Wish us luck, we just put in an offer on a big 1965 ranch. Plain from the street but great inside. Here are the only pics from the sale listing. But, it is 4 bed 3 bath living room family room den and a 2 car garage. Also has a broken swimming pool, and that's why it is in our price range. The wheel chair ramp is good because down the road we might be bringing steph's gramda to live with us.
Most important thing to me is that I have a place to fly Ol' Glory.Good luck Purple, hope it works out for you.Built in 1920.
This is our old Scottish farm house built 1891.We've been working on it for six years now but still have a long way to go.We've had to undo lots of previous 'alterations' and have tried to keep the house in keeping with the Victorian era. The other derelict house is the original farm house and was built in 1860.This one is going to be converted into my new garage/workshop but will still look like a house from the outside.
I love them big old town houses.Please tell me you're not going to make it open plan and paint everything magnolia!LOL
If someone's wanting the vintage look, check out http://bigchillfridge.com . The new fridge with old look is good for kids with young family's, so you don't have to worry about the old latch mechanism. They'e got stoves and dishwashers also.
That door in the kitchen if you turn the screw above the window the whole window and frame pops out to give you a screen door.....we have the same one and love it, pics are in my profile.
Thanks, it's our dead horse and we dig it! Lots more junk since those photos...stop by if you ever get east.
I don't now, but about fifteen years ago myself and my then girlfriend had a 99.9% "period" house. I'm talkin' '30's-'60's everything, including kitchen (fridge, stove, sink etc), bathroom, bedrooms, living room and formal lounge, appliances, entertainment(record player, radios and B&W cord remote TV), furniture, plates/pots and pans/KFS, floor coverings, light fittings, window treatments, pictures, telephone, everything except washing machine (circa early '80's) and things like tooth brushes and bedsheets etc. The place was a time machine! We were just a young couple with no kids, but living day by day without "modern" technology was fine, a pleasure even. After all, we don't drive old cars for their convenience do we? Everyone did OK back in the day! Scarylarry, real gone daddyo! Johnnyzoom, bitchin! J cougar, congratulations, very cool!
]The perils of buying our dream house, the one I posted a couple of weeks ago. What was once lost is now found (haha). We ended up competing with another buyer and lost. But then a week and a half later, it was relisted. We just signed the papers accepting the counter offer at the list price $9,100 less than the past losing offer. I am stoked and the process begins. Being the seller is a bank it is pretty stricked and a long 60 day escrow. But if all goes well we will be in by Halloween.
I dont have a picture but my house was built in 1949 still has the asbestos roof and no front door. You enter a breezeway and go left to the house or right to the garage. Kinda cool gives a thief a little more trouble I guess
Here is mine. Built in 1916 and added on in 1938 by my great granfather and his brother. It is on the National hhistoric register, #1039. All original wood floors and stucture, plaster walls and some great history. My 50 Merc looks right at home in the drive.
Whistle Whistle.........hooray.....halleluya......clap clap......another 50's Ranch house saved.....congradulations!!!!
wow, i thought there was only 1 tv like that- http://gizmodo.com/5014498/m21-flat-panel-has-mid+century-roots-with-21st-century-tech did you make a replica?
Unfortunately no man ,my hands don't work, and even if they did I wouldn't have had the skills to pull off a copy. Without meaning to be pretentious or showing off ,the accident that left me paralysed also left me pretty well off,with plenty of spare TV watching time, so I got Joe Wilkerson to make me one and ship it to England. I know that's gonna seem pretty excessive to some people but me and my wife have been obsessed with mid-century atomic styling since we were teenagers in the 80's and have collected a whole lot of kool shit. The only thing it is IMPOSSIBLE to find is a kool television in a decent watchable size that fits the decor from the period we love, and up untill we found this it drove me fucking nuts so as Zsa Zsa Gabor might have said "I simply had to have one daaaaarling!" Paul PS,if that's your kemp in your avatar, I fuckin' LOVE that front end
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