Chris has finally been able to take a few days off and we have been working on finishing some of the stuff that has been started but not yet completed. Finishing the framing on the porch and getting it all closed up on the outside. We started to paint a little bit of the house. We picked out the colors because over Labor Day weekend they had a ton of sales on paint at the hardware stores.That meant that we had to try them out and make sure we liked them. Chris worked on some of the plumbing for the house. He is using pecs for the water lines. We had to end up buying two hot water heaters( we had two instant hot water heaters that we were planning on using but they pulled too much power for the service that we have here).
The following are pictures of some more decorative tin that we were able to pick up thanks to a friend of mine who has been keeping an eye out for some. The gentleman we bought it from only charged us $50 for the truck load of it, and he loaded it for me.
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| This is the building that the tin came off of before it was taken down. It was a building on main street in Appleton City from 1895 or 1896. |
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| This is from the pile of decorative tin we bought from Frontier Village in Adrian. It was in the upstairs of a department store that they moved to their site and the upstairs had to be removed because it was in such bad shape. They saved the tin that they could from it and we were able to buy it. |
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| To go with the colors on the front of the house though,it had to be painted. |
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| This is a picture of the in starting to go up on the front porch. |
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The back deck also got finished!!!! Now the ramp and stairs have to be added to it but that requires another trip to the store!
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