We finally got settled in our new "old" house, a 1896 victorian, who has had some questionable rehabing done her over the years. My biggest gripe is someone walled over the pocket door from the parlor to the living room! Flat drywall on the living room side and they left the recessed archway and trim in the parlor. Thankfully someone was smart (or too lazy) and left 3 pocket doors in the garage. We hope that they are from the house and want to replace them to their rightful place!
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So, we started banging holes in the drywall and it was a pretty simple take down!
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Unfortunately, the original trim has been removed from the living room, but we hope to custom make it to match. And we have yet to remove the walling over the "pockets" but that is next!
We also can see that they stripped all the floors, as under where the framing, you can see the color/ slight height difference.
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But, once again the two rooms have been reunited with each other! Ams it feels good to be restoring the house to how it was originally built!
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