2 YEARS (in 12 minutes) - CREEPY BASEMENT TRANSFORMATION TIMELAPSE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- This basement has been such a journey. We've still got a long way to go, but wow does it look different.
For more on the transformation of the upper floor, check out this video! • 2 YEARS (in 7 minutes)...
And for more on our plans for the place, watch this one: • FULL TOUR (+ plans!) o...
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Thank you so much to the folks below who have helped us make all of this happen over the last 2 years!
--Craig and his crew at Smartcrawl for the foundation waterproofing and French drain / smartcrawl
--Ted, Pilar, Amber + Robert’s crew at Tree Buddies for helping us clean out the basement. Also Carter, Cooper, and all the soccer boys at FCHS. :)
--Kenny and Chance at Specialty Concrete, + Justin and crew at Cherokee Pumping www.facebook.c...
--And of course, Brad the mason, who has been working on the school for a full year now repairing bricks, opening up windows, closing up windows, and basically being the backbone of this whole project. If you're looking for a mason in central Indiana, I can't recommend him enough. www.facebook.c...
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A canning room is a great idea. Store the big canners, empty jars, work stations, big work stove, freezers. Lots crocks, vats, etc. you could install a laundry chute to the basement, and even a pulley style elevator butler to hoist cans of food, clean laundry etc. I’m envious!❤
Didn't think about a pulley elevator!! And 10000% on the crocks, love fermenting things. :D
I 100% agree!! That was meant to be!
@@Schoolhousehomesteadthat would be absolutely amazing for where the engine used to be - you could maybe even use the wheel!!
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In what state is this school located?
@@travelinman482 Indiana!
I don't remember if yall added cameras around the property, but if not, you should. Especially now that people can see what all is being stored inside. I say that because my fiance has a construction business remodeling & renovating homes, and there have been quite a few instances where materials were stolen from the job site, even when stored inside the home and it significantly set them back.
Enjoying all the updates! Merry Christmas!
Yup I installed cameras last week!
A home theatre room would be cool because you got some big spaces that are perfect for that👌
Having the experience of living in a basement apartment I can’t stress enough about sound proofing the ceiling. There is nothing louder than an upstairs neighbor. 😉💖🐈⬛🐈🌈
... trying to sneak around at night. 😉
Ohmygoodness, can you imagine being a child, living in the wonderful space?
Santa will love stopping by!
So much room to run and play! Since she mentioned her 4-H background, I'll bet they will have some animals also.
My daughter bought a condo in DC that was part of a redeveloped old schoolhouse from the 1900’s, very much like yours. I did some research on the school from back then. There were blue prints/floor plans. The basement floor was used as the gymnasiums, one for girls and one for boys. It enabled PE classes inside, away from the elements. It’s a possibility that your basements were used that way.
I think a room for storing all your canning, fruits and veg would be really useful. The basement would also be good for putting some of the messier hobbies. I always wanted a basement for a kneading table, drying shelves, a Slip tank, a potter's wheel and an electric fire furnace for throwing my own pots, dishes, and decorative items. I also wanted a place to do some decorative welding, or maybe a carpenters bench with various saws, routers etc.
Yes!! Pottery area is the dream, we both did pottery while living in nyc. Also 100% on canning room!
@@Schoolhousehomestead As a weaver now living in a small house (empty nesters so we downsized) I am so envious of those big basement rooms with the wonderful light.
You are doing a fantastic job fixing the old place up.. i wish more people would fix up the old places instead of tearing them down... Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year... Take care and God Bless...
Oh, that new floor absolutely transforms that basement! And, my brain is buzzing with all the possibilities for the basement! I love that your first thought is a "mother-in-law's" apartment! Then I'm thinking wine cellar, canning kichen, root cellar, canning pantry, fireplace wood storage, mud room/laundry room, guest bedroom w/en suite, hidey hole for the kids, secret passages, etc, etc. Oh, and one more that might save your sanity if you get snowed in...a play room big enough to have riding toys! You all are doing an amazing job with the school house! I would love to see some videos of the workers working! Hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🎄 🎉
Thank you!! And definitely on the kid room, I also want to put some rugs/rubber down and hang a swing for the kids!
Definitely a play room! I have six children and I would have loved a play room for them to keep their toys out of the living room and the kitchen! 😊
Love old brick. The casual use of arches, which probably added to the structural integrity. Visited DC and I admire the effects they did on those 19th century public buildings.
