Hermann house renovation

[catherine]

IL: Here is some info about the wallpaper: https://www.historicnewengland.org/e...ct/?gusn=56877
It is a wonderfully quirky property; I love so much about it. It's well worth a visit if you are ever in the area of Gloucester, MA as well as the nearby Hammond Castle.

It might be a trip for IL, but if I ever am near Boston, I'll definitely make a side trip to this house!! I love the description of the process of paperhanging in that room--"A polyhedral nightmare." That's great! Reminds me of my first wallpapering experience in our first apartment after we married. The bathroom was old, and had all the quirks and slants of a Victorian house, complete with clawfoot tub. So, what did I choose to paper it with? A faux-Delft tile pattern. It truly was a nightmare trying to line up the squares against the walls that had settled and work with the angles everywhere.

That was a case of "live and learn" for me. Match the paper to the walls. OTOH, that wallpaper in the Gloucester house was done absolutely beautifully.

[JaneV2.0]

Your cottage bedroom provides a perfect opportunity for cozy décor.
Is there a bathroom on that floor, or will there be a chamber pot?

[iris lilies]

Your cottage bedroom provides a perfect opportunity for cozy décor.
Is there a bathroom on that floor, or will there be a chamber pot?

Ha ha, there is a full bathroom on that floor. No toilet is installed there yet though. Currently that is where the one working bathtub is.

[iris lilies]

Here’s a Hermann bathroom update:


This half bath on our first floor is completely functional now with flooring, sink, toilet, door. No decor yet.

[JaneV2.0]

Priorities.

[Teacher Terry]

That’s great IL!

[happystuff]

Is the brown thing the sink? Very cool!

[iris lilies]

Is the brown thing the sink? Very cool!

yes. It is kind of a mid century modern look, not especially in keeping with my 1941 cottage but I really liked it.

Our other bathrooms are more predictible.

[iris lilies]

2nd bathroom nearly functional. DH is taking an inaugural shower right now. It is very small so I can’t take much of a photograph. It’s just a small cottage style square bathroom with three essentials, a sink, a toilet, a shower. DH finished installing the shower after doing the tile work last week.

We are replicating the original woodwork in this house. There was only one room that had original wordwork, But it was enough for us to know what the original looked like. We are also replicating the doors, two panel doors.

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[iris lilies]

Yesterday DH installed our red stove. We’ve been waiting for weeks for the overhead fan unit to be shipped to us, and then we had to wait a couple of weeks for our contractor to come back and cut a hole in the roof for it.

The second picture shows a fully framed door. DH is re-creating the original woodwork for this house. When we bought this house there was only one room that had original woodwork and an original door. Someone had torn everything out in the 1970s to put in cheap awful stuff. But now every room will have the original woodwork profile which is really quite simple befitting our simple cottage house.

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