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Re: My Christmas Display
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 9:20 pm
by iHaunt
They're very cool, Mike
Looks pretty!
Re: My Christmas Display
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:41 am
by Murfreesboro
Thanks for sharing, Mike! You've always said you live in an old house (like, a hundred years old), so I had always imagined a Victorian-style living room. But that one looks rather modern. I love the fireplace! Wish I had one.
Re: My Christmas Display
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 3:21 pm
by Pumpkin_Man
The house is 100 years old, but there have been a few modernizations over the years. That drdop ceiling and panaling was put in around the mid 70s or so. I actualy like the drop ceiling because it gives me a place to run cables, but the upstairs bedrooms are pretty true to the victorian period, as the exterior of the house. Also, a room was added on in the mid 60s. My diningroom use to be the kitchen, then a bigger kitchen was added in the 60s, and I remodeled the kitchen about 3 years ago. Also, the bathroom use to be the pantry, because this house was originaly without indoor plumbing, and electricity. It was heated by a coal fired furnace.
So yes, it has been modernized, and as much as I love the oldness of it, the drop ceiling does afford me the convenience of being able to run my cables. But I did poke my head above those tiles once, and there is a true victorian style ceiling and walls there.
Mike
Re: My Christmas Display
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 12:17 am
by iHaunt
Your house is 1911, Mike? Right?
Re: My Christmas Display
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 2:28 pm
by Pumpkin_Man
Nope. The house was built in 1910. IT's 101 years old.
Mike
Re: My Christmas Display
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:57 am
by iHaunt
Wow! That's very, very old house! I love oldest house!
My grandpa's house is 61 years old! It was built in 1950, it wasn't a house... it was a very small old church house. In 1955, the church house was closed then the carpenters built it to a big house. Interesting?
Right now, we are living here... funny, my grandpa told me he has seen a ghost - but hard to see... sometimes they make some noise.
Re: My Christmas Display
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:58 am
by iHaunt
So, Mike... Whose house where you live in before? Your family? Or, did you buy it?
Pumpkin_Man wrote: Nope. The house was built in 1910. IT's 101 years old.
Mike
Re: My Christmas Display
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 8:41 am
by Murfreesboro
iHaunt, what do you mean by "church house"? Do you mean that it was a building connected to a church, or that it was a church? Or was it the home of a minister?
Re: My Christmas Display
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:09 pm
by iHaunt
It was built in 1950, the first church house till 1955 then it was closed and my grandpa bought that church house.... it isn't the churchhouse anymore. We still live here!
Murfreesboro wrote:iHaunt, what do you mean by "church house"? Do you mean that it was a building connected to a church, or that it was a church? Or was it the home of a minister?
Re: My Christmas Display
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:59 pm
by Murfreesboro
So was it actually the church? The sanctuary? Or some building associated with the church, like a fellowship hall or office?
Re: My Christmas Display
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 4:59 pm
by Pumpkin_Man
iHaunt, I never lived in a "Church house." I lived with my parents until the Summer of 1986. After that I lived in a series of rental properties and one disgusting hubble in Engles Park, Joliet, and then I moved to the house I live in now.
Mike
Re: My Christmas Display
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:31 am
by iHaunt
My grandpa doesn't know. I was not born back in 1950. I was born in 1975. He told me it was built a church house in 1950 then it was closed and sold. Till 1955 my grandpa bought this house in 1955 until NOW!
Re: My Christmas Display
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:22 pm
by witchy
Mike your house looks wonderful and very festive!!
Re: My Christmas Display
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:20 pm
by Pumpkin_Man
Thanks, Witchy. I knew you would like the fire place.
Mike