Our House: Then & Now

I originally started this blog with the intent of writing mostly about our house and the long, crazy process of renovating it. Since we had been working on both this house and our previous one pretty much non-stop for nearly a decade, we decided to take a well-deserved break this year. We're still doing little projects here and there, but I haven't really posted any house-related content in a while. I've been off enjoying life....traveling, cooking, kayaking, and hanging out with friends.

While I was writing up an article about our house for a local zine that a friend of mine is publishing, I decided that I would share this trio of photos that I was submitting.

The first one shows its house as it was originally built. Our friend John at the Polson Museum estimated that it was probably taken in the 1940s:

The next photo was taken right before we purchased it, in the fall of 2008:

The last photo was taken in June of this year. As you can see, we've tried to replicate a lot of the original details. The windows, for example, look much better now than they did when we bought the place. (That upstairs one especially....the awful slider is gone!) The porch still maintains its side entrance, and we go back and forth over whether we want to chop down that beautiful red Rhody in order to replace the original front entrance. At the very least, we would like to replicate the tapered porch columns and replace the two missing side brackets.

Overall, we're happy with the progress, and people constantly come up to us and compliment us on the work we've done. We're just happy that we could restore the dignity to this nearly-century-old craftsman.