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Here is a shot of the north side of the house. As you
can see, it needs painting and the rain gutter is loose and the downspout
is missing. The crawl space is protected by odd bits of metal, wood,
stacked bricks (no mortar). There is a cinderblock structure on the
back porch; that is the well house. The wires run right out of the
window and on out to the chicken house and what used to be a freezer
house. The lightening rod on top of the house, with the blue ceramic
sphere, is really cool. If you zoom way in (about 200% or 250%) you
can see in the top left window how damaged some of the window frames
were. Many windows were cracked, too, but that doesn't show up in
this photo. Warning, the full size picture is very large.
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Another view of the north side of the house, this time
showing the front porch. Some rain gutters missing and some wood
beneath the windows needs replacing. Not sure how extensive the
damage is. The front of the house is the original log cabin.
The downstairs is now a living room and the upstairs is two
bedrooms. This full size picture is very large. (3072x2048, 1.1 Mb) |
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The pantry. The shelves are of fixed height, which is
okay but they aren't quite high enough to stack two pint jars. We
plan to tear out the cabinet you can see on the left - it's not very
useful, as the top has a sink cut-out hole but there's no water in this
room. So it's not useful as a countertop and it isn't practical to
install a sink. |
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The mud room. You can see a broken pane of
glass (repaired with packing tape!). There is some insulation
against most of the outside clapboard, but not all. Drafty!
There is a dryer vent and washer hookups in here though. Yay! |
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More mud room. The wall and ceiling are rough cut
wooden boards, very typical of the additions done to the house. I
really like this aspect of the house. |
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The kitchen and dining room. The dining room floor is old
hardwood. The stuff in the kitchen is kind of like parquet and was
probably put down to cover up some damage to the hardwood floor. At
first glance it looks okay but it's cheap and won't stand up to
wear. The lack of doors on the cabinets makes for very dusty pots
and pans on the bottom shelves. One of the drawers has no bottom and
they all stick. I hate the tile, love the windows over the
sink. We'll eventually redo the kitchen. |
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Standing in front of the kitchen cabinets looking at the
dining room. The brick-look heat shield was in place before the wall
was erected to create a room separate from the dining room. The wall
was built against the brick stuff and the brick stuff extends right on
into the next room. |
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Close up of the brick stuff disappearing behind the
wall. Quirky. |
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One of the exterior doors. We've since replaced the broken pane of glass.
As you can see, the place needs a paint job and some weather proofing. |
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One of the bedrooms. The ceiling isn't quite
flat. There aren't any right angles in this house, really. The
hole in the floor was probably either a chimney vent or where a ladder
came to the upstairs when it was a log cabin. |
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Old square nails in the bedroom flooring. These kinds
of things are what make this house so special. |
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The living room. Here you can see the nice wooden
ceiling. The brick-look facing was probably a heat shield for a
stove at one time. There is no evidence of a vent so it probably
went out where the window is now or up through the ceiling where it has
since been covered up. |
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More living room. We're not sure what the plastic
above the window and door are for but it's probably some kind of weather
proofing. There is a lot of "Great Stuff" foam filling in
where chinking has fallen out. |
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More living room. There is a gorgeous soapstone wood stove
that can put out a lot of heat. We love the soapstone
stove. This is definitely the most interesting room in the house. |
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The bathroom has an old-fashioned deep tub with mosaic tile
and old carpet. This tub is delightful. Long and
deep. Fill it with bubble bath, light some candles, turn on some
tunes... bliss! |
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The sink is in a hand-made cabinet, very nice. Down
about four steps is the greenhouse. There is a shade cloth over the
glass ceiling. The floor is brick set into dirt as far as I can tell
- or maybe set on concrete with dirt spilled between the bricks; we
haven't dug one up to see what's really underneath. There are a
couple of tables and a door to the outside. There was a large gas
heater in here which didn't work and we replaced it with a smaller
ventless model. |
