The Cross House

A decade ago I did a post about wallpaper discoveries. It was all very exciting and urge you to read this post. In short, this is what the upper stairhall was papered in. The miraculous Bo ascertained the maker (!!!!) and found a pristine sample:     But, did the paper continue down to the…

    In 2013, when I first toured the Carriage House with the idea of buying the Cross Properties, I instantly realized what a great bathroom the Turret Room would make. So, you can imagine my excitement at seeing an old dream come true!    

Justin reached out to me. “”I have next week available due to a cancellation. Can you use me?” Well…yes. Yes, indeed. The entire second floor of the Carriage House is now rewired (The lower floors were done way back in 2020). So, I can now install lights!!!!!!             A particularly…

              While things seem very bad pretty much everywhere, in a small city in the middle of America, something is just a tiny bit better. This makes my heart sing.    

I purchased the Cross House in 2014. The kitchen was mostly a gutted shell. And I had no idea what an 1894 kitchen looked like. None. Zero. Zilch. Had I vast sums of money I would have embarked upon creating a kitchen right away and would have likely ended up with something sorta kinda somewhat…

  I did a lot of work on the hall in 2022 and had planned to finish the work but then got slapped with a Completion Notice for the Carriage House in early 2023 and that consumed my life for the rest of the year. Now, as I stare in abject wonder at the recreate…

I have done a number of posts about Putting the Bits Back. By bits , I mean parts of the Cross House lost over time. All old house lose bits over time. And one of my favorite things is reversing such sins to historical integrity. Since 2014, I have reinstated: lost porch columns and lost…