Oh yea, Brad our mason was just talking about how cool it is that there is barely any metal in the building, it’s all brick holding everything together!
How exciting to have clean, level floors in the basement!
Love what you are doing to preserve a wonderful old brick building. Can't wait to see your next steps.
Of course it would have been so much cheaper to tear down a part of IN history and build something brand new and charmless. That being said, tearing down a piece of IN history wouldn't let you live in this incredibly amazing house with so much history, charm, character and fantastic TH-cam channel documenting it's restoration and re-imaging into this fantastic home. Anybody can build a house. It takes grit and determination to restore a historic building into something new and absolutely incredible. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I love construction projects. Thank you for saving one of these priceless treasures and sharing the process.
I sure hope it fulfills all of the dreams you have for it.
So cool to see you breathing life into a beautiful old building! Thanks for taking us along on your journey!
Happy Holidays! I have no idea why, but I love watching concrete poured and smoothed out. lol
Thanks for sharing!
I was totally mesmerized! Concrete and spray foam, who knew it would be so soothing. 😂
That is awesome! A little strong with the opening music though. Here's a couple ideas. For the engine room, you could put a bench on one side and on the other side, you could have some big framed photos of engine room engines to give it a museum feel. I'm no expert on engine rooms, but that little nook that you want to use for canning looks like an extra fuel storage/equipment/tools/parts room for the engine. Those are my thoughts. Merry Christmas to you and yours and loving this wonderful restoration content!!!
I really like seeing a new video and seeing the progress being made!! Hoping you will get to move in in 2024! Best wishes and Merry Christmas to you and your family. You are blessed!
Things are really moving along. I would love an old school house like this to make my home. I’m too old to move again now but I can enjoy watching you do it. 😊
Okay but that brick wall, with the intrusive greenery, was so beautiful haha 😅❤❤😊
So excited to see the finishing results
Awesome! Please continue sharing as this comes together!
Knock it down and start again?😲 Obviously this person has zero appreciation of history, nor do they have a clue of the cost to build a place of that magnitude.
It looks amazing guys, keep up the good work.
Love watching the hard work you are doing to preserve this beautiful building.
I'm a basement person myself having grown up in older houses with basements in the city. Beautiful transformation of the basement areas! You certainly have plenty of head room down there to top off the existing floor with a new concrete surface.
I wonder if the engine may have also generated electricity for the school early on. Many rural areas of the country didn't get electric distribution lines until much later than more populated areas. The engine could have generated electricity as well as supplied heat until commercially produced and distributed electricity became available. As a retired mechanical designer myself, there's just something about the design of the engine that tells me it served more than one function.
I think it did! I need to read more of the section about the engine in the book we found.
That engine room is amazing! So glad you are keeping some of it and restoring it.
A wood burning stove would be an awesome addition on your main floor for helping to heat a part of your house. You could even block off some of the rooms with glass doors to keep heat in certain areas but still let light come through. In Europe they block off rooms so they only heat the rooms they use. Would love to see a floorplan of what you plan to do on the main floor.
We are planning a wood stove! And check out a couple of the other videos, I do share some of the plans we have so far!
Awesome job. Can’t wait to see the finished product!!!
I’m a fellow Hoosier and I am excited to potentially drive by there one day.
Keep up the good work.
And remember… respirators are your friends 😊👍.
One of those rooms in the basement with so much light would be an awesome place for growing/starting food! So much light!!!
This is such an amazing project! I found the playlist for this renovation yesterday and have been enjoying seeing the process so far! I love that you will be keeping nods to the original uses of the building from the school to the farmhouse and I think the idea of having a little historical display room in the basement is such a fantastic idea! Best of luck to you and your family with this project!
Love your home! I’m so excited to watch the progress. I love all the plans and ideas you have for the future!
