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The wonderful Sara mailed our tax credit application in February and shared pictures she took the day we bought the house. Since April 2013 we spent at least $275,000 on
demo, electrical, plumbing, asbestos, flooring, termites, exterior rot and damage, plaster repair, chimney repointing, new window sashes, installing a single kitchen, and a replacement slate roof.

We sold two houses and a vacant lot in order to make this happen. Then we got a mortgage.

Deep Breath.


The front of the house





When you first walk into the house...


The stairway and windows I saw and fell in love with. 



The view from the stairs. Notice the clear NO TRESPASSING sign taped above the fancywork.




The room where Jazz was born sometime in the late 1990s. This is now our dining room.



From the other side of the dining room. This floor was shot from termite damage.

 



This is a little room off a little hallway that we currently use as storage for the vaccum. brooms, cleaning supplies etc. It has these cute windows and a concrete floor. 

This is that little hallway that connects the kitchen to the dining room. There is a bathroom on the right that will one day become a butler's pantry.

This was Mr. Durham's room. There was a sign on the door that said he wasn't a bank and the RBC was downtown. Found many needles hidden away when doing the demo on this room.  It's now the kitchen.

 


Another view of the kitchen


This room was locked until we purchased the house. It was in remarkably good shape and locked away. We lived here as our bedroom while we were working on the rest of the house. Now, we call it the rainbow room and art room as the glass casts rainbows over the floor all afternoon. Harris turned that bedframe into a bench for the front porch.

 

And upstairs we go!


 


We demo'd that linen closet at the top of the stairs and flooded the landing with light from the floor to ceiling window. 


The upstairs porch, a favorite place of mine in the summer. 
 

This is the front bedroom. Brilliant morning light floods this room. One day, it might get a closet.





 The girls room as it was. we found bricks in the ceiling here. 





And this disaster area is now my room. We left it vacant with the windows open for months to get the smell out of it.

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