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If you don't need the light kit, and you can use lamps for lighting, then you can look for a smaller diameter ceiling fan. I have two different models which were less than $40, perhaps around $33 on sale at Lowes. I'm sure Home Depot has something similar. Of course, this is off season for fans and their inventory is by design very low now. You might have to wait for spring, and watch for a sale. I know I have pictures of both fans somewhere. The really tiny one moves a lot of air, and that is the one I have in my kitchen presently. However, I am removing it as soon as the remodel project breaks into current house. The other one is a white fan, and it makes a noise, so I'm not so happy with it. I plan to move the tiny one out there, since it performs very well. I think the tiny one is a Monte Carlo brand or model. Probably made in China, but then so are many of the Hunters if not all of them. Hold on, I'll try to get you a picture. Yes, I had one. It is a 24 inch brand is Monte Carlo And, at the MonteCarlo website, they now have a 15% off sale. Here is a link that might be useful: Look for the 24

This is the kind of thing I think would be very hard to plan for without spending some time living there first. But you are probably far better at doing that than I am. I have analysis paralysis and part of that is trying the place on for size before I make any major decisions. When we moved to our new lakehome we just moved our stuff in and tried it for a while and then added and changed as we discovered how we and our guests used the space. Same with our new townhome. I had all kinds of grand plans ahead of time that I'm glad I didn't commit to until after I'd lived there for a while. I changed my mind on a lot of things. It's fun to plan though!!

I'm going to look at this from a slightly different perspective: Sometimes being forced to sell a property like this is a blessing in disguise. We sometimes become so attached to our family after they are gone that we forget to live our OWN lives. apple_pie_order said it, don't spend your life trying to make dead people happy. It's ok to have some sentimental attachments. It's not ok when those attachments have us making bad life decisions. Keeping this house would be a bad life decision on multiple fronts: 1. You clearly can't afford to buy-out the co-owner and the extensive repairs that are needed. No shame or blame, but it's good to have a clear-headed idea of the total cost of keeping this home vs your resources. 2. The neighborhood has changed so completely that it's no longer hospitable for that property. 3. There is no longer any "intrinsic value" in the house as a log cabin. It has been so re-muddled and architecturally bastardized that the only value is the novelty of saying "there's a log cabin under all that". I know this is a shock to you, but it wasn't "lovingly restored..." what was done was a "modernization / re-muddle" job. A log cabin was turned into a 1950-60's suburban house complete with an attached garage and kitschy lawn decor. This was the style of that time and what the owners wanted. It's cute and has character - but it's not a "lovingly restored log cabin" by any stretch of the imagination. 4. Keeping the house would require major changes / sacrifices to your life: You would have to live with mold/decay/structural dysfunction or you would need to make life changes to create the income to rehab it. If you don't sell, those are your choices. It's not rent-able as-is either. 5. I feel pretty certain that this property would not ever be viable financially as a single family home. Investing in repairs and maintenance would not ever result in a property that would appreciate and be marketable at some point in the future. It will always be a tear-down. 6. The co-ownership has created a potential legal minefield (see below). 7. Most of all, I think the weight of the sentimental attachment, and the history behind the will and how that went down, is crippling you.