Remember when I said that we basically show up for “work” at the house and it “tells” us where we’re working today? With all the beautiful snow came very cold temperatures in this area. A couple of nights down to 5 or 6 degrees. We weren’t worried because we have two main water lines coming into the house. One, the most massive and being fed by the new hot water heater in the cellar, had all of its piping replaced…
We LOVE wood and all its beautiful grains. Anytime we go somewhere that has beautiful exposed wood, we both stop in awe and can’t help but admire it. Therefore our initial thought on the house inside was take it back down to the bare wood and stain it, at least in the entry way, parlor and ballroom. But did the wood under all those years of paint have a grain and quality to stain? And before you say it, yes,…
Do you remember the entry way wallpaper removing project I started? Well I think I am making some good progress on it. With the years of not only what appear to be 3 layers of wallpaper but also at least 1 paint job over it all, it’s been a very slow moving process. The typical wallpaper remover products aren’t won’t go through it all, so it’s simply the warm water and then scraping. Unfortunately most of the wallpaper is coming…
These past couple of weeks here have brought quite a bit of rain. Not all day rain but every other day rain, for an hour or so, or three, etc… As such, yes we have the contractor contacted who will come out and work to repair the leak but in the meantime, the rains keep coming and now with the snow sitting and melting, the leak continues…drip, drip, drip…can be heard from that room. Therefore we keep looking at the…
I am sure for all of the local West Virginians, this is old hat and a real inconvenience, but for these recent CA transplants, we truly enjoyed waking up to the beautiful view outside of our windows yesterday! Wow, what a winter wonderland! Because it was snow, not ice, it was so nice. We spent the day working on tearing out a bathroom downstairs. That is, when Paul could keep me from being distracted by the beautiful views outside of…