Holiday Surprise

The Winter issue of American Bungalow came out last week and our house appears in the Family Album section of the magazine. It can also be seen on the American Bungalow website here. I submitted it back in early summer, so I've been waiting for it to appear. Glad to say that it holds its own against the other houses in the Album. And very cool to open up such a great magazine and see a picture of your own home.

Finally, Some New Pictures!

I apologize for the long wait, as I know many of you have been checking for new posts, but its been a case of one-thing-after-another (usually not house-related, fortunately). At the moment I find myself at home sick and with some time to share a few new pictures.

A view of the fireplace end of the living room. For this seating area we decided to do something keeping with the period the house was built and settled on wicker.

Here's a photo of the dining room with the table and chairs.


And another shot looking the other direction. Ignore the out-of-place Victorian bench under the window. Its for the cats. :)


One of the last changes we made was to remove the shag carpet runner on the stairs and replace it with something more appropriate.


This is our bedroom. Honestly, I'm mainly showing off my wife's quilts. They're completely handmade. The one on the bed took around 7 years to finish.


This is one of our two cats. Her name is Spider. She's showing how much she appreciates those 7 years of work. BTW, sometime down the road I'll be doing a post about the house's original feline resident, Sonny.

Petunia Surprise

The last couple of weeks have been rather busy, so I haven't had time to post anything to the blog, but I just had to share this stand of petunias that suddenly sprang up in the otherwise sad excuse of a patio. Hopefully, next week I'll have some time to share what I've discovered about the history of the land our house sits on and then report on the upcoming open house. Until then, enjoy the petunias!

Some Interior Details

I thought I would share some pictures of a few of the interesting details around the interior of the house.

Door hardware. All of the doors have their original hardware. I love the patina.














Matching lifts on the first floor windows.














Ceiling light in the living room. I have no idea of its age.














Door stop. I need to reattach a couple of them, but all are accounted for.














Latch on one of the dormer windows. One of them is missing its ring, but all of the windows are painted shut, unfortunately.














If a dormer window could open, this chain would hold it open. All 4 of the windows have them.

A Look at the Exterior

Here's a few pictures of the exterior of the house.

A full shot of the house














The front (of course)














The west side, looking towards the ravine














The east side and the backyard



















The view from the front porch














Nelsonville Block bricks are ubiquitous around Ohio University, our alma mater, so I think it's pretty cool that we have a few along the front of the house