All cleaned up and painted. We still have some minor accents and the top is getting “Wilson 1881”. Overall its looking good!!!!
painting
Getting Noticed
The closer we get, the more people are noticing what we are doing. This past week we had some members of Cleburne City Council walk through. The local newspaper did a story on our transformation. And numerous people have been posting on Facebook our status.
Here is the link to the story.
https://www.cleburnetimesreview.com/news/transformation/article_2b2d42b6-ef66-11e8-a7e8-fbddb1975e89.html
Finally we are going to be featured on Cleburne’s Annual Candlewalk Historic Tour of Homes hosted by Save Old Cleburne.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/candlewalk-historic-home-tour-2018-tickets-52434795886.
Now it’s a mad rush to get the building ready. Some photos of this week’s progress:
Sealing the brick upstairs.
Restoring an antique display rack. From what we have found, it was used to display small parts when the building was home to the American Dry Goods Store in the 1920’s. We are planning on using it as a coffee bar upstairs.
The chandelier in the closet. We just finished the brick and will be painting the walls and ceiling this week.
And finally our painter finished trimming the outside areas.
The end is in sight and we will be moving in before the end of the year. 2 1/2 years in the making!!!!
Getting Closer
We are getting closer. They finished painting the front and west sides of the building.
They started framing of the 2nd floor windows. When we installed the new windows they temporary installed them to dry in the building. Now they are finishing the installation.
HVAC continues downstairs.
And we started to seal the upstairs brick in the shower area.
Before
After
Finally framing is almost complete. Here is the rotating door to the closet. We salvaged it from the building when there was a photography business upstairs and they had a dark room door.