tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41666217804953264532024-03-24T00:10:07.686-07:00Wisteria Bend CottageChristy Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08251491183043518602noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166621780495326453.post-78437515616838449852017-03-12T17:42:00.000-07:002017-03-12T17:42:08.016-07:00Finished!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
After nearly 2 years, we are finally finished. Of course, you're never actually finished with yardwork, and I'm sure I'll find little things here and there to add to the decor over time. But for now, we can say that the restoration is finished. Here are some before-and-afters to show how far we've come.</div>
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The kitchen and breakfast nook:<br />
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As a reminder, the tabletop is made of the cypress wood that served as the counter for the kitchen cabinets and was covered with formica.<br />
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The living room:<br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;">I found the purple velvet chair on a street corner near Rice Village on a Sunday morning. It was moldy and still damp even from being in someone's leaky garage or storage unit for a very long time. I was by myself so putting it into the back of my SUV-let was a challenge. And because I couldn't close the trunk door, I had to tie it down with the scarf I was fortunate enough to be wearing. After spraying it down with a combination of vinegar and bleach we brought it into the house until we could find a re-upholsterer. It was in our guest room since 2014, but it perfectly matches at WBC.</span></div>
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The Roman shades were sewn by Aunt Evelyn from fabric I found half price at High Fashion Home. Her MAD SKILLS are also present in the pool room cushions and shades, as well as in the sleeping room curtains. Thanks Aunt Onion!</div>
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The pool room:<br />
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And thanks to Lance and Rachael for beta-testing the place, and pointing out that we didn't have any place in the pool room for people to set drinks. Now we have a nifty perch for beverages.<br />
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The hallway:<br />
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In keeping with the theme, I had some of my photos of the wisteria along the fence blown up on canvas.<br />
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The bathroom:<br />
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The twin bedroom:<br />
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The sleeping room:<br />
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<br />Christy Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08251491183043518602noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166621780495326453.post-55404663181027350062016-11-27T16:38:00.000-08:002016-11-27T16:38:09.175-08:00I'm going to hire a wino to decorate our home...On the drive to work one day listening to the classic country station, I heard Dave Frizzell singing this 1982 Country Music Song of the Year nominee written by Dewayne Blackwell:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">So you'll feel more at ease here, and you won't have to roam.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">We'll take out the dining room table, and put a bar along that wall.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">And a neon sign, to point the way, to our bathroom down the hall.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.metrolyrics.com/im-gonna-hire-a-wino-to-decorate-our-home-lyrics-david-frizzell.html#ixzz4LH8zCafi" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003399; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">David Frizzell - I'm Gonna Hire A Wino To Decorate Our Home Lyrics | MetroLyrics</a> </span></span></span><br />
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When I heard this, I realized this is exactly what I'm doing to the cottage! Rather than restoring the piano, we decided to convert it into a bar. Here's how it started out. <br />
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The piano came with the house because it was too much of a pain to move.<br />
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It's a Bush & Gerts piano, and fully restored, could sell for up to $17,000 to a collector.<br />
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Unfortunately, the piano guy thought it would cost $15,000 to restore it...<br />
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But Mom found an inspiration photo that led us another direction.<br />
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These are the guts of the piano. We keep thinking we could convert this to some sort of art piece but the inspiration hasn't quite hit yet.<br />
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After removing the guts, Terry put a board to support a countertop. We found a marble remnant for just $60 that was later cut to size.<br />
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After building slots for wine glasses and installing some lights, we now have a piano bar! It's still covered in construction dust and the wood is dry from so many years without conditioning. But she's ready for the next iteration of her life as a bar. As a side note, this is where the piano sat when the previous owner was a child.<br />
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Also much like the wino decorator in the song, we decided long ago not to have a dining room table, instead opting for a pool table. We had the pool table installed this weekend; a Craigslist find that was a bargain, but came at the cost of lots of driving.<br />
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The installers were very meticulous, and repeatedly checked the table to ensure it was level.<br />
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Even though we were trying to beat the post-Thanksgiving traffic back to Houston, I shot around a little bit. Scratched twice, but otherwise didn't get a ball in a pocket. Clearly, practice is in order.<br />
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We are nevertheless, resisting installing a neon sign to point the way to the bathroom down the hall. Even winos have their limits.<br />
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<br />Christy Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08251491183043518602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166621780495326453.post-82040195016948705092016-11-21T17:44:00.001-08:002016-11-21T17:45:02.810-08:00Move-in day!So the restoration is not completely 100% done. There's a few little things left to wrap up, but it's close enough to start moving things in. Due to a small snafu with the truck, we had to drive all the way out to Bellaire to pick up the Uhaul. After that 1.5 hour mini-epic, we got the truck loaded with stuff from our house.<br />
