Entry Room and Laundry - Part 1

Last summer I told my husband that we should make simple updates to our back, "main",  entryway and also update our laundry room which also serves as a half bath so things will look nice during our son's graduation party.  We live in a 100 year old farm house, lived in by renters and farm hands so you can imagine the care it was given.  It can't take much to take off old tongue/grove wooden siding and replace it with drywall, right?  The door and window was placed where ever it would fit.  This entryway points to the north and had improper insulation, WOW it was cold in the winter.

As with a lot of farm houses, they were not designed to help people move furniture into the house easily.  You cannot see it but across from the back door is the entry point to our basement.  Our plans are to move the door to where the window  is located and build a wall to enclose the old entry and create a small closet and the entry into the basement.  This would allow us to move anything into the house with a straight shot.  Still everything seems pretty straight and forward.  Then we tore into the laundry room.

With most old houses, the walls were lath and plaster.  So my husband took on the task of taking it all down.  There was blown in insulation, but only in certain cavities so all of this was removed.

As he reached the east end of the room, my husband discovered the sheathing was fiber board, great!

Then as he pulled boards down on the north side, SURPRISE, the wall studs were horizontal, REALLY!  Now the fun begins!!!  Check out my next post to see what we had to do...