The Historic District

I can understand and appreciate not laying over original, but that is what I have, and it doesn't look bad, what are your concerns, that the floor would be higher? I have Australian Cypress over God knows what, I see at least two subfloors in some places. (I just posted interior pics on the intro pa...

Bathroom: The gut, the bad, and the not so ugly. As I said before, the house was sagging on one side, and we had foundation experts level it up. They told me that when the bath was put in, the walls underneath were not supported properly. So when you went into the bathroom, you were kind of running ...

Thanks for the welcome and peek.

Here is a peek inside.

Nice house, very interesting look, kind of like an adobe but with the Greek -ish look as you put it. I noticed the bathtub has the spigot where the overflow usually is. I saw one like that at a local building salvage place near here. I guess this at the cusp of clawfoot to regular tub.

Wow, wood windows. I guess you are bound by the local board to do all correctly? I went with the Lowes vinyl reliabilts. We are just outside of the towns historic district, and although cool to be within those borders, we were on a tight budget, and not bound by the rules.

Thats a lot of tile!

Greetings all. Glad to have found this place. I love old homes, and restoring with quality, to the best of my abilities, to keep intact the originality. So this is what happened. We sold our home in Ft Laud, were renting, and wanted to relocate. We discovered this little town near Tampa full of old ...

The porch columns and bracket under the eave do give it that Craftsman look. Kind of a hybrid in style.

Cottalow?...lol.