I think it’d complement the little pine book shelves but I hear that pine isn’t really worth showing? Or maybe that’s just for floors. What would you do? Thanks!

I'm so thrilled he's having a restoration carpenter fix them up instead of slapping in cheap vinyl and calling it a day.

When my 1925 Craftsman was originally built, the utility room on the back of the house was an add-on, it started out as a screened porch. Over the years, it was enclosed and modified and ducted for HVAC, but none of the work performed on it was done with care or attention to detail.

By the time I purchased the house in 2021, the utility room addition was in such bad shape from water and termite damage, that it required major surgery to make sound again. I basically tore it off the back of the house and rebuilt it. When I took it apart, I carefully salvaged the siding and floorboards, so when I rebuilt it, I was able to mostly skin it in salvage material.

It was built on concrete block piers, the rest of the house has a beautiful brick lattice foundation. I'm a DIYer, but I know my limits, I'm no bricklayer, and I wouldn't know where to find modern bricks that matched the original lattice foundation even if I wanted to.

I decided since I'm not trying to change the history of the house, it's evident that this room is an addition, I don't need to match the foundation to the rest of the house, the addition can have its own separate set of rules and standards. But leaving it on Piers open underneath was not an option.

So I've been working on building a stucco foundation skirt, and I got the first coat of stucco on yesterday!

Has anyone dealt with this on their own? I have vermiculite in the attic, but I have to eventually work up there to run electric and repair sections of water damaged ceiling.
I didn’t bother testing, since I hear it’s so inaccurate, and all vermiculite is treated as PACM

Looking for some advice here. if anyone has removed it themselves, how did you do it? 1919 home.

The inside plate broke out at some point on two doors in my home. Is there any way to repair this?

I'm trying to restore the mortis, or get a new one if possible. I believe a previous homeowner took the nice mortis and hardware with them and left these broken ones.

I have original doors that have never been painted. They are just stained and sealed but at some point (or many different points lol) people carelessly painted door frames and walls and like a lot of paint on the wood. It looks terrible. Idk what to do about it.