re: Miscellaneous Home Work

SG: Though it sounds like a guesstimate, records show that Our House was originally built in the year 1900... It was a Tiny House to begin with, and was added on to almost right away, around 1915-1920ish? When we first moved in there was a lady in her 90's living next to us... We only got a chance to speak to her once before she was moved to a nursing home, but she had lived in her  home since 1955!... Alice said for many years our home had a massive, screened-in porch on two sides of it, that also had a large, built-in fireplace right "in" the porch... She said it was the envy of the neighborhood and was the site of much racous revelry! Having seen the construction, it  looks like that porch was closed in and off into what is now our Sun Room and our Downstairs Bedroom sometime in the 1970's... It's that part of the house that has a half cellar and dirt floor... From the curb, the house still looks small, but it is surprisingly "deep", because it rambles away from the Street...
Pottz: I do have Fun working on the house too, you're right! I was just trying to be 'clever', something I'm woefully inadequate being...
Many of the "problems" I've encountered here are real head-scratchers though, like, "Why the hell did they do it like that?!!" Especially since much of the work was done a long time ago, when Common Sense was generally more Common??
But there is satisfaction in fixing the issues, once and for all (Of course, it doesn't hurt the value of our home either!)