Newborn House Restoration

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We have made additional noticable progress on the house restoration since our last post. As you probably know, we are attempting to focus our effort on one room at a time. Most of the recent effort has been in the master bedroom. We have completed the repair and prep work, and started painting. The room has a very calm and crisp pale blue and brown color scheme to complement the white trim and beadboard. The area around the top of the walls will have a stencil treatment, similar to what we did in the parlor. As a rough estimate, this room is probably more than 80 percent completed.

In the kitchen, we have gone back and tried to finish some of the loose ends. I finally installed the vintage stove this weekend. Last week, Andi and her Dad (Steve) worked on the tile around the fireplace. Both the stove and the antique tiles were great finds on E-Bay.

As we were working Saturday, we had an enjobable visit from Kate and Jeremy. They were looking at another old home in Newborn with the idea of buying it and restoring it. As they passed by our house, the recognized it from pictures on the blog. I happened to be in the yard as they passed by, so they stopped and we gave them a tour of our progress. They have done a lot of research and seem very interested in and capable of tacking an old house restoration.

That’s all for this week, but stay tuned for more updates.