If you have house envy living in a small house.....
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Do you live in an old house? What have you found?
Comments (22)My house was built in 1916 as a parsonage for the United Methodist-Episcopal South Church. No real owners - just transient ministers, so nothing interesting garden-wise. The most interesting features are an intricately-designed 15-ft.-deep cistern, and the brickwork of 3 chimneys that serve 6 fireplaces. I tilled most of the flower beds and ran across enough broken dishes and silverware to conclude that many a bad meal was served here over the decades! Also beds of used coal, garbage and antique bottles, even a piece of petrified wood. For reasons unknown to me, I found many old and very small horseshoes. Also found a silver Deutsche Mark minted in nazi Germany (complete with nazi symbol imprinted on front). But my very best find was while tilling up the front yard for sodding. Underneath several inches of soil I discovered a ruby Mason's ring. Many months later I found the owner. He was in his late 70's and had lost it while roofing the house several decades ago. He replaced the ring some time after losing it, but "retired" the replacement after getting the original ring back. He sacked groceries at the local grocery store and always raised his hand to my face to let me know he was wearing the original ring whenever I came in. In short, I love my old home so much that almost everything I have unearthed goes on display!...See MoreJoys of remodeling a small kitchen while living in the house
Comments (15)I've been there too - in fact I'm still there LOL!! Our worst was when we got to the 2 story section of the house. We had some structural issues so the only way to deal with it was to cut the entire 22*16 foot two level structure at one time. We had our bed set up in the dining room that was open to the kitchen for the winter. The only good part is the bed was about 10' from the wood stove so it made it real easy to get up in the night to keep the fire going. We are finally to finishing the kitchen and like you, decided to run the kitchen floor into the dining area. Our kitchen was set up temporary all along (we moved the rooms) so it was real easy to move cabinets around. At one point I had two base cabinets in the entry way. One upper out on the deck, the small cabinet island in the hallway. The phone center cabinet was also in the hallway, the tall hutch is apart and in the library crammed next to the dining room table along with my tredel sewing machine. The chairs for the dinign room are upstairs in the family room - they have to be shifted around if we want to watch TV, but we rarely do that. The big hutch is in between the two desks in the den. The two tall pantry cabinets ended up in the other hallway to the dressing room. We have a small folding table and two chairs - that has worked out great to have some place to sit other than eating at our computer desks. I'm seriously wondering how it will be like to have regular rooms again. Cathy...See MoreLiving Large in a Small House
Comments (1)You've been busy. I've been to BG site before. If you sign up they will send new articles. Although I hadn't seen the narrow bath pics/article before. These are new and worth a look. Most of the baths posted on our forum have very similar layouts as the site pics. Well worth a stroll. There are so many ideas I would love to have. But I run into things like the pic with two window seats and a heavenly arch over the builtins. I'd love to have something like that in my kitchen, but there isn't any place to even begin the possibility. So we really have to be creative in considering a like design. Although I have been thinking about redoing my art/office room and their design is a great start....See MoreIdeas for Kids' living in small houses?
Comments (9)I have 3 kids (one going off to college tomorrow). They all have small rooms and taking another bedroom or putting stuff in the garage were not options and, though we have a family room, I prefer all their stuff in their rooms after they outgrew the preschool years. All of them only had twin sized beds but in each case we made the most of the under bed for either storage drawers or a trundle for sleepovers. Next I made the most of their closet space by installing a modular closet system so that I could store not only clothes, but storage bins for toys with smaller pieces or arts & crafts supplies. The combination of adjustable shelving paired with closet poles for clothes proved very versatle over the years because as they age, they always seem to need lots of storage, it's just the contents that differs. I also would include drawers as well and in two of the three rooms were able to eliminate the need for a dresser. All my kids have had desks in their rooms, the older two had a hutch top making use of the vertical space. I also tend to use wicker storage baskets in both of my DD's rooms which are attractive spaces to store extra stuff. I recently upgraded my DS to a double bed as I felt he could use the larger bed plus I could use it as a guest room when he is away at college. His room is about the size of your DD's room and it has really cut down on his floor space A LOT. I much prefer kid's rooms of this size to have twin beds. As they grown older, it becomes more important for them to have a space of their own to play and/or with friends. I do think there is some merit, though, to creating a separate homework/crafts area, if space allows, perhaps using the closet and a desk in the adjacent guest room. Here are my two DD's rooms which may give you some ideas. DD2 has a popup trundle below this bed which she uses for sleepovers. DD1's room is the tiniest at 9x9 so we made use of every inch. Bed is a captain's bed with storage drawers below. She is typical teenage girl now, lots of clothes, accessaries, sports paranephelia, and needs space for school stuff like books, supplies, laptop, etc. This is about as clean as it ever gets. The bones of her room, the furniture, was bought when she was around 10 and then we added the folding bookcase when she started high school. A few closet pics before we remodeled DD2's room:...See MoreUser
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