Hick House Downstairs: Master Bedroom 03-14-19

If you've ever had a desire to spend the night in a haunted house, you might appreciate the master bedroom of Hick House. Oh, it's not haunted. Not that I KNOW OF! It just has that look. I most certainly wouldn't want to spend a night there. Not in its current condition. Not even if the alternative means spending a night, like countless others, in my own dark basement lair, where the unexplainable happens.

Here's the master bedroom, as it appeared on March 1, a few days after we purchased (still nothing on paper like a contract!) Hick House.

Maybe it was used as an office by the original owner, who was a newspaper sports reporter. Or maybe Hick and HOS (Hick's Oldest Son) moved the desk in there from elsewhere. This picture was taken from the doorway that is by the new bathroom, and the kitchen. On the right of the photo is the door leading to the entryway and front door. I think that's the original front door leaning against the wall. That other opening, on the left, is a little door that leads to the area under the stairs.

Looking from the archway between this master bedroom and the living room, you see the outer wall, with a window (that will be replaced with a better window). That doorway leads to the now-created short hallway between the new bathroom and kitchen.

Here's the most recent photo of the master bedroom, taken March 14, as I stood in the kitchen door by the new bathroom. As you can see, the master bedroom is Hick's workroom. HOS and his wife will not be sleeping on twin sawhorse beds!

I think the ceiling has collapsed a bit more. Or else HOS has been picking at it, to see what's above. That ceiling will have to be completely replaced. Hick was thinking about renting a special hydraulic jack that lifts drywall, so he and HOS won't have to handle it on ladders. He said that by using a jack, he can get 10-foot sheets of drywall, and have very little trimming to do, rather than the 8-foot sheets.

However... HOS said a couple days ago that he has a buddy who is demolishing a house in Backroads, who says HOS can have a drop ceiling if he comes and takes it down. That might be the new plan.

Hick and HOS put up some siding this weekend, on the triangle part of the house above the front porch. Hick also drove 90 miles round-trip with This Guy to get a free door from This Guy's brother. Progress on Hick House continues.