the wayback machine visits the basement

[the_siobhan]

the_axel got some old film developed that's been lying around for years. We knew it had to be years, 'cause that's about how long ago we bought the digital camera.

Turns out that some of them are from when we first bought the house.


Looking down the stairs from the main floor. The ugly wallpaper is still there.


Looking out the front door into the street. There are actually two doors in front of you because you are looking through the cold room.


Looking into the basement from the cold room and towards the back of the house.


The cold room was full of scrap wood and plumbing pipes.


That was our furnace. We estimated that it dated from 1970.


Piping from our furnace


This room became our storage room. We spend most of a day scrubbing the black slime from the wall. Note that when we bought the house this was somebody's bedroom.


In this room the slime was yellow and had the unmistakable smell of nicotine.


The basement bathroom


The shower.


Taking a break from the cleaning of the various slimes.

Comments

[machineplay.livejournal.com]

...your house would have KILLED me. *laugh* dude. that is scary.

*is violently allergic to all dust and certain molds and cigarette smoke*

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

There were an awful lot of days of looking at each other and saying, "What the hell were we thinking?"

I think occasionally there still are.

[machineplay.livejournal.com]

we had a house like that. :p i liked it... aside from the fact that it did nearly kill me. *laugh*

HOLY CRAP!

[eveofdstruction.livejournal.com]

You guys have worked miracles on that bathroom!

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

I swear I need to pull the Toronto crew down here when I actually get ready to do the renovations here.

Heh, I remember that basement door out to the street. No further incidents with Bloody McBurgerface I take it?

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Not yet anyway.

Re: the wayback machine visits the basement

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

i take it the house was advertised as "needs a little tender loving care"?

Re: the wayback machine visits the basement

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

This is the second time I've bought a house for really cheap because everybody else ran away in terror.

[megiddo-lj.livejournal.com]

I'm tagging these entries to remind myself that we have it (mostly) good with our current mess of a house.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Those photos are REALLY scary! When we got to the basement bathroom, Richard asked "Is that the holding cell?".

Got any recent pics to compare them with?