By virtue that my last post has been sitting here four months with no follow up, you could probably assume that this project got the best of me, and that it still looks like we live in a crumbling tenement building. Not so! I actually finished this project around the first of March. I am just woefully […]
Scraping off 100 pounds of painted wallpaper
It wasn’t until we had lived in this house quite a while that I realized our bedroom walls were a mess. What I initially thought was textured plaster turned out to be many layers of painted wallpaper. Wallpaper seams were showing through, both horizontal and vertical, leaving a crisscross pattern on the walls. The weird faux plaster […]
Replacing the back door
For over a year, our back door has been unusable. Stuck shut. Completely worthless. The problem: the door was out of square with the frame. There were giant air-leaking gaps all around. We could see those cartoon dollar signs floating out of the cracks. Oh yeah, and we couldn’t open it. I tugged so hard, […]
Surprise plumbing issues! #oldhouseproblems
Over the weekend, we discovered we have a cracked plumbing stack. Fun times! A mysterious mildewey smell + some water leaking down into the basement + a running upstairs toilet tipped us off to a problem that (apparently) has been going on for years and years. Lucky for us, it’s on the second floor and […]
Strip painted hardware with nail polish remover
My latest old house pet-peeve: painted hardware. There are only two screws in this strike plate, yet someone who lived here before us was too lazy to take it off before painting the trim. I have a whole collection of these in my house along with some splotchy hinges. The hinges are a project for […]
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