Our house is "old" by some standards, rather "new" in light of others. Either way, in the 43 years it's been nailed, screwed, glued and mortared together, there have been a variety of people calling it home. They've made a few changes, used rooms for different things, had good and bad times here. In the past seven years, we've made arguably the most drastic changes since the place was built, but that's something we don't really know for sure.
On the breaker box, someone used masking tape and marker to label the rooms that each circuit covers. There is one labeled "nursery," and it happens to be the room we've used as a nursery/kid's bedroom as long as we've needed such a thing. The "den" is now a guest bedroom when necessary, but also holds our piano and elliptical exerciser, as well as a smattering of books and decorative flotsam.
Our upstairs room over the garage is a playroom, which I imagine it has been before. Could have been a nifty bedroom at some point, but lacking an elevated bathroom, a midnight pee run requires navigating the stairs and weaving in and out of living room furniture (on that note, we purposefully avoided a coffee table or end tables because they waste space, serve as junk collectors and cause more shin and ankle injuries than roller derby).
The back yard is large enough that it's easy to imagine a swingset graced it before, as it does now. There were also pets. I found evidence of a long-ago dog recently ...
How did I find this vaccination tag from 1968?
Because our own dog, Max, has created a worn dog-run path through the yard. A shiny corner of the old metal tag became visible through his persistent footwork. We hope to incorporate the sweeping path into our landscaping, but we need to do something to the path that prevents rain from turning it into mud, but in a way that won't send Max on another trajectory, thus creating a second dog run. Whattamess!
Note in the photo I took of Max this morning that our new dishwasher is slightly visible. Not only does it get our dishes clean enough to eat off of, but it does so at a whisper. Important because, as you can sort of see, the kitchen opens onto the living room.
Your dog is really cute! And I think that the dog tag is a treasure.
Don bought our house when it was new, and it's getting a bit of age on it, but we know what's been done, and it's been a lot.
Cas
congrats on the new dishwasher.
Your house looks so darn cute! I would love to see it all. You write about your house and it seems just like a character!