yeah….
craig just showed me this picture.
that is our drain pipe for the old bathroom upstairs.
wide open.
what the heck?
it's completely corroded away.
ugh.
this "decorating" project just took on another level of work and money.
that is what old houses are.
in honor of our project….a clip from one of my favorite movies.
gotta get back to work….
Randolph Coleson - Over 200 years old? Wow. One can imagine the limitations of a home that old, but when you’ve good the skills and imagination as your back-ups, you can have a ton of fun in a home like that. Preserving the place, making improvements upon it, or keeping the house standing and alive are all cool projects to do…
Linda @ bushel and a pickle - I just know I must have taken picture. Our house is over 200 years old. Always an adventure but the coolness factor is worth it all. Our city boy (youngest son) who spent his late elementary – high school years growing up in a huge urban city finally agrees! Yeah!
We laugh till we cry every time we watch “The Money Pit”.
“Mr. Blandings Builds a House” is a great one too!
ann - Ahhh, old homes. The old plaster ceiling in one of my bedrooms cracked and FELL down. What a mess!!! At least no one was sleeping in the bed that it fell onto at the time. I don’t think that’s a dead bird…it’s a piece of dirty wood, isn’t it?
susie whyte - i am definitely not showing this to my husband. i want an old house so bad! 🙂 love, love, love the money pit. tom is hysterical in it!
Kelly - 🙂 I forgot about that movie!
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Kristi - uh oh!! Looks like a reno is in order! I love that movie! Watch it EVERY time it’s on! 🙂
Annette - love that movie! that was on tv just a couple days after we bought our house, we joked it was us! Our house is 80 years old, love it! however projects are never as simple as they seem!
Gemma - btw looks like there might be a dead birdy on the right : ( X
Gemma - That movie looks hilarious! Sorry to here there is more work to be done than expected…atleast it won’t ever be as bad as that film! : )
Gemma X
Molly - Love that movie!
Molly
http://www.mypeaceoflove.com
Kate @ Songs Kate Sang - One of my favorite quotes:
Water Fielding: Do you know how hard it is to find a really good carpenter? Besides, I think he’s got a brother who’s a plumber!
Anna Crowley: Really? A brother who’s a plumber?
Water Fielding: I think so.
Anna Crowley: Do you think I should sleep with him?
Water Fielding: Maybe just this once.
DreamGirlLisa - OMG, I can soooo relate! This is the movie I always refer to when I’m explaining what my house looked like when I first bought it!
Brooke Whitis - I live in a really beautiful money pit too. Really pretty on the outside….rodents on the inside of the walls….
melanie - when i first saw the photo, i thought “hey, how did she get a picture of our drain pipe?”
i have to show this to my husband!
Lisa - SERIOUSLY!! Our house is 103 this year and we have a joke that every “project” ends up taking twice as long and twice as much money as anticipated.
meaghan - blech. what a mess.
Sarah@Clover Lane - Makes me feel better after adding one more leaky faucet to our list of things we need to fix. Old house charms make it worth all the projects…right? RIGHT?
Juli - Oh honey, I feel for you. We live in a 1920’s “charmer” and I do adore it but not the indoor “swimming pool” that appears in our basement when we have a particularly rainy season or the odd smell that we haven’t been able to pinpoint yet, or the squeaky stairs or the…
Carrie Holler - Oh Megan, I feel for you. Same thing happened to us 1 month after we bought our 125 yr. old house. Only the way we found out is there was water running down the kitchen wall…
gena - Oh yeah…. old house living……I swear we could star in the Money Pit ! Ours is an 1850’s Victorian and nothing is ever a “quick fix” or a “cheap redo” !!!
Thanks for sharing !
gena
http://www.thehouseonlavenderhill.blogspot.com
Kristen - Is it sad that I’m more freaked out about the GIANT spider in that picture than the corroded pipe?! 🙂
purejoy - oh goodness. we have an old home, too. a few months ago we had a water feature in our basement. you know, not the intentional water feature. the kind that streams down the wall and pools on the carpet.
mmmmm.
looks lovely with the black mold crawling up behind the couch.
in other words…
i feel your pain.
good luck on the renovations.
Michelle - We bought our OLD house last summer. . . and after a couple of months of pouring money in when we found our house’s ‘issues’ my hubby decided we should watch that movie– makes us feel better– at least our house isn’t THAT bad.
Bec - Ech! I think I’d tell my husband not to show me that stuff.
Janine - That house (the actual one used in the movie in Lattingtown, NY) went up for sale last year. I don’t know if anyone bought it but it was listed for 2.95 million! I love that movie.
Melanie - That is why my hubby won’t ever buy an old house even though I LOVE them:)
Hope you get it fixed and it doesn’t break the bank!
Blanca - Eek! The spider is all I can think of. Sorry you’re having to replace the corroded pipes. Your house is still the best!
Angela - Don’tcha love it?!?! NOT! I too live in an old house and we have replaced a ton of cast iron plumbling pipes. Its so gross and you can’t really show off your shiny new pipes to your friends.
Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - Love that movie! They both totally crack me up. Even a new house is a money pit. I’m thinking renting is the way to go. Can’t wait to see your project.
Shelly - We have a money pit too….but it’s all worth it in the end…right?
Jill - Oh yeah, we’re currently renovating a 100 year old house and have found lots of goodies like that too…some of ours have included electrical wiring too, scary! Good luck!
Christy - gotta love the money pit! My favorite part is when he gets stuck in the rug in the hole in the floor.
Cheryl @ a pretty cool life. - That is too familiar. I love our built-in-1946 house, but I am NOT in love with 60 yr old plumbing. Money pit, indeed.
jess - i can relate!!! our bathroom “weekend” project turned into a 3 month ordeal because of a pipe like that!!! but some crazy reason..i love our old house!!!
LouBoo - I am so with you – just said goodbye to a sewage tanker taking away thousands of gallons from our tank – for our very old house. We are not on mains drainage. Eekk…
Kacey - Ewww! Love that movie. But living that movie would be another story. Good luck!
Krista - Oh my gosh, it was bad enough that the pipe is corroded, then I read the comments about the spider–and I checked and there it is— gosh it’s huge!! Good luck, hopefully it doesn’t snowball into big problems and it will all work out OK!!
LeAnne Cotton - Did he kill the big spider?
Jessica - One Shiny Star - Is that a dead bird on the right? Meh. Good luck!
Staci - Great movie 😉 Good luck girlie 😉
Sara - That movie is awesome!
The pipe looks horrible, but much more frightening to me- the spider on the right…was your husband face to face with that horrible looking thing?!?!
Good Luck!
Stephanie Carroll - LOVE that movie, even though I was 2 when it came out…especially when he is stuck in the hole in the ceiling and says “The care bears are here!!”
Good luck with the piping issue. bleh.