After all the plaster repairs were dry and the floor moldings stripped, it was time to paint ( Read more... )

As previously mentioned, the walls of the house are not at all insulated. Since re-siding wasn't an option (money, money, money...), blown-in insulation looked like the way to go. Well, the house has been settling for about 80 years and, not surprisingly, there were cracks in the ceiling and the walls of the bedroom. Might as well just do the ( Read more... )

I'd made the decision to move my bedroom from the small but quaint room upstairs in the dormer over the front door (facing the street - lots of road noise and the heat & AC weren't quite as good as in downstairs rooms) to room on the southeast corner of the house, which used to be Captain C's 'library/office'. It was difficult to move his things ( Read more... )