But I sure hope you meant spider crickets (aka Camelback Crickets) and not cricket spiders-a much scarier thought!! We have those here in northern Virginia in the DC suburbs. They love the cool, damp, dark recesses of your home-basements, crawl spaces and areas like that. They jump sideways so they are hard to kill. My son became an expert at exterminating them with a sideways basketball bounce and my hubby drops a box on them from straight on high. But eventually if you see a few, you can be assured there are hundreds and it’s time for the exterminator. One time I flicked on a light in my furnished basement and found several adult spider crickets and a floor covered with baby spider crickets. There were HUNDREDS!! I don’t like putting chemicals from exterminators in my home if I can help it, but that broke me and I called the exterminator the very next day and had him spray the hell out of my house!! 🕷️🦗🚫⛔️🙈👎🏻
Oh yes I meant spider crickets!! I'm not one to be scared of insects but these were new to me and horrifying with their random jumps. If I found hundreds I'd do the EXACT same thing that you did lol
I once worked at a place in the old river bottom, Dallas Texas, where we had a plague of crickets one August. Every morning walls at the front door were covered with thousands of them and we used a shop vac.
So cool you're saving the old girl!
That old wheel from the engine room would make an awesome light fixture of some sort with a little bit of work. I'm excited to see how this project turns out.
The room for canning may also make for a good cellar for cool storage like onion, potatoes, squash that kind of stuff. I cant tell you how exciting I find this project.
Not a weirdo. In your basement, the smell of new concrete is the smell of clean.
The cast iron door makes me wonder if the furnace/engine fan was fired with coal, thereby needing a coal chute/storage access.
It is surprising that the school only operated for such a short time. I'm here to learn. My husband really wants to buy an old school much like this. It has trees growing our of the side... We imagine making a new entry there. Lol
You have to be a brave woman. I've watched too many movies. Any basement that hasn't been renovated count me out.I'm sure it's going to be amazing when completed.
Way cool! Happy Holidays! (PS: Music is too loud over audio)
Ah rats, I'll watch it for next time! Was editing early in the mornings with air pods. 😅
I love that there will be a mix of brick walls with different treatments mixed with plastered walls. Maybe even once the place is past a point of complete I’d love to have a wall or two painted a wild color. Just a little fun on a small wall. Maybe there it’s dark with shadow it could be light blue. Or a neon purple somewhere weird nobody would normally look.
I'm in my sixties and I went to a parochial school that was a little larger than your school but was built around the same time frame. The lower level housed a girl's and boy's bathroom and mudroom/locker room for boots and coats and then there was a kitchen, a lunchroom, and a library. A back staircase back to the north side classrooms and you could also go up to the 2nd story which housed the stage, storage, and a gym. We had K-8 in the school. I went from 4th grade through 8th grade. For 3 years I was in a room with 3 grades and then the last 2 years there were 2 grades in the class I was in. The janitor's closet was on the lower level as well. We also did art and took music lessons either in the gym or in the lower level that was used as the lunchroom. In bad weather, we played in the lunchroom. Very versatile. PTA meetings were held most often in the lower level. Hope this sparks some inspiration in your search for answers. Those large rooms downstairs could have been for gym classes or social events. School musicals for class presentations.
Good to see old schools, and old churches, being re-used for homes. Much luck to you. : )
Love this series.
Do you have a time line as to when you will be able to move in? Also are you going to provide an estimate of how much was spent on the entire project? So if others would like to do this they would have some idea of how much it cost
Well we keep having to push the move date back because things are a bit slower (sigh) - but hopefully early this spring/late winter! And working on the other stuff!
Im so invested in this journey its amazing how you can turn an old school into a house cant wait for the final result!
In the mid 1960s I went to a two room schoolhouse for 1st and 2nd grades. The building was smaller than your school. In one room in the basement there was a small makeshift cafeteria with tables. The other rooms were used for boilers and such but I do recall having gym class in one of those rooms on cold or rainy days. So perhaps some of the basement in your school served a similar purpose? Good luck with your renovation. It will be awesome when finished.
I was waiting for the grand reveal of the completed house , I'm planning on refinishing my apartment , Thank you for sharing your videos
What courage you have to take on such a daunting task. It has been a delight to watch the changes you have made. It's going to be a fantastic home. God bless.
What a cool renovation! Ideas for basement spaces: separate apartment either for in-laws or renters; garden room or potting plants room if you do either with tools, seeds, garden supplies, pots, etc.; library; storage room; pantry, of course; tool area or room; art or handicrafts room; definitely a separate bathroom; definitely a laundry room; and definitely a furnace room, of course, and electrical/energy room (for solar?).
