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[Renee750il]

I still have some of the push button switches I wouldn't let anyone change the ones that were functioning well when we were working on the house before I moved in.

I would, though, like to be able to afford to have it re-wired. I had the bathroom re-wired and new wiring added there and in the kitchen (which had to be totally re-done -- it hadn't been remodeled since the 30s). Guess which wiring isn't working :wall:

 

[~Jessie~]

Our old house in Maine was built in the 1860s. There was a huge barn and there was an outhouse with 2 "toilet" holes built in. My parent completely redid the inside of the house and it was gorgeous. We lived there for 2 years.

The town was actually named after the family who lived in the house.

I love old houses.

 

[Jules]

I love old houses, too. We thought about it, but financially, it was just not feasible. I was afraid of large problems that we would have to fix and that costing major $$$. So we settled on a house that is not brand new, has settles, but isn't too old (ours was built in 1999).

Since this won't be our last and final house or the one we will live in for the next 20 years, I am okay with that. (Told Dan that I could get my "old" house fix when we move to Europe, hehe)

 

[Fran27]

Our house is 30 yo I think... the house I grew up in is like 130 yo now, and yeah, there's a lot that needs to be redone too... and lightning strikes it pretty often too, which doesn't help... Heck even our old house that was built in the 40's should have the wiring redone.

 

[ACooper]

Oh ya, that's the first thing we redone on this house. It had the old wiring, and the old screw in glass fuses But really, I think we only paid an electrician $500.00 to come out move the old meter outside, take out the old fuse box, install a new circuit box, and add an extra outlet in the kitchen. I didn't find that price bad at all. Kevin ran all the new wiring himself, and he did all the wiring, plumbing, heat ducts, and gas pipes when we added the upstairs.........he passed inspection, so I guess he did ok

Kevin paid to have all new windows installed downstairs. We had hail damage on the roof, so the insurance paid to rip it off and have a new one installed.........and since they were ripping it off anyway, we figured that would be the optimal time to add the second story! It ended up costing us about 6 thousand more than the insurance paid for a new roof to have a crew come out, put in the walls, windows, and roof up there.........then me, Kevin, and my brother in law framed out the inside and installed the drywall after Kevin got all the heating, plumbing, and electrical done and inspected.

If you are handy, an older house is the way to go.........if you aren't, I wouldn't do it because you will be paying repairmen ungodly amounts and it just isn't worth it IMO.

 

[Doberluv]

I like new houses. They generally have much better insulation, safer and better wiring and electrical fixtures, GFI switches, more efficient heating systems, better materials for plumbing, double paned windows, modern conveniences, often bigger and more efficiently designed kitchens and bathrooms. (they didn't go in for kitchens and bathrooms in the olden days) If you're building a house, you can design it to have more character in it's architecture. So, as cute as some of the older houses are, I'd always opt for a new house and create character in it in other ways besides mere age. There's the design, there's furniture, artifacts, little nooks and crannies you can build, built-in book shelves or whatever. No, it doesn't have the history behind it of someone else living there. It probably won't have an out house. LOL. But you can make up a history. hehe.

If you're handy or have loads of money, remodling is always an option if that is something someone wants to do. I think it could wind up sometimes being more of a job than you thought it would be....you could discover more and more things that need to be torn out and re-done. It could be a fun project if you have unlimited funds, I suppose.

 

[~Jessie~]

I like new houses, too... unless they're in neighborhoods like this! We have so many neighborhoods like this around here... with no trees and zero lot lines. I could never buy a house like this.

Our neighborhood is relitively new... but the builders kept a TON of the trees.

I'd like for our next home to be a custom built home... whenever (and wherever!) that may be. For now, I'm enjoying owning a home and making it our own.

 

[Fran101]

Here is the floorplan of my apartment in NYC...
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lol thats basically it! its a tiny tiny studio, but the neighborhood is lovely and romeo loves parks!

 

[Bailey08]

I LOVE old homes. (Where the character has been retained.) So beautiful and charming.

