Our House on Broadway: More Paint Goes on in April

Monday, May 26, 2014

More Paint Goes on in April — the Living Room

The living room had to be painted before I moved in on April 17, 2012, because we couldn’t have done it afterward with all the rugs and furniture there. So Jamie scrambled to get it done in early April after the floors were done but before I moved. These photos were taken on April 12, and they show Jamie taping paper on our freshly-refinished floors to make sure no paint could get on them.

The closest "after" photo I have is two weeks later, after I had moved in and stuff is everywhere --- you can't see the color very well, but it's just a nice light beige or off white that sets off the white window trim. We had tried about a dozen different colors (on poster board or on the wall itself) before settling on this one.

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The Purpose of this Blog

We are using this blog to document (with photos) some of the many changes our house has gone through. We think the house dates from around 1880, though it was smaller then. It was moved from its original site (one street over, on Sealy) to its current site on Broadway after the prior house at our address was destroyed by Galveston's 1900 Storm. The house has had at least three additions from what we can tell, probably all before 1930. At one point a larger roof had to be put on to accommodate the wider plan, and the old roof was left in place and can be seen in the attic. The siding is cypress and is probably original and is still in good shape. We have been told that some of the structural wood under the house was probably salvaged from debris remaining from wrecked houses after the 1900 Storm. The house was owned by the Boddeker family as far back as we know, probably back to when it was built. It stayed in their family for generations and we are apparently the first non-Boddekers to live in the house.

The house has three bedrooms, two baths, a kitchen, breakfast room, dining room, living room, and central hall going from the front door to the kitchen at the back of the house. We use one of the bedrooms as an office. Out back there is a two-car garage with an adjacent office that we have converted into a studio. We have converted the attic of the garage building into a workshop.