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This weeks wordfull Wednesday is all about my house. Seven, almost eight years ago we bought a bank repossessed house. This was an old farm house that had been trashed. Our first objective was to gut the place. We tore out everything but the kitchen and that still got a major clean up. Along our journey we found our house has so really cool history. First I would like to say my house says it was built in 1919 we have reason to believe it is older than that. My first photo is a picture of our torn out stairway. We removed all the plaster and lath walls to find this behind a large portion of our house. 
What you see is the old style log cabin. Yes that large brown area between the painted wood logs is mud and horse hair. House were not typically built like this after the 1900's. Not to say ours wasn't but it raises a flag.
Now this photo is really cool. Someone had plastered between two boards on a section of our stairway and signed it. Sorry you can't see it to well but it has a name along with the date May 3, 1911. Pretty cool find if you ask me.
This is my stairway today after we put it all back together. Can't even tell all that old stuff is behind my walls.
At the top of my stairway you can see that we have this really cool ledge. It is because our supper thick log cabin walls only go up so high and then the upstairs must have been added on later. Because of this we were able to add this nice ledge and when, ha let me rephrase that if we ever finish our upstairs bathroom we have some cool plans for some wall inserts in their also.
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15 Comments Welcome:
wow! you guys have done alot of work!
i love the older homes with some history!
Those are pretty dramatic changes in those photos!! Great job:-)
that is awesome! did you guys do this yourselves???
Yes!!! We have done all the work on our house. It has been a slow process and we still have a lot to do.
Wow! So much work but it looks to good! I've always wanted to live someplace that had history.
What a great story! I love houses with such a great history.
That is a LOT of work AND super cool. I hope you've taken lots of pictures and later on can put them into a book, like a photobook (blurb.com does a great job) of the history of your home. That would be wonderful.
I wish I had the creative vision and talent to do this!
Nina, it looks fabulous and it's awesome you did it all yourself!!! Now, you can come and give us a homemake over now that you let it out that you can do this kind of stuff!!!
Man, I am so totally impressed by this makeover. Looks wonderful!
Looks great (and like alot of work).
How awesome! I LOVE old homes! Looks like you have done a lot of fantasdtic work!
Happy WW!
That is very, very cool!! I love history in a house and uncovering all the hidden treasures like that!! So cool!!
That's cool to have discovered all that history in your house! And the finished job looks great!
Wow, that is really cool! Looks great now!
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