HOME, SWEET HOME !

This is my first try at this blogging thing. I have been so inspired by the blogs that I have been reading that I thought the time has come for me to try it out. We are restoring a 1907 Victorian home in the Historic District of our town. Little by little our house is becoming our Dream Home....but, it's a lot of work and everything takes at least twice as long as we think it will. My husband is the handyman and I have the "visions!!!!" I hope that by posting our projects that I can be encouraged by the progress! Our current project is the front parlor. We started out with a few goals (new paint and refinishing the fireplace) but the project quickly grew. Here are a few

pictures of the current state of affairs! The ceiling was cracked plaster with water damage, covered with vintage popcorn. The mantle was covered in many coats of white paint with some nice burn marks from candles gone wild. The old fireplace tile had been replaced with white bathroom tile at some point. Can you say U-G-L-Y ?!? When we opened up the sealed fireplace we did find a scrap of the original tile and are now on the hunt for something similar. We also found newspapers from 1944 stuffed up the chimney !

Luckily much of the window trim is salvageable. The sheet rock is now going up, along with plenty of insulation!! The pocket doors have also been stripped of paint. I can't claim this is any of my work - this is my husband's hard work. I can handle painting, but he does the hard stuff! I am so proud of him! I will go back and show some of his finished work in the future.