Post #96,091
4/11/03 3:51:01 PM
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Half are closets ;-)
Congrats...
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Post #96,097
4/11/03 5:12:34 PM
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hehe.
6 bedrooms, 5 living rooms (!), one dining room, one kitchen, 2 bathrooms, and one weird undefined room at the front of the second floor. And an attic and a basement. 2700 square feet of living space.
The closets are abysmally small, though. And the bedrooms, aren't too big either, though they are larger than most bedrooms I've seen in Victorian style houses.
Oh, and there are tin ceilings in four of the rooms. Which people seem impressed by, though I don't know why, since they've been painted over and look pretty much like all the other ceilings in the house.
"We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?"
- Edward Young
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Post #96,192
4/12/03 2:06:33 AM
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Sounds like a dream frat-house, actually.
I would guess that wired undefined room could be called a Drawing Room, or an Upstairs Parlour.
If you can put up a simple diagram of the layout somewhere we can comment on what we think each room is. :-)
Wade.
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Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Somebody save my life
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Post #96,215
4/12/03 12:06:16 PM
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Oh, I have a "virtual tour" :)
I didn't post it here, because I'm not so old that I say to my friends "come here and watch my slideshow!" :D
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- Edward Young
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Post #96,219
4/12/03 12:26:21 PM
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Re: Oh, I have a "virtual tour" :)
Sweet--lots of potential (once, as you say, their clutter is replaced by your clutter). How many are you, to fill all these rooms, if it's not impertinent to ask?
cordially,
"Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
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Post #96,221
4/12/03 12:45:35 PM
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Not impertinent
At the moment there are only two of us, but we are planning on having "the kids." And I need some rooms set aside for an office and home recording studio. (well, not need, but it would make my life easier). And we still need guest rooms. Truth told, we'll have no problem using all that space.
"We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?"
- Edward Young
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Post #96,226
4/12/03 2:01:21 PM
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new things to learn, zone valves stair avoidance, looks good
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Post #96,456
4/14/03 8:26:37 AM
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"Possessions will fit any available space"? :-)
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #96,313
4/13/03 12:36:07 AM
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Nice tour!
I had an oil fired furnace as well when I lived in that area. It also served to make the hot water using what was called a "coil". In effect cold water went through a copper coil which was immersed in hot water that is used for heat. We had hard water (i.e. had some calcium and manganese salts in the water) which would over time cake on the inside of that coil making the heat transfer inefficient. Every few years we paid to get the pipe cleaned by running acid through it. Eventually we got smart and got a water softener.
Anyway, oil fired furnaces require electricity to run for controls, fuel injector, igniter, zone valves, as well as the circulating pump for the hot water that runs through the radiators. So if you lose power your heating is dead. You can, of course, get a generator backup. The electric power in that neck of the woods is much more reliable than it has been for me in North Carolina. In any year I get as many failures as I had in 14 years in upstate New York.
Alex
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
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Post #96,462
4/14/03 8:39:07 AM
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Hey, not bad.
That odd room you mentioned looks like a solarum or something. And a wide-angle lens (like 20mm or something) would have been Very Useful :-).
Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #96,468
4/14/03 8:58:17 AM
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Chris...
That house BEGS... for a good clean-up... The White TRIM is AWESOME though...
The "Ornate" wall-paper you speak of... is just a bit to strong.
When the house was built, I am sure it had similar, but less strong colors... I am sure MOST of the house has Hardwood floors in it.
Awesome HOUSE... /me jealous as all get out.
b4k4^2
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Post #96,539
4/14/03 3:13:34 PM
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There will be cleaning up :)
at first, however, I think we're just going to put up with all the wallpaper and deal with things like loose railings, stuck windows, etc.
"We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?"
- Edward Young
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Post #96,234
4/12/03 2:56:28 PM
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Don't be stupid
Victorians are notorious for having NO closets (they used armoires).
Sez me - recovering old house victim (1900 story and a half victorian in Washington Park).
Tip - skip the popular mechanics home repair manuals - they only cover modern construction. Get old-house specific repair books and when hiring tradesmen hire old guys who remember how that stuff was put together. Young guys just want to rip everything out and do it over (kind of like programmers that way).
Otherwise - hey congrats! I loved my old house - you're never hurting for something to do on a weekend.
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Contestants in a suicidal race."
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Post #96,278
4/12/03 8:44:47 PM
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recovering old house victim?
Well, I'm still recovering from the nasty postwar housing I was raised in, back in the San Fernando Valley in the 1950s. The first house I remember properly (I have a few vague and disconnected memories of the previous) was one we moved into, newly-built, in 1955--we subsequently lived in two others within a half-mile radius, each differing in exterior details but identical as to floorplan, by 1962. I thought at the time that everyone lived that way. Two of those three houses wre bulldozed before they turned twenty for what is now called the "Ronald Reagan Freeway." I now own a house built in 1908. I'm confident it will still be standing in fifty years. I doubt whether the single remaining SFV house from my childhood (I visited the neighborhood the other year--a slum) will survive as long.
cordially,
"Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
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Post #96,300
4/12/03 11:12:15 PM
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Old stuff lasts longer...
...because the old stuff that didn't last longer has already fallen down. The stuff that's still around is definitionally the better stuff. They made cheap shit back then too. Tarpaper, clapboard, and tin huts don't have much staying power. \r\n\r\n Though I'd have to agree that a lot of modern construction is cheap and shoddy, possibly a higher proportion of mid-market stuff to boot. I actually worked a construction crew for a few months in 1987, doing "California framing" (one nail per side in stud blocking), and "persuading" walls straight. It was an education. --\r\n
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