Saturday, February 13, 2010

House Storytelling

Apparently in the 50's it became popular to put a pencil sharpener in the stairwell to the basement. Normally there were put in the wall on the side. I find this one an afront to tall people.




They liked the wallpaper so much they cut out bits to use as decoration. We found this a trend throughout the house.




Wallpaper was put in pre-cabinet. Means it is time for me to ditch the cabinet.




This time the wallpaper went from the wall right onto the cabinet, and was then painted over. Classy.




This is where they knocked down a wall and then couldn't match the wood to the surrounding rooms.




Flooring told interesting stories today. I mentioned this one in a previous post. It seems there was hardwood, and then an addition with different hardwood, and then parquet got popular so they threw in some fake linoleum, lastly the trend switched to wall to wall carpeting. It was all laughably easy to lift.




Now we have the upstairs, covered in tiles like from some basement. Likely nothing good beneath, BUT the stairs are hardwood, and why would you put in hardwood stairs leading to a cheaply done master bedroom? Plus if you look at the cross section of the top step you see tile, plywood, and then other plywood or is that hardwood?

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