We were hopeful that pocket doors were hiding in the front wall between the parlor and the living room. Gary seemed to think they were there. Today we opened the pocket up but alas, it was a gaping void of door-less space. Unfortunately, any spare doors that were in the garage are long gone as we didn't think they belonged in the house. Nothing that we discarded had any hardware that indicated that they had been on a track. Oh well!
This is a section of the living room wall that needed to be patched. Unfortunately the faux finish probably can't be replicated. I don't think there is any more of the paint left and I can't remember the formula for it. I think I will paint in faux corner-stones.
After that, the carpet is coming up. Any broken or loose pine planks will be replaced. They'll get a bit of sanding and another coat of paint. Then the molding will get painted in the parlor and anything on the floorboards that needs to be neatened up will get a touch too. The wide planks are original to the primary section of the house.
Our plan is to put up bubble insulation between the floor joists in the basement so that cold air won't come up through the floor.
The boys were in the basement today filling in an old window. The window opened to beneath the floor in the old porch and two useless lengths of pipe were fed through it. The rest of the hole was boarded up. Now the pipe is gone and the hole has been bricked/blocked in.
Tomorrow I think I'll start some light paint touch up over a few spots around the house that we've just patched. The pocket in the living room is open for now but will be closed back up this weekend. Oh well, you find things and then sometimes it's just a bit of a wild goose chase!
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