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Crowbar Sleuthing

October 29, 2015 Sleuthing with a crowbar – Discovering three windows and a door “Why the hell would anyone cover that up?” – Nicole Curtis, star of TV show Rehab Addict and Preservation expert, upon finding a spoked banister covered with drywall. These last three weeks we’ve been working in the back part of the […]

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Snake in rafters, mushrooms growing on floor. Another day at the JD Finch House.

This week’s torrential rains brought specifics of where the roof is leaking. We knew when we bought the house that there was water damage in two of the back rooms. But we found drips in three separate rooms and our measly two buckets we brought with us weren’t up to the task. We ran out […]

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Ownership!

Our Zebulon house – first day of ownership Sept 2015 October 3 – We’ve owned the house a whole two weeks and worked on it the past three Saturdays. The house is new to us and we’ve approached this with a sense of all the possibilities that may await us under dropped ceilings and mid-century […]

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Hello, John D. Finch House

Our blog of restoration and attempting to bring the John D. Finch House, a grand home in Zebulon, NC, back to its former glory. One house. 15 rooms. 4 porches. Where to start?