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Then we headed to Mom and Dad's to pick up the fridge and other smaller items. The fridge was so tall that once Larry and Dad got it it in the truck we couldn't open the door all the way. <br />
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We were fortunate enough to have retained some helpers who currently attend Fayetteville HS to lend some extra muscle. Boy did those extra muscles come in handy! Cole and Brenden helped move the fridge, the sleeper sofa, the washer and dryer, the rugs and all kinds of smaller items from the truck.<br />
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And they very politely "ooh'd" and "aah'ed" at all the right moments, especially when we took the box off of the fridge and got to see it for the first time.<br />
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Though moving the fridge was much easier with the furniture dolly, I still think I lost a year of my life watching them bring it in and get it set up.<br />
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After about 45 minutes and a run to the general store to get felt sticky pads to level the fridge and keep it from messing up the floor, it was finally level and securely in place.<br />
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And as our designated heroes for the day, we gave them the honor of testing out the couch first.<br />
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I don't think that's the finger Dad meant to hold up...He is adamant that this is the last sleeper sofa he's ever going to move.<br />
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After Cole and Brenden left, we put together the bigger portion of the living room. The rug is a little lumpy from being rolled up for so long. But it should flatten out this week.<br />
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The master bedroom is sort of coming together, but we didn't bring any hardware to actually assemble the bed and we still need to get curtain hardware.<br />
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Truly one of the highlights of Saturday was using the toilet! No kidding...to actually have a functional toilet and running water are things we do not take for granted.<br />
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We also failed to bring the hardware for the beds in the second bedroom so that will have to wait for another day too.<br />
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But the sleeping room is very nearly done. We only lack window treatments. I have an idea of what I want; now that most of the big stuff is done, it's time to execute the plan.<br />
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So a big thanks to Cole and Brenden, two of the absolute sweetest, and most helpful young people I have had the pleasure of meeting!</div>
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We are down to the last week! Toe molding was added mid-week. The floors are now finished and look amazing, particularly the bedrooms. </div>
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The kitchen and bathroom sinks are FINALLY back from the re-finisher and ready to be installed.<br />
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The toilet has been purchased and is ready for installation. The verbiage on the box cracks me up.<br />
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The door hinges and window hardware have been cleaned and painted. Doors to be hung this week.<br />
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The ceiling fans have been installed in all the rooms and on the front porch.<br />
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The chandeliers in the kitchen are now installed as well.<br />
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I've hit a wall. I'm tired of making decisions. And the last things seem to be moving SOOO SLOOOW that I haven't felt like doing blog posts. But things are continuing to progress both inside and out. By October 1, the kitchen cabinets, shelves, and doors had been painted.</div>
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All the doors had either been painted or stained.<br />
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And the tile in the bathroom had been completed. Unfortunately, it's a little curvy (note the arc where the shower head will be) and will need to be pulled out and re-done. Grr.<br />
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By last weekend, all the exterior painting was just about completed, but they were still working on the window screens.<br />
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The electrical finish-out had also begun. Ceiling fans were installed in the the bedrooms and living room, sconces were installed, and most of the plugs had been installed as well.<br />
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And in the kitchen the cabinet doors were affixed with new hardware that is identical to the original hinges.<br />
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This week, the floors were sanded and prepped. And yesterday they started applying the finish. (I didn't notice until I saw this picture that the original glass knobs for the kitchen cabinets were put back).<br />
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Rather than staining, we leaving the floors natural. There are couple different kinds of wood (the living room and dining room had what would have been more expensive back in the day). Each room looks a little different. And the floors are certainly not perfect, but considering their age, I'm amazed at the condition. This is the flooring in the laundry room right after they applied the top coat.<br />
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You can really see the difference here between the finished and unfinished floors.<br />
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That's all from Wisteria Bend for now.<br />
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~ChristyChristy Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08251491183043518602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166621780495326453.post-27132869196308207282016-09-25T06:41:00.002-07:002016-09-25T06:41:57.663-07:00Interior painting almost finished!All the tape and plastic are down. The walls, ceiling and trim are in their nearly-finished state. It won't be long now until we are finished with everything.<br />
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The microwave is in.<br />
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The window seat is now a crisp white to match the rest of the trim. Still to be installed are the trim pieces on the windows that secure the panes.<br />
