prayers up please. It's kinda rundown bc that's all I can afford so I'm scared there will be something really big that makes it unviable to purchase. My neighborhood is starting to gentrify but the current owner wants to sell to me because she has only gotten offers from developers who want to tear it down and build some featureless cube. It's a really pretty old old brick house. I always wanted to live in a brick house and this might be my best chance.

  • bubbalu [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    lowkey I like the look. It's still lathe left on some of the walls and it's very beautiful to me.

    • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      Modern materials are soulless. A lot of people will buy historic homes and the first thing they do is rip out the old windows, or replace the plaster with drywall, then they're shocked when the character of the house completely changes.

      You can teach yourself to plaster as well, it's not that hard. It won't come out perfect but imperfection is part of the charm. There's a good channel on YouTube for this called See Jane Drill I think

      Edit:

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GuZ8wFQIQPU