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Dawn, in the Freedom Avenue Colonial House I owned for thirty years. 1995. #oldhome #oldhouse #oldhouses #oldhomes #colonialhome #colonialhomes #colonialhouses #colonialhomes #1990s #interiordesign #interiordesigns #interiordecor #interiordecoration #interiordeocrator #countrylife #countryliving #hardwoodfloor #hardwoodfloors
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Third Bedroom in my Freedom Avenue house, decorated as Yoga Room. 1995. #interior #interiors #interiordesign #interiordesigns #interiordecorating #interiordecorating #interiordecorator #softsculpture #painting #paintings #oilpainting #oilpaintings #colonialhouses #colonialhouse #oldhouse #oldhouses #richardhittleman #richardhittlemanyoga #richardhittlemansyoga #yoga #yogapractice #yogamat #headstandmat
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Third Bedroom in my Freedom Avenue house, decorated as Yoga Room. 1995. #interior #interiors #interiordesign #interiordesigns #interiordecorating #interiordecorating #interiordecorator #softsculpture #painting #paintings #oilpainting #oilpaintings #colonialhouses #colonialhouse #oldhouse #oldhouses #richardhittleman #richardhittlemanyoga #richardhittlemansyoga #yoga #yogapractice #yogamat #headstandmat
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Third Bedroom in my Freedom Avenue house, decorated as Yoga Room. 1995. #interior #interiors #interiordesign #interiordesigns #interiordecorating #interiordecorating #interiordecorator #softsculpture #painting #paintings #oilpainting #oilpaintings #colonialhouses #colonialhouse #oldhouse #oldhouses #richardhittleman #richardhittlemanyoga #richardhittlemansyoga #yoga #yogapractice #yogamat #headstandmat
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Third Bedroom in my Freedom Avenue house, decorated as Yoga Room. 1995. #interior #interiors #interiordesign #interiordesigns #interiordecorating #interiordecorating #interiordecorator #softsculpture #painting #paintings #oilpainting #oilpaintings #colonialhouses #colonialhouse #oldhouse #oldhouses #richardhittleman #richardhittlemanyoga #richardhittlemansyoga #yoga #yogapractice #yogamat #headstandmat
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Third Bedroom in my Freedom Avenue house, decorated as Yoga Room. 1995. #interior #interiors #interiordesign #interiordesigns #interiordecorating #interiordecorating #interiordecorator #softsculpture #painting #paintings #oilpainting #oilpaintings #colonialhouses #colonialhouse #oldhouse #oldhouses #richardhittleman #richardhittlemanyoga #richardhittlemansyoga #yoga #yogapractice #yogamat #headstandmat
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I found many treasures in the attic of my childhood home, including this Colonial Revival Bed, which I refinished under my Grandmother's tutelage. It still graces our home. #childhood #childhoodhome #home #house #oldhouse #oldhouses #antiques #antique #antiquebed #colonial
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One big surprise #lastweek was learning my #childhood #home has gone #OnTheMarket again. The Kendall House in #Kenora #Ontario (1895) is one of those grand #OldHouses with #gingerbread trim, ... (1/?) #northernontario #canada #realestate #architecture #FensterFreitag #oldhouse #memories
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One big surprise #lastweek was learning my #childhood #home has gone #OnTheMarket again.
The Kendall House in #Kenora #Ontario (1895) is one of those grand #OldHouses with #gingerbread trim, cast iron radiators & #livingroom #windows looking out on Main Street.
When I lived there, the unfinished #attic was filled with boxes of children's books & I would sit in the dusty #gables leafing through them in the afternoon sun.
#northernontario #canada #realestate #architecture #FensterFreitag
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Swansea ranked among UK’s most haunted cities in new Halloween study
The research, by unoccupied home insurance specialists Alan Boswell Group, analysed paranormal reports, cemeteries, memorials, vacant properties and historic housing stock to calculate a “spooky score” for 15 UK cities.
Swansea in the top five
Swansea comes in fourth place nationally, with a spooky score of 7.6 out of 10. The city’s long history plays a big part in that ranking. Swansea is home to 287 memorials and a high proportion of older housing, with 141 properties built before 1918 for every 10,000 people. Combined with 6.8 vacant properties per 10,000 residents, it creates the kind of backdrop where ghost stories thrive.
While Swansea records fewer paranormal reports than York or Exeter, its historic buildings and cemeteries still contribute to its reputation as one of the UK’s most haunted places.
The cities most likely to be living with a ghost
RankCityPer 10,000 peopleSpooky score/10Paranormal reportsCemeteriesMemorialsVacant propertiesHouses built before 1918=1Aberdeen0.110.1423341.11188.25=1Bradford0.050.163476.61608.253York0.330.33496.21227.854Swansea0.020.312876.81417.605Edinburgh0.110.1316320.8947.556Exeter0.550.12835.81207.407Dundee0.060.0928118.1917.208Peterborough0.210.171414.8857.059Plymouth0.090.061313.31346.6510Bristol0.030.064943.41316.5511Liverpool0.040.042476.61206.4512Norwich0.120.141273.3996.3513Kingston upon Hull0.040.06755.91066.1014Oxford0.110.18802.3835.9015Ipswich0.160.13282.51125.80Local legends add to the chill
As Swansea Bay News has previously reported, the city and surrounding area are rich in ghostly folklore. Oystermouth Castle is said to be haunted by a “White Lady” who drifts through its medieval halls. The Dylan Thomas Theatre has long been linked with unexplained footsteps and flickering lights, while the Palace Theatre — now undergoing restoration — has its own share of eerie tales, with staff and visitors over the years reporting strange noises and shadowy figures.