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The bathtub is in. The kitchen sink and bathroom sink are still being re-finished.<br />
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The french doors between living and pool room have been sanded and are being stained. They were painting the other interior doors yesterday. These will be the only doors that are stained. </div>
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The high-gloss paint on the ceiling really helps brighten the dark wood walls.<br />
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This week will see electrical finish-out, and maybe tile in the bathroom. I'm not sure when the floors will be done. <br />
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That's all from Wisteria Bend for now.<br />
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I haven't posted much over the last few weeks because the progress wasn't photogenic. The guys have been sanding and caulking which is so important for the finished result, but doesn't convey well in pictures. But now I'm excited to see some progress and share it with ya'll. </div>
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All the walls have two coats of poly-acrylic so they have a nice sheen but don't look stained or overdone.<br />
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The bathtub arrived.<br />
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I don't know how much it weighs, but I do know I will be worthless to try and move it.<br />
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Last weekend, the guys primed the ceiling and trim.<br />
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They also started priming the cabinets in the kitchen.<br />
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While they were working, I tried to stay out of the way--by heading to the antiques festival in downtown Fayetteville and Round Top. I found a cute towel rack for the bathroom and acrylic footrest, among other treasures.</div>
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By the time I got back, they had moved on to painting the ceiling, thankfully wearing safety gear.<br />
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We decided on high-reflective high-gloss white on the ceilings to brighten up the dark walls.<br />
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This is still wet, and I'm not sure how glossy it will be once it dries.<br />
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The electrician is supposed to come on Thursday to start installing light fixtures, so I took the first car load of light fixtures.<br />
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I have to admit it was intimidating to head down I-10 with a trunk full of crystal chandeliers. But it turned out OK. Whew...<br />
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Now as a complete aside...I found one more treasure at Round Top that I'm keeping for myself. Meet Ziggy Piggy.<br />
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Round Top...because you didn't know you needed a giant copper flying pig until you saw it smiling back at you!<br />
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Kitchen backsplash is in on both the old side and the new side.<br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;">So it looks like nothing is happening, but this is tedious work that is going to mean a far better result later. They had finished the smaller bedroom when we were there on Sunday.</span><br />
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The interior of the windows in the master bedroom were being prepped to spray the trim and ceiling paint. <br />
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The bathroom floor is finally complete.<br />
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The tub "should" be delivered Tuesday. This will be the third promised delivery date....<br />
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And finally for the interior, the mudroom has been sanded.<br />
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For the exterior we FINALLY finished weeding and mulching the cistern paddock.<br />
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We couldn't finish because the poison ivy had started filling back in and we have to wait for it to die from the spray. Also because we got too tired. Like a complete idiot, I must have taken 3 trips before realizing the wheelbarrow had two flat tires. That made me run out of steam a little early.<br />
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The countertops arrived on Saturday and were installed on the new side of the kitchen even before we arrived. They were still working on the old side. It was so neat to see the stone while in process of being cut for the countertops. You could see some slight veining while they were cutting the pieces.</div>
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We chose soapstone because it was available in the era the house was built.<br />
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But once the guys got them installed and applied sealant to bring out the color, I absolutely fell in love.<br />
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The sealant gave them an amazing sheen and made the veins pop.<br />
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This week the refrigerator arrived. We are keeping it at Mom and Dad's house until WBC is further along. To save money we skipped delivery and Mom and Dad picked it up themselves. Miraculously, they avoided every thunderstorm between Houston and Sealy. However, we still had to figure out how to get it out of Dad's truck and into the garage. Easier said than done with two retired people, a shrimp, and someone who recently had back surgery. We wound up sliding it down two boards that sat on the tailgate. Mom and Dad were walking it along the skids; Larry and I had a rope at the top of the fridge to keep it from tipping over. (If you've ever watched the Smithsonian documentary on the secrets of Easter Island, it was kind of like that only scarier).</div>
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We managed to get it down safely, but let's just say we are paying someone to move it to WBC.<br />
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Finally Larry and I made more progress on the cistern paddock. With the rain came a litany of weeds to pull. Larry calculated 515 shovels full of mulch over 19 trips with the wheelbarrow. The new mulch we added is darker because it was wet.<br />
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And while we were at it, we found a new friend, who we named Sampson.<br />
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Sampson is a 2-foot long checkered garter snake, who we hope goes far far away and doesn't return.<br />
