The Historic District

After a few hours of uploading and sorting, I finally have some pictures for you all! These pictures are from several trips made during the purchase process, and on the day we closed. I am working on titles and descriptions for each picture, but I uploaded about 600 images. Not all are public on pho...

Sweet, sweet lead...

Fortunately, the woodwork is about 99 percent salvageable, but the plaster is not. We will be removing all of the plaster in the house (spare me the hate mail) since we had to remove a lot to structurally support the house. Removing it will also facilitate new hvac, moving some plumbing, and insulat...

I would definitely not recover and reuse the wires. Either re-solder or use new sockets. If that older wiring were to heat up, you could have a dangerous short on your hands.

The heat probably will not affect the spices. Most of the time spices go bad just from age. I went through my spices and found garlic salt that was barely salty! The fabric would definitely help, as light can affect some spices. Ironic that so many people have spice racks that leave spices out in th...

Just started a blog. Not a whole lot of content yet, but more to come. Should have done it when we bought the place.

http://charlesandersonhome.wordpress.com/

Don't worry, Ill still keep up here. Working on more pictures.

It is balloon framed with slate shingle looking fiber cement siding with a wavy edge. Unfortunately the clapboards and some pressed tin panels are gone. The downstairs is gutted mostly. Leaking roof caused most of the plaster to be ruined, and the roof repair revealed the need for some steel beams a...

Hey Folks, Just migrated over from Old House Web. Seems to be the thing to do. Anyway, my wife and I are in the thick of restoring a lovely old queen Anne in Central Illinois. Thought I would share a picture or two. http://i750.photobucket.com/albums/xx146/cornbinder52/Facebook/New%20House/2fad8150-...