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Hello all! After some discussion and consideration, we have added a new rule. You must have a connection to any house being posted here. As in you live in it, lived in it, own it, visited it, etc. We are aiming to cut down on on the low effort posts and people just sharing houses they find online. We are a community of caretakers of these homes, and we would like to keep it the content relevant. Thank you all for understanding. -The Mod Team submitted by /u/capnmurca [link] [comments]

Welcome from our mysterious nope-holes, and the summits of our servants' stairs. Today we the mod team bring you all an announcement that has nothing to do with our beloved old bones, but that, unfortunately, has become necessary again after a century or so. The heart of the matter is: from today onward any and all links from X (formerly Twitter) have been banned from the subreddit. If any of you will find some interesting material of any kind on the site that you wish to cross-post on our subreddit, we encourage you instead to take a screenshot or download the source and post that instead. As a mod team we are a bit bewildered that what we are posting is actually a political statement instead of simply a matter of decency but here we are: we all agree that any form of Fascism/Nazism are unacceptable and shouldn't exist in our age so we decided about this ban as a form of complete repudiation of Musk and his social media after his acts of the last day. What happened during the second inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the U.S.A. is simply unacceptable for the substance (which wouldn't have influenced our moderation plans, since we aren't a political subreddit), but for the form too. Symbols have as much power as substance, and so we believe that if the person considered the richest man in the world has the gall to repeatedly perform a Hitlergruß in front of the world, he's legitimizing this symbol and all the meaning it has for everyone who agrees with him. Again, we strongly repudiate any form of Nazism and fascism and Musk today is the face of something terribly sinister that could very well threaten much more than what many believe. We apologize again to bring something so off-topic to the subreddit but we believe that we shouldn't stand idly by and watch in front of so much potential for disaster, even if all we can do for now is something as small as change our rules. To reiterate, there's nothing political about opposing fascism. As usual, we'll listen to everyone's feedback as we believe we are working only for the good of our subreddit. https://preview.redd.it/6nuesysvolee1.jpg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9895ecd2844e882082639dd2904375202809d175 submitted by /u/bjeebus [link] [comments]

It creates the perfect moody tropical vibe I was hoping for. Love it. Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/centuryhomes/comments/1txvoup/my_wallpaper_arrived/ submitted by /u/wasnapping [link] [comments]

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Assumed due to the bumps in the wall that the paint was hiding wallpaper, but could never get it to peel well enough to reveal what was underneath until I took off the outlet cover. I think it's lovely! submitted by /u/abathwatermakeup [link] [comments]

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We had the front shingles replaced along with areas that had sun and weather damage, added a fresh coat of stain; here’s to the next 115 years. submitted by /u/Special-Tough-499 [link] [comments]

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I have a few of these in my basements old home. Noticed a few are kind of loose. What direction should they turn and should I be checking them every so often? submitted by /u/PastaVeggies [link] [comments]

Anyone else use their laundry chute to push cool air from the basement to their 2nd floor? submitted by /u/gstechs [link] [comments]

Several years ago I was having a conversation with a long time customer at my work. It turns out, her grandparents lived the in the sister to my house (an exact replica), one block over. Her grandparents lived in the neighborhood from 1920 to the early 70’s. She grew up visiting in the 50’s and 60’s. I invited her over to see my house and it was a nice flash back for her. She said my house is much lighter. She remembered her grandparents house had dark stained wood and dark Victorian decoration. I still would love to see the paneling and banister stripped down and re-stained. submitted by /u/No-Mango-8105 [link] [comments]

As you can see, my house has a butlers bell. It works (kind of). It’s disconnected, but when connected it rings constantly. I want to fix it but wonder if anyone has advice on how to identify where the issue is coming from. I assume one of the buttons is shorting, is it just a case of trial and error? Thanks submitted by /u/GaeilgeGoblin [link] [comments]

