I love my house. I have said that in order to preserve my house I would either chain myself to it or take it apart piece by piece and drag it with me wherever I went.
I looooove my house. I love the old kitchen, the pantry made entirely of beadboard, the hand-hewn beams in my bedroom and the fact that due to plumbing being added in the sixties, I have three (3!) hot water heaters. That comes in handy when you have little girls.
But I really love Pumpkin and Sweetpea’s bedroom. They decided that they didn’t want to sleep downstairs because their things were accessible to the other kids in the house. I could understand that.
(The glass really is wavy. You aren’t drunk this morning. Well, I’m not – I can’t speak for you.)
So CH and I cleaned out one of the bedrooms upstairs for them. I stripped wallpaper off the walls and we moved out old mattresses (how do old houses accumulate mattresses? In every old or abandoned house I’ve ever been in, mattresses abound. Do they reproduce themselves?) and antique bottles and a whole lot of dust. I made colorful curtains and bedspreads out of vintage-looking fabric covered with roses and painted dressers in white, pink and green.
I love the small touches in this room. These are the hinges on all of the doors upstairs. Gorgeous.
We also left this light fixture.
We could have repainted and refinished the walls, ceilings and floors but we (ok, I) chose to leave everything as original as possible. Target’s Shabby Chic line has got nothing on this room.
Guess where the girls sleep now? Downstairs in the nursery.
Maybe they’ll all three move back upstairs once the new baby takes over the nursery. Or they’ll decide they want to live in the barn. There’s really no predicting.
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I love the detail in old houses – that ceiling light is just wonderful!
Reminds me of my Grandma’s farm house. My uncle now lives there and his wife completely regutted it. The outside looks the same but the inside is no longer Grandma’s house.
That’s a wonderful bedroom. I would imagine your old house has many things to be appreciated.
ang
I love the hinges and light fixture. Wonderful! I want to see those painted dressers too. They sound sooo pretty. I love old house character.
I grew up in an old two story farm house. It stayed nice and cool in the summer and very cold in the winter and winters in Ohio do get a little cold at times. We heated the house with a coal stove and one room was always really warm. The house had a winding solid cherry stair case. The people that own it now have let it go and it is slowly falling apart. There are so many memories in that house and stories my parents told me about people before them. My parents lived in the house for 43 years and farmed the land. Love your pics and stories.
Your farmhouse is too cool. Old farmhouses were the original shabby chic.
Hey, don’t laugh at the youngin’ girls living in the barn. Barns are the new trendy, green and chic thing to live in nowadays. And if I could use a muck shovel to clean house instead of Mr. Clean, life would be really good!
Drunk, me? Well, not this morning anyway, but it sure makes it easier to make it thru the day. I kid, I kid, but when I first saw the wavy glass…gee, I wasn’t so sure.
Thanks for sharing your house. It’s beautiful.
Judi
We have the exact same hinges, and the handblown, wavy glass, except one window in the kitchen that my Mom kicked an apple core through trying to hit my brother when he was little. He ducked and the window got it!
I bet your house is older though, love the tour!
Your house is so cool! I have never seen hinges like that!
Our 100+ yrs old house doesnt have any “cutsie” to it. Some original woodwork is all.
I love these! Old houses have so much character!