Getting closer to having the work upstairs completed!

The floor has now been sanded in the last bedroom, the first coat of the varathane has been applied. The entire side of roof was replaced, new insulation, new wiring and lighting, the painting is nearly complete, as far as I can see we're down to painting the doors, trim needs to be added, but they paint that before putting it up. Hubby wants to build storage shelves on one side, of the closet, hopefully that will not take too long. I really don't even want to wait for that, I need to get things out of the way!

In the walk in closet, the wood floor was too rough, with too many odds and ends used, to even bother sanding to make natural, so Hubs painted it, and will put a runner of something down the center, hopefully something that can be washed.

The fumes have been terrible, luckily we have doors on the Living Room, where Mom slept, and on our bedroom downstairs. It's been water and oil based paints, paint thinner, mineral spirits, the varathane or urethane to seal the floors, and who knows what else! Luckily the weather has been on the cool side and we are able to open all the windows, even then the fumes have been overwhelming, have just now been able to leave the living room, it's just something that needs to be done, and it is nearly complete!!

That part of the house was added in 1942, so nothing is square, There are so many different roof configurations upstairs it's hard to even describe, and when they did any work, they used what they had, but the carpenters have done a beautiful job! The home started life as a log cabin, very possibly pre-Civil War, it has been added to many times during the course of it's existence. it was moved in the 1960's when the new highway was put in, Too bad I don't have photos of the house through all of it's many projects!

Hi SK,

You really grabbed my attention when you said in was a log cabin perhaps built before the Civil War. Do you have any small, hidden areas in your basement where slaves might have been hidden? Perhaps your local Historical Society or library might have old pictures of your house, perhaps even an article in the paper talking about how/when it was moved.

It sounds like your renovations will be quite nice! At least that's the upside of Hurricane Sandy.

Ah shoot, falling asleep, up too late. Enjoy the fruits of your labor. Hope you can start using them very soon!

We are in the Antietam Battlefield area, my husband was once very interested in this era. HIs library is on the Civil War, mine is on ancient Egypt! Our land was definitely where they camped, if anything was here, it was picked clean before we got here, but we are ever mindful of what may someday be unearthed!

When the house was moved, a new basement and foundation were dug, however the beautiful old home where I was raised, my father believed to have been part of the underground railroad, though nothing was official, that also began it's life as a log cabin, it had a huge grand fireplace that was covered over with kitchen cupboards! It had the wash house, we found fascinating things in that house in the attic and in the rafters of he wash house. Old mechanical toys for starters, some iron, some tin!

I hope it is completely finished very soon and you can enjoy it for a very long time.