Renovations update, an old radiator and a vintage baby buggy up for grabs

This morning the rotted side of our garage was torn down and put in a dumpster by the time I got up, got breakfast and went to the store. Poof, just like that! For a before picture click here.

I’m hoping someone will do a drive by looking for scrap metal and pick up that radiator (show in the picture up top) that was living in our garage. We’re in the process of taking them out of our house. We used the old lovely beasts, with the broiler we named Bruce, the first winter we moved in before we got central heat and air installed. I loved the old romantic idea of them and the dehumidifier affect the steam heat set off into the whole house. However the boiler worked at 67 percent capacity, the house heated unevenly (one room would feel like the beach and the next like the mountains) and we were getting $800 utility bills to heat this old house.

SO, that’s why there is a radiator living on our curb, hopeing for some soul to come by and recycle it before the trashman comes and takes it to a landfill. I am hopeful. It has happened before.

The other thing I’m hoping to find a home for is this awesome, vintage baby buggy. I have a thing for old, rare stuff. It seems this neighborhood friend of mine whose mom used to push him and his three siblings around in this buggy on the streets of New York City some 50 years ago – knows it too. He didn’t want it in his garage anymore so it got moved to mine, with me hoping to find it a perfect home of someone else who loves old rare stuff.

So – anyone out there love things like this? I’ve seen refurbished ones on Ebay go for up to $500. And it’s really in good shape. Email me if you want to come get it and it’s all yours for the price of free, and promising to be nice it.

Now I’m off to dreaming about a new period correct kitchen and ways to honor what we have. And save money by keeping things like our original hardwood floors while staying warm in a house that has original wavy, single pane glass windows. I know – they are not energy efficient – but I have a theory that it’s better to use what I’ve got versus buying plastic windows manufactured in China that uses who knows how much petroleum to get from there to Tennessee. So yeah, I’ll keep my old windows. I’m also thinking about what color to paint the wood trim on the windows when it comes time to paint the house, next month I hope.

And that is really, really fun!