The Dining Room of Diner's Past

Looking at pictures like this amazes me that we were able to see the good bones beyond the blah. Everything in the house was this same masking tape color (minus the kitchen and the basement, of course).



This is one of the seven arches in the house, which we love. Oh, and the carpet? It looks beige, but after Ben pulled it up we soon found out that it had once been a lovely shade of pink. That probably explains a lot of the funky smell that no longer is in our house.



This ceiling fan was, believe it or not, very haunted. One of the first nights we were in the house (with a whole lot of work to do and funky smell to get rid of), we ate dinner in this room on Ikea folding chairs. I heard a sizzle and a pop and looked up just in time to see one of the light bulbs shoot across the room. Ah, so that's what the inspector was talking about when he said it was against code to have a ceiling fan on a dimmer switch...