You might recall the stove in my new house, which works very well but makes the house look like a crematorium.
Well, today I’m out of the hospital where I’ve been battling osteomyelis since Monday and I feel so much better that I suddenly decided to get the 50 years of caked-on grime and soot off the walls and the cast iron fixtures on a whim. I had been putting off doing this since we bought the house because it looked like a terrible job, and sure enough, it didn’t disappoint: as soon as I started, I instantly regretted it.
But after 3 hours of scrubbing the damn thing and mending the period stucco, just look at how glorious it looks! Yes, I’m easily pleased 🙂
Why is the cutout in the wall that leads to the stove off-center?
I have no idea 🙂
I suspect the original owner - who also built the house in the 80’s - miscalculated a dimension at some point and left it like that after he realized his mistake much too late.
There’s also a window in the back room with the handle opening in reverse because the guy cut the mortises in the window frame for a right-hand side mechanism and realized later it was the wrong sided mechanism, but didn’t want to reinstall a new frame.