The people who owned your house before you

[Veronica]

This isnt my first house. When we were first married we lived in older rentals. I also grew up in them so I was familiar with old houses.
Then we bought our first house. A city house. A big Victorian four square built in 1900. It was a great house.
Original woodwork and floors. Pocket doors and stained glass windows. We got it REALLY cheap from some hippie.

No one would even look at it because it was literally infested with fleas. When you walked in they would attack you and bite you from your knees to your ankles. He had also wallpapered all the downstairs ceilings with the Sunday funnies. The foyer had silver foil wallpaper with large flowers. We evicted the fleas and removed the Sunday funnies. Kept the silver wallpaper. After we added our rolltop desk and hall tree and other antique furniture it fit right in.

I would have stayed but the husband wanted to live out in the country. Our second house was a hateful money pit built in 1901.
The husband was not handy. Less said the better. Worst of all it took an hour and a half to get to work in the winter.
And then I found our present house and we moved. End of story so far.

 

[Knight]

Prior to moving to our preset home the home we lived in was owned by people with a strange taste for the colors they chose to paint bedrooms. The main living area & kitchen not so bad. Rather than paint the three downstairs bedrooms my wife want two bedrooms converted into one large recreation room. Took awhile but that gave me a chance to work with my sons. End result when it came time to sell, that helped as a selling point.

 

[papa tiger]

The original owners started the build in 1986. Fully vaulted ceilings, one story with Full Basement. 4012 sq ft.
They had passed by 2014; I purchased from the daughter in 2015. We removed the white carpets and put in
Hard wood floors with Area rugs for traffic areas. Repainted and replaced counters in Bathrooms. Very Comfortable
home, wish it was a cooler climate.

All Needful to do things are at 1st floor. My Man cave & private workshop are in the Basement for solitude. a Brain needs that.
The Pool Table for Family scats is in the other basement large family room. LOL

 

[papa tiger]

Why silicone caulk. You cant paint that stuff. Paintable caulk is fine if used properly. Properly. Not gobbed on.
I have used tons of paintable caulk to smooth out the cracks between the baseboard and the wall etc.
Ive seen my share of bad repairs so I can feel for you. Plaster repair is not that hard.

Check out Dap Seal N Peel caulk for your windows. Its designed to temporarily seal drafts and gaps.
You apply it with a caulking gun. Then easily peel it off when no longer needed like if you want to open your windows.
It comes off with no damage to the woodwork. BTDT.

https://www.amazon.com/Supreme-Paintable-Silicone-Kitchen-Cartridge/dp/B0B8Q62PJJ?th=1

 

[Leann]

The original owners of my house put a laundry shoot in the bathroom that was supposed to empty into the laundry room below. Except they never cut the hole into the laundry room ceiling. I've since had it fixed.

 

[papa tiger]

the wife hates a basement laundry, we made a double closet in the hall into a Laundry.
the Original basement laundry is now my massive Man cave room. Yea, win - win
Laundry chute gone.

 

[horseless carriage]

What’s the dumb thing the people who owned your house before you did?

I wouldn't describe it as dumb. The previous owner was a premiership football (as in soccer) player, money was no object. He had a two bedroomed bungalow, with one master bathroom, turned into a five bedroomed house with three bathrooms. Two of the bedrooms have an ensuite bathroom. We have lived here for almost thirty years and now we are selling. We shall buy a bungalow, the stairs have become a challenge for my lady. Hopefully there will be a tidy profit between selling and buying, that can top up our pensions.

 

[Michael Z]

What I have found is that when you look at a house to buy, you should make a list of all the defects and oddities and then multiply by 10 since that is how many will eventually be revealed.

 

[hollydolly]

I wouldn't describe it as dumb. The previous owner was a premiership football (as in soccer) player, money was no object. He had a two bedroomed bungalow, with one master bathroom, turned into a five bedroomed house with three bathrooms. Two of the bedrooms have an ensuite bathroom. We have lived here for almost thirty years and now we are selling. We shall buy a bungalow, the stairs have become a challenge for my lady. Hopefully there will be a tidy profit between selling and buying, that can top up our pensions.

Who was the Premiership footballer ?

 

[GoodEnuff]

What I have found is that when you look at a house to buy, you should make a list of all the defects and oddities and then multiply by 10 since that is how many will eventually be revealed.

Amen!