Apologies, this is a bit long.<\/p>\n
My sister and I inherited a house a couple of years ago when my mother passed away. In the early stages of dealing with her estate, I had a guy come in to draw up some plans for renovating the kitchen and upstairs bathroom. In the process of that, the scope of the work increased dramatically – he believed a formerly load-bearing wall no longer was. That said, any changes made were done during renovations in the early 1980s, and nothing’s moved much since – ergo there’s no immediate fear. Part of this is also motivated by the fact that the upstairs bathroom once held a big clawfoot tub, and now is just a shower (amazingly, I met someone who used to live here).<\/p>\n
Given all that news, and the chaos going on in my life at the time, I punted on everything. I’m now starting to re-examine the situation.<\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apologies, this is a bit long. My sister and I inherited a house a couple of years ago when my mother passed away. In the early stages of dealing with her estate, I had a guy come in to draw up some plans for renovating the kitchen and upstairs bathroom. In the process of that,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-36143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-renovation"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/09\/just-starting-t\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Starting to Consider a Reno","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/09\/just-starting-t\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/09\/just-starting-t\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Renovation","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"swngnmonk"}],"creator":["swngnmonk"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2009-09-16T22:37:37Z","datePublished":"2009-09-16T22:37:37Z","dateModified":"2009-09-21T11:46:27Z"},"rendered":"