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| This is the Brass Peregrine |
Isn't she gorgeous! This picture was taken on June 11, 2013; to open up my fist post of pictures I wanted to start with what this beautiful house looks like from the front.
Her owners will call this the Rose entrance on account of this wonderful door:
Her owners will call this the Rose entrance on account of this wonderful door:
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And the over 20 rosebushes in the front garden.
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| beautiful rose on work day in May |
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| More of the rose bushes in the front garden |
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| and even more of them |
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| One of the owners playing with petals |
In May they had a major work weekend. They gathered all their friends and family and went to work on restoring some of this house. I'm going to post all the pictures and put descriptions on them:
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| The kitchen being torn apart to do some plumbing repairs |
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| From Street View |
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| The price of having a teenager doing demo work...He demos EVERYTHING! |
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| Front windows that have had paint scraped around them |
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| This will be the Purple Iris Entry |
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| a more straight on shot of it |
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| You might be able to see the stain glass on the door of Purple Iris |
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| There was rot here so they pulled down boards & discovered no insulation |
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| Yes that is looking into a room |
A few more pictures of the wall:
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| their backyard |
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| The wonderful back porch area I have ideas for this but I'm not the owner lol |
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| The stairs and the screened in upper story porch... it won't stay this way |
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| I love this shot I don't know why |
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| Some of the flowers by the back porch |
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| To the right of the Rose Entrance |
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| More flowers that surround this house |
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| Building a "driveway" with remnants of sidewalk from the front |
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| ...And also some old boards. |
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| A brother hard at work scraping paint |
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| The Magnolia Tree that littlest owners have already climbed |
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| A View from the back screened in porch |
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| LUNCH TIME! |
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| Priming the back porch |
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| Mopping the wall to be primed |
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| Nothing beats conversation when you are working hard |
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| ahh a wee break from breaking cement |
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| An Owner and his home |
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| upstairs balcony |
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| Installing Insulation |
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| Quite a bit done |
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| A hard working teenager |
Some Interior shots...please be patient as I'm still playing with my camera so some of them were attempts at taking "artistic" shots
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| This upstairs in the ManCave...what a ceiling fan! |
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| these awesome curtains came WITH the house |
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| The front foyer's chandelier |
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| Stairs going down |
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| One of the upstairs bedrooms |
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| The railing view from the stairs |
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| Coming down the stairs |
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| This is in the upstairs bathroom, It once had a standing shower that was removed |
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| This is supposed to be a walk in closet...Right now it's been Demolished by teen boys |
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| More of the Closet Remember the hole on the side of the house? |
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| This goes to empty space |
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| The rest of the upstairs bathroom |
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| 2 doors - 1 to the closet 1 to the screened in porch |
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| Upstairs porch off one of the bedrooms |
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| This would be the Rose Entry Upstairs porch |
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| This is the door, check out the details...I want to repaint it paint the detail in contrasting colors...but not my house |
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| Rose Entry - primed |
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| side of house between Rose and Iris entries |
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| Look at that pretty wood! |
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| ahh the drained water feature because water feature + 2 little boys = no peace & quiet |
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| Window that the children "painted" |
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| Steps going to the screened porch |
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| You can't see it terribly well, but the blue color around that hole is the color of the original trim! |
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