4 month review

November 21, 2010

I finally took a look around the house today and it looks like Alok has been busy destroying our lovely, rotted siding. Here are the sides of the house now:



Back of the house. These windows are the windows into the butler's pantry followed by the apartment windows. The second window on the left is now in the apartment bathroom. In looking at the windows here, I'd guess that was originally part of the pantry.


Close up on the area around the apartment. The board straight ahead now acts as a peep hole into the actual apartment.


The peep hole


Big hole in the side


Siding by the driveway


Dirty Alok

We also have more grass:

Again, I know that watching grass grow is super exciting

What is exciting, is more wall discoveries. These came out of the laundry room:

The Evangelist from 1896. We couldn't open it without really ripping it, so this is what we have


The Evangelist


A wooden ball that was in the wall.

Anyway, on to the 4 month review. 4 months ago today, we bought a house that has turned out to be more than we could ever imagine.... to say the least! Anyway, let's check out the progress of the last 120 days. Like last month, this will be a picture tour, comparing the house when we got it to what it looks like now. Alok pointed out that I missed a few areas, so I'm expanding this from last month.

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Look at how much straighter that door is!

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FOYER

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Look at that dust on the floor from the plaster work upstairs! Needless to say, that's why I have to avoid the house for the time being

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We need to find a better place for this furniture

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As you'll see, some of these rooms are basically storage right now

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The ceiling... .why should we ever have guesses that there was a staircase here!


Lovely faux brick floor

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The only difference here is that it is now not working. Woo hoo!


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Notice our new furnace here

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I also took a few videos to give you a better idea of what some things are looking like now. Here they are.

Tour of the laundry room:


Tour of the outside of the house:


Tour of the new fireplace:


That's all for now.

Jessica