enough wood fir a e'assed-in porch. Tin- big window in the porch was from an old store . . . $11. The picture window in the living room is a companion to the porch window, and was bought for tlie same pi ice. The old flooring was used as .sub flooring in the living room and hall. "Sixty-five dollars for new flooring, $:10 for stair and balustrade and $(J for .slate, is all that was spent for new material. Pine Waxed "Before the pine ii iline and ! paneling was put up i( was scour ed with steel wool and wax until it looked litre satin. It will never i have to be painted, and just i running the vacuum cleaner I over it keeps it clean and polish ed. The kitchen was painted and i tlie porch papered The small I dressing room became the but ft - ' room ." This old house lias served as a demonstration for some L’OO peo ple since its rebirth. Other resi dents of Buckingham county nave followed in Miss Howards footsteps. i Take for instance . . . Mrs. i Margaret Lacy, tvhc bought .an old two-story boxhouse for $400. moved it. and put it back up for a total cost of $5,000: Charles Hall, who lias added new rooms, removed and enclosed porches I and put storage spare in a bungalow-type cottage on ins father's farm, and who now has j an attractive house for half tlie i price of a new one: and Dr. and ' Mrs. K J. Hutchins, who are now
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“enough wood fir a e'assed-in porch. Tin- big window.” Farmville Herald, January 1953.
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