The Basic Tour: First Floor

Seems like it might be time to get a clearer picture of the basic layout of the farmhouse, so this will be just a quick tour with pictures that are as "before" as I can find right now.

You've probably seen this one before.

Ok, let's say you enter through the door you see in the picture above. That's going to take you first off into the lean-to.

Lean-to

The rather see-through wooden door that you're looking directly at in this picture is the door you just "came in" through. The door that's propped open on the left leads into the kitchen. Right now, we're mostly using the lean-to as a staging area where we can store lumber or work on outdoor projects out of the wind.

Kitchen

You walk through that door into the kitchen (so, you just walked in through the door you can't see behind the post on the far right). In this picture, you're looking into the kitchen from the dining room. Eventually, the weird dividing wall between the two will come down, but right now, the closet directly behind the step stool is supporting a chimney that's still in place on the second floor/roof.

Dining room

Wood burner

From the kitchen, you walk into the dining room. These pictures are already pretty "in process" -- the dining room had a drop ceiling when we bought the place, which has already come down, and the walls on either side of the wood burner were previously covered in tongue-and-groove paneling (which was painted white on one side, but not on the other, because reasons). In the picture on top, you can see two doorways. The one on the left leads to the door down to the basement and then to the bathroom, which opens into the master bedroom. The doorway on the right leads to the parlor/living room, which also opens into the master bedroom, so you can walk in a full circle all the way around the first floor.

Parlor

We'll go through the door on the right. This is the parlor. The door you see leads out onto the stone porch in front of the house -- there's a door onto that porch from the dining room, too -- so this is where you'd come into the house if you were fancy (and if the door wasn't swelled shut). We're hoping to put in a bigger window in the spring to fill in that weird space on the wall that doesn't have paneling. This photo is taken from the master bedroom, which is where we'll head next.

Master bedroom

The rooms are fairly small, so they're all kind of hard to get pictures of. This is the master. Through the doorway, you see the parlor -- that weird accordion door is high on the "replace" list. On the left, you can see the tile that was down in the master when we bought the place, but obviously that's coming up in favor of the wood that's underneath. This picture is taken from the bathroom, which you're not going to get a picture of because the rooms are small, so all you can really see is a picture of a fairly standard (and not in any way charming or vintage) tub/shower.

Coming soon -- the tour continues upstairs!