I'm new. My husband and I bought a large brick Italianate in March. We are trying to redo some stuff, it is rather slow going. I've been trying to get this guy over here to fix our porch since April.
We moved here, 4 hours from where we lived before, because we fell in love with the house and town. So, we still are moving stuff a bit at a time, and then, we will sell our other house. It is a little to medium sized ranch style from the 1970s.
Our house, we at first were told was built in 1884. Now, it may be as early as 1869. There is also a two car garage (quite recent) and a very beautiful brick carriage house with attached shop/studio that is heated and air conditioned.
Our house is large, at 3100 sq feet, not including the outbuildings, basement/attic, or summer kitchen. Because it's 3 layers thick, our utilities are very reasonable, less than at our other house.
The staircase is a dream. The kitchen is hideous, something more at home in a 1990s McMansion. Some of the ceilings are ugly dropped tiles. There is much to love, and much to redo. It is quite livable as is, so it doesn't have to be all at once. Some fool painted all the woodwork white...as well as the exterior.
It was reroofed in 2010, and I am not crazy about that they took all the pretty corbels and stuff out. Hopefully we can figure out something for that. As it is functional, though, I can't justify reroofing just because I want all the fancy stuff redone. My husband thinks there are some corbels up in the attic. I am afraid of the attic, afraid of the little ladder at the top of the back stairs. But oh, I hope they're there!
I heard at work this week, my house used to be broken up into apartments. That were haunted! Lol. Thank God, it will never be apartments again, while I'm alive!
