This Old House

Built in 1897, this old house has stood the test of time. It's witnessed the turn into two new centuries, depression, recession, two world wars, made it through the remodeling of the 50's, survived the neon 80's and to much surprise of many saw that the world didn't stop at 12:01, Jan. 2000.

Now, if it can just survive me.

Purchased 4 1/2 yrs ago, we vowed to take it back to its glory days. That means tearing out blue shag carpet, taking down white vinyl siding and vinyl mini blinds (perhaps I'm wrong but I don't ever recall seeing vinyl mini blinds in any of the historical homes I've ever been in) like I said, "could be wrong", removing the metal sink/cabinet combo, removing 'Pergo-like' wood flooring and anything else that resembles a 'Home Depot' look.

It's a little something we like to call re-store, not remodel. Restore...remodel, restore...remodel, two very different things.

Now having said alllll that, historians/re-storers/preservationists enthusiasts hold your earists...(I'm going to say this fast and in a whisper) I've decided to paint the hardwood floor in the dining room. :(

I know..I know, what is wrong with me! How could I do something like this! There's no painting of 100+yr old pine floors. Well, let me tell you. When I, lol, we, lol, ok just Doug, ripped up the carpet in the dining room we found that the floors had already been painted and even worse, had glue all over that. You know, the kind of glue that's used to apply gymnasium flooring. Mmm Hmmm. That's what we found. God-Only-Knows what these people were doing to need that kind of adhesive. And let me tell you, it's not been fun (for Doug) :) removing what little we've been able to remove.

So let the painting begin. A paint color that has been approved by the National Historical Society of Preservation. Seriously, check it out for yourself. We got it at 'Home Depot'. LOL