Tomorrow we are having the final electrical inspection for the second floor. Today I cleared material from the first floor to the basement to give working room. Steven worked on the electricity for the living room. He is having problems and can’t figure what the problem is. I started stripping the paint off a dresser for the north bedroom.
The bay window walls stick out above the shed roof. We decided to take off the shed roof on the 12′ bay window section. Steven will install a temporary roof for the winter while we take time to decide what style roof to reinstall in the spring. We want to let more light into the dining room and have the bay window itself more visible.
The front dormer roof had to come off because of a sagging roof caused by water drainage and roof rot. Steven and I removed the dormer today. We found poor construction and rot. We think it looks better and the roof isn’t sagging as much. Lots of wood missing because of water damage.
Rose Cottage is a classic 1900 farmhouse (Folk Victorian) style with a center section running east and west, a south section and a north section. The south contains the kitchen, a porch and a bathroom. The center section is 1 1/2 stories with two rooms on the first floor and two on the second. The north section is also 1 1/2 stories. The first floor is the living room and stairs with an attached porch.
The house was moved to its present location from a few miles away. It was used as doctor’s office at one time so there is extra plumbing for sinks in the first floor. A wall had been added next to the stairs going to the second floor to create a separate apartment on the second floor. That wall had been removed but a wall in the middle section was still there, the wall closed off the dining room and created a strange hallway from the living room to the kitchen
When we removed that wall in order to recreate the dining room, we discovered sewage pipes going through the hardwood floors from the second floor.
My daughter told me about Martha Stewart renovating and discovering a stained glass window. We renovate and discover plumbing pipes!