New Project, a New Bedroom from an Old Kitchen

This project has been discussed from day one of seeing this house when it was for sale.  We knew the house needed work. We did not realize it needed enough work to break the bank!

Before: Second superfluous kitchen which needs to be removed

The previous owners ranged from the original builder Mr Insley,  to an upper crust family from Johnstown Pennsylvania who used it for a summer vacation home, next a poor dirt farmer who passed the house down to his children none of whom ever lived in it after inheriting it, to the 80+ year old couple we bought it from. The house was built sometime aournd 1870. In the 1960s the couple we bought it from, purchased the house from the group of family members that owned the house conglomerately because of an inheritance. During their ownership the house had several lives. We undertand it to have been a bar and a church in two different eras, and has spent much of its life as a rental property. The house has had lots of hands involved in changing it for the good and for the bad. The floor plan is quite interesting. I have never seen a floor plan like this...and to tell you the truth I would never repeat it in another home. It is not optimum for contemporary living. One must walk through multiple rooms to reach other rooms...very inconvenient. With this project we hope to improve the floor plan and improve our bedroom spaces.

Before: old kitchen space to become bedroom

When purchased the house had two kitchens. Neither was very pleasant or crisp. Both had to go. Kitchen #1 had to go because it was worn out, the other, Kitchen #2, had to go because it was ugly and superfluous. This project involves removing the superfluous one. Out it goes. I am will share any before pictures I find.  Pictures of the space after the cabinets are removed will be in the next posting in a few days.

This posting establishes our intention to make a bedroom from the old kitchen space that has been a storage room for thirty years, and in further postings I will document the progress of the project. Its back on here at Shore Side Farm House. Our project at another location is completed and a new one here is commenceing. God bless this house...here we go back into the undertow. .