The Historic District

I think they look amazing you did a awesome job:-) My Father was a woodworker...who did things simple....the K.I.S.S. = Keep it simple stupid Making a old home's draft free and all buttoned up.....can cause problems in some. Old wood houses need to breathe, plain & simple...yes worse for the pow...

I imagine that with 1000 acres prior to the Civil war it had slaves & the winter kitchen summer kitchen were one in the same. I also imagine that as fancy as the exterior is the interior & furnishing were likely more high style rather than farmer simple. Our 1830s stone farmhouse which is m...

Welcome to Wavy Glass and congratulations on your new home! It’s a treasure & appears to be in great condition, inside & out. Our home has large interior trims (7” wide door & window casings, head trims, big crown etc.), big windows with large panes of wavy glass and like yours, some fa...

I'd say you'd have a middle to upper-end-middle class family with the land, slaves, and size of the place--especially the plaster medallions. Isn't it fun trying to recreate the past? When I began research on my Victorian (which I bought being told it was built 1900), I traced the deeds back as far...

Question of the day.....lol...what was it? Since I can not seem to figure out how to post pics on this page ( I've tried through 2 cups of coffee) I did make a facebook page Sunnyside House. We do know it was 1,000 acres at the start. We know it was built in 1851 by Robert Gillam. It is on the Natio...

beautiful..... I hope we are able to get such great finds! Love love love the fact that you are staying period correct!

Hello fellow South Carolina family! Beautiful home!!! We are in Greenwood, we have not closed yet, but hope to within the next couple weeks! A high five to all those restoring history!

Hi, and nice to have you here. I took a look on Facebook, too. Absolutely gorgeous, charming house! No wonder it caught your eye. Looking forward to seeing the things that perplex you. OMGosh....lol...that list is long.....It looks like a slightly fancy farm house now.....what it WAS is a whole dif...

Don M wrote:I just visited your Facebook site; that's a fine looking well cared for home. Welcome to Wavy Glass.

Thank you so much! Awesome to see so many like minded folks here!

Hello fellow old house nuts! We are about to close on a National historic home here in SC. You can find it on Facebook Sunnyside house All though this is not our first old house reno, it is our oldest and perhaps the most perplexing? As with a ton of our historic homes in America , it has gone throu...