I'm living in a 2-room apartment that's part of the first barn built when the owner added this chunk of land to his ranching empire (currently ~40,000 acres total) in 2003. It's a nice little place, big bedroom, little bathroom, and living room/kitchen, right above the horse division's main office. One side of my living room windows open to the smaller of the two indoor arenas on the place, and behind that are the stalls of the barn we're keeping our stallions in. The blessing/curse here is that I'm always two minutes or less away from work, but the upside is that in my rare spare time I can go saddle a horse and disappear into the hills before they make me work again, or if I need to stick close I can work the mechanical cow in the indoor pen!

 

House was built in the early 60's, by the local building inspector at the time. Crooked SOB he was, most of the materials were stolen off other jobsites...

 

This house..built in 1945-46 as a sort of tract housing for GI's returning from war, I'm told.
I know the recent history is that it had both the front and back door kicked in during a drug raid. Looked like about 3 rounds fired inside. Had all sorts of odd things done to it..I removed about 18 motion sensors. Found some itty-bitty scales (what were they for, I wonder??) and all KINDS of really odd wiring...like 6 wires hooked together via a hole drilled in a penny.
All the windows are currently broken and replaced with poorly done plexi-glass. As well as being spray-painted.
The WHOLE outside is spray painted grey.
The entire bathroom (EVERYTHING but the light bulb) from the inside of the toilet bowl to the shower head was painted green.

This was prior to buying it as a cheap fixer-upper.

 

I don't live there but work as a handyman for my adopted g'ma in Sherman, she told me her house was Jesse Jame's gf's house. it's 105yrs give or take a year, right when they were switching from Victorian to Grecian style houses. I've also painted on the house next door. bout 2 years newer.

 

my house was built in 1959. it's a nice little brick bungalow. still needs a lot of work though. problem is i never seem to have the time AND the money both at once.

 

Don't know how old it is but it was built before they used plyboadr for sheating. On the out side of the studs, rough cut 3x5's, they used random width 1" poplar boards laid at a 45 degree angle. It was originaly a 4 room square house, no inside bathroom or kitchen, with 2 chimney's and a flue in all 4 rooms. Don't know when the kitchen was added but it was "remodled" in 48. At some point, I would guess at the same time the kitchen was added they split the "front" left room and made the middle part a hall and the other a bath room. Cool old house, still working on it. I bought it in 97.

 

Wow.....a lot of heritage homes. I'm in my parents basement of their 3-story 9yo custom built for the realtor home. They are the third owners. I am un-impressed with the lack of thinking, poor finish, and poor planning and poor craftsmanship that went into a house where a little effort would have gone a long way....

On the other hand I love the house I live in rent-free and mow the lawn once in a while

 

1958 brick rancher, two owners (been in the family since 02/66), custom built for the first owners (retired couple). Hardwood floors and real plaster (not the sheetrock crap) with rounded corners between the walls/ceilings are nice. There has never been a bank loan on the house. Other things I know:

*Sprinker system added in 1960 (thank God, it's a very large yard). Someone back then was smart enough to use poly pipe and not galvanized.
*Central air in 1972 (never a problem, would be nice if they still made em like that)
*Smart electrician back in 1958 realized that it was good to put the kitchen on it's own circuits and not comingle with other rooms.
*Smart builder realized that insulation was for more than just comfort.

The government finally got smart and realized that I was due for a reassesment and property tax hike to the tune of 27%. Not to complain though, doubling it would have been fair game. Real estate is red hot where I'm at; houses move fast and in many cases time on the market is measured in hours and not days.

 

I live in a five year old brick ranch on almost three heavily wooded acres. Built my dream garage...32' x 42' with 18' ceilings next to it. Our previous house was a Victorian that was built in 1892 by a local merchant. I...me...I (and my wife) rewired and replumbed the old girl. We added three more bathrooms, moved walls, built two bedrooms, a family room and a shop in the basement. We hand-layed 8500 paving bricks in the driveway and then painted her in five colors. It was a lot of work and very rewarding. It took all day just to vacuum and clean the place (four levels, each 1400 sq.ft.). After going through all that we moved out of state and into a new house where everything is on one floor. Of course now I've added a large wood shop in the basement, and am going to build an office/bedroom, bathroom and family room down there.

MR

 

i live in a WWII brick house, about 1000 sq feet on the 1st floor, 600-800 on the 2nd, central air was added by my dad when we moved in in 1990,previose owners lived off of a window unit in the dining room, evident by the big outlet like you plug yer dryer to, we are the second owners, the first owner died(spooky?, yes i know) inside the house and im not quite sure she has ever really left, bless her soul. real hard wood floors everywhere, 4 bedrooms, 1 bath, kitchen, bathroom, living room, foyer, super insulation job done my my old man, really nice mouldings and trim, original "picture-hanger" ceiling mouldings, the really hard, un-nailable walls, not sure what you call them, on about a .5 Acre lot 5 miles east of downtown charlotte, really nice quiet neiborhood until something slighty goes amiss, neibors have itchy trigger fingers and good supply of dangerous weapons now that certain minorities have taken a liken to plundering in our sheds and out buildings and getting their greasy little hands on our stuff. After one recent breakin the neibors, including me, took the 2nd amendment to heart and formed a mobile crime reducing squad, which means we all got in our trucks and drove around the neoborhood with a lotta nice shiny shotguns and assault rifles and put a end to the little crime wave(thank god), while putting terror into the heart of every roving person in the neiborhood that week.

 

My current house is a 28x80 manufactured house set up on 2 acres of land(mine) 7 years ago. The house I am moving into when my girlfriend and I get married was built by her great-great- grandfather over 140 years ago. House was built with square nails too.

 

My house was built in 1940 and my grandparents bought it from the builder in 1945 when my Grandpa came back from the war. They lived in it and raised my dad and his brother in it and lived there up until 2 years ago when they couldnt take care of the big yard anymore but were too proud to admit it but they agreed to move to a duplex in a retirement type community when I told them I wanted to buy the house and live in it, I'm there only grandson. I have the original paperwork on the house and the land dating back to the early 1800's when it was settled. Its a great little 2 bedroom thats been updated over the years with central air, vinyl siding and windows, and kitchen remodel.

 

Ours was made in 1970 I believe:


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Nice house. I like the setting. Very cool.

Is "I Forgot" any where near "Somewhere Over There"?

 

House built in 1918, garage added in 1942. 2750 SF. farmhouse with nice hardwood floors throughout. 2 1/2 baths and a huge front porch. We bought the house in 1999, for a song. The people we bought from lived here for 51 years, and they did'nt do a darn thing to the house for 50 of those years!
When we moved in we had 4 electrical circuts for the whole house and none were grounded. It also had galvanized water pipes. So......We had new electrical service installed with 24 circuts. Luckly the walls were not insullated so pulling wires was not a big job. The walls are now insulated. Bathrooms were fun to renovate. All new copper and pvc and fixtures. The house was painted battleship grey, faded and chipping. It took us a whole spring and summer to get down to the cedar underneth. It is now painted classic white.
Since the wife and I are on vacation this week we decided to reroof the garage. We did one side today and we will finish the other side on Friday, not to bad of a job. Thankfully our best friends own a contracting company with their help and our sweat equity were not in the poor house yet!