Miss sofia
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Dubya those stairs are scary! nice house though...Miss Golightly I'd definately be saving the kitchen cupboars/sink etc, the fireplaces are a great Britsish take on 'Art Deco'. When we bought our first house(c 1987) we saw plenty like yours over here in Derbyshire with pot sinks, tiled fireplaces even leaded windows, I liked them the good lady didn't so we didn't buy one:-(
Sadly many of these 1920-1940's home especially the Council ones have been gutted over several years of 'improvements'!
Just last year we saw the council ripping out pitch pine 4 panel doors complete with cast iron/ brass handled snap locks, I managed to bag two complete doors as we were one short in our house across the street so I got a spare lock too!
The wife's grandmother died also last year and her house was untouched from the 1950's and the new owners gutted it, so out came the leaded deco windows, the fully tiled deco bathroom and the 'English Rose' sheet metal kitchen cabinets that were made just after WW2 in the same factories that made Spitfires! so very sad!
Oh dear God, i feel rather ill just reading about your wife's grandmother's home. It really makes me rather sad, when these lovely homes with all their character and original features are destroyed in the name of modernisation.
We still have the loo in our house downstairs next to the kitchen and most of the original doors and cupboards, no fireplaces sadly, but i'm grateful for what was left. I really am. But luckily a family had lived in my house for forty odd years and not done a thing to it. Then some property developer bought it when they died and ripped out all the fireplaces and windows.
My previous house, luckily was listed, so everything was pretty much intact, inglenook, bread oven, floors, the works. We even managed to get a grant to help with the re-thatching and to preserve some 16th century murals that were on the sitting room wall. Thank heavens there are laws in place to preserve such homes.