Recent content by LynnM

All of the bedrooms and the family and living rooms have been renovated. No more fake fireplaces! Here's the room pictured above. The fireplace was removed, giving us more wallspace and we had a contractor fill in with drywall. He also put a new cherry floor on top of the old painted pine...

Asked some older residents and you were right about the coal stoves! Have seen some other homes in the area from the same period and they all have the plastered over fireplaces. We've renovated another bedroom and taken out another chimney. We put new cherry floors on top of the old painted...

Well, we have decided to forge ahead. We have started demo-ing in one upstairs bedroom and found a brick smokestack used for wood burning stoves. We are tearing the brick smokestack out in four of the rooms, one by one, and repairing the ceiling and flooring. In the downstairs living room and...

Thanks for your interest! I'm attaching pictures of one of the bedrooms. You can't see it in the picture but the plaster under the mantel is bulging out. There are similar 'fireplaces' in two other bedrooms, the living room, and the dining room and all but one is bulging out although not as...

Hi, I am new here and new to renovation! I just bought a house built in 1925. Most rooms have what I thought were fireplaces that had been plastered over. There are no chimneys in the roof. The mantels are still there, the openings have been plastered over and there is wallpaper over that...