I guess I should show the parlor, the first view of the house that guests see....

One of the pictures that that real estate agent sent me were of this room, the parlor where you enter the house. They really got to me and I had to just go and take a look at the house, I told my husband. The first day I went to see the house, we were in the house about 2 hours and I took lots of pictures, now in that crashed hard drive :( . My friend and I went to get something to eat and I could hardly speak! I was SOOOOO in awe of this house, the fact that the asking price was way less then the house we were living in BUT 100 miles from us and way to far away from my husband's job. (I told you before how that worked out, he got let go because the company was closing that office.) All in all, we bought the house and this is what the parlor and hallway look like. I will post more pictures of it later, the sections not shown in this post.

This house was built by a lumber company owner at the turn of the century. His name was William T. Sigler. He and his family owned it until the teens when he sold it to the Campbells, Thomas and Nannie Campbell. Thomas Campbell died in April 1935. He was a coal merchant and Nannie kept the company going for many years until she went into a nursing home in the 1960's. The house sat empty for almost 20 years. I'll do a whole post on the history as I know it later.

The trim and lumber details in the house show tremendously here in these ares. Here are a few pictures.

Those sconces beside the pier mirror are not old or original. We put them in in several places throughout the house. They are very high quality, very heavy solid brass fixtures that we purchased on closeout for $10.00 each! I found them listed at the time on many sites listed for over $250.00 each! Another blessing!

When we can afford to do so, I want to have a green carpet runner, that coordinates with the walls, put on the stairs all the way up. Maybe those brass rails toward the back of the step. The stairs have triangular brass corner guards on them now.

I love this bench and am going to make an upholstered cushion with lots of pillows sometime, just not on the 'immediate need list' right now.

This huge pier mirror was not put in by the original owner either. Probably another addition by the Campbell's.

The bench shown above was made from a bed. We bought it at an auction for $35.00. It had already been made but was done terribly so we took it all part, made it more secure and I upholstered it and made a cushion for it as well.

I love this little print, very "Icart-ish'. We have two cats so I love that aspect of it and if you look, the huge stained glass windows over the stairway have blue ribbons in it as well! I'm always looking for repeated patterns to pull things together.

When we bought the house, it had a really weird light at the top of the newel post. In the original pictures that I have of the house, it doesn't show a light here. It was a later addition. I bought this cherub at an auction for $12.00. To be honest, I wasn't even sure what it was, I just knew it had to be mine! A friend at the auction said "Hey that would make a great newel post light!". After some research I found out it was part of an oil lamp made by Bradley & Hubbard. We put an antique glass globe from one of the gas lamps in the house that remained (no gas, just some of the fixtures remain) and attached it to the newel post. Attaching the globe to the figure was a bit perplexing as to how? We used a plate hanger with a spring and finagled it to hold the globe. We had to change the bulb the other day and I thought it was going to be a nightmare to do so but it was quite easy. By the way...when I saw these pictures, I thought, man I've got to dust UNDER that cherub! I promise I will, next chance I get! ;)

Tell you what, the painting of that hallway was a bear! It had been 20 years since I had that wallpapering business when I papered many 2 story hallways like this but like I said, I'm no spring chicken anymore and the first time I climbed up that tall ladder and positioned myself on the walk plank was scary! It got easier after that though and I got my 'sea legs' back. I'm in no hurry to do it again though.

This is the view at the top of the stairs looking down into the stairwell at those huge stained glass windows that Nannie Campbell had put in. They were not put in by the original owner according to some old photos.

Looking down into the parlor from the stairs. That green chair doesn't doesn't get it there for me. It is going to go in the office, a room that we haven't done yet. It matches the couch at the top of the stairs, a fabulous 1940's find for us!

Lots more to show you, soon to come!