East Bedroom

Well it's been a little over three years since the last post in January, 2013. In February my wife finally decided she had had it with her boss and began the process of retiring which took til June. During the first half of 2013 we also had to liquidate my mother's estate and help my wife's father move from his home into a senior complex. Then our youngest daughter and her family moved overseas the end of summer so we spent several months helping them organize the move. Six months later, the beginning of 2014, she called to share her husband was leaving the marriage under very damaging circumstances so we moved her and our two grandsons into our grand old Victorian with us. Fortunately I had begun working on the worst bedroom so in a matter of weeks it was available for her use. The boys are in a usable bedroom that we'll finish when they move out. But it's been over two years of lot's of babysitting and not much remodeling and no posts.
One of the previous owners had tried to modernize a number of the rooms by making them contemporary looking so in this bedroom we removed the can lights, patched the holes, put double-hung windows back in that matched the rest of the house, rebuilt the sills and added casing, plinths and rosettes that matched the rest of the house. We also added closets along one entire wall as only one bedroom has a closet.

Former owners efforts to make the home contemporary.

Baseboard water heaters were throughout the house often fed by bare copper pipe.

Removing the contemporary trim and replacing windows to match others in the house.

Lots of mudding and filling.

Old efforts to add electricity to house.

Reconstructing the window sills.

Added closets along entire wall that will eventually look like a paneled wall.

Walls around windows are now all repaired.

First coat of paint.