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Because we will not allow the clothesline to beat us down, Larry borrowed a grinder so we could try to cut the poles below ground level and cover them up. The down side: sparks. Lots and lots of sparks.<br />
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But it ultimately worked. The one by the chicken coop took a really long time because there were two layers of pipe.</div>
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And there was some serious hootin' and hollerin' when the one by the cistern house gave way.<br />
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Fortunately, we only had one near-miss...<br />
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I was also planning to use a blow torch to burn off the leftover cheesecloth threads that held up the old wallpaper. Epic fail. So bad I didn't even take any pictures. I couldn't get the blowtorch (which is designed to make creme brulee not than burning old cheesecloth) close enough to the threads to burn them without also scorching the wood. So that plan got scrapped. Instead I helped Larry haul off the concrete we previously jackhammered, and fill in the holes where the concrete used to be. Now you'd never know a clothesline (and about 30 lbs of concrete) used to be here.</div>
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We FINALLY have air conditioning! On Thursday night, the A/C guy installed the outside unit and got it operational. Everyone had the privilege of working in comfort on Friday and Saturday. When we arrived on Saturday morning, the windows were even fogged up.</div>
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Other progress this week was the removal of the old linoleum from the kitchen floors. When the floor guy gave us an estimate on restoring the floors, he quoted an extra $600 in labor to remove the linoleum. In an effort to save some $$$ Dad started removing the linoleum himself. He and Mom were able to get about 1/3 of the kitchen done by the time we got there on Saturday morning.<br />
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I took on the breakfast nook myself on Saturday. Quite a tedious process. You have to use a heat gun to soften up the linoleum and then lift it up with a scraper thing. When the lineoleum gets hot, it sort of melts so that it is pliable.<br />
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I managed to finish the entirety of the breakfast nook in about 2 hours, which is probably because this area had water damage that caused the tiles to come up easily.<br />
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Also this week, Terry retrofit the space under the sink and the bin just to the right of it to make room for the dishwasher. Because this bank of cabinets is so short, a normal dishwasher would not fit. We found a dishwasher drawer that enabled us to preserve <i>most</i> of the original cabinetry as-is. And since it is panel-ready, it will hopefully blend seamlessly into the other cabinetry.<br />
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Interior and exterior painting and associated prep work will begin next week. There is going to be some significant sanding, caulking and nail removal to prep for the paining. In advance of those teams, the telephone nook and medicine cabinet were re-installed.<br />
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Although we are leaving most of the wood walls exposed, we wanted to protect them and make them look like the finished product, rather than a phase of construction. Pedro tested a small area of the breakfast nook with two coats of poly-acrylic.<br />
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I was thrilled. It has a slight sheen and makes the wood look clean and finished. So that will be the plan for most of the walls in the house.<br />
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The exterior will be a sage green color. The painters already primed one side with a primer that was tinted to match. Most of the trim will be white, but the window frames will be purple. Just not this purple. I'm very glad we bought samples to try out first, because this purple shade just isn't doing it for me.<br />
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Floor tiles in the bathroom will be installed next week. Here's a preview.<br />
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That's all from WBC for now.<br />
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Can you believe the table top used to be hidden under Formica countertops? Terry said when he cut into it, he counted around 150 rings. And that was just probably a small section of the tree. I'm thrilled he was able to save the wood and re-purpose it.<br />
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And the benches have convenient storage.<br />
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The outside looks the same as last week. The only noticeable change is that the kitchen door has been replaced with a "new" one. It's virtually identical to the old one, but it's solid wood. And it came from Terry's last project so it's still appropriate for the age of the house. Also, they switched the swing so we can open the door and have room for the washer and dryer.<br />
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We spent some serious time last Saturday looking at slabs for countertops. <br />
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It took a couple stops but, we were ultimately able to find a place that had what we were looking for at a reasonable price. The sales person initially refused to trust my measurements, though, because they were so unusual for the depth of today's counters. <br />
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Over the next couple weeks, the bathroom floor tile will be installed, then the bathtub, and then the rest of the tile. Finally, we are meeting with the exterior painters tomorrow to talk about colors. I picked up samples today so we can ensure the sage green we chose doesn't look like puke.<br />
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We are probably close to 2 months away from being finished. Wow! So it's getting to the most fun part, all the pretty things! One of the first things we did after we bought the house in June of 2015 was to take measurements and do floor plans, that way we could look for furniture pieces at antique stores and on Craig's list.<br />
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The kitchen isn't going to change much at all on the side with existing cabinets. The opposite wall is going to have the large appliances with some built-in cabinetry for storage and prep space. As you can see there is room for a large island or table (Stephen). </div>
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But to give us more counter space by the stove, we are thinking about putting the fridge in that little jog next to the door leading to the sleeping room. The prior owner said that's where they always had their fridge. But that space is not very deep. To keep the fridge from basically being in the way, we found a very cool retro-looking Italian fridge that's taller than usual, but skinny and not as deep as a typical American fridge. </div>
