It’s official. Chris started the demo in our sunroom last week—ripping the ceiling down, pulling really old paneling, baseboards, molding. Basically, stripping it down to the 100+ year old guts of our house and replacing the windows with newer more energy efficient ones. That’s pretty cool to see; yet at the same time, pretty scary seeing what is actually holding up (or not!) part of your house. Let’s just say we are going to reinforce some areas. Another thing that we have discovered in our many home projects over the years….people like to put stuff in the ceiling rafters. Is this normal? Apparently it was for the former owners. When we were renovating our basement a couple of years ago we found a Billy the Kid wanted poster and various other posters and recently in the sunroom we found a few radio advertisements. We’ve decided that we like this tradition so we are going to add Chris’ marathon bib number and poster to the collection.
Hopefully, within the next couple of months we will have a fully functional mudroom. Just in time for the first snow --yes, I’m being optimistic about the snow—don’t burst my bubble please!
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It was pretty common to use newspaper as "insulation" back in the day. We had a similar experience when Mike replaced our windows a few years ago.
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