Comments on: House… Attacked in Broad Daylight

By: Angella

Angella — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:20:19 +0000

“If I actually saved money all the times that I tried to save money, I would not be spending so much money wishing I hadn’t tried to save money!”

I think that all.the.time. And yet, my miserly habits remain the same.

By: ingrid

ingrid — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:17:19 +0000

HA! I hear you on the molding. We have been slowly pulling off the crap from the 80s around here. First the hollow core doors went, then the ugly molding. It is hard though as the correct style will run you about $80 a FOOT. Really. Painful. My dad grabbed a chisel and made a chunk for me because I couldn’t handle paying $400 for a short run of molding that I needed.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:46:34 +0000

Hey, we have an 1906 old house too… it isn’t nearly as nice as yours though. Someday we will have the funds to give it a complete makeover. Someone gave it a big makeover in the 60′s it looks like and it’s missing all the cool stuff like door molding from that era. There are a lot of things, like the door molding, that looks like 60′s style stuff. I had to double check the age of the house when we were thinking of buying it because it looked like it was a 1960 house, not a 1906. I thought it was a typo at first.

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:42:17 +0000

Those old pictures of the in-between stages make me want to weep. I am really looking forward to being done with tearing off the outside of our house every few years.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:06:55 +0000

OH, poor house! I’m glad that you will be, if not warmer, then not as noticeably cold. It’s funny but I completely understand.

And in your defense, it is hard to think about insulation when it is nice and gorgeous and sunny in an Oregon summer!