I've been trying to puzzle out whether the 70s remuddlers (I'm an Old House Interiors junkie.) hated or loved wood. The evidence to the contrary is that they covered over the beadboard walls and wood floors. The puzzling part is that they did so with faux wood panelling and wood patterned vinyl flooring. A part of me thinks that it was an extraordinarily sad attempt to actually keep it the same and add some insulation.
I can't totally blame them because the cottage walls are just a beadboard and wood siding sandwich with nary a bit of insulation, and the floor has nothing between it and the basement. The purists in this town really are chilly in the winter. I'm settling for regular walls with some exposed beadboard on interior walls. Despite this understanding, I curse them every time I remove a section of vinyl from the living room floor. It's about 1/3 scraped up and incredibly hideous right now. It looks like my house is floor is molting. I don't know what kind of glue did this, but it's amazing stuff.
The best part of the covering over of the beadboard is that every wall that's opened has its original Victorian paint intact on the beadboard. I know the colors that were used in every room but the kitchen. Here's what I'm babbling about. I just realized that I made a post on this topic last summer with good pictures of what lies beneath. Are The Grove's cottages built along similar lines? If not, then how?
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I can't totally blame them because the cottage walls are just a beadboard and wood siding sandwich with nary a bit of insulation, and the floor has nothing between it and the basement. The purists in this town really are chilly in the winter. I'm settling for regular walls with some exposed beadboard on interior walls. Despite this understanding, I curse them every time I remove a section of vinyl from the living room floor. It's about 1/3 scraped up and incredibly hideous right now. It looks like my house is floor is molting. I don't know what kind of glue did this, but it's amazing stuff.
The best part of the covering over of the beadboard is that every wall that's opened has its original Victorian paint intact on the beadboard. I know the colors that were used in every room but the kitchen. Here's what I'm babbling about. I just realized that I made a post on this topic last summer with good pictures of what lies beneath. Are The Grove's cottages built along similar lines? If not, then how?