I think my ideal home would be an old house that someone else has already renovated, lol. New windows, electric, etc., but original features like molding, fireplaces, etc. The only thing I don't like is the tiny closets.

It is so sad to me when gorgeous old houses have been gutted.

 

[PWCorgi]

Here is the floorplan of my apartment in NYC...
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lol thats basically it! its a tiny tiny studio, but the neighborhood is lovely and romeo loves parks!

:rofl1: :rofl1: I needed that laugh, thanks


Yeah, we are at the point with my house that it needs a lot of work/money dumped into it. My mom wants to sell it but we don't have the money to put into fixing it up and if we sell as is then we won't get what we still owe for it. Rock and a hard place type of thing.

I'm hoping that when she moves she will let me stay here for the price of utilities and work on getting the inside fixed up enough that when I go back to MN, someone decent will want to rent it. Who knows...

 

[~Jessie~]

I want to see a picture, PW!

*pouts*

 

[Doberluv]

Jessie, I couldn't handle that kind of neighborhood either. There is no individuality and zero space or privacy. I can visualize myself coming home late after a night at karaoke and a few drinks and walking into someone else's house, thinking it's mine. :rofl1:

As it is, when I move, the 1/4 acre lot I bought to put a house on is going to be a huge adjustment for me after having 5 acres in the last two houses I've owned and 1300 acres on the farm I lived on with my bf for a time. LOL. But it has trees and the neighborhood is countrish...woodsy with a lake and Puget Sound right close by.

LOL Fran. I love your floor plan. Very elaborate and innovative.

 

[Renee750il]

I have no inclination (even if I had the money) to replace the windows, other than to take off the abominable aluminum screens and storm windows some idiot had installed. Tallulah did a pretty good job of starting on the ones in the bedroom, lol. I now have decorative iron on the INSIDE of my front windows :rofl1: Someone made the comment that they'd notice the ironwork, then realized it was on the inside and thought that was pretty scary, lol.

I do not like the new windows at all. What I want to do is rebuild/replace the old fashioned storm windows/screens that were originally on the house. They were the kind that were literally a window frame with either another pane of glass or screens. The hooks are still there over the windows. The house still has her original weight/pulley windows

 

[ACooper]

Well up here in our weather, new windows was a MUST, LOL........too much heat escaped in the old ones, so Kevin got double pane and filled with whatever gas for more insulation. But I do agree, I like the looks of older windows much more, but the 6-7 hundred dollar gas bills are a KILLER! LOL

 

[GipsyQueen]

When we first lived in Rhode Island we lived in a new house that we "built". That was in 1996. We moved in 2001 into an older victorian type house in South Kingstown. I LOVED that house I miss it I think it was over 100 years old. Im not exactly sure though.
Here we "built" a house again. Its much smaller than American houses as is our yard. Our house and yard are considered large though for German standards.
This is our house while it was still being built: We actually have a level yard now... and a porch

 

[Renee750il]

Well up here in our weather, new windows was a MUST, LOL........too much heat escaped in the old ones, so Kevin got double pane and filled with whatever gas for more insulation. But I do agree, I like the looks of older windows much more, but the 6-7 hundred dollar gas bills are a KILLER! LOL

Here, for approx 2200 square feet, it runs about $200/$275

 

[Bailey08]

I lived in a gorgeous old house last year, with original windows (the window openings were built for the glass). That house was crazy expensive to heat and cool! (Not just because of the windows, of course, but they surely didn't help.) It would have cost a couple hundred thousand dollars to update it, but I liked to daydream about it.

I've seen homes where they kept the original windows in the front room but replaced them with new energy efficient windows elsewhere, and I would consider doing that. I don't think new windows are nearly as charming, but that is one area I think I would want to modernize.

 

[CaliTerp07]

I wish we could replace the windows (we're renting though). It has the original 1953 ones in there, and I'm pretty sure 6 months of reduced heating/air conditioning bills would pay for the windows!

 

[~Jessie~]

Bump for more pictures!

 

[xpaeanx]

here you go Jessie, this is my house

.......... would you like to come visit me for a weekend? :lol-sign: