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Civil War Markers - We know that the house we purchased was built before the Civil War, but after doing some genealogy research on the various owners through th... Read More
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WWYD - Changing a street number - I know this doesn't really apply to Buying and Selling, but there are a lot of smart people here and I value their advice... We have lived ... Read More
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What would you allow to be hung on this wall? - I have done A LOT of work to bring this wall back to life. The logs are over 150 years old, and they still show the adze marks, and some sti... Read More
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Progress on Exposed Ceiling - I finally got all the loose and peeling paint of the ceiling and have painted one of the bays to test my plan. After getting some good advi... Read More
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Anybody have any experience with chinking? - When we bought are current project house, we were suspicious that there would be logs in the walls, due to a) their thickness, and b)there a... Read More
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Does Peel Stop have to be top coated? - We have exposed a ceiling in a project house that is over 150 years old. It was painted with Lime WhiteWash, and of course it is cracking &a... Read More
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X-Post; What to do with ceiling - I originally posted this in the Home Decorating Forum, but it was suggested I try here instead. DH and I are renovating a foreclosure. We r... Read More
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What to do with this ceiling? - DH and I are renovating a foreclosure. We recently gutted the living room to figure out "what was going on" in the ceiling/structu... Read More
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Should it stay or go? - We recently purchased a foreclosure that and we are starting on the renovation. This is the 4th one we had done, so we are used to finding p... Read More
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Question about BUYING a home that was "given" back to the bank. - We are going to look at a foreclosure tomorrow or Tuesday. This is one of the situations where the owner "gave the house back" wit... Read More
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