Mine was build in 1941. When I bought it in 1992, the home inspector told me that if my furnace ever quit on me, the only people who knew how to fix it were dead.
The furnace quit on me 2 months after I bought it. LOL!
But other than big updates that were needed like that one, my house is beautiful and solidly built. Yes, beautiful wood work (not built ins or anything, but lovely trim on the floors and doorways and beautiful window trim with sills everywhere)....beautiful oak floors, a great old long chime door bell in its own little cut out cupboard in the wall, really cute details in the kitchen and eating nook. In my area of the city, there are many homes like mine, and fewer of the townhomes and condos...but they are around, too. They are just more concentrated in another part of town than mine. So my part of town is known for homes like mine. Mine is now going to be one of the nicer ones (for its size and age) after the remodel is done.
I am lucky to have a one car garage as most homes like mine (age and size and neighborhood) don't have one at all!
Also have a corner lot on a dead end street. Yay!
When we began this phase of remodeling, we were planning for sure to put my house on the market and get a bigger one with more bathrooms and bigger garage....but still an older one with charm. Now we don't think we can leave our beautiful dream house just yet! We want to enjoy it for a while first!
Creaky floors....the attic has been remodeled into a large bedroom but it had the creakiest floors EVER....part of our remodel has been to take care of that problem with new subfloor and new carpet up there. Hurrah! I'm telling you, being downstairs when someone is upstairs is like being under a herd of cattle, LOL! But not anymore...
So Lucky, because you "know" what I'm sayin' with regard to old houses, maybe you can see why I'm so freaking excited!!!
