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…
Paul decided to tackle the attic this past week. There are parts of it completely open due to rotten wood and you can wave to the neighbors. We’ve needed to get up there for some time to close it up and seal it from passer-bys, rain and any more forest friends visiting (yes, we’ve had a few, lol) as well as wasps. We’ve done some quick work up there but the major overhaul we knew would take time. There was…
When we first bought the house and even after walking through it several times, the number of rooms and their layouts continued to perplex us. There were so many that you walked through to reach another and seemed to connect to a second one. Some of the layouts began to seem almost as though these rooms were a “set.” This happened throughout. It was time for a little more research. After all, if we know how it was, hopefully we…
Even though we now know the names of a lot of the rooms in the house, there is a room we simply call the “Pink Room.” You can guess why. For those of you who have been in the house, it’s the one with the tin ceiling that was apparently split into two rooms (you can see where the tin ceiling pattern doesn’t come to a finished edge and if you walk into the adjoining room, the tin ceiling continues)….
This week’s clean up — ahh…a little elbow grease is amazing, isn’t it? I love these old door hardware pieces. They make the glass door knobs shine so. So if you remember this door and it’s original hardware, I’ve finally finished all of the pieces and have put them back onto the door. See below the hardware, as it should have and DID look, years ago (remember the door is still original and we haven’t cleaned it up yet but…
As mentioned, we have been working on or towards this for the past several weeks both with the contractor and suppliers for the parts. The first step had the contractors out to do a test of the radiator system. This was done several weeks back which involved an air test to see if the radiators held the pressure. Better to discover an air leak than a water leak, right? The process took hours due to the number of radiators (22)…
Do you remember our “test wall?” This was the first one we completed from top to bottom, trying to find the best process and ultimately what it would look like. I’m sure you noticed that it’s missing one very important piece: the window. Trust me, it was on our minds. We had been working on the window for awhile (removing the glass, stripping the paint, reinstalling the glass, glazing it, painting the old window again). We did this in between…
Hi everyone! Sorry I haven’t posted in a few weeks but time seems to fly these days as we’ve had a lot going on with meetings, contractors and family visits. It’s all good stuff! The season’s growing colder and throughout we’ve been continuing to work on the house each day. Some times we accomplish a lot, sometimes a little as we learn both what works and what doesn’t work (don’t ask how many times we’ve tried to fix one of…
Hi everyone. This week we’ve had several areas that we have been working on and some areas, for which we are unfortunately stuck. Ah well, these are the joys of restoring and remodeling an old home. It’s all good and as you have seen, if we do find we have to wait in one area, if we look very hard, I think we can find SOMETHING else to work on in the meantime. LOL. We had some more bay window…
As we’re starting to move our work more inside the house with the cooler weather (and heat coming soon – yes!), even through we are nowhere near what we want the house to be inside, the decision has been made to begin nesting. We will be living there at some point therefore we’ll start room by room cleaning, scrubbing and settling into the rooms we can. Even those rooms have a lot of work we need to do but as…