It's all my daughters fault. Not really but that sounds like a good excuse!
Seriously, about 7 months ago we stumbled upon our "new" house because of it's proximity to our daughter's Middle School. As we would make our way to drop her off for various sports or school functions our normal driving route would take us through our town's Historical District. To get to the school we have to wind around to avoid the one way streets and 9 times out of 10 end up taking a little shortcut through an short alley that runs parallel to the school.
As we prepared to turn right into the alley, the house would catch our eye. You can't not see it! I won't go as far to say that it sticks out like a sore thumb but you would almost have to be in la-la land to miss it. It's the only 3-story, red roofed, limestone clad, American Foursquare in town. Anyway, one night after dropping her off for basketball practice, we decided to drive by the house just to get a better look. To our surprise there was a realtors sign out in front with an MLS listing sheet box next to it. We pulled over just out of curiosty and grabbed a flyer to see what a house like this was going for.
We had zero interest in buying a house. It's "In town"......It would add 10 minutes to my 20 minute commute... The list of reasons not to buy went on.
As of three weeks ago, we are now the proud new owners of what is locally known as the Carl Furst House or not-so-jokingly called 'The Limestone Mansion". After some serious number crunching, a lot of prayer and multiple family and husband/wife sit-downs we happily made the decision to purchase the house with the intent on restoring it.
So....we created this blog for a few different reasons.
#1 - When we were (and still are) doing reasearch on restoration and preservation, We found that reading other people's restoration blog's was a great help.
#2 - Hopefully we can help others by recording and sharing our journey
Stay tuned for the next installment!
