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Adventures in restoring & renovating our antique farmhouse

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Adventures in restoring & renovating our antique farmhouse

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Beam Me Up

June 12, 2016 by porterbradstreet

Things are moving right along now! Wrapping up plumbing and electric and getting inspections done, nothing too exciting to report there. Except perhaps the dream I had, in which we were finally moving into the beautiful finished house and unpacking the boxes we’ve been living out of for 9 months…only to find that none of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Back of the house, beams, History, Outside Tagged: farmhouse, historichome, oldhouse, porterbradstreet, renovation

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

If Walls Could Talk (I would still probably interrupt them with my own research findings, speaking of which…)

January 30, 2016 by porterbradstreet

Pretty concise title for this post, I know. I never said I could be endlessly clever! So remember our food-filled walls? I mean, how could you forget, it was so pleasing to the eye, so aesthetically dreamy, etc…   Up until the corncobs were found in the walls of The Back Of The House, we had … [Read more…]

Posted in: Back of the house, History Tagged: americanhistory, danvers, demolition, farmhouse, insulation, massachusetts, Peabody Essex Museum, periodhome, porterbradstreet, renovation, restoration, salem, superstition, The Republic Newspaper

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