An orange stripe of paint going up the stairs with a green wall in the foreground and stair runners in the same colors.

Um I love it when your extra can of paint works perfectly. #oldhouselove

A dark blue stripe parallel to the stairs being painted over in a rusty orange color.

In today’s #oldhouselove I am ignoring the hole in the kitchen ceiling and repainting the stairs stripe with a leftover paint color from the hallway trim dilemma. It’s perfect here.

A kitchen ceiling with a round spot of peeled off paint where a leak from the bathroom above has occurred.

What’s up #oldhouselove friends. I unfortunately found a wet area on our kitchen ceiling and now I have a 2ft x 2ft hole. It appears it’s coming from the toilet waste pipe but it is totally dry now. My thought is there is a small leak when the toilet gets plunged which is more often than it should.

An upclose shot of a plaster wall with a dark blue paint and a cream color stripe with a tiny section of dark red paint under all the layers.

#oldhouselove I was thinking of painting our vestibule dark red and then today while painting the ceiling I “accidentally” knocked off the plaster skim coat they put on over the original plaster and looky there, it’s dark red.

Getting a kick out of painting funky old buildings with a palette knife again.
#darkart #horrorart #nocturne #abstractlandscape #oldhouselove

A dark hallway with three different colors visible on trims and doors.

In other #oldhouselove news we finally decided on a paint color for the trim in the upstairs hallway after six colors. I am so over grey! Thanks to Skeldale house on All Creatures Great & Small we went with a buttery beige called Sandy Pail. I still like the blue but it was just to dark.

A snowy neighborhood with poofy snow on hydrangeas.

Hey #oldhouselove it feels 44 degrees warmer than the last two days today and it’s only 4 degrees. It looks like we got six inches of lake effect snow this morning also. We usually don’t get that being on the west side of the lake. It usually just snow. 😂

The Murphy Mansion circa 1908 is designed by famed architect Frank Packard. Built for Joseph Murphy (Murphy Lumber Co.,) in the Richardsonian-Romanesque architectural style.

#oldhouse #oldhouselove #architecture #house #photography #oldhouses #home #renovation

Painting project of the foyer.

I finished the green paint on the exterior walls. Tomorrow it’s supposed to snow 6 inches and then the temperatures plummet and we have no wall insulation so the paint will freeze if I paint at that temperature. Interior storm windows building continues tomorrow. #oldhouselove

Windows haphazardly hanging off the east wing of the white house during demo.

As a card carrying member of the restore all the original windows brigade, can I just say wtf are they even doing to these windows? Why didn’t they remove them first? #oldhouselove

Asking for a friend… How many projects is to many projects? #oldhouselove #windowrestoration #garmentsewing #knitting #sockknitting #quilting #crochet #papermache #restoringantiques #plantparent #sourdough

Ugly dirty aluminum siding hiding secrets.

Old original trim that now needs scraped primed and painted.

#oldhouselove Hi! This is why you don’t want me to prime your basement windows for you. Because the next thing you know I’m pulling off aluminum siding to find the detail trim it’s hiding.

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An old original window on saw horses with a few tools and some foil to protect the glass from the IR heat

#oldhouselove Another week and I’ve started another window. When I complete this set I’ll have 1 double set finished since the start of summer.

A close up of White trim on the bottom of a yellow house.

My makeshift rain protection made with black plastic and bent wires to keep the plastic off the wet trim.

#oldhouselove Folks I’m still plugging away at windows. I have two sets done, tops and bottoms & 1 more bottom is stripped and ready for new glass. My goals is to finish 3 more sets before winter.
So that’s why I painted trim today with Linseed oil paint and then it rained. :(

Another round of paint, and it’s the perfect tiny library desk.
Pull out the drawer for a music stand, flip the top down to type or write, and there is a decent amount of closed storage.

#oldhouselove #basementlibrary #oldisnew

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Antique door hinge covered in layers of old paint.

Covered Crock-Pot with clear lid, and white painted door hinges inside with water.

Tackling my first (small) DIY project in over two years. Antique door hardware paint stripping, with water and an old Crock-Pot. Will post after pics when the paint is off. Thank you, Nicole Curtis! #rehabaddict #oldhouselove #DIY

Also #freepalestine #abolishICE

Set of 2 Vintage Nightstand Lamp
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#HomeRenovation #InteriorDesign #BeforeAndAfter #InteriorInspo #HomeMakeover #InteriorGoals #HomeDecor #InteriorTransformation #VintageInteriors #ScandiStyle #MinimalistInterior #HouseRenovation #OldHouseLove

Curved garden beds in front of an off-white Victorian house with rainbow bunting on the porch rail.

Okay, June.

#OldHouseLove #Zone5aGardening #Pride

Hit me with your fave grout for a bathroom floor, please? Bonus if you live in a hot & humid place.

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#diy
#diytiling
#whatamidoing
#DIYSky

So glad my gas dryer shit the bed in January, which I immediately replaced with a heat pump combo. My POS stove tho...

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