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These days, a formal dining room is, to some extent, an anachronism, so we decided to make that room a billiard room. The built-in window seat is a perfect perch to watch a game. The only thing is that we'll have to be careful not to hit the glass in the french doors with pool cues.</div>
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Unfortunately, restoring the piano would be prohibitively expensive. But Mom came up with a very creative idea to re-use the piano and Terry's got the skills to make it happen. </div>
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The living room is going to be more traditional, with a TV above the fireplace. The initial plan was to do a sofa and two club chairs, but we found an amazing bargain on a sectional, so this plan is probably going to change.</div>
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The second bedroom is challenging. As you can see, there are four doorways that open into this room. We thought what would make the most sense would be to have twin beds, which is great because antique twin-sized iron beds are readily available on Craigslist and at antique stores.</div>
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The sleeping room is another challenge. It's narrow, and we want to highlight the windows rather than hiding them. I thought perhaps a sectional and then a chaise lounge opposite for reading or taking a nap? But this one is definitely still a work in progress.<br />
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The area off the kitchen that we have always envisioned as a breakfast nook was where the prior owner kept her sewing machine. Since there were two windows, this nook apparently had a nice cross-breeze that allowed her to work comfortably (?) even without a/c. For our purposes, the breakfast nook seemed like a more functional option. Terry started building the benches a couple weeks ago. </div>
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But this week really got down to business with the decorative portion of the benches as well as the table.<br />
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And if you don't recognize them, the cypress planks that were hidden under the old countertops are being transformed into what will become the table top.<br />
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This is really going to be special when it's completed!<br />
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Another big change this week was the addition of insulation. When I drove up, I saw these weird circular patches in the side of the house.<br />
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That's where they drilled holes to blow insulation into the exterior walls.<br />
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From what I could see, I'm pretty sure the closed-cell spray foam insulation was added underneath the house too, but I was not going to get under there to find out or get better pictures.<br />
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I did go up in the attic to see that the insulation had been blown in that space too.<br />
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I will say that the house does seem slightly less miserable than before, but it's hard to tell when it's 100+ outside whether the insulation is making any difference.<br />
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Finally, I'm sad to report that we no longer have any cardinal eggs :(<br />
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I strongly suspect that a snake got to them. But part of me is worried that we did something to disturb them. I really hope it wasn't the jackhammer!<br />
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That's all from Wisteria Bend for now.<br />
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~ChristyChristy Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08251491183043518602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166621780495326453.post-85874093562638226162016-07-09T06:00:00.000-07:002016-07-09T06:00:46.533-07:00Getting hammered in the cistern paddock, part 1So we envision that the cistern paddock is a going to be <b><i>the</i></b> hang-out spot. <br />
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It's in the back of the house so there's privacy. There's some good shade from the many trees. And the cistern house itself could turn into a super-cool bar or bathroom one day. As a reminder, here's how it started.<br />
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You can see where it once rested. Once we got the shovels under it we were able to move it easily. A few taps with the sledgehammer and it was in pieces. <br />
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Since that was so easy I decided to try the concrete peeking out from what was once the clothes line pole. That didn't go so well...<br />
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Unbeknownst to me at the time, the concrete base was about two feet across and a foot thick!<br />
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So rather than destroy my back (Larry understandably didn't go near the sledgehammer) we decided to rent a jackhammer. Yeah...<br />
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It honestly wasn't as bad as I feared, and it did the job far better than the sledgehammer.<br />
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Not only was there concrete, there was a ring of rebar and the whole thing was piled on top of more chunks of leftover granite from the monument company. So we had to jackhammer through granite towards the bottom. <br />
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But unfortunately, we STILL couldn't get the pole out. It's buried further down and the portion under the concrete is drill pipe.<br />
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And at the end of the day the pole was still standing. It didn't even budge when I made the mistake of hanging from it like monkeybars (at which point I felt every muscle in my back revolt). Since we can't dig these out, our plan is to just cut them off as low as we can and cover over them. If anyone has any suggestions on how we might make that happen, please share!<br />
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For creation of the flowerbed I had to dig a trench for the flowerbed border. Why on earth we didn't think of this plan during the MONTHS of rainy weather when the ground is soft, I have no idea. Nope. Now that the ground is hard and dry, THAT'S when we start digging a 5" trench to insert the flowerbed border.<br />
