Any Old House Owners Here?

[linz06]

Here are some more pictures...

First is the stairway from the first floor to the second floor... all original (except the carpet runner of course!)

Second picture is the second floor looking towards the door to the second storey deck. Again, all original wood floors and doors (except the exterior doors!)

The third picture is looking the other direction at the staircase up to the top half-storey,

The last picture is the top floor, showing one of the dormers. This is kind of our entertainment area with a projector and screen for movies It's beautiful to sit up in the windows on a winter day with snow falling! There are two more dormers up here, one to the right and one right behind me as I'm taking this picture. One day we might make this our master bedroom and build a closet and ensuite bathroom along the wall with no dormers

[linz06]

One more! Here is the original kitchen cabinet thing, which is now in a spare bedroom and now houses all of the linens There is a flour bin and a cutting board! It's about 100 years old!

[CouversMom]

Oops, I must have forgotten to post pictures

I love your house Lindsey! Our house is nowhere near as finished as yours... but I will have to post pictures when I get home tonight (I'm on my iPhone right now). I just love the cabinet! Our built-ins were all taken out by the second owner to open up the space. It used to have gorgeous pillars and built-in book cases

[linz06]

Originally Posted by CouversMom

Oops, I must have forgotten to post pictures

I love your house Lindsey! Our house is nowhere near as finished as yours... but I will have to post pictures when I get home tonight (I'm on my iPhone right now). I just love the cabinet! Our built-ins were all taken out by the second owner to open up the space. It used to have gorgeous pillars and built-in book cases

Thank you! That's terrible that they took so much out! Our kitchen is all new but the cabinets are kind of an older style and look really nice with the house. The countertops are cheap teal colored laminate counters that I would love to change one of these days!

Our house has definitely been a work in progress. I've painted it all except the bedrooms and bathrooms (I'll do that in the spring when I can open some windows) and we've changed out most of the light fixtures too from the 90's brass flush mounts to some more modern looking ones.

We have an antique store in our town that has BEAUTIFUL old chandeliers, and I really want a white one to hang in the bathroom over the tub Scott's fighting me on that though! He's 6'4" tall and said he would hit his head if he stands up to dry off... he has been in the bathtub two times since we moved in last April. I don't think it will be an issue! The one thing I wish we had that we don't is a clawfoot tub. The people who renovated the house put in a big corner jet tub, which I LOVE, but a clawfoot tub would have just finished it so much more nicely I think!

[CouversMom]

We haven't made too many improvements recently, so here are just a few pictures I have not posted yet.

Renovating one of the spare bedrooms. This room was disgusting before:

1. Stripping the woodwork around the windows.
2. Another view.
3. The original 5 panel door.
4. The windows after.

[CouversMom]

Just a couple more... Nothing too interesting, just showing you these makes me realize we really need to get back into the swing of things.

1. Stripping the woodwork... This is very tedious, and I haven't touched it for months because it sucks so much lol
2. One of my favorite thing about the house... The diamond windows
3. Knob and tube wiring It will eventually be upgraded (most of it has been), but for now I just enjoy the charm of it.
4. AND a picture not of our house, but our furnace. It has been amazing. We also had a new ac unit installed, and I couldn't be happier with them.

[linz06]

You have beautiful woodwork! The windows in our house couldn't be saved , but they did replace them with really nice windows with white divider thingies in them (lol I don't know what it's called!) so they look older.

Your doors look like they match the doors in my parents' cabin! I've attached a picture from a couple of summers ago when my mom and I spent a full 10 hours trying to remove layers upon layers upon layers of wallpaper We would scrape and scrape and only get an inch off, and we scored it and used chemicals and everything! After this point, they just bought some cheap wood panelling, put that on the walls, and painted it.