Young Dreamers Chapter Seven

The Story Continues-


Good Morning,

Young Dreamers Chapter Seven
Finishing inside and outside


After living in the little trailer for over a year and another winter was in full blast, we moved into the unfinished new house. For the first time in our lives we had store bought heat. Two electric heat pumps heated the house plus we had a wood heater(of course) in the living room and moved the wood heater from the trailer to the basement.
When we moved in it still looked something like this.


We started at the very top of the house and finished a room at a time. Went on the next room.
It took over a year to finish the inside while we were living in it. Billy built a shop on the property where he could do work on tractors and trucks so we would have income coming in.
We never borrowed money to finish the house. We would wait until we had enough for whatever we were working on. We never used a credit card. We still drove used cars and Billy still had the 1953 International truck he drove. I still shopped at thrift stores.

On one of the trips to the sawmill in the Georgia mountains we would pass the Georgia marble mines. At one place we saw a few pallets of marble tile sitting out front of one of the businesses. I talked Billy into stopping and we asked about it. The man said they were imperfect pieces, some had corners missing, lines through the marble and so on. We looked at the shiny grey-white marble and all I saw was beautiful stone. Then Billy asked how much and we couldn't believe the price. Less that 1/2 price of what it sold for in stores. We bought 2 pallets. This was before we finished the house and the marble sat out front of the trailer then the house for a long time. Then we were finally down to the floors.

Here is the same front hall with the marble on the floors.


The ceilings downstairs were 10 feet high.
We also found a lot of the lighting on clearance for 1/2 price at one of the building supply stores.
Here is the front entrance.


Billy made all the kitchen cabinets.


We had enough of the marble tile for the kitchen floor too!


And for the dining room.


The dining room floor was my favorite floor. Billy took the broke pieces of marble and put it around the edges. It turned out the best I thought.


The carpet in the downstairs living room was the last flooring. (We even put marble behind and under the heater)


We worked hard and we played hard too. Here are the boys on one of the tractors Billy fixed up to sell.

I told Billy when I was looking through these pictures to put on next,we always looked like we were having fun.
We were far enough north in Georgia where we had a few snow falls. Here is one.


A back view of the house. We had back porches,upstairs and downstairs.
This is in one of the snows. There was 2 creeks that ran on both sides of the house. Where they met we built a pond.


A front view of the finished house.


We started farming. We bought a big deep freezer and filled it with vegetables. I also bought a new pressure canner and can everything I could. We ate well.

Next week I will have some more pictures of the barn, shop, and house.
We were still working hard as usual.

Just a reminder, this is not the place or house we live at now.

I hope you have a great day.