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So clearly this project is nowhere near finished. But on the bright side, while we were cleaning up we found a couple nests that had fallen out of the trees in the bad weather. We put them back in the trees and along the fence posts, and it took no time for new residents to install themselves. A cardinal took advantage of this nest. You can clearly see that she added fresh straw to line the old nest before laying her eggs. And while we were working, she was closely monitoring our activities.<br />
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The porch is back up. Last week new concrete pads were laid for the front steps and pergola area.</div>
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The siding has been powerwashed to get the old (lead) paint off.<br />
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And in just a few hours, the new front steps were done too.<br />
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Still no air conditioning yet, but it won't be long now.<br />
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And the wiring to the breaker box seems virtually complete too.<br />
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It should be just a little longer until it's operational. I'm pretty stoked about the operable windows, but having AC will be such a game-changer! <br />
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The last few weeks also saw more details on the new kitchen cabinets. <br />
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To the left of the new cabinets is the original ironing board cubby, which we're keeping.<br />
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The door has been sanded down.<br />
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The original cabinets are being sanded too. The kitchen windows now open, and a new pane replaced a broken one on the right window.<br />
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All of the windows open so well now, most of them with just one finger.<br />
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To save money, we did not restore the top panes to functionality, so we have a few weights leftover.<br />
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In the pool room, the built-in bench has been wired for plugs.<br />
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And the piano is in the process of its reincarnation.<br />
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The ceiling in the hallway has been trimmed out and the door frames are being sanded.<br />
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The subfloor for the bathroom is complete and some of the rotten spots on the walls have been replaced with plywood.<br />
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After I took a few pictures, Larry "supervised" while I pulled up some weeds.<br />
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The porch isn't back on yet. But at least all the old, broken-up concrete that surrounded the porch is gone. With the concrete up, I was able to dig up some aggressive weeds that kept making their way through the cracks.</div>
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And we were lucky enough to score a major Craigslist find today. We spent last night in Austin and decided to check the site for the Austin area while we were in town. Someone posted 4 authentic Louis Ghost Chairs just 5 hours before we checked and (since we were up before six--ugh) we were the first to respond. Since they're clear acrylic, they take up no visual space and stack up for easy storage. But if someone wanted to use Stephen as a dining table instead of a work table, you could easily pull up the chairs. They're the perfect height for Stephen (who is a little dusty right now--apologies).<br />
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The ceiling treatment is done! Over the last week or so the guys finished the kitchen. And it looks like the electrician finished the rough-in for the ceiling lights in the kitchen too.</div>
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On the outside of the house, the broken concrete that was directing water under the house was removed and the driveway was leveled off.</div>
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Here's a brief clip of the patio being removed, courtesy of our contractor Terry:<br />
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And the electrician started digging to run the wire from the pole to the house underground.<br />
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I know the windows and trim are mostly finished too, but I don't have any pictures right now. We are probably heading out there on Sunday and will have more photos. Dad says that the windows work so well, you can lift them with one finger. In addition to all of this activity, Mom and Dad were finally able to mow. With so much rain, it's been difficult to find a day dry enough to get out there.<br />
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~Christy<br />
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Lots of progress over the last few weeks, despite the insane weather. On Wendesday, Mom and Dad took several pictures. First, the kitchen has been de-constructed further. But you can see the plumbing and electrical have both been run to this wall.</div>
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The drawers were pulled out for sanding and stacked next to our newly-exposed brick chimney.<br />
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On the other side of the kitchen, where a new bank of cabinets will go, along with the range and microwave, the guys harvested shiplap that will be used to replace damaged boards in other, more visible parts of the house.<br />
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On either side of the sink are not cabinets, but bins that tilt forward, which were probably used for storing potatoes and onions.<br />
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By the time we got there, the guys had completely finished the kitchen and living room, and were mid-way through the dining room. The electrician had also started doing the rough in for the lights in the ceiling.<br />
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The guys were working on the second bedroom while we were there.<br />
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The rough-in for all the plumbing is finished. In the bathroom, you can see the pex tubing for the faucet and toilet.<br />
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The electrical is still in progress, but, could it be that we used the ENTIRE spool of wire???<br />
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And the cabinet doors have been removed for refinishing, which I somehow didn't notice when I was there.<br />
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Vintage refrigerator goes here....<br />
