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Tour of the Victorian Interior
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" OK well we've met Dave outside his wife Jean is will this now we'll take a tour of the existing conditions of the house and this looks. Pretty good yes it does some work in here we just came in through what once was the front door of the house. This room was actually two rooms there was a hallway going down here you go up the stairs window with a wall and this was a formal parlor were -- would. And you know you can see the crack in the ceiling from where they took on the wall. And the other thing that you look at in the house of miniature in this room is the staircase. Which is the big tip off that the house has some age it did data and that was apparent with the flooring when we moved in here we had replaced the flooring. We didn't some painting an end -- send a more modernized lighting plan he would."
" That's excellent we realized there was a hallway here was one week pulled up the there was -- in a green linoleum floor we've pulled that up. And we could tell by the planks. That there was a hallway here again and again."
" The house will always tell its story I think so wanna. I understood that this room in here was originally just a porch. Originally it was an open porch -- at some point I think in the fifties it was closed in and turned into a beauty salon for about twenty some odd years -- suburban America yeah which in the basement we found this wonderful copper piping from the sinks. So when we arrived though this had already been remodeled it's sans the pink can I didn't Formica well right now it has your front door from the street and it has another door towards the backyard and end and nice pair of two over one windows that look like. Maybe they were actually taken from. The house and moved out here we -- we believe that to be the case and that in our remodel -- actually getting two over ones to replace windows that are not historically correct of the house of those probably were removed. Yeah and then this door here on. We it was an addition we believe during the the period when -- this in a beauty salon. And that for quote from they have still to be severe -- exactly and it's gonna be replaced with sell a French stores that will lead out onto the -- deck opening and it looks like you've managed to use this as kind of like the playroom. Yes. Hot sell it. And I wanted to ask you Weldon. Like this house -- below the construction is going on the other part of the house and you're left without a working kitchen. This would be nice temporary yes yes I'm going to pull the rug up on and just survive in here well -- it seems pretty solid losers laminated we believe that when the beauty salon was in here this animal photos and there is actually actually flagstone enough under the right that's been CFM okay. All right and on the other side of this we got fireplace. Now this was the -- of the first phase of your occupying the house. Ten years ago correct and when did you build the garage when we first moved in a garage is in disrepair Jean -- whether -- stable there was this it was actually -- outhouse outhouse stable and it's a stable yet. It we decided to tear that down this term bank termite and gene and I both are media designers -- a sound designer and visual design. So we built a two car garage. Added a studio above it which was more important to a some private financial standpoint to generate something that would generate income so the studio is kind of like operating a business at home in his correct and that's the town allows that yes this commercially is multi commercial zone -- great thing to have I mean your home officer Bob student regret or -- attached. And it's attached -- mark yet. So now can we look at the part of the house is going to be radically oh sure sure. This is currently the dining room right. This is nice and bright and it's it's a nice size nice nicely proportioned room."
" Crowds here this operable yet I love the Oriole windows you've got went over there and also here and that's the area and -- second. Great. So what have you done to the roof. Well we've done some superficial repairs in a pinch you know to get through holidays and whatnot as you can see them all in here. Plate rail didn't get finished did you put that -- great -- yeah pretty quickly and another thing that's pretty funny if you take a quick what our floor is -- each of the -- and I can uplift -- chip board that's about it yeah with us and painting on top of it. Well looks pretty good did it again got us through some times. And the ceiling is in nice shape although it's probably vintage that -- have -- dates back to the time of the beauty salon. Yeah feeling your house had a major remodel when they put in. The beauty shop in the and they closed the porch and they did things like this that light fixture looks like it could be from 5060 years ago -- and we do like that and -- well what happens here that."
" Fear out we're gonna have a set of French doors that will look up to the deck. So that will not be window pane on."
" that's going to be the expansive outdoor deck. The -- right into that beautiful garden and landscape got a couple of radiators in here yes."
" Radiators we will salvage those are going to be brought upstairs we have two unheated bedrooms upstairs so."
" We'll finally have heat that's an old Yankee trick they would just have a hole in the floor had them."
" Rooms downstairs come straight through into the bedrooms and then the kitchen is you know it's nice and bright and sunny it's nice shade of yellow you've got here. You -- and this is the reminder we're talking."
" Yes this is my nemesis actually you can see how small offices it's only about three feet by maybe four exactly and that's -- the back stoop that was just taken out this way."
" So of this wall extends out another five -- yes and you end up with sub. Big area for maybe even a bench and hooks for coated satin albeit they'll actually a closet as well -- this is a full bathroom in here."
" Yes and actually the nice thing about Greg's plan is that it takes the door -- the bathroom and it."
" Accident -- that's very good coming back having a bathroom door right into the middle of the and is -- an idea but how does the kitchen work I mean these cabinets look look all right when you. They're you know they're OK we especially like the green. But out what one of them main features is we're adding more cabinet space and kitchen this is old. This -- 56 years old steel. Kitchen furniture is what it is and it's the steel seems to be in its last leg non. But as you can see you know there is a lack of of real cabinet space and one of the autopsy countertop two -- is that purely this is our current pantry if you will -- an old fashioned pen yeah yeah. Next heat yes him very welds and the fridge is in the corner over that's going to be moved to behind where you are over there and that will then become more cabinet space and some comfort space as well yet yeah because right now. Just getting from one place to the other with read into would've taken a little bit of a look at the plans of the everything along here pretty much stays the same since the refrigerators coming to the corner that's correct we're going to be adding this cook top and an island that -- an informal dining and says more cabinets where the fridge was and."
" over -- behind the -- we'll have room along this wall for wall oven microwave warming drawer and smart countertop --"
" It's where everything gets opened up all the way across you have one big country kitchen living room anorexia it's up. More of a project than we first thought and we're talking about it from the outside or learning that yes it's into the pilot that's -- thank you thanks -- thanks Bob there."