Old House Memories

A couple days ago I came across a mood board that I had put together for the living room in our old house. The house was over 100 years old, it was a huge American Four-Square with loads of character- and even more work! We rented the house for a little over a year and considered purchasing it, but it was overpriced for the amount of work that inevitably needed done, and to do that house justice we would have priced ourselves out of the market. Not to mention it was on a busy highway with very little front yard to seperate it from the road. (Read not good for small children and dogs).

I often think about that house. Especially at Christmastime. With it's double parlour and 10 ft ceilings, it allowed for a huge tree. There were fireplace mantels in both the parlour as well as the dining room, built-ins, big beautiful windows to hang many a wreath upon, and place candles in. All the moulding was large and commanded a presence.

I think about that house when it's not Christmas too, in it's day it would have been a lovely home. It's too bad the 70's came around and deleted so much of the character of that big old house. It would have been fun to bring the gem back to its former glory! Instead we bought a run of the mill house built in the 70's! Ah the irony...