James and I are the first to say WOW! Seeing the before/during/ After albums we can hardly believe we lived through it all! Like having 7 children, I say "it does not happen all at once!" . The renovations happen first as to 'put out the fires", like cascading water from the burst thawing pipes above the kitchen on Christmas eve, to the leaking gutters that caused a domino effect, ruining bricks, interior plaster molding, plaster walls, wallpaper, rotting exterior wood, flooding basement. But luckily it does not happen all at once. Then there is the self imposed torture of starting projects just because....the library, for instance.
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| "Before" Sept 2012 |
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| "After" September 2012 |
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| April 2009 |
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| October 2009 |
Foyer
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| Foyer Before |
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| Foyer After |
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Church rummage sale find! 1880 Cincinnati furniture maker masterpiece!
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| Julie patching and priming staircase after carpet was removed. |
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| Painted! Someday we will install a stair runner. |
Dining Room
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| Dining Room Before |
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| Dining Room During |
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| Dining Room After |
Porch
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Back Porch before
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Back Porch After
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Porch
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| James building porch screen frames |
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| Tony and Jon painting porch |
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| Screen for porch |
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| Screened in Porch After |
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| Porch Skirts |
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| James and Jon with installing porch skirts |
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| James, Tony and Jamie on back porch scaffolding |
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| Replacing weathered floor boards and joists |
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Balcony before stairs were removed
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| Elizabeth and Jon 2010 painting porch floor boards. |
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| Balcony before and after |
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| Before (2009) During (2010) After (2012) |
Grueling work. Set 83 plus posts, did all the work but the drilling of the holes. Thanks to Tony, Jon, Elizabeth, James, me and Sally. If we were not out making the fence we were watching Jamie. The only thing that got in our way was our pesky full time book business...oh and school.
Bedroom
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| Bedrom Before |
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| Bedroom After |
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| Sewing Room 3rd floor Before |
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Sewing Room After
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Living Room
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| Living Room Before: Carpet circa 1985 |
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| Living Room Taking out carpet, tile and adhesive |
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| During |
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| "After" |
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| Book Barn built 2009 |
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| Jon and Tony building scaffolding |
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| Living Room walls Dec 2013 |
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| Layers under carpet of Living Room |
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| Our attempt at matching the colors of the old wallpaper that we like but had to be taken down. |
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| Deteriorated molding (moulding) repaired by James |
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| Molding After |
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| After painting (and before carpet is out) |
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Message from the past.. "Papered by John Ernst 1948"
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| Library Before and After 2011-2012 |
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| Watching Papa paint window trim in Library |
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| James suited up |
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| Between each board old adhesive and 150 year old dirt had to be removed! |
James' handiwork. Stunning bookshelves
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| Before landscaping 2009 |
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| After landscaping at back porch |
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| Julie refinished this atlas table |
Jon and Tony clearing brush on our 6 acre lot across the street
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| Stockpile of original bricks |
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| All downstairs windows were OUT for renovation for several days! |
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| Tony, James' right hand man working on windows |
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| Before |
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| Tony painting with Jamie |
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| Jon and Tony Painting windows |
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| Katie tearing out carpet on 3rd floor |
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| Boarding House Walk on our property connecting Inn to the College |
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Solomon's Run on
our 6 acre frontage
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Brown County Inn Reunion 2013
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