My Dream Home

[OldSckool]

Location: Northeast Kansas
Built: 1909
Previous Owners: 2
Condition: Remarkable
Floors: White Oak/Black Walnut on 1st story White Oak on 2nd Story Hardwoods are in excellent shape Walnut has carpet over them, dining room and living room to protect them.
Central Air: Zoned High Velocity Cooling 3 1/2 ton 1st story 2 ton second story
Heating: Radiant
Lot: 3 acres mostly wooded
Insulation: Exterior wood removed three years and foam insulation blown in
Bought this house last month after passing up on it three years ago. Thus far it has been one of the most rewarding and pleasurable things I have done, aside from marriage and my three young children. Been in the house a month and have started the painting process, and stripping the floors. We have so much more to do, and so LITTLE money. UGH!

[lisascenic]

LOVE IT!!!

(well, I'm a bit lukewarm about the wallpaper...but nevermind that.)

[OldSckool]

LOVE IT!!!

(well, I'm a bit lukewarm about the wallpaper...but nevermind that.)

Thank you. Not quite ready to make any plaster repairs, yet. Believe me I would love to tear the paper down. My wife and I decided painting would have a drastic effect at a reasonable price. So glad we did the living room and dining room first. ALl those da@M seams had to be cleaned out, filled, taped, and joint compound over. We are currently looking for slipcovers for the tow sofas in the living room., and we need window treatments bad. Sorry to Rant

[nezwick]

Amazing!

[Fanner]

Welcome ~ Beautiful, lovely, amazing and - well - beautiful! You must just be thrilled to finally reside in your dream home. I can say that I, too, am living my dream (unfortunately hubby doesn't agree 100%, but maybe 85% ). May I ask what the door on the landing of your stairs leads to? I see there is a (cute!) door that I assume is a small closet on the main floor tucked under the stairs... Is the door on the landing a closet also? I have seen other houses with a door there and have been curious...

Oh, keep up with the pictures ~ we LOVE them

[03zsommer]

Welcome ~ Beautiful, lovely, amazing and - well - beautiful! You must just be thrilled to finally reside in your dream home. I can say that I, too, am living my dream (unfortunately hubby doesn't agree 100%, but maybe 85% ). May I ask what the door on the landing of your stairs leads to? I see there is a (cute!) door that I assume is a small closet on the main floor tucked under the stairs... Is the door on the landing a closet also? I have seen other houses with a door there and have been curious...

Oh, keep up with the pictures ~ we LOVE them

I was once in a house with a door there. It went down a half-flight of stairs into the kitchen. Just another way of getting upstairs without having to walk through other rooms.

[OldSckool]

Thank you Fanner. Absolutely right the door on the landing is a seperate set of stairs that lead into the kitchen and down to the basement. The closet on the main floor, tucked underneath the stairs, was such a great idea. I have some better pictures finally.

The living room before and after





Dining Room going to strip the carpet and polish up the walnut hardwoods



Looking down atthe sitting window


Leaded glass house entrance



Light Fixtures 5 total

[JRC]

Great looking house! Congratulations!

BTW, I really like your choice of green and gold. (I think they would be a controversial choice for many)

[KristenS]

Dining Room going to strip the carpet and polish up the walnut hardwoods

Oh, thank goodness! I am 100% with you on that choice. In such a lovely old house, the very newfangled carpet looks strange. And beige, in a dining room... no way!

I am in awe of your window seats. As a kid, I loved sitting in our windows. And all we had were deep sills. Now there's not a sill in the world deep enough for my ample heiney! Window seats are just absolutely the right idea.

[OldSckool]

Great looking house! Congratulations!

BTW, I really like your choice of green and gold. (I think they would be a controversial choice for many)

Thank you JRC. You know I would love to completely 'deck it out' with colors and styles that were more original to that era. MY wife is not quite ready for this yet, but in time she will come around. We narrowed our colors down to three, gold,green, and orange. Orange is going into the parlor and i think will accent the great qualities of all the hard wood. Plus, the parlor never gets direct sunlight, hardly any at all, and I thought i would go with something that will brighten the room, without overpowering the other finer details.