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Adventures in restoring & renovating our antique farmhouse

Demolition

All The World Is A Stage 

March 23, 2016 by porterbradstreet

Shakespeare once mused how all the world is a stage – and between the very public nature of blogging and now the actual state of the house, I’m relating to that verse on both a figurative and literal level… You will see what I mean in a moment… It is done. The Back Of The … [Read more…]

Posted in: Back of the house, beams, Demolition, History, Outside Tagged: architecture, boston, colonial, contstruction, danvers, historichome, newengland, porterbradstreet, renovation, restoration

Back In Action

February 24, 2016 by porterbradstreet

*Edit/Addendum: I’ve realized that on the computer, images look fine. Sometimes, however, some images are upside-down when the post is viewed on a cell phone. On my end, there is no indication this is happening so I apologize! If anyone has any idea why it’s happening (or better yet, how to fix it), please shoot … [Read more…]

Posted in: Demolition, Front Porch, History, Living Room, Outside Tagged: 17th century, american history, antique, historic house, Porter Bradstreet, renovation, restoration

Markings of original builders… or a tally of days held captive? 

February 9, 2016 by porterbradstreet

      Sorry folks – life has been so busy the last couple of weeks! Just wanted to update a tiny bit. Found these fun (and somewhat creepy) markings under layers of wall, and again under the ceiling (standing in the same place but looking upward).  I can only assume they were put there by … [Read more…]

Posted in: Back of the house, Demolition, History Tagged: 17thcentury, construction, farmhouse, historic, house, massachusetts, periodhome, renovation, restoration

House of Carbs

January 13, 2016 by porterbradstreet

Busy week with Nick preparing for a short trip and a bug hitting our house. Alas, we have still gotten some work done and have been literally chipping away at the project that is The Back Of The House. I just wanted to mention that this area of this type of house is called a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Back of the house, Demolition, Plans Tagged: antique, architecture, farmhouse, historichome, massachusetts, porterbradstreet, post and beam, renovation, restoration

And so we begin…

January 8, 2016 by porterbradstreet

Thank you everyone for such encouraging and positive feedback! After going back and forth about doing this, I am glad I decided to go for it. Again, it is so weird to be putting ourselves “out there” in this way; however, being out of your comfort zone is supposed to be a good thing, right?! With … [Read more…]

Posted in: Back of the house, Demolition, Plans Tagged: antique, demolition, frontporch, historichome, porterbradstreet, renovation, restoration

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