My beloved house. I do love it. It’s old. It has character, and it’s solidly, solidly built. My house was built in 1940. When we pulled the carpet up in the living room, we found two holes drilled into the wood floor several feet apart. My guess is a radiator once stood there. We found where there used to be a closet just inside the front door. When I had the windows replaced, they took these large, lead weights out of the walls that counterbalanced the ancient windows.
I love old houses. They are work, but most houses are. I could do without the plaster, however. Drywall would be nice. But the thing that is the biggest downfall to me is no central air. I have baseboard heat, which means, no air ducts, just copper pipe along the baseboards in which hot water pumps from the boiler.
There was so much else I loved about the house and the land and the PRICE that I decided to just deal with having no central air. Our large window AC unit makes it livable, but having central air would be so much better. And, the DUST. Because our air isn’t filtered like it would be by having forced air heat/cold, I swear I could dust every day. We do run air cleaners just to help cut down on it.
The above pic is my amazing husband putting wood beam coverings over the existing beams that were covered in that popcorn ceiling material. We’ve done quite a bit to it in the almost 19 years we’ve been here.
But my next house will have central air.