House Progress

I have been working down in the basement. Here is the exterior door to the basement.

This is the inside of the little basement door structure. You can see that it used to be much shorter than it is now. We think the roof was probably raised in the 1950's around the same time the porch was built.These are the steps from the kitchen down to the basement - very steep and a bit rickety. I have heard more than one person say they thought they were going to die every time they have to go up or down these steps.Here is a picture of basement rafters and the underside of the original floor. My job has been to dust all the cobwebs and dead bugs out from between the rafters and to start pulling down the junk that has accumulated up there - old curtain rods, wire, nails, and broken light fixtures . Here are our washer and dryer, all hooked up in the basement. You can see the inside of the stone walls, covered in a coat of paint or whitewash. In the lower part of the picture you can see the cement wall that was built to help support the stone wall.
And last but not least, we have a new back door. It's a very pretty birch door which we plan to seal with Danish Oil. I think the new kitchen will shape up to be a very cozy room with great views of the park.