When was your house built?

[acme97]

?? Sounds like a story there.....

A little one I guess. I retired from the AF in '97 and went into the contracted side supporting various DoD contracts. One of which landed me in Charleston SC. I fell in love with area and decided to get some land. So I found 20 acres in 2005 and started clearing it. I sold my house and got a travel trailer that I put on the land. I lived in it for about 18 months, then decided to start building the house. My neighbor is a general contractor and we came up on a price. The house is about 2800 sqft, 2 story with a 10ft wide wrap around porch (another 1900 sqft), sitting on a raised concrete pad about 4ft. So, I started building in Sep 07, when I was asked to go to DC and work for a few months on a new contract the company won. So, off I go to DC in early '08. In the Summer of '08, the president of the company tells me that they really want me to stay up and keep working on the project since they didn't have any work back in Charleston. Of course having a job is better then not, so I did. Work continued on the house (of course more cost since I couldn't do the things I planned on doing myself). Then I met this young lovely AF Nurse, and we got married. She of course fell in love with the place, but has 9 more years until retirement. The house got finished in late '08 and we go down every few weeks for a long weekend. My step son lives in the place and my neighbors help keep it up and watch over it. We head down as often as we can and do what we can. Last time we went down, we planted an acre of xmas trees and put in a drip system.

 

[scoutcub]

1783.

The left half is the house, the right is the grist mill. The miller could walk to work, without going outside.:thumbsup:
When we bought it in 1999, there was a claw foot bathtub- in the middle of the kitchen.

That is a very cool place. And, you can fish from the windows.....:laughing::thumbsup:

 

[ultrarunner]

Some very interesting stories and houses here...

I think it would be very rewarding for a person with the right skills and desire to like in a home with historic character...

Most of the homes in the area of the Bay Area where I live are tract homes... even going back to the 1920's...

Of course, there are Victorians... just never really been all that interested in them and so many have been converted into multi-family...

 

[clemsonfor]

If only i knew all the additions remodels we would be here a while. I bought it in 2008. House was ariginally built in late 40's, added onto in the 50s 2 bedrooms and a bath, maybe then again in the early 60s with a back den and upstairs master suite each is about 440sqft. A bunch of porches i have no idea when they were added. Some interrior work done in the 70's walls removed kitchen reconfigured. And from the looks of it the last stuff was done in the 80's or early 90's. I gutted all the cheap panneling off the walls redid the sheetrock and resanded and filled the holes, had larger windows that got smaller when the thing was bricked up in the 70s i guess so i had to patch the original sheetrock where there were window holes. That reminds me it was a wood sided house that with the back 2 story addition of the great room, Master suite got a brick veneer (real bricks) added to it. I got it and put new pella windows, contracted out. I also had carpet and some bathroom and kitchen vinal replaced. I refinished and patched (where walls had been) the original HW, which was covered by green and brown shag carpet, this is about 1000+ Sqft. I laid new real hardwood in the living/dining room (430+ sqft) and it minor cupped ( im stuck with it till i refinish it i guess), to cover the awful parquet stuff with orange carpet inlay!! Ripped a truckload of outdated 60's 70's fixtures ceiling fans etc out. Replaced a vanity and ripped out some stuff in the other bath. Rewired the second addition, un took a wall out in the kitchen. Im prolly forgetting a bunch of stuff. Oh new baseboards in the bedrooms full 6" ones. But like i was saying there is more im sure that i have forgotten?

Oh we just started tearing out the upstairs master which up to now has been storage as it was a 70's time vault and we had about 2500 sqfeet already. It has green carpet with orange inlay carpet in the middle. Two orange rectangles in the room say 8ft x 6ft or so. It has carpet in the bath and old vanities busted up wallpaper and paneling and busted up 12" celing tiles. It will all be drywalled over, bath ripped out and reconfigured. It has a shower stall now. Oh it was definitly something to see!

As an add i had 2 new heatpumps of the 3 put in when i moved in. The third we dont use or really need it, we heat the other part with fire and just get enough cool from fans in there not to need the AC. Another thing i replace all the appliances, and the dishwasher has just been replaced. I also put in 3 new windows in the den which were not part of the original job.

And Bird a remodel will have to consist of more than appliances and HVAC, at least to me. You have to get the outdated stuff out, timeless stuff can stay.

 

[niemeyjt]

We recon about 1500 - 1550 for the right hand bit - possibly 100 years later for the left hand bit. Hard to say exactly (no newspapers) - but looking at the architecture, the timber size, the over-engineering, the joints it is about then.

J

 

[DAY]

Hey, I thought the TBN "rule" was, no pictures, it didn't happen!

Old places have a certain charm- and drafts, sticking windows, sloping floors, and no insulation. Also doorways 'normal' people have to duck their heads to get through.:laughing:

 

[chucko]

2 weeks before we moved in
lake in the back. Can't see in pic
creek in the tree line to the right

 

[chucko]

few more . So did it happen?

 

[chucko]

"When we bought it in 1999, there was a claw foot bathtub- in the middle of the kitchen."

so they could get hot water to it better?

 

[Kaizer Peas]

Ours was built in 2002 from plans we found on line of what was called a "retirement or vacation" home. It's 1400 sq ft with two bed rooms if you include the loft and two bath rooms. It's got Hardy plank siding and a steel roof. Plenty big for me and my wife. Paid it off in 2010, thank God. We did rip up the carpet and put in hickory engineered wood floors and granite tile counter tops. Also took out the one piece shower tub combo in the upstairs bath room and installed a Jacuzzi soaking tub and also installed a much needed window.
The best thing is our view of the nieghbors. We don't have any view of them.