And I didn’t even realize it was happening.

It’s Party Time!.You should come too!I just love a darkened house some days when I want things to seem extra quiet.

So does my camera apparently.Or at least it did the other day when I was trying to get these photos of my new giant cast iron hooks..This is the way I like this front hall we’ve been working on best anyway.

All dark and shadowy with the grey Fall light coming in through the window.. We finally got around to getting a bit more progress in the front hall, which is good, because now we’ve got another big BIG project started up that I can’t wait to show you.A couple of them actually.. Wahoo!

About flippin’ time!… I mean.. Yay!.

Back to the hooks.ways to work around all the weird angles.

that we find in this place.. As much as restoring an old house can be a big, frustrating mess that you don’t see coming, there are probably just as many benefits that will surprise you if you take on the challenge.. For one, building a house back in the day, without all of the technology and conveniences that we have now meant they REALLY had to plan out what they were doing.If you find a house that’s still in pretty good shape 100 years later, chances are that the builders of your home did a pretty great job.

Our home sits right next to a creek, too close by today’s building standards, and yet we never get a flooded basement, even when half of the town is underwater.Our house is also incredibly energy efficient in a lot of ways.