The upstairs bedroom is fairly large, about 15 by 15 feet, and we use it as a guestroom. It’s in the same general condition as the rest of the house: it has a great original wood floor, the windows are small and drafty, and the wallpaper is old and in bad shape. It’s a cute space, though, and the angled…
The main water line for the house starts at the town’s water valve at the front of the house, runs up the hill to the back of our house, across where the back porch is, and goes back down and in to the back of the house. This seems like an unnecessarily complicated path, but eventually we’ll get it to…
Our propane tank holds 250 gallons, is fairly old, and looks pretty sad. We were hoping we wouldn’t have to buy a new propane tank, and luckily this tank looked way worse than it actually was. When we bought the house the tank still had about 70 gallons of propane in it, so we figured the tank wasn’t leaking. Just…
One of the unusual aspects of this house was the drop ceiling that some previous owner had installed in both the living room and the master bedroom. If you’ve ever worked in an office building you are undoubtedly familiar with these ceilings: metal grids supporting white acoustic 2’x4′ tiles. My wife and I had never seen anything like this in…
The living room in the house has original wood plank floors that fit the house perfectly: the wood looks well-used and has lots of character. It’s the kind of floor that makes you wonder about its history, all of the people who have walked on it and what they were doing, and grateful that you can add a little more…