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If you find a house that’s still in pretty good shape 100 years later, chances are that the builders of your home did a pretty great job.Our home sits right next to a creek, too close by today’s building standards, and yet we never get a flooded basement, even when half of the town is underwater.
Our house is also incredibly energy efficient in a lot of ways.It’s still cool here in the Spring long after everyone else has had to turn on their A/C and we turn our heat on in the Fall pretty late too.Strategically planted trees, and double-brick wall construction seem to have made a big difference for us.. We also have an amazingly unique floor plan, one that you’d never see in a new build, but one that really works for our family.
Our kitchen and laundry room are in an addition that can be totally shut off from the rest of house so I can get stuff done late at night or early in the morning without disturbing anyone and there’s a washroom in there that seems really strange until you realize how convenient it is to be able to do laundry, bath the kids, and cook dinner all pretty much in the same room..Most of all, I love the sense of pride and wonder that we get from owning our own little piece of local history and being in charge of its care and restoration.
And it doesn’t hurt that we seem to get a ton of compliments on our cute house no matter what state of semi-disrepair it’s in!.
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All thoughts and opinions are my own.One of the neat things about having your own blog is that you get to talk about pretty much whatever you feel like at any given time.I’m not saying that anyone will actually read what you have to say, but you can pretend that they are and that they also of course care deeply about whatever topic is on your mind that day.. A post about why you really love peeling potatoes?