak flooring, appliances (the ones that came with the house were harvest gold), and lovely granite counters.

THe old lady who sold the house stopped by one day. I showed her all we had done. She was polite, but I could tell she HATED IT!

There's just no accounting for taste.:rolleyes: