The Original... Pictures of the home before we "went buck wild on the whole operation."

More Pictures...

Let's show you the rest of the house.

 Looking back into the living room, office beyond,  from the future dining room.

 French doors on the south of house that open up to the porch.

North wall of dining room has a door that opens out to the hall in the center of the home.

Out in the hall are these beautiful built-in cabinets. 

This picture is from the east side of the hall looking west.  The sellers used to play football in this hallway when they were little boys.  They said it felt so long and was plenty of room for little boys.  The little cupboard on the left is a storage closet and we were told that their grandmother used to hide money in it.  There is another cupboard just like this one next to where I was standing when I took this picture.  The inglenook fireplace sits between these two closets on the opposite side of this wall.  

 

The only bathroom is off the hall and in the middle of the house.  I love the tile floor and the tub is way stinkin awesome with the rounded corner and soft curves.

  

Unfortunately, this is just to old and yucky to keep.

To the left of the bathroom looking north, is the "pink" room.  The doorway connects this room to the room in the back left corner of the house and you can see the leaking roof caused damage in this room as well, above the door frame.  

 This is looking west out of the "pink" room window and you can see how bad the ivy has grown over the whole west side of the house. This will become our new kitchen space, and my kitchen sink is going in front of that window.  Goodbye radiator!

This "bedroom" was to the right of the bathroom from the hall.  At one time these windows would have opened out to the porch, but when they closed the porch in, this became an awkward space.  Technically it shouldn't be used for a bedroom because there is no egress, but I'm sure over the past 60 years of renting, many people used this for a bedroom, including the most recent tenant.  The sconces on the wall have round milk glass balls on the base of them.  I think they are so cool and I am hoping to salvage and reuse them in the remodel.

The kitchen was at the far right, east end of the hall.  Usually, the dishwasher was sitting right out in the middle of the room infront of the sink.  

 The dishwasher must have had some leaking issues resulting in water damage to the floor.  Check out these colors.  Orange on the wall, green base cupboards with white doors.  Can't wait to see this come down.

The back of the house originally had one bedroom on the northwest corner and the porch.  During the depression, the porch was closed in and the rooms were rented out to help earn extra money.  

 This is the original room and you can see the extensive water damage. Behind the casing on the door frame is where hubby found the picture of the oldest daughter, Doris.

This is the west wall of the same room and we had vines growing in under the casing on the window.  The carpet was like mush from the leaking roof.

From the far east side at the back of the house looking west there is the room I am taking this picture from, and then a room beyond, and at the far back, the water damaged room.   Notice the chimney popout on the left wall, cause it's coming down soon.

The Dining Room.

The dining room is to the right when you first walk in.  The buffet or serving cabinet is built in and will stay just as it is in the new design.  The doorway on the left is one of the beautiful pocket doors.  The doorway on the right enters into a breakfast nook or informal dining.

In this image, you can see the double pocket doors on the left that open into the office beyond and on the right, the main door that opens to the living room.

This is one of the bay windows with the built in benches.  These benches and the railing on each side match the railing and benches at the inglenook in the living room.  We are going to turn this into our master bedroom, so we are going to remove the benches and make room for our bed to sit in this space.

Just another view showing the pocket door closed.

Standing in pocket doorway and looking to the left, you can see the breakfast room.

Breakfast room

The second set of bay windows. This will eventually become the master bath.

Built-in corner cabinets and open to the kitchen.


A few last photos of the original home, then on to the demolition and remodel.

Basement

Future theater room.  That pop out on the left wall is the ash clean-out for the office fireplace.  Notice all the pipes hanging down under the ceiling.  We are going to tear all these out.  Several of them take water to the radiators upstairs.

The coal room, future Costco room.  The original kitchen was in the basement, and the old stove is still down here.  Again, notice the pipes.

Cupboard door on the left leads to the crawl space, cupboards on the right, possibly could have been the pantry in its day.

The boiler for the radiator is behind the waterheater.  To the right of the water heater is the ash clean-out for the main fireplace.  This closet on the left is where the dumbwaiter was used to lift food to the main floor and you can see the old wheels for the pulley system.  And again, all the pipes!  The ceiling is only 6'-8" so you really have to duck to get around all the plumbing.

We believe this must have been the laundry or washroom originally.  Could become a bedroom in a future remodel.

Crawl space

 Don't look to close, it's a little scary how it's just support by brick columns.  The white pipes are the radiator pipes with an asbestos coating.  We are not going to touch them, so they can stay right where they are.

 Attic

 There are basically two large posts supporting the roof ridge and the roof is all stick framed.

The furnace is located in the attic... apparently, box elder bugs love attics.

 If you can see the white porcelain knobs hanging from the rafters, those are the old knob and tube wiring and a potential fire hazard.

The main chimney.  This is coming down!

I have been a bit slow at getting my blog on lately.  Since we purchased the home, we have been working on it almost daily and usually until quite late.  I have been just a bit to tired, but I will attempt to get it caught up in the next few days because we are almost done with tear out.