Things I Love

What I love about our house, and ALL old houses is what makes them so unique. It's the little things that canNOT be replicated in modern times. And perhaps what makes these things so enchanting to me is just the simple fact that they were a part of someone else's life... another family... another time. Imagining what that family may have been like- how they lived, what they did in their day-to-day lives. It's all so fascinating to me.  

For starters, the door-knob and lock on one of the bedroom doors upstairs:

The design and "look" alone is simply beautiful.

And then I wonder about the paint scheme... and how they must have really LOVED blue to have painted the entire room- walls, floor, ceiling- all a solid blue.
These are the things that I love. :-)

Vintage Wallpaper

Here's a peak at the cool wallpaper found under the wood paneling in the girls' bedrooms.

Bedroom #1:

This is the more "modern" of the two wallpaper layers.
This one was a blue and gold pattern and had the actual glue-on paper backing.



This was the bottom (oldest) layer.
Has cloth backing and was nailed on with "millions" of tiny nails. I love this one!

Bedroom #2:

Beneath the sky-blue wood paneling in this bedroom was, again, two layers of paper.



Newer paper is the pastel colored one on top; older, cloth-backed paper is
the bright red, green and gold on bottom. So pretty!

The Upper Floor & Closet Project

The upper floor of our house consists of two large bedrooms, a small unfinished closet that connects both bedrooms, and an "attic" room of sorts, which is actually a room above the kitchen.

After pulling off two layers of wallpaper (of which I saved a couple of samples- just because I like old things), the first thing we did to the upstairs was add some new electrical outlets and lights/ceiling fans, as there was virtually no electricity on the second story.

My four year old loved to help rip off the old wallpaper.

My handy husband cutting in some new outlets.
The original walls in the house are all solid tongue and groove boards.

We then framed in nice sized closets in each bedroom. There will be "nooks" on each outside end for shelving, as well as plenty of storage space inside the closets themselves.

This is the not-quite finished framed in closet in the 12 year old's room.
See the bricks from the original chimney? So cool!