I have been so busy lately you would not believe!
Just this week I bought a very tiny 2 bedroom 1 bath 1930's bungalow cottage fixer upper. It is gonna cost so much to renovate because somebody ripped the interior walls down to the studs in every room but the bathroom and kitchen. There are pipes to fix, furnace, hot water heater, wiring, roof, and just a bunch of stuff.
But the place is cute kinda like a doll's house with arched doorways, wide simple trim [what there is left of it], and for it's size -- lots of windows. I am gonna make it into my version of a rose covered quaint cottage -- on a very strict budget.
The kitchen is pure 30s/40s with the original wood sink wall cabinetry. There is room on the opposite wall for a range and cabinet [Dad has a similar vintage base cabinet in his garage and I am stealing it! On the end wall there is room for my 50's Monkey Wards white refrigerator and a vintage rolling cart topped with butcher block.
When I measured I was disappointed to learn that my Crown 6 burner, 2 oven range is just too long to allow me to have the cabinet beside it. What to do?
Two days after I bought the house, I was driving there and passed my cousin's house. There in the front yard was a 1950's white 4 burner Chambers range - just needing cleaning and in great shape! I examined it carefully measured it [it will just fit], and took off to find my cousin and found out he was selling it for his church. We went back and forth for two days negotiating before I gave him his check for $160 today!
It will delivered to the house in just a few hours! It looks just like this one but with 4 burners and no thermo well!
It's funny, my Monkey Wards refrigerator was given to me by a church; and my Chambers range was practically given to me by another church!
Am I blessed or what?
Just this week I bought a very tiny 2 bedroom 1 bath 1930's bungalow cottage fixer upper. It is gonna cost so much to renovate because somebody ripped the interior walls down to the studs in every room but the bathroom and kitchen. There are pipes to fix, furnace, hot water heater, wiring, roof, and just a bunch of stuff.
But the place is cute kinda like a doll's house with arched doorways, wide simple trim [what there is left of it], and for it's size -- lots of windows. I am gonna make it into my version of a rose covered quaint cottage -- on a very strict budget.
The kitchen is pure 30s/40s with the original wood sink wall cabinetry. There is room on the opposite wall for a range and cabinet [Dad has a similar vintage base cabinet in his garage and I am stealing it! On the end wall there is room for my 50's Monkey Wards white refrigerator and a vintage rolling cart topped with butcher block.
When I measured I was disappointed to learn that my Crown 6 burner, 2 oven range is just too long to allow me to have the cabinet beside it. What to do?
Two days after I bought the house, I was driving there and passed my cousin's house. There in the front yard was a 1950's white 4 burner Chambers range - just needing cleaning and in great shape! I examined it carefully measured it [it will just fit], and took off to find my cousin and found out he was selling it for his church. We went back and forth for two days negotiating before I gave him his check for $160 today!
It will delivered to the house in just a few hours! It looks just like this one but with 4 burners and no thermo well!
It's funny, my Monkey Wards refrigerator was given to me by a church; and my Chambers range was practically given to me by another church!
Am I blessed or what?