Our Old House: Blogisode 7-Is It Better This Way Or This Way?

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It's been a busy week on Miller Road.
See if you can spot the differences 'Before' and 'After'.

Gone are the cedar shakes from the front. Those boards that look so spanky new last saw daylight in 1915.  We know because the carpenter who put it up signed it. That's a new roof you're looking.

Dead sexy, eh?

There's the dining room and fire place that seduced us in May.

Here's the dining room today. The cracked ceiling is gone, exposing the massive beams that support the house.  We are hoping to find a way to feature them.

And who could forget the avocado glory of the upstairs hallway?

 Cramped and dark, just add zombies or axe wielding psychopath.

No, that's no zombie or psychopath.  Only our general contractor surveying the damage.

I mean improvement.

David, after seeing our neighbor's exposed chimney, decided we needed to feature ours. He removed those pesky attic stairs, and will replace it with a pull down stair unit.  Removing that wall doubled the space in the hall.