Old Jones Home: Half Bath

This will be short and sweet!  This is the half bath that is located under the stairs in the entryway.  After changing things around the only other bathroom on the first floor would be the master bathroom.  That is when we decided this little unfinished closet would make a great half bath!  It is a great location - perfect for guests.

I am so thankful that all of the antique hinges and doorknobs from the house were saved!  When we bought the house, most of them were in a bowl like this...

And as we renovated they found homes on the doors again!  This is the doorknob to the half bath.  One of my favorites!

The Half Bath Before

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These old hand mirrors were my grandmothers.

The mirror was in one of the bedrooms upstairs.  It is really worn, but I like the look in here.  Charlie installed the wainscoting, it gives the room a nice, clean look.

We found the sink sitting in the living room!  Again, very thankful that is was still in the house!  We cleaned it up, put on a new faucet and put it in the half bath.

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Before...oh, hey there stairs!

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Don't mind the vent hiding behind the plant, ha!  We found this chunky piece of wood in the house - it makes a perfect little shelf!

And that's it for the half bath!

Old Jones Home: Dining Room

Time for the dining room!  We spend the majority of our day in this room.  At first, this was our living room, but being so close to the kitchen, we decided to change things up and make it our dining room.  We don't have a breakfast table, so this serves as our main eating area.  I somehow did not get a pre-demo picture of this room, from this angle.  So here is one mid-demo, looking at the fireplace.  The fireplace was removed by a previous owner.  It was falling into the house and they were not able to have it restored, so they had it taken out.  We added an electric fireplace.  The two doors on either side of the fireplace were taken out.   They are now the closets in the master bedroom - which is the room that you can see through the fireplace in the "before" picture.  The door on the far right was a full bathroom.  We took out that door and converted that bathroom to the master bathroom.

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We covered the fireplace with left over ship lap from the wall we tore down and painted it black.  

When we bought the house it did not have hvac, so we put that in.  We had to run vents through the living room ceiling to the master bedroom.  To avoid having fur-downs, Charlie came up with the genius idea of doing a coffered ceiling.  And I love how it turned out!

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We removed the wall between the dining room and the kitchen.  We moved the swinging door to the laundry room.

The wall coming down...

After

This room is currently going through some redecorating.  I am not a fan of blocking the widows with that piece of furniture, so we are moving some things around.

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The hutch was moved from inside of the kitchen to the wall in the dining room

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The hutch came apart in three layers - the top, middle (containing the glass doors), and bottom.  Charlie did a great job of putting it back together without breaking anything!  Besides taking it apart and moving it, this is probably the only thing in the house that we did not refinish.  We left it the original color with the original hardware.

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Old newspapers found under the wood floors.

Ship lap laid on the floor from the wall that was torn down between the kitchen and the living room.

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That's it for the dining room.  Thanks for checking it out!

Old Jones Home: Entryway

Welcome to the entryway!  When we bought the house it was kind of confusing which was the front door and which was the back!  The house had no fence, both doors had porches and both led to the entryway.  We removed the "back door" but kept the transom window to provide some natural light.  We removed the paneling on the walls and had wallpaper put up.  The wallpaper is my favorite thing about this room!  I love the colors and the small amount of gold in it gives it a little pop.  We painted everything and refinished the floors.  We put up a new entryway light.  

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I love the character of the newel post, so of course we kept it, just painted it as well as refinished the stairs.  And Charlie made the wooden gate at the bottom of the stairs.

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The door under the stairs led to an unfinished closet that we made into a half bathroom - more to come on that.  

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Old unused posts from the front porch placed in the bucket for decoration.

Old church pew that we found at Canton Trade Days.

Baskets under the pew make a great hiding place for toys and easy access for the kids to grab when they are playing.

We found the vintage hall tree from an antique store and it has been perfect for this spot.

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