A Farmhouse Remodel: The Introduction

by Ally | The Speckled Goat

I had plans for my life. Big plans.
I was going to work in an inner city school, live downtown, marry a guy who probably worked in a high rise for a big company.
You know that saying- "We plan, God Laughs?" Yeah. That's pretty well my life.
I live in rural Iowa, work for a ministry, and have married a farm-boy-maintenance man. My plans look pretty silly now, especially in light of the beauty, the joy, the incredible blessings that I've been given. It looks nothing like I thought it would. It's better.
My life has taken another surprising turn... we bought a farm. That's right, this city-girl is turning country. Trying to, at least.

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Along with several outbuildings (like this gorgeous barn), our farm came with a 1934 farmhouse. It's had a couple additions in its nearly hundred year life (yay, indoor plumbing! Hurray bathroom!), but much of the original charm remains.

This old house has had quite a life- and we're honored to be able to help restore it back to some of its former glory!

Some of our remodel includes restoring the original hardwood floors in the kitchen. The former owners carpeted over those old floors several years back, so tearing up carpet was a first (and incredibly time-consuming) step.

We also will be restoring and refinishing the hardwood in the master bedroom, and updating the flooring in the bathroom and entryway. Following that up with a new living room carpet and a fresh coat of paint, and our little farmhouse will be ready for the next 75 years of love!

You can see more of our remodel so far by clicking to see my blog post!

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Nelson on Sep 06, 2015
Nice looking place, great

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Karen Proctor on Sep 07, 2015
Good luck with all that needs to be done. We, also, live in a 115 year old house. Unfortunately, only two rooms have hardwood floors and the rest are trash and have been carpeted over and over through the years. Carpeting on top of carpeting with the bottom layer glued down! We are going to try and get all that up one day and put hardwood down. Not all old houses come with beautiful flooring that only needs restoring (sigh).

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- Lois Franklin on Sep 08, 2015
  @Karen Proctor Oh yuck! When we 'bought' our first house, the original owners had gold short shag carpet in the living room. We put down new vinyl in the kitchen/dining area. When our daughter was a year old, Hubs came home to the carpet in the yard. Oh how I hated it! After it was out of the house, we found beautiful oak flooring. Problem was, previous owners wanted the rest of the floor - from kitchen/dining room and down the hall - to be the same height as the carpet so they NAILED down particle board through-out in 6" square patterns! We pulled it up but sad to say he lost his job so we lost the house and weren't able to patch holes or whatever but as long as we were there, I loved just sweeping and mopping to clean without having to vacuum that ugly carpet. I hope whoever owns it now has given that poor old house the love we couldn't. At least we got the bathroom fixed up. That was way, way before home computers, pinterest and home talk! LOL!
  
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- Ally | The Speckled Goat on Sep 08, 2015
  @Karen Proctor Oh no! Carpeting on top of carpet?!? That makes my adhesive-carpet-tiles struggle sound like a walk in the park!
  
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