Blue Clues
We've made a discovery!
Under badly crackled and peeling off-white paint on one area of the window trim in the kitchen, I had noticed a light blue color. But it was hard to see and only in such a small spot.
Then Darwin demolished a '70s built-in desk that was getting in our way (and was pointless, since the office is in the room right next door). Behind it were some clues. First, that the drywall in the kitchen has only been painted once ... no primer. Pretty much like the rest of the house. The word is the Parkins replaced most of the plaster with drywall when they moved in 35 years ago, and nothing looks like it has been painted since.
Then, on the baseboard and the edge of the door trim - a patch of sky blue! Wow ... the tiny glimpses I could get of it on the window trim didn't show how bright this color really was. Apparently, the entire kitchen had previously been trimmed in the neon version of robin's egg blue.
This discovery prompted me to investigate the rest of the kitchen trim. Another area of peeling paint in the doorway from kitchen to hall (probably once an exterior door) reveals dark gray paint underneath.
This tells us the trim in the kitchen is original, or at least pre-dated the Parkins' remodel. Because the Parkins did so much drywalling and added on the back bedroom and roof over the hall, we didn't know exactly how much they had changed. Also, the woodwork in the kitchen and back two bedrooms is much plainer than in the rest of the house.
Another mystery not yet solved is when the office and laundry room were added. The office has knotty pine walls that look sort of like an unfinished version of ponderosa pine paneling. The laundry room has tongue and groove boards on the walls and ceiling and a closed-up door to the outside.
In a crack between two of the office boards on the wall adjacent with the kitchen, I saw clapboard siding underneath. Though it was obvious before, it's even more obvious now that this was not part of the original house.
But one confusing clue is that the windows in the office and laundry room are old and match others in the house. I wonder if the remodelers took windows from the back of the rooms they were closing up, and replaced them in the new rooms? Is that even possible?
There's still a lot more to find out, but every little clue brings us closer!
Under badly crackled and peeling off-white paint on one area of the window trim in the kitchen, I had noticed a light blue color. But it was hard to see and only in such a small spot.
Then Darwin demolished a '70s built-in desk that was getting in our way (and was pointless, since the office is in the room right next door). Behind it were some clues. First, that the drywall in the kitchen has only been painted once ... no primer. Pretty much like the rest of the house. The word is the Parkins replaced most of the plaster with drywall when they moved in 35 years ago, and nothing looks like it has been painted since.
Then, on the baseboard and the edge of the door trim - a patch of sky blue! Wow ... the tiny glimpses I could get of it on the window trim didn't show how bright this color really was. Apparently, the entire kitchen had previously been trimmed in the neon version of robin's egg blue.
This discovery prompted me to investigate the rest of the kitchen trim. Another area of peeling paint in the doorway from kitchen to hall (probably once an exterior door) reveals dark gray paint underneath.
This tells us the trim in the kitchen is original, or at least pre-dated the Parkins' remodel. Because the Parkins did so much drywalling and added on the back bedroom and roof over the hall, we didn't know exactly how much they had changed. Also, the woodwork in the kitchen and back two bedrooms is much plainer than in the rest of the house.
Another mystery not yet solved is when the office and laundry room were added. The office has knotty pine walls that look sort of like an unfinished version of ponderosa pine paneling. The laundry room has tongue and groove boards on the walls and ceiling and a closed-up door to the outside.
In a crack between two of the office boards on the wall adjacent with the kitchen, I saw clapboard siding underneath. Though it was obvious before, it's even more obvious now that this was not part of the original house.
But one confusing clue is that the windows in the office and laundry room are old and match others in the house. I wonder if the remodelers took windows from the back of the rooms they were closing up, and replaced them in the new rooms? Is that even possible?
There's still a lot more to find out, but every little clue brings us closer!
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