Beyond the city, the Gower Peninsula has its own haunted reputation, from apparitions on windswept cliffs to inns where chilling tales have been passed down for generations. Together, these stories give Swansea’s 7.6 “spooky score” a distinctly local flavour.
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Aberdeen and Bradford share the top spot in the index, each scoring 8.25, while York — often dubbed the “City of 1,000 Ghosts” — ranks third. Swansea is the only Welsh city to make the top five.
Why it matters
The study also highlights the link between vacant properties and risk. Across the UK there are more than 760,000 empty homes, with insurers warning that standard home insurance may not cover long‑term unoccupied properties.
Heath Alexander‑Bew of Alan Boswell Group said:
“If your property is empty for long periods of time, you will need unoccupied property insurance as standard home insurance policies are unlikely to cover the property — for some insurers this can be as little as 30 days.”
#cemetery #emptyProperty #ghosts #Halloween #hauntedCity #hauntedHouse #houseInsurance #longTermUnoccupiedProperties #memorial #mostHauntedCity #oldHomes #oldHouses #Property #Swansea #vacantProperty #VictorianHousing
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It was just calm and quiet evening walk at Tartu.
#tartu #estonia #eveningwalk #beautiful #evening #city #cookieshop #cafeteria #oldhouses #history #veskistreet #veskitn #coffeeshop #woodenhouse #lion #art #streetart #houseart #suomalainen #virossa
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It was just calm and quiet evening walk at Tartu.
#tartu #estonia #eveningwalk #beautiful #evening #city #cookieshop #cafeteria #oldhouses #history #veskistreet #veskitn #coffeeshop #woodenhouse #lion #art #streetart #houseart #suomalainen #virossa
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Daily selection of Tartu from Karlova.
#oldhouses #tartu #karlova #estonia #oldbuildnings #history #photography #photographing #walk #houses #oldcity #amazingtartu #smartphonephotography
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Daily selection of Tartu from Karlova.
#oldhouses #tartu #karlova #estonia #oldbuildnings #history #photography #photographing #walk #houses #oldcity #amazingtartu #smartphonephotography
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Daily selection of Tartu from Karlova.
#oldhouses #tartu #karlova #estonia #oldbuildnings #history #photography #photographing #walk #houses #oldcity #amazingtartu #smartphonephotography
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Daily selection of Tartu from Karlova.
#oldhouses #tartu #karlova #estonia #oldbuildnings #history #photography #photographing #walk #houses #oldcity #amazingtartu #smartphonephotography
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Daily selection of Tartu from Karlova.
#oldhouses #tartu #karlova #estonia #oldbuildnings #history #photography #photographing #walk #houses #oldcity #amazingtartu #smartphonephotography
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I had a walk today and I just fell in love with this old neighborhood. It started to feel like it's so easy to fall in love everyday. ... Like... Is this the princess castle and the tower where I wanted live as a child? Of course in between the Tarzan plays. I was the only girl though, boy-girl, I could never be the Tarzan. I was the monkey.
#history #houses #tartu #memories #oldhouses #amazingtartu #eveningwalk #tartu #estonia #newcity #newrules #lovely #view
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In today's episode of mystery wallpaper, we have this stuff!
Anybody know ANYTHING about these remnant samples? There are three patterns. In both cases the cross-hatch version went down first. In some cases, it was covered either by the small circles paper, in other cases, it was covered by the random organic pattern.
but!
In some cases there are two layers of the SAME pattern.
And all of it was on plaster.
And then it was all painted over.
I think this was out of date paper when it was installed, and may have been painted immediately after installation. It's all very old.
Clues, anyone?
#architecture #InteriorDesign #vintage #OldHouses #Craftsman #ArtsAndCrafts
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It's 84 degrees in my bedroom, as it has been every night for a month except a few cool days. I am sweating buckets.
My landlord won't respond when I ask him to please put the air conditioner back in my window. He insists it gets taken out every winter.
Do you think it's safe to hire a handyman to do it? The second floor of this 100-yr old farmhouse (with zero insulation) is very high up. There's only the tiniest window ledge to balance it on. It usually takes 2 people to put it in. I worry it may fall or damage the old wood window. But I must do something #toohot #Weather #oldhouses #airconditioner #sweating
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14/n After two months of work (so far), it's looking like a house! Shingles are up to the roof on all sides of the house. Gutters are up around the porch, and along the south side of the house.
Monday should be warm, and dry, enough for some painting to get done. I'm looking forward to seeing the windows yellow instead of white.
#ResidentialArchitecture #Architecture #OldHouