New old house!

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New old house!

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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 through several "additions" over the past. When we toured the home it left a lot of questions....was it more "farm style" or was it a wealthy farmer? Was it decorated on the fancy side or the more practical side? The house is about 5,000 sq ft with plaster medallions in the ceilings or coffered . In the back of the house (now a kitchen) there is a strange pass through that we were told is a pass through for food since the kitchen help was not allowed in the house.

We are very excited to hurry up and close on the house and take a metal detector to the yard since the house is per-cival war built in 1851. We were thinking of down sizing since all of our children are grown and on their own, but this house pulled us in ....lol..it needs a LOT of love!

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

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




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

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wletson wrote: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 different question? We are trying to figure out if it was a "grand decor" or a more simple large farm house....lol..as we dig for answers!

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