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March 2004:
  It's been almost a year since the french doors were unearthed in the garage and
with Spring approaching, I am itching to get back to work on the
house. I've found a general contractor that I think I can deal
with and we're getting ready to tackle the first big project that's
primarily cosmetic: Rehabbing and rehanging the old french doors and
bringing the second floor sleeping porch back to life, adding the
windows that were probably there 100 years ago and replacing the rotted
bead board ceiling.This is the room directly over the first floor sunroom and it was apparently closed up in The Great Paneling Project of 1963. I refer to it as the sleeping porch based essentially on the way the house is laid out, but I don't have a clear understanding of how it was originally configured. I do know that the two tiny windows that are in there right now aren't original and that there was almost certainly a doorway between this space and the third bedroom when the house was built. Anything beyond that though, is guesswork. This space is directly off the master bedroom, and once all the doors are back in place it will link the master bedroom and the Cat Room, letting me use all three rooms as a really nice master suite: sleeping, sitting, and dressing room/closet. Of course, this will also allow me to finally vanquish the pepto pink from three more rooms - I've now lived with this color so long that I hardly see it anymore. |
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| Demolition began last week! Woo Hoo!! Go here for the blow-by-blow chronicle. |
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