Makeover time!

Our beloved store is getting a makeover this week!

Since work on a 100+ year old building is never complete, we are hard at work again on the exterior of the building before the cold weather sets in.

 The old siding and shingles have been pulled off and new waterproof barriers have been added to the side facing Route 15.

Some of the old trim around the windows was replaced.

 

Glad I don't have to figure out all of those angles and cut all of those trim pieces.

Nailing in various trim before the siding goes up this week.  {I've never seen anyone scurry down a ladder so fast as our contractor when he realized I snapped a picture of him}

 

I just thought this picture looked kind of cool.  The blue distressed portion is the ceiling of our porch.  The Cigarettes logo is actually an original window detail from the building back when it was a general store.   There are many unusual details like this throughout the building that were saved whenever possible.

Here is the main side of the building if you're heading north on Route 15.  The black signs on the painted doors read "Kindness Matters."

And just for fun, here are a few pictures of the store when Suzanne purchased it.  Well, it wasn't really a store, more like an abandoned building in some major need of some TLC.
  Looks a little like a haunted house, right?

 

 

 Creepy, right?  That gives me an idea for a post for October!  Stay tuned in October if you want to hear some interesting tales about the building...