Yesterday, Alok and I realized that there was a Harvey Chatten exhibit at the Garner Museum here in Quincy. Being that Harvey Chatten built our house, we decided to go. There was a picture of our house at the museum, but unfortunately it was a picture of our house from probably about 4-5 years ago (detaching front part of the house and all). So, that wasn't too helpful.
We also did a bit more online research, but that didn't yield much. We found this:
Check out the Weems (and pics) on pages 45 and 46
The Garner Museum does have a library that has information about a lot of houses here in Quincy, so we plan on making an appointment to see if they have anything.
Anyway, we spent some time today re-arranging our items in storage. Nothing to exciting, but it was necessary. While we did that, we realized that our lovely garage (seen here):
Has a hole that has been chewed in it, seen here:
Lovely. It's nothing some new garage siding won't fix.
After that, we worked on peeling wallpaper off the lovely apartment, which is a mix of wallpaper, paint, drywall tape, and other items that were used to repair walls. This is proving to be interesting. Here is the area before:
And after:
Alok had to detach the light fixtures that were on the wall here. They have stripped out most of the original items from the house, but these seem to be original. Here they are, close up:
We need to refinish them and then will likely move them to another area of the house.
Here is another part of the apartment, while my mom was steaming (I didn't get a before picture, so imagine this wall with wallpaper):
Here it is after:
You may ask why we have a snow shovel in the picture. We use it to clean up plaster, wallpaper, etc.
Here is the last area. Before:
And after:
Exciting, huh? Well, the exciting part is that once we peel off the wallpaper from the apartment (including hallway, closets, etc), we really can stop peeling until we work on the upstairs. That will be nice. Actually, I shouldn't speak too soon, as wallpaper seems to magically appear in this house.
Alok also worked on continuing to demolish the apartment bathroom.
Alok contemplating/wondering what I'm doing.
We originally wanted to replace this tub with a clawfoot tub (we have 2 upstairs), but we realized today that it wouldn't fit. We've considering making this bathroom bigger or moving the door, but we aren't sure what our best option is. The newest idea is to make a shower to go in the area where the bathtub is. I guess we'll see what we end up doing.
Alok also removed the radiator from the apartment so we could work on the walls.
The removed radiator. There's a lovely wall behind it.
You could see some of the more original wallpaper behind the radiator:
Close up
Oooo, pretty.
Alok also worked on peeling up some of the termite damaged wood, as seen here:
This was short lived, but he was excited that there weren't live termites under there.
That's all for now.
Jessica
That radiator would look neat as some kind of table. Jessica D.
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