Haha, I almost nominated @lilycat83 but didn't want to overwhelm her day one.
I feel your pain on that window but it will look awesome once finished!
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Haha, I almost nominated @lilycat83 but didn't want to overwhelm her day one.
I feel your pain on that window but it will look awesome once finished!
That's actually about to be LilyCat's room, lol. I've been plastering all week. That's one of four of those behemoth windows in her room and the previous owners had the bright idea to strip all the paint and varnish away, inside and out, then give up on restoring so the wood sat unprotected for 60 years. Some of them are horrific. But they're coming back thanks to youtube, LiquidWood and sweat lmao!
Thank god ours only sat empty for ten before we got it. Last owners took a lot of the older fixtures off and updated which I have been fixing item by item but most of the work came from the bandits who broke in while it was empty and stole pipes and wiring. I've officially spent three times more in repairs and time than the house cost us and that's doing it all ourselves.
Oh my goodness! Our friendship was foretold in the stars lol! When we first bought the place we rewired and I plastered a lot of the rooms, we got the old furnace plumbed back into the radiators, then while we were in Boise for work for 2 years, the jack of all trades we were paying to look after it stole all our tools and gutted the place for wiring and pipes. We came home to a place in worse shape than when we bought it. Been 2 years trying to catch up and only just getting to the point where making anything "pretty" can be a priority of any sort. I feel your pain and cannot believe how common dirtbags like those people are. Much luck to you in coming back from it. It's tough, but rewarding and worthwhile :)