Home Improvments

With cold weather coming there is much to do around here! We need to winterize the house and barns...but also, it's home improvement time! This is exciting and frustrating all at the same time! LOL...our house is OLD, and when you try to do any sort of improvement you can count on finding at least 5 things that make you want to cry! LOL. So far, in every room that we have tried to fix we have found crazy electrical work, crooked walls, not properly patched holes, one room of our house is built with boards one on top of the next...and the boards have bowed, so our wall bows in...it's a strong room, I think it was the first room built. Our home started out MANY years ago as a one room "cabin"...and slowly people added to it to make it a farmhouse. Whoever built on to it didn't do it for looks, it must have been just to have space for a family to live. Then, about 30 years ago, my uncle built the upstairs portion...and did a very poor job. Soft floors, uneven everything...the house has settled so much there are cracks in the ceilings and walls...you get the picture! It's a work in progress! We are going to tackle two projects this winter...the mud room and the downstairs bathroom. Should be interesting as these are both part of the very old, original part of the house. I wonder what we will find! It's been fun to see the newspaper that they used to line things with (walls, floors...i guess it was used for insulation??)...but it's not been fun when you see something you had no clue was under the floor or behind walls that could have burned your house down! LOL...Praise the Lord it didn't! I also have a few smaller things to do, I need to finish some painting projects and paint the family closet room and my pantry. Fun times!