If you intend basement rooms to be future apartments, be sure to get the plumbing in now, while it's still reasonably open for the trades to work. A dumbwaiter to bring stuff from basement to main floor would be a super efficient idea (and save on back muscles). Gosh, if I only had a basement; there would be a canning room, right alongside our freeze dryer and chest freezers (which are out in the garage).
One of those tiny rooms could become a root cellar, if you can keep it at root cellar temps year round.
Suggest you enclose each furnace into a small utility room, heavily insulated to keep the noise out of the other rooms, and small children/pets out of the furnaces. Then you can use the rest of the rooms in which the furnaces are for whatever you need, without having to deal with furnace noise.
In fact, if you put insulation bats into each interior wall and under the main floor, a house of that size will not be near as noisy as it will otherwise.
What a magnificent project you've undertaken. I look forward to your progress.
I LOVE your great project! When it's done, you will have a very unique home. You're doing something I have always wanted to do, but never got to tackle. Merry Christmas from your next door neighbor in Ohio!
You should look into press patterning some of your concrete. It can look like anything but it really like when it looks like wood.
What a great family building!! You have enough space for multiple generations (apartments) PLUS all the different areas to dedicate to cooking/processing/canning/storing food, arts/crafting/sewing, entertaining, etc., etc., etc.!! What an amazing family nucleus you’re creating! ❤❤
The circle machine at 5:37 if awesome. If there is a way to backlight it so it give a supple shadow would be interesting. The hole you stepped through would look good if as a frosted glass window. Looked like there was proper door to the room. The space could make an interesting bathroom, laundry, small office. Such an interesting buidling. Can't believe some people suggest knocking it down. How boring is that.
We were thinking about glass for it too!!
So smart, with the custom/ Ikea cabinets! Ikea makes some quality and extremely customizable cabinetry!
My grandma taught in a one room schoolhouse and the basement had a large long trestle table so it was used for the students to eat lunch. Saw someone else's comment about an indoor gymnasium space - which would also make sense.
Such a great building. Such character. It’ll be a great home.
Idk if it would work to your expectations or you thought about it but a couple of local businesses (1800's) including a current elementary school that was built in the 1920's have installed mini split systems. Our entire town is on the historical register. Their bills have dropped by more than half and it gives heating and air conditioning as well as zone control. We are replacing our central with just 3 units that are a low impact on our home itself. Our home was built in 1936. That eliminates the tin foil octopus ductwork. (I hate that stuff!) We also love that the mini split systems are easily powered from solar. I would love to find an old school or church on acres to renovate but so far all we find, the buildings have been sold with just a tiny spit of land. The land has already been sold off around them. :(
I love this project.
Wonderful resurrection of the past being blended with today's safety and conveniences. Kudos
6;00 WOW! IT'S A FREAKING AIR HANDLER! How cool is that! I used to work on modern versions of this building feature. I have never seen one built into a building that old before. It is absolutely worth saving that bit of history along with the beltway into the next room. I have been in many old buildings, and that's the first one of those I've seen still existing intact. Way cool!
I love everything about this project! But for me, especially living in Indiana, I would love some fireplaces but a school would not have been built with fireplaces. Dont know how that would effect the budget, but I sure would want a couple maybe in the living room and kitchen. At least the living room. Some people don’t care but I love my fireplace and I’m in AL.
All I see is potential potential potential. You guys have come across the most excellent property and for your value. You've have a way 2 earn $$back.. you can even make your family bigger and you'll always have the room. It's so good. I totally see a wine cellar pantry space hell. Turn the bottom into an apartment. Or you can make it a business and live upstairs. It's too good congratulations. I'm so happy for you both. And your children, what a life you are going to live.❤❤❤
Thank you for sharing! I’ll just throw out some suggestions even if they seem wild at the moment. If any of these ideas seem like something your family would need or want then maybe consider just saving up for it and hitting pause on the basement until you can add those elements.
Some suggestions could be an indoor lap pool with spa and a shower so your family could swim anytime of year, gym or sauna, sound proof editing room so you can do voiceovers if you plan to do more videos after renovations are done, study or playroom, guest bedroom/apartment equipped with a kitchenette/walk in closet/full bathroom with private entrance, a room dedicated to your kids interests like an art studio or dance room or soundproof music room, she shed so a room just for you, man cave, family movie theater, panic room, library, wine room, game room with bowling alley, greenhouse, 2 offices, laundry room with 2 washing machines and 2 dryers with an island to fold/iron/steam or hang dry clothes, giant storage room to house seasonal items/ extra clothes/holiday decor/extra bedding/towels/school supplies/office supplies/emergency supplies, pet room with a pet shower to hose off their paws/store pet supplies, gift wrapping room, cleaning supplies with tool room, etc. Hope it helps!🙂
Thank you!! Already thinking like you on a couple things like the apartment and art studio/pottery studio! Adding some stuff to the daydream list haha ❤️
Your school reminds me of the one where I used to work! Ours was built in 1910 and closed in 2010! They have similar layouts. For us, at least in the later years, the basement housed the school office, 2 rest rooms, the kitchen/cafeteria and one classroom in addition to the boiler room
I grew up in North Western MO. We had music, art, and gym in the basement.
This is so very cool. I'm thrilled you posted again. Keep up the great work!
Your doing a fantastic job with fixing up the old school house. I minor thing. You spent all that money redoing the basement. There was a Hugh gap under the basement door to the outside. Please make sure you address that so you don't get more water in the basement when it rains. Keep up the great work. Looking forward to seeing the finished project and you moving in. 😊
ty!! And yeah we still have more work to do on the basement entrance!!
Near to where the stairs to the kitchen is, there needs to be a wine cellar downstairs, that way if you're having a party, you can just go down the stairs and around the corner to grab wine if you need more for the party. 😊 gotta place things as conveniently as possible, I'd also consider having one of the big rooms function as a play room for the kids that can eventually as the kids get older be converted into more of a teenager hangout space (when the kids are young it keeps the majority of the toys in one room, as they get older it gives the kids and their friends a place to hang out away from the adults that also isn't a bedroom where it's possible to get up to shenanigans)
Totally!! Was thinking a small play area will be in the living room/kitchen, but also want to put some rugs / rubber down in a basement room and put a swing up for the kids! You’ve always got some good ideas btw ☺️
@@Schoolhousehomestead Well thanks, I try and truthfully a lot of the good ideas come from a combo of a lifelong love of Interior Decorating (like when most kids as young as 10 were still watching Saturday morning cartoons I was watching HGTV by choice), and these days as an adult at now 34 years old, I still find myself playing a lot of Sims 4 (so basically interior design but free, lol). And yea, definitely have a play zone upstairs in the main living/family room but also having a dedicated playroom downstairs that can over time transition as the kids get older would be the ideal situation. While the kids are young it functions as a great play room (especially if theres ever days where you could get rained out of playing outside or snowed in) but also for your love of parties, definitely have a wine cellar downstairs (maybe that smaller centre room could be that purpose) put a door on it that you can lock to keep it secure and you're good, a lock because while the kids are young and have no interest in wine now, them as teenagers might and in such a big house it'd be impossible to keep watch on them constantly. Heck using that centre room with the fan as the wine cellar could be pretty cool cause in theory you could even use the fan that's there for built in air circulation in the wine cellar room (if the room needs it or it's just a cool looking feature)
If the pantry in the basement is located near the center of the building would make a perfect shelter in the event of a Tornado. They always tell you to go to the innermost room in the lower level of your home away from any windows. That could also be an idea. You could then turn that old boiler room into a half wine storage and half pantry which seems closer to the stairs and the kitchen if you installed a dumbwaiter from the basement pantry to the main kitchen. Put a motor on that old boiler system remaining for an electric or manual dumbwaiter which could work both ways even if you lost power.
I love what you're doing
We have some old schools where i live and the basements were usually the kitchens and cafeteria/lunch room. Maybe yours was the same. Cant wait to see the building finnished.
Always looking good,restoration does take longer,just one step at a time.
Take care, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
I enjoy your content and watching the progress. You may have done this in a past video but could you share a sketch of the basement layout? I feel I’m walking in circles.
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My previous vid does have one!
@@Schoolhousehomestead so no sharing it again?
@@julies2110 It's in here! th-cam.com/video/riTMcyfl6Vo/w-d-xo.html (To add to this video I'd have to delete the whole video.)
@@Schoolhousehomestead much appreciated!
I always wanted to do something like this. My husband was a carpenter/cabinet maker, so he has the skills. He says he “doesn’t want a money pit” ☹️.
Can confirm it is a money pit haha
I love everything you’ve done! Watching you from Kentucky! Merry Christmas!
Stacy, it was wonderful to see you again at the wedding. I now am an avid fan!!!!! (Michele.. mother of the bride). This is wonderful!!!
This is really an amazing project and undertaking. Love it.
I love it!!!! I am a history buff so this is fun watching.
Your school house looks a lot like the school I went to. It was K-8th grade. While the basement had the mechanicals, it had rooms for art classes (we all had to bring one of Dad’s old shirts for a smock), music classes ( we learned lots of patriotic songs and had a “band”) and was used for emergency raid drills with everyone sitting in rows on the floor. When microwaves became a thing, the emergency raid area was turned into a lunch room with 2 microwaves and a bunch of vending machines for 7th & 8th grade. Everyone else still walked home for lunch. Think of activities that allowed young children to talk and move around the rooms for supplies or activities that created noise that would be distracting to other classes. That’s what was in our school basement. Probably in yours too. Fun times.
Oh fascinating!! Thank you for the insight, that would totally make sense. I plan to go to the state archives to see if they have anything too like plans of the school!
That small room behind the wheel; how about framing the doorway off with glass and add lighting inside to help illuminate the inside of the room. Be a really nice conversation piece. I'd definitely turn that other room into a wine cellar. That whole basement would be an amazing place to entertain parties. So beautiful
Huge accomplishments! It’s going to epic!
I went to a school that had 2 classrooms and the bathrooms in the basement. Every year they would flood when the Ohio River flooded. You would have to wade through the water to go to the bathroom. By the looks of the windows, I would say there were classrooms at one time in your school in the basement. Older schools had cloak rooms for the students coats, my school did. It was built in 1905. I also taught in a school that had basement classrooms, it was built in the 50s.
My old elementary school would have been a perfect refab home, however I learned they demolished it about 15 years ago and now 3 homes on the lot. Built late 1800's ,no decay.
Ugh I’m so sorry to hear this!
The wheel that is still there - is actually a belt-driven fan. Called a "squirrel cage," I'm quite sure it was used to cool the engine and engine room.
Every video is exciting -- seeing this wonderful old building honored by you -- your family and all the amazing skilled workers. It must be difficult to be waiting so long to be able to move in, but it will be worth the wait.
As for the suggestion of knocking it down -- what a sad person that must be.
I would love seeing the work itself rather than just the result of all of the hard work you all are pouring into this project. I went to a 2-room country school as a child, with very similar layout, so your project is nostalgic.
Central Park School, outside of Middleton, ID.
Excellent work! Love this project
Love it!! Can’t wait to see all the progress.
How cool! Wish y'all the best in this endeavor.
I would have a canning kitchen set up and root cellar for sure if that were my awesome basement.
Oh ya that’s the dream
I totally can't wait to see it finished!!
Find a spot for an elevator. If your senior parents move into the basement, an elevator will be a Godsend. Also, living space for a caretaker. Believe me, I went through being responsible for aging parents. You can find lots of information on the internet. For example, make plans for handicapped showers, toilets, and ramps. You will need wide halls and door to accommodate wheelchairs. Honestly, you just to be prepared.
Hi there, I’ve really been enjoying watching the progress of your adventure.
At time code 11:50 where you show us the Black and white picture of the construction of the school, in my opinion, nothing looks new in this picture. Also on the left of the building, they seem to put the lintels in over the windows on the first floor and then block them off. I cannot see that this would be a part of the design. I believe you are looking at one of the first renovations of the building when it was founded or found. Anyway’s Loving your Channel Micky Southend UK
Love all of this!
Loving the transformation! All that keeps running through my mind is the heating/air con bill….
I would have an indoor terrarium/garden. Like the one I see in my dreams.
Love this project ❤️ every thing about it. Keep up the good work.
wow, what a transformation!
You might be able to find blueprints for your school at the state archives (maybe). It would be worth pursuing to add to your history nook. Check with a librarian (says the retired school librarian).
My father in law suggested this just this week!! I am definitely going to go to the state, I need to know if there were bathrooms inside! 😂
my old elementary school (no longer there) in greenwood had the music and art rooms, bathrooms and library in the basement
Thanks for the comprehensive look at the basement. I am trying to figure out what on earth an engine would have been for? I am assuming it was steam-driven -- could there have been workshops in those big rooms - like carpentry lathes and/or looms? (PS - what was used for heat? Did each classroom have a wood stove?)