Do you think old houses are charming?
Question:...Especially in the southeastern US?
By "old", I guess I mean built before the 1960s.
Answers:
I live in one and I love it! It was built in 1921, has very large rooms, original wood floors, crown molding to die for, great glass paneled interior doors, a HUGE yard, and 2 claw foot bathtubs.
And since I rent, no repair bills!!
I couldn't be happier!!
oh yes, i see so many gorgeous older homes here in new orleans, but they are left to decay, and i wish i could just buy them all up and repaint them and make them pretty again!
yes i do and sometime wish the walls could talk and tell me all about the people that have lived in them and what happened to them . I agree with you .
very charming and has character we dont see today..they was built alot better back then and the detailing is out of this world.
No. My house is 130 years old. I greatly dislike plaster, wall sizing, knob and tube wiring, rotten fascias, cast iron pipes, multiple roofs, multiple ceilings and porous bricks, balloon studs, fire cats, gravity heat and no insulation. I really hate sash weights, rim locks and iron hinges and bats. The notion that old houses were somehow made better is just dumb- the old time builders had lousy materials to work with.
My house has gingerbread running up ti the peak- that looks nice.
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