Adventures at The Bunny Manse

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...

When we bought the house it came furnished! We spent a pretty significant amount of time cleaning out trash and sorting through various layers of furniture - what could be given away, what few things we wanted to keep, what looked cool but really was broken trash... We put A LOT of bedframes in the summer kitchen to be dealt with later as we cleaned everything and found all the pieces. Since the plaster repair is progressing and we needed to clean out the upstairs where we've been storing the extra wood flooring, we had to clean out the summer kitchen this weekend. I think we found 10 complete headboards and footboards and decided to keep the two Jenny Lind and two metal frames.  Harris spent yesterday making benches out of the rest of them. These will be painted, cushions added, and we'll have seats for inside or outside depending on mood. He might sell a couple if we end up with many extras. Now to get the flooring from the upstairs and neatly stack it in the summer...