Sunday, November 27, 2011

Gamehalla Rising

We've recently purchased a new home (last week really). Well, not so new at all really the home was built in the 1880's; It's got some renovations to do before we move in (one contractor already did some work on Thanksgiving morning). It's on a large hilltop plot bordering the headwaters of a small river. We've got ruins on the property as the builder of the property (an inventor with several patents) ran a mill for a number of years. The house itself has undergone updating over the years and my wife is simply in love the luxurious details, tin walls and tin ceilings. It's a grand old place (not huge really but more then 4 times the size of our current tiny home).
Of greatest interest to readers of this blog is this home shall be the future site of Gamehalla (my game room), when we can finish insulating and prettying up the attached barn. /there shall be a large game table, shelves, storage cabinets, work bench(es) and desk area for a generation of gaming. Many adventurers will enter, their deeds shall be recorded and few will leave.



I spent a large chunk of yesterday with my brother-in-law and father ripping up the rotten flooring and decrepit floor joists in the cottage/shed (not in picture). The floor need "a little work" and as said work began the true extent of the required work revealed itself under three or four era's of floor repair; the joys of home ownership.

8 comments:

  1. Congratulations! It looks like a charming place. Post some pictures of Gamahalla when you get it all done up.

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  2. A house with towers, brilliant. I hope we one day get to see photos of the dedicated games room.

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  3. I'll be posting game room pictures as they become available.

    According to a neighbor the place was empty for decades but maintained by a trust and has only had two owners since the 80's; some folks claim one of the rooms is haunted, the walls of that room having "they killed me" carved in the wall. Cursorily enough we've been stripping wall paper and redoing walls where needed and no such message has yet appeared.

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  4. Love the look of the place. What do you call it, Queen Anne Victorian?

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  5. @theodric, yes it's a Queen Anne Victorian. Less and less of the old girls every year with much love and care we hopes it's in our family for decades to come.

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  6. I simply wish to express my unadulterated envy and downright awe with regards to Gamehalla.

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  7. I had an adventurous moment repairing the shed floor on the property. While riping up the floor and standing in the destruction I got myself tangled up in a length of barbed wire someone left there years ago...

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