The Parlor - Gone With the Wind Room

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The front room on the bottom floor where guests were entertained was in pretty good shape. It was floor to ceiling wall paper that had to come down due to water damage.

On the wall original wallpaper.

What fun tearing all the paper down!

Above the fireplace before major work is started....to the left the wall is to be moved forward to match the right side. The right side has plywood which was put to cover the central heat/air heading upstairs.

 

The Wall had to be rebuilt to cover the plywood. Another shot of the fireplace.

The priming begins.

 

A lot of work on the ceiling getting it ready.

After priming the painting begins

The gold trim is original. Restored to it's original beauty by hand painting.

Done!

Master Bedroom Closet

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The Master Bedroom closet needed a little expanding. So here it is after taking down the ceiling of the closet. Sure enough bat crap came raining down......on the right evidence piled up.

So had to clean it up and take a spray hose to get er done.....

Took all the tongue and grove boards out and had to clean them up.

The way you redo an old house is use as much of the original materials. Then mark how they were originally put together. Here they all are primed and ready to put back up.

Like putting a puzzle together....up they go..

Next you hire some good help.....lol

One of the finest closets in Dublin all redone with Lizzy's clothes hanging.

Stairway

Top of the stairs the day of purchase. Busted boards and plenty of bat droppings.

Front door way downstairs

Stairwell

Front door and top of stairs. Several boards had to be removed to get the bat droppings out from behind the walls.

Sanded and repaired




Priming the stairwell.




Priming done upstairs

Originally the interior paint was yellow....So we did the same for the 21st century.



Yellow first coat downstairs

Putting on the final coats of yellow and white.

All painting done on the walls, ceiling and stairway.

Now for the floor.

Finished the floor and the upstairs!

The Stairs........tried to get away with light sanding and stain since the stairs were in pretty good shape. Learned a lesson in historic home restoration. Just because they look pretty good does not mean that they need light work. Once the first coat of polyurethane went down it did not take two hours for half of the stairs to cloud up. Yikes!....seems the old polyurethane and stain reacted to the new stuff!!!



So had to take all the stairs down to bare wood....another two weeks of work...lesson learned! Now the stairs and Hallway are done.....




Here is the Hallway now!




Floor Done