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Finally, in a stroke of luck, months ago, I fell in love with this fabric at High Fashion Home. I wanted to use it as window treatments, but it was pretty expensive, so I never pulled the trigger. Yesterday, however, we popped by and it was half off, and marked "no longer available" so I snagged the last of the bolt. <br />
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It's a linen covered in sparkly foil with velvet ribbon. So luxurious! If my math is right (ok, let's be honest, it's not my math but Larry's), we'll have just enough for all of the windows in the living room.<br />
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That's all from Wisteria Bend for now.<br />
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~Christy<br />
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The walls in the mudroom were cut to install the new breaker box. We have to have two now because the original did not have nearly enough connections for the new systems (including the A/C and hot water heater).</div>
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Also in the mudroom, the plumber has installed new connections for the washing machine.<br />
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And this, my friends, is a new flange for the toilet. This may not seem very exciting to you, but this is really exciting for those of us who piled into a car and drove into town to go to the bathroom last summer.</div>
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In the sleeping room, most of the trim and window frames have been stripped and re-installed.<br />
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As have the light switches.<br />
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Where the sink used to be, a section has been cut to install the new plumbing lines.<br />
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And near where the fridge is going to go, more shiplap has been removed, but I'm not quite sure why. In any event, you can see the old chimney a little better.</div>
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In the master bedroom, the guys were hard at work stripping the baseboards.<br />
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They had already re-installed some of the windows and trim in the master bedroom.</div>
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That's all from Wisteria Bend for now.<br />
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<br />Christy Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08251491183043518602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166621780495326453.post-84560949342197122772016-05-14T16:30:00.000-07:002016-05-14T16:30:19.054-07:00Starting the windows and other miscellaneous progress<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
One of the tough choices we had to make was restoring the old double-hung windows or replacing them with new energy-efficient ones. I think if this house were going to be a full-time residence, we would have been more concerned with energy efficiency. But since our goal is more in line with preserving the cool original features where we can, we elected to have the old ones restored. Over the last week or two the work on restoring the originals began with the guys pulling off the strips that held the window frames in place.</div>
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As you may have also noticed they removed the old vinyl flooring from the kitchen and sleeping room too. In the kitchen the bottom layer of linoleum is being a bit more stubborn.<br />
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Check out the floor in the sleeping room. The vinyl flooring was only glued around the edges and the original wood flooring in the center is still in pretty good shape. </div>
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Seriously...why would someone cover this up with a roll of vinyl??<br />
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Here you can see the frames stripped off and the window weights behind. These were originally designed so that the top pane would travel down and the bottom would travel up. To save some money, we are only making the bottom panes functional. <br />
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These are really so cool to me. Such a simple and smart system that works relatively well so many years later.</div>
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After sanding down the old (nasty poisonous lead) paint, they stacked the freshly sanded trim in the dining room so they can be put back up later.<br />
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The front porch hasn't been replaced yet, but in a stroke of luck, we have enough good wood from the porch to replace the flooring in the mudroom, which was replaced years ago with plywood covered with vinyl. Score!<br />
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And finally, we have baby pecans!<br />
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You can see my thumb for scale. The baby pecans will stay on the tree for 300 days. Who knew?<br />
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That's all from Wisteria Bend for now.<br />
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<br />Christy Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08251491183043518602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166621780495326453.post-14478621156705329082016-05-08T05:57:00.000-07:002016-05-08T05:57:03.029-07:00New roof and other progressThe roof has been a high priority item since we first purchased the house, given that there was already substantial water damage in the kitchen nook and less major damage in other places. Somewhere in the middle of some seriously freakish storms, we got our new roof! <br />
In preparation for the new roof, the guys spent a couple weeks fixing the fascia boards that rest under the shingles to remove anything that was damaged, which was mostly around the edges.<br />
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And here's the finished product. Although the new shingles are slightly smaller, I cannot believe how closely they resembles the old asbestos tiles.</div>
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Now that the sink is gone, you can see just how thick the countertop under the lineoleum is.<br />
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Buying a really old house is partly an exercise in archaeology. You exhume little snippets from another person's life. We found many such snippets in the scary garage.<br />
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One of my favorite passages from Daphne DeMaurier's <u>Rebecca</u>, sums it up perfectly:<br />
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<i>Packing up. The nagging worry of departure. Lost keys, unwritten labels, tissue paper lying on the floor. I hate it all. Even now, when I have done so much of it, when I live, as the saying goes, in my boxes. Even to-day, when shutting drawers and flinging wide a hotel wardrobe, or the impersonal shelves of a furnished villa, is a methodical matter of routine, I am aware of sadness, of a sense of loss. Here I say, we have lived, we have been happy. This has been ours, however brief the time. Though two nights only have been spent beneath a roof, yet we leave something of ourselves behind. Nothing material, not a hair-pin on a dressing-table, not an empty bottle of Aspirin tablets, not a handkerchief beneath a pillow, but something indefinable, a moment of our lives, a though, a mood. This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infintesimal way. We can never be quite the same again.</i><br />
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OK. This is perhaps a bit of a romanticized view of the mess left in the scary garage.<br />
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I didn't really go in here. Larry and Mom poked around, but because the dirt was also strewn with oats, I figured there had to be some little creatures in there. And at a minimum, I figured it was safer to wait until I had my tetanus booster. To the right of the screen, you'll see a fishing net. The pile of bags in the center are bags of concrete that got wet at some point and turned into solid blocks. </div>
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The back corner was full of miscellaneous rusty tools, as well as an old wagon or cart of some sort. Some of the things we found are pretty cool, actually. We're going to figure out how to work them into the house as decoration or something later.<br />
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And here's what happens when a termite infestation goes untreated for over a decade.<br />
We called in some assistance getting some of the junk out, and finished some more recently. We pulled the garage doors down for safety purposes. <br />
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Mom raked through the dirt floor to get additional scraps of metal to give to the guy who was collecting it for scrap. Once we removed all the garbage we figured out the wagon-looking thing is probably a forge. It is so heavy we aren't exactly sure how we are going to move it.<br />
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We tried to demo the shelves at the back wall, but realized the 2x4's holding up the back wall are rotted out at the bottom. We didn't know if they could handle the stress of demolishing the shelves.<br />
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We found some nifty rusty stuff out there including a lawn mower blade, a bit for a horse, more blacksmith tools, and a gigantic wrench.<br />
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Shout out to Bob Schaefer and his son Matt for helping us out with our rusty stuff. They have been grinding some of our old tools to make them shiny and new again. Last week Matt discovered one of our wrenches was marked.<br />
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This serial number indicates that this wrench was included in a tool kit sold with a Model T Ford!<br />
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But to me, this padlock is by far the coolest thing we found in the scary garage. Mom did some research and found out that this could be a fire brigade padlock from London. Why a fire brigade padlock from London would be in the scary garage is anyone's guess.</div>
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We found Stephen in an antique booth off the square in Fayetteville during antiques festival last fall. I found him the first weekend, but the dealer was asking an awful lot for this poor beat-up little table, so we didn't buy it. But I thought about him all week and the next weekend the dealer was ready to negotiate.<br />
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So we set to work sanding down the old nasty finish to bring it back to life.<br />
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After working our way from 80 grit sand paper up to 120, Stephen was looking pretty good.<br />
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Lo and behold, Stephen is also made of long-leaf pine, just like much of the rest of the house. <br />
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It was such a pretty day it was hard to go back to town. But by the end of the afternoon, we knew Stephen was ready for paint and stain.<br />
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Since there is already so much wood (and because it is really hard to get a good finish on turned legs), we decided to paint the bottom of the table to match the kitchen counters. To make that process easier, we taped up the top with plastic so we could prime the base and legs with spray primer.<br />
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Over the past 4 weekends or so, I've been bathing the top in Waterlox. It's supposed to soak into the wood and form a water-resistant coating. And even though it isn't a stain per se, it also substantially deepened the color.<br />
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I love him!<br />
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Why Stephen, you ask? Because it has worm holes! <br />
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Last week the guys made a lot of progress, despite 3 days of rain. They got the columns mostly rebuilt.</div>
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But they were still working on the remainder of the front porch facade.<br />
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The columns look a little gray because they tinted the mortar gray to match the original brickwork. You can see the original brick work underneath the bedroom on the left of the picture below. The contractor told me that after the brick guys were done, they'd power wash the new work with a solution of muradic acid and the extra mortar and tint would come right off, leaving the new work a perfect match to the old work.<br />
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Also we found a gently used matching stove and microwave on Craigslist for $250. Couldn't pass up that deal! Especially since the fridge and dishwasher are going to be pricey given that we're trying to retrofit them into a very old kitchen.<br />
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This week they've been continuing to get the front porch back together. <br />
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And as you can see the wisteria are blooming too!<br />
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Today the antiques festival starts so we're going to go see what we can find.<br />
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That's all from Wisteria Bend for now.<br />
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Christy<br />
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