When you buy a very old house, part of the process of restoring it is making some non-glamorous repairs and updates. This is the brief tale of three such events.
Category: Exterior
Porch Problems
One of my favorite features of the house is the front porch. I love how big it is and the shape of it, and I love the posts and spindles. I love that there are already hooks in the ceiling waiting for us to hang a porch swing. But those beautiful posts were rotting as…
Let’s Start at the Top
One of the joys of buying a new home (imagine visible sarcasm dripping from this sentence) is the home inspection. A total stranger, with some sort of credentials, goes into the home you want to buy and makes a giant list of everything wrong with it. When the house is over 120 years old, the…