The Historic District

Neighmond. A month or so ago the Mr's and I spent a couple days antiquing in another city (Edmonton) just for a change. This set was sitting In a junk box at a higher end antique shop. Couldn't afford their antiques but could afford this. Got it cheap and it had never seen paint. I spent a couple hours buffing and polishing. It is original period hardware. Another case of don't over look the dusty junk boxes.

I like the junk-filled boxes most of all!

Can't wait to see that elegant hardware mounted on your front doors; very nice! Don

Hello every one. I hope every one had a great Christmas and a good New Years. I managed to escape work for a few weeks. And have been spending lots of time working on the home.
I have lots of pics to post straight from the IPad so I hope this works.

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I rebuilt the summer kitchen floor. Complete gut, floor joist removed and new installed. The floor was really soft and rotten, really a danger to be walking on. At some point while it was a kitchen they had a major floor fire. And them what looks to be a post Beatle invasion and then wood rot due to water leakage over the last 140 years. Or any other sequence it just had to go.

Hey that worked out well, no more photo-bucket. More to come folks

Here is the end result of the scraping and staining of the bedroom farther back in this thread.

This is after the first coat of amber shellac.

Pretty!

Gezzz, what a battle to get a picture posted with a lap top.
Any how, It's been a while since I last posted an update of home progress. Most of what I've been doing
has been the non glamorous behind the wall stuff not much to see. We have been working on the out side though. cleaned up the over grown trees and shrubs and started replacing with gardens.
here is a before pic of the back corner, the rear parlor and the summer kitchen off to the left


After, back parlor wall


Summer kitchen wall

I just read the whole thread one more time. It seems you are working with the seasons, and it's now time to go outside to the gardens. You did a good job getting the overgrowth taken away from the walls.

I noticed your huge hostas, and then I wondered why my hostas are so wimpy.

Keep up the good work.

Kansas, yes winter is for inside work summer for outside. To be honest I have to give all credit to Teresa for the gardening. The hosta has been there for ever I would guess, we have them every were. I think the previous owners just transplanted. What you see has been cut back a lot. We removed four trees all together a large but dying Locust the arborist suspected it may have been planted shortly after the home was built as well as a healthy black walnut also as old as the home that was a hazard to my neighbors and our home I'm still sad it had to come down, and two tall cedars probably planted in the 60's. Also removed all the large cedar shrubs fro the front of the home. The lot looks to be a bit bare compared to what was, but the home really pops now.
Before


After