We have lived in our 1890-built farm house about 4 years now and we bought it from people who had heavily renovated and updated. I knew they had removed some kind of structure between the dining and family rooms and painted the kitchen white (since the brown cabinetry shows itself bit-by-bit as time goes on and it flakes off, since they improperly prepped them when they painted them, of course. I curse them daily). But I had NO IDEA the level of ruin they descended upon this house until I saw these photos. I am especially upset about their choice to remove the built-ins between the dining and family room spaces. The main character point of the entire first floor just gutted and trashed. It makes my stomach turn. The AUDACITY! I’m prepared to hire someone to rebuild them either the same as they were or a bit augmented, as I’d like to keep the straight line of passage through the room, so maybe do a left-side built-in shelving and cabinetry to pay homage to the original. Anything to split these two spaces because it just feels like one long weird L shaped room to me and as time goes on I have come to loathe it. Now that I know what used to be there, I’m heartbroken. All this white paint everywhere has been driving me nuts, and now that I see what it could look like if it was natural wood, I’m obsessed with thoughts of removing it all. Ugh. And every single wall is still the drab gray they chose to put in every room because the former owner just absolutely loved it (gross). I want to rescue my home from this sterile modern look, but as you can see, this place is covered in thick white paint everywhere we look. But Is it too much to bother with? Should I just paint walls in nice colors and suck it up or should I get an IR gun and go to town? None of this paint is lead based as they did this in the late 2010s/early 20s (probably their Covid project) and I know I don’t want to mess with chemical strippers if I can avoid them. It doesn’t seem worth the trouble if the IR gun will suffice, but I’ve only seen a few posts here so far so I am running off of bare-minimum research and zero experience in doing anything like this. Has anyone ever hired a company to take on a large job like this? I’m afraid to even ask what that could cost me. But I’m just really feeling like I want to restore at least some of the natural wood to the home. And does IR even work on brick? Would anything work for this brick?? Thanks in advance for any tips or commiserating along with me as I’m still processing the shock of seeing these. There are 3 floors worth of wood trim and doors to strip but the biggest jobs are found on the first floor photos I’ve attached. submitted by /u/doublecee [link] [comments]

We bought our dream home a little under a year ago in Saint Catherines, Ontario, Canada (just about 15 minutes from Niagra Falls) ​ I recently posted in a local historical group and I was super surprised to learn that our turret was actually an addition in the early 2000s!!! ​ Apparently the owners before the people we bought it off of was an architect, and he added the turret onto the house! ​ He apparently had it in the driveway, and shingled it and then lifted it up with a crane. It's currently the upstairs bathroom. (Which has a soaker tub, I think it's a crime that it isn't a clawfoot, and it's on my list of things to add!) ​ I would have never guessed it was an addition. ​ The back of our house was an addition (sunk in living room) but the previous owner and the inspector believes it was added within a couple years of the main house. ​ Things I've done in the last month: ​ Painted the sunk in living room billyards green (Sherwin Williams) ​ Did the kitchen greenblack as well (I do plan on swapping all the hardware to brass) ​ Currently we're in the middle of a library Reno ​ My painter said it was her dream to strip some Victorian trim and she would view it as a sort of penance because she had painted so much of it white during previous jobs. (She recently went on her own after working for a big company for 10 years) ​ So between the two of us we're in the process of stripping two window casings and one door casing in the library. We have about a zillion hours into it already. My plan is to either add shellac or tung oil on top of it. ​ The library is also being painted with billyards green, which makes the white Greek key crown moulding absolutely pop. ​ I'm also trying to untangle the puzzle of the original wood burning fireplace. ​ When we pull the electric insert out it's basically just a plaster wall and trim. You can see the mantle has been boxed out and extended at some point (to probably fit the insert) ​ Today I drilled through the plaster and put an endoscope back there. I can't really see anything basically because there's so much old insulation back there. ​ It lines up with where the chimney is. I know the whole house likely had wood burning originally (MAYBE coal) you can see the stove pipe bumps in other rooms and the weird cut outs where wood stoves would have been previously. ​ I'm hoping next time my painter is over the two of us can cut out a bigger section of plaster behind the insert so we can see what is going on. ​ I would absolutely LOVE to restore the wood burning and have a fully functioning fireplace in there. To be able to curl up beside the fire in the winter with a book would be a dream. I know it will likely be tens of thousands and it's not in the budget currently. ​ The previous owners also said "if you open the wall under the stairs, you'll find old doors under there" ​ The door for the library is missing, as well as a few others. I would love to be able to find them, but I don't want to keep drilling into the plaster in places we can't hide it 😂😂) ​ The whole house is as painted millenial grey before with white moulding, and I'm slowly bringing it back to its glory. ​ I have a huge taxidemy collection, and lots of weird pieces! Slowly making this house a home! ​ ​ submitted by /u/SindySchism666 [link] [comments]

