The Project

My husband and I own an older house. I lived in it a very long time ago. I inherited it from my mother with people in it. They moved out in November. I don't know what the place looked like when they first moved in, but it was pretty well trashed when they left.

So my husband has been fixing it up.

Here are the kitchen cabinets in the beginning:


This is what they look like today. We plan to add some brass hardware to them to make them look better still.



This is what one of the rooms looked like:



This is what it looks now, after painting and a new light fixture:



The house is heated with propane. This old propane furnace stove apparently had no blower. We did not know that. The people who rented from us never told us if anything was wrong with the house; the roof leaked for five years before they mentioned it.



This is the new propane heater, and there's been some painting in here:



This room had dark wainscotting and a wooden ceiling. The white turned out to be newspaper that had been placed over wooden slats and then painted over. We were unaware of that until my husband pulled things off the wall.



This is what it looks like at present. The wainscotting and ceiling have been painted and paneling will be put up where the painted newspaper was.



An air conditioner sat in this window and leaked water until everything rotted.



This is the new window. That's husband (left) and nephew (right) doing their work today.


I've been unable to do anything but deliver pizza because of my allergies and chemical sensistivity. Just being over there today for a half-hour made my lips go numb and made my chest tight. So this is my husband's project. I am trying to stay out of it and not "offer advice" but sometimes that is difficult, particularly since I lived there once, very long ago.

In another month or so I will post some "final" photos, I hope.