The Historic District

Ohh! You found a tree picture too! I managed to find one of these from my street circa 1955 and can only see a small portion of the porch posts because of the trees. Don't you wish they were out of the way?

What a beautiful home! Lots of work but you're well on your way to restoring it and the work so far is terrific. I'd love to get my hands on a house like yours - keep it up.

When you were researching the history at Service Ontario did you pull the instruments as well (I'm not sure if you can do that there)? I know the local land registry office will have the instruments attached to your title on file. The instrument numbers are in the column on the left side and you hav...

Well I went back to Ontario for a bit and finished the backsplash. Unfortunately, previous owners decided to glue orange melamine to the walls (which absolutely had to go). Tearing it off left a pretty rough surface which would be impossible to keep clean, so tiling was a good option over repairing/...

Lifting a house is incredibly expensive. When I was buying mine I made an offer on a small cottage in town that seemed to be a good deal because of the location. The catch was the "crawl space" under the tiny house, which was sand and slowly collapsing. This also happened to be where the f...

You have a beautiful house, I love the architectural details. You're very lucky to have original windows and I'm so glad that you took care of them. It looks like you've already done a ton of work on the house especially if it sat vacant for a few years. Welcome.

The bedroom suite you purchased is absolutely gorgeous. It fits your home perfectly.

It took skill to bring back the beauty of that finish - that is one gorgeous desk! Great work.

The attic space is lovely. I like the windows on either side of the fireplace - they just flood the whole room with light. Beautiful home.

So far it seems like there is only one coat of awful black paint on the fireplace and one coat of white on the woodwork. I have heard that acetone works really well to get into the little cracks in the stone, paint stripper seemed to be "ok" with a lot of elbow grease. I actually think it'...