The kitchen cleanup tools- Some rarities?

[brandon_w_t]

The side of the house.


I SHALL TAKE some later spring pictures! THE yard looks like something straight out of better homes and gardens. Just breathtaking landscaping. ( you cant even see half of it in these pictures)

25 years of painstaking maintenance by my grandparents and I (well about 11 years of my part ) alone.

 

[brandon_w_t]

Old garage. (A modern usable one was built next to it in the 60s)

Used to store the gazillion lawn mowers and stuff my grandpa never throws out. He is an extreme engineer as I like to call it. He finds a use for everything. He has thousands and thousands of golfballs in egg cartons in the basement, bags and bags of golf clubs, a million tools, every piece of door and window hardware of the original home before restoration (window weights, door knobs and hinges etc) also all exterior doors, and some main windows kept.



Notice the original copper gutters still in place. He also has all the copper gutters stored in the Butlers house behind the old garage.

Also original tile roof to the 1915 design. The house has 8 year old tiles in place.


MY GRANDPA KEPT EVERY SINGLE NON BROKEN PIECE OF TILE ROOF FROM THE VERY TOP SECTION OF ROOF. LOL



The 2nd floor is a woodshop used by the neighbors. Also the place where I rediscovered my Hoover convertible commercial 344.


The area to the left is where our next garden project will be. Right now Japanese maples line it up to the Porte Cochere.

 

[petek]

Beautiful house..obviously a fairly wealthy local family had it built in it's day. I noticed there' a servants staircase in the kitchen and that "garage" type are usually referred to as a carriage house with the accompanying "carriage door or gate" One of the help might live up there.. Do you know who where the original owners,, their business etc? That's always interesting stuff from a historical point.

 

[hoovercelebrity]

Keep it to vacuums, please... if you wish to post a thread about the house, do so in off-topic. 

 


Thanks!

 

[crevicetool]

It's obvious that I don't know what a Porte Cochere is. I don't see anyone in that picture.....standing or otherwise.

 

[brandon_w_t]

Hi Fred.


I shall continue this thread in the Kitchen painting thread in the offtopic forum then, or if possible, this thread could be shifted over to there.


Thanks!


PS

Crevicetool- A Porte Cochere is a carriage/automobile entrance.

 

[electrolux~137]

 


 


 


I **LOVE** the 1960s aesthetics of the Sears Floor Polisher! It's reeeeeally fabulous!!

 

[hoovercelebrity]

I agree--that 60's design on the polisher is fab!  Awesome that you found the polisher NIB...


That house sounds like a treasure chest!

 

[moderncleveland]

Nice polisher! AND Compact! And home!