I've been talking a whole lot about home improvements, and hopefully I'll be talking some more soon! We've gotten the go ahead to take out the less than appealing, OFF CENTER window that doesn't open out of our front living room wall. The poor planning/ill building of the construction crew (circa 1940) that set up our transitioned cottage used particle board on the outer wall LAKESIDE. I'm not sure if any of you live on/near a lake or if you ever have, but you need two things. Good windows, and a solid front wall. Otherwise, you're going to end up replacing the entire front wall of your house.
waaaaaaait a minute, that's exactly what we're doing.
sheeeesh. I KNEW this knowledge was coming from somewhere! You see, particle board + wind + rain + snow storms + hurricanes = the deck fell off. OFF the front of the house. Because the front wall crumbled as the particle board came apart.
Long story short, we're going to take out the bad wood, replace the off center "icky" window with three 6' windows. ::dances:: and have the deck rebuilt. I'd like to think that we'll be ambitious and finish the painting of the living room and kitchen and put down the laminate in the living room about the time that my darling friend tears the wall out.
After all, it would be nice to only have to put the house back together ONCE...right? :)
I lived in a 1940's lake house and I know what you mean! The problem in that house was that it had ZERO insulation! Oh, and did I mention the living room (all 3 walls and the floor) were made of slabs of granite? While artsy and lovely, when it got over 100, that place was an OVEN. When it got under 40, the walls acted like a ice box! It was killin' me! We ended up moving out, though I loved the house. I would have had to rebuild the whole thing to make it comfortably livable.
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