Furnishings

Once the finish carpentry was done we began to furnish the house.  This is an ongoing project, mind you.  I made a few pieces for the house and one, Kate's bed, was requisitioned for our regular house.  Mind you, this post isn't here to brag about my efforts but to explain where some of the furnishings came from.  Things were made to accomodate the small spaces available for them and we could find few things that aren't made for the larger sized houses we seem to live in today.

 

Other things I made are a console table and a coffee table, a new top for our kitchen table (it was warped pretty badly), and a cabinet for storing necessities in the bathroom. 

 

The latest creation is a linen cupboard made entirely of recycled materials including window sashes from an old hotel in Virginia Beach given to us by our friend Sandy (thanks, Sandy!).

We've also purchased some Windsor stools from Kurt Lewin's place in Capeville.  He does very nice work and you should check him out if you're ever heading down Rt 13.

How it was and how it turned out

Things are still a work in progress, furnishings are still being gathered and brought into the house but at least you can see where things stand today.

  

Here are some before and after photos and compare them to the shots in previous posts to see the contrast.   The last photo is from the kitchen towards the front of the house.  Compare this view to the one on the October 22nd post.

The back story...

I was finally able to get some photos of the AMH during and before the renovations began. Steve had photographed his progress and I finally digitized some of them.

Here are shots of the house 

before work began, during demolition, and reconstruction. I'm glad we got it in the stage we 

did, he worked pretty hard to see the vision of what was possible with this old house!

During the renovation, Steve removed everything that wasn't holding up the house.  The house now has all new wiring, plumbing, insulation, and subflooring in the kitchen area.

Here you can see what happened to the stairs.  The stained glass windows came from a renovator's store in Norfolk.  We haven't been there yet but it's on our list of places to visit.