The Historic District

I might have to try that! We have a large collection of minor and major squeaks, creaks, cracks and pops in our hallway floors. I don't mind a squeaky floor and it's almost a requirement of an old house, but in some places it's bad enough and loud enough that we have trouble moving around the house ...

Do we have to win the contest to find out what product from our medicine cabinet will stop our wood floors from squeaking? Because I could really use that info!

Eclecticcottage, it could just be my reading comprehension right now (my brain is a bit non-functioning this morning) but I think it may be a bit unclear exactly what you're asking in the thread and are proposing to do. You mentioned that you might be DIYing drywall installation but then mention a b...

Ober, that really looks fantastic.

"the hardest part about color is it looks different in every house...in every room...at different times of the day." Wow, this is so true. I'm repainting much of our downstairs and had initially wanted to use the same color in our dining room and front hall. But the couple of colors I'm co...

Just absolutely amazing. I wouldn't want to have to keep it up either, but I guess if you can afford a house like that, you can probably afford to have someone else keep it up for you!

Gibson, thanks for the suggestions. I think it's definitely worth getting a humidity gauge or two. I have to admit, we tend to be pretty lax about humidity; we have humidifiers going in our two bedrooms at night this time of year because otherwise we get stuffy noses and sore throats the whole time ...

This is such an interesting question. We have a very similar arrangement with an attic space finished by a previous owner, except ours tends to be far too hot in the summer as well as in the winter (in the winter, we can just close the heating vents and the space becomes comfortable, but in the summ...

You might be an Old Home Owner if...

An electrician takes a look through your basement and says, "Wow. It's like a museum of the history of electrical wiring down here. Wiring through the decades."

Definitely not! Just was responding to Vala's reference.