Found this hole today, it wasn't there last week. Looking for help figuring out what made it: does it look drilled/tooled, or like impact damage (BB/pellet)? More context in the first comment. submitted by /u/i-am-zara [link] [comments]

I opened up a solid nailed bench (turning it into a storage bench) and found 100 years of random items that had fallen behind it over the years! ​ Oldest appears to be a letter woth a 1 1/2 cent stamp, which i believe puts it in the 1920s. Next is a playing card from the 50s (I think) and a receipt for a mink coat getting cleaned in '56, mail from the 60s, records from the 70s, and a plastic necklace piece from the 90s. ​ I'm tempted to put it all back under the new compartments I make and add to it! submitted by /u/abigporkchop [link] [comments]

Under each of the windows that line the southwest corner of my 1922 high-water bungalow is a trapdoor into the wall, function uncertain. The walls are of course uninsulated and the kitchen nook transforms into the surface of the sun in the afternoons. Can anyone think of any reason I shouldn't shove some cellulose into the holes? The spiders will be irritated, but I can live with that. submitted by /u/pear_ciderr [link] [comments]

Pic one is the day we grabbed it. Four years ago. Lol took us a while to get here. ​ Pic two is how we started. Considering we got it off the sidewalk from our neighbor, not too bad. ​ Pic three is completely sanded. Original finish is in perfect shape. ​ Pic four is during the pour. We're using ekopel 2. A lot of prep, but seems to be the best bet. ​ Pic five is completely coated! Currently curing, but seems good so far. ​ Pic six is the bottom when we got it. ​ Pic seven is after sanding. ​ Pic eight is with the rustoleum coating. Feet are also going to be black. submitted by /u/justalittleloopi [link] [comments]

I bought my home in January and recently discovered that the previous owners removed the medicine cabinet in the bathroom and simply covered the opening with a mirror. Since I’ll be dealing with that wall anyway, I’m considering repainting the bathroom. The tile is original to a 1950s remodel and is staying. It has a light teal/turquoise trim, white wall tile, and a geometric floor pattern with diamonds and triangles. I also have several colorful paintings in the room that I’d like to keep because they add a fun, whimsical feel. I’m struggling to decide on a wall color. I like color and don’t want white or gray walls, but I also don’t want something that fights with the tile or the artwork. What color would you choose for this bathroom? submitted by /u/Catzaf [link] [comments]

Working mainly with what we already had, slowly piecing it together. Not finished yet, but it’s starting to feel warm and lived-in. Apologies for the repost, the first one didn’t look right. submitted by /u/Clean-Calligrapher17 [link] [comments]

my house is brick from 1895 and has basically no insulation. I would love to cover these gaps to prevent any drafts. doesn’t have to be pretty — the baseboard heaters will go over them. submitted by /u/winooskiwinter [link] [comments]

“no” - me eta - neighbors house, luckily not mine eta2 - i dont know if yall know this but, the hole is partially because of the paint eta3 - see “partially” in above edit submitted by /u/GlassPudding [link] [comments]

My husband and I are considering buying a century home but we are new to this. The house we live in now was built in 2021 and our previous house was built in 1993. We have two pre-schoolers and a baby. What do we need to look for while touring the home before putting in an offer? What do we need to potentially do to make sure everything is safe for our young children? I have been seeing posts about lead, asbestos etc and it’s making me nervous! The houses we are considering are in Minnesota and have basements. Any advice/insight would be greatly appreciated! submitted by /u/HeartOtherwise1865 [link] [comments]

We just found out a wall in our new house (1966) is wood (veneer?) panel. It’s got a couple coats of paint and we would love to see it returned to its former glory. So far, we’ve used some EZ Strip Paint and Varnish Stripper. We applied two coats, covered, let it sit for 1-2hr, then scraped with a metal putty knife. The paint comes off somewhat decently, the varnish is a bit more stubborn. It will definitely be a labor of love doing the full wall this way. I don’t want to sand the crap out of if, or scar it with scraping. Is this the right way to do it? Any suggestions? TIA! submitted by /u/GhostD06 [link] [comments]