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lupinfarm
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We're painting them cause they're in rough shape, and also the flooring down by my brothers room (right now its like stick on tile) under the plywood and stick on there is more floorboards, but they're the thin strip like ones typical to the late victorian era, and they run in a different direction LOL so we're painting, and then painting... like a farmer would have had, a hallway runner on. If you couldn't afford a rug, you painted itroosmom said:Lupinfarm, I love old houses. There is so much I want to say about your house. But I will just say, I looks really good. They have such character, style and proudness to them.
I can tell ya how to strip that floor real easy if you want. Why are you painting it? Wood floors are so warm.
Love it....keep us updated. If you have any questions just ask us, maybe we can help.
If we get the big barrel sander and it does a good job, smoothing them out, etc, we MAY keep the wood floor look rather than painting, but its all an IF... plus, in the spare room, i don't know if you can see it in the photo, but between the windows on the floor is a big grey patch, that is where a fireplace used to run through, theres a corresponding hole in the ceiling downstairs with bricks in it, it's a huge shame they took the fireplace out but they put that monstrosity of a window in to replace it there's a chimney brest in my room, but we're not sure if there is a fireplace behind it, and there was one at the end of my room where the bathroom is now which would have been the cooker for downstairs. There also used to be a woodburner in the living room, which was removed before the last owners moved in and totally neglected the house. We're ambitious people LOL or just crazy, because it's not just the house that needs overhauling, the ice shed was remodled for the chicken coop (cost nearly $3000 to do, but it was worth preserving the history of an 85 year old ice shed (aka refridgerator lol)), the barn needs renovating, we have four or so more fields to fence in, the sacrifice paddock in front of the barn to fence in, the old hackney shed to overhaul, move, and re build, ............. the list goes on and on and on, plus the driveshed to pull straight again and preserve.. turning it into a huge run-in shed for the upper field with a stall and tackroom in it, we also have to pour a new slab for both the garage and barn, build 2 100 sq. ft. dog kennels (we're skirting the building laws here lol, we can do it as long as they're under 108 sq. ft. they will be built from coop plans and adjusted for dogs, just for the summer months when they can be outside full time), re-gravel the driveway, sand the roundpen a bit, fence in the poultry yard, *finish the duck house* which is my current project, AND fence in the grass riding ring up at the house.
Yep... lots to do lol.