Augie Delivers!
All the original doors to the carriage house are lost lost, save one. The sole survivor is a 5-panel pine door. Thus, many 5-panel doors were needed. In 2022, Aaron and Breanna gifted the house with doors salvaged from their lost house. It is a powerful story.
A few months ago I found more 5-panel doors from Augie and Dennis, two antique dealers I have been buying from for a quarter century. But I still needed four more. This weekend Augie called. “I got two 28-wide doors. Want ’em?” Oh, yes. And he brought them to the carriage house. Now, I just need two 30-wide doors!
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Exciting to have this coming together! And I love to see the old doors go back in – very exciting!
What a wonderful gift!!
I purchased the Augie doors. And I’m grateful he thought of me.
I am so pumped about this!
Providence!
Yay to friends and yay to all those folks that love you Ross!
A wonderful gift indeed and couldn’t have come at a better time. But oh, such a sad story for Aaron and Breanna, I feel so bad for them to lose the house they love and worked on so hard.
You live a charmed life.
I have five panel doors like that in my 1922 house. I took one out an it is up in the loft of the garage in case I ever want to put it back. Unfortunately the doors and trim in my house were always painted. I know because I stripped a bit of both and found paint or primer right down to bare wood. No shellac. Very disappointed. And the wood not really worth the time to strip and sand it down to refinish it.
I know those two 30 inch doors are going to show up just when you need them. With hardware.
Because you live a charmed life.
“You live a charmed life.”
This isn’t true.
My childhood was filled with abuse: verbal, physical, and sexual.
In my 20s and 30s I was almost destroyed by people I trusted.
In 1996 I was homeless, having lost everything.
My recovery was not about charm but rather incredible hard work.
That said, the Cross House does seems charmed.
I wasn’t referring to your previous life but your life now.
Seems the Cross House has brought you gifts far beyond just an eventual roof over your head.
Every lemon that seems to come your way now becomes lemonade, curd, merengue pie and sorbet.
The lost peacock paper, the furniture, the doors. Lost bits and pieces seem to turn up just when you need them. Even this “notice” from the city seems to have morphed into a sort of blessing.
Yes, your previous life was full of trials that would have broken a lesser soul. But the Cross House seems to have brought you far more than real estate and hard work. It has brought you friends. The problems and obstacles all seem to morph into wonderful solutions.
It just seems the Cross House has brought you happiness.
Ahhh, I get it now, Mary.
Since buying the Cross properties I’ve been aware that they clearly seem to have a magical quality. I don’t think it’s me. I think it’s the houses.
Ahem… Look at pictures of the houses, pre-Ross. They may be the canvas, but you are the Picasso 🙂
Oh, Mike. You make my bald head blush!
I am curious if you think you will want to finish the carriage house using by adding to the Yale & Towne Lydian pattern that came with the gift of the first 5 doors. I see quite a few Lydian door knobs and backplate for sale. I also noticed a sale for 4 Lydian sash lifts for window frames. Seems rather fitting for the carriage house to use the same supplier as the Cross House but a different pattern.
It is wonderful, the “network of friends” that you have, helping you to bring back these two houses. I remember Aaron and Breanna and the posts about their lost home, and also their new, old house back in 2018; I would love to hear/see an update from them on what they have done with their house in the past 5 years. The “Old House Community” is a family, for sure; a lot of people just don’t get it, but we do, LOL…