Dennis Hollingsworth

Before and After

Here are a couple of shots, one just as we arrived...

And another after we painted the first floor. A fireplace is just to the left of the frame. The kegs might go once we remove the wainscot on the first floor. Such wainscot details are important since the ground water has a propensity to wick up into the walls and flake the paint and plaster off. Covering this with wainscot is one solution, another is to chip off all plaster, exposing the stone as it is here on this wall, from the line of a wainscot on down to the floor (leaving the plaster on the walls and ceiling). Lots of work, left for a fatter future, we're too lean to do it now.