1st Floor - The Library

From 1901 to 1926 this room served as a home doctor's office.  The doctor and a nurse lived here with their children. The next owners used this room as their master bedroom. It stayed that way until 20 years ago when those owners returned to using the upstairs master bedroom and this became a music room. There is no record on how it was used from 1885 to 1901. My information comes from my 96 year old neighbor, she has lived next door since 1932.

When we moved in, the room was pink and had white carpet.

Assembling the furniture.

I set the computers up, 

then took them down to paint. 

Set them back up, 

then took them down to 

put in the hardwood floors.
I set them up on a card table
so we could work. Then took them down again to set them up, in the office. 

That was fun.

 New hardwood floors and repainted walls.

 Rugs to protect the floors

 The 8'x8' bookshelf in the maid's room

 

My Brother volunteered to help 

us on the house. First we had him

haul 60 lb pavers around one of the

trees, a lot of them. Then when he

was foolish enough to ask if there

was anything else, I said "Oh yeah,

you could help reassemble the 

bookcase." The wood has petrified and 

getting it back together and on the

wall bent more than one screwdriver.