The original second floor has the bathroom over the dining room below. The ceiling is slanted and only 7′ in the center. The ceiling slants over the bathtub – going down to 2′ 8″ wall on the side of the tub. The plumbing for the tub and sink go through the hallway wall going through the dining room.
Click on the link below to view the original second floor plan
The first floor bathroom was very small - 5' x 9'. The door from the kitchen would not open all the way as it hit the bath tub.
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!
The lathe came down. The insulation in the walls was good and was reused. The bathroom was very small – 5′ X 9′ so we created a small 18″x48″ bump out by adding a new 2×8 joist along side an existing one. We had no siding to add yet.
Rotted deeply into the wall.
When the cedar clapboard was removed from the sagging wall, we found rotted wood from rain water running off the roof and down the siding! The window seemed ready to fall out. The rim joist was rotten as well as the studs in the wall. The entire wall had to come down.
By the time we had finalized the purchase, the bathroom wall was literally falling off from water dripping down from too small an overhang!
