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The house is a home and we have a kitchen!

5/26/2013

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Once again, it's been a while since I've posted.  The kitchen has been the main focus for the last few months.  We finished the painting in the rest of the house and it's beautiful!  Charlie and Chas spent a week or so installing the wood flooring we received from Ms. McCarty's house in the Chancellor area.  After reading about our purchase of the house last year, she contacted us to offer us anything we wanted from her house as she was in the process of having it demolished.  It was built in 1930 and while the three rooms of flooring was not as old as the original flooring in our house, it is Heart Pine and much better to use than anything new we might have used.  We also relieved her of many of the mouldings from the house, a few pieces of furniture, and an old cast iron wood stove. 

Once the flooring was installed, we hired Sullivan's Flooring of King George to come over and sand it---it was gorgeous after Mr. Sullivan sanded it.  Charlie then applied a super matte finish - a  "Smart Shoe" product - and we now have a beautiful kitchen floor that we like to stand around and stare at!  If you remember, that room was originally gutted down to the dirt crawlspace due to rot and termite damage, so to see it finished is amazing.  Charlie is now finishing the room with mouldings and framing for the windows and doors, the appliances are in, and while we are waiting for the cabinets, we have two wooden work benches to use for counter space.  I actually love using the workbenches so much, I told Charlie we can take our time with the cabinets! 

We sat down to eat in the kitchen for the first time last week and it was wonderful to see the view of the back yard while having dinner!  The kitchen has always been the heart of our home and going eight months without a kitchen has been trying to say the least.  Charlie will finsh the kitchen and move on to the porch roof repairs so that we can have the roofer back out to install new roofing over the kitchen, porches, and mud room.  That will complete the five priority restorations/repairs that the banker and the State required. 
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Graham Brizendine
7/6/2013 03:06:55 am

My father grew up at Cleydael in the 40's 50's when they had 1,100 acres and raised black angus. My grandmother eventually moved north and sold the home/property to a timber company I believe. I have a handful of photo's of the house if you are interested.
Graham

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Renee
8/2/2013 02:35:17 pm

Hi Graham, thank you for the post and we would LOVE to see the pictures you mentioned. We are always looking for history on the house and I am using some of the evidence of the history in pictures for decorating. Please email us at cleydaelestate@gmail.com regarding the pictures and thank you again for offering to share them! Renee

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Jim Brizendine
2/9/2017 07:12:04 am

My father was Graham's uncle, and his fathers brother and also grew up there.Mr Richardson (who owned the property then was my grandmothers second husband and eventually died of TB the same as her first. We also moved north in the late 50's and I remember coming to Cleydael for Christmas and the amazing tree in the entry hall. I also remember the biggest wild turkey for dinner that I have ever seen.I moved back to Kin George in 1973 after my dad passed. We lived in Dahlgren but I spent a lot of time exploring the land around the house. The house was rented out and was showing its age. My dad salvaged a load of timber out of the old barn in the 60's. It had been built off of the land and all of the rafters were black walnut. He took out and replaced with oak enough to build a kitchen table. He never did get to it and I still have the timbers. I brought them all the way to England where I live now. It is really great to see the house being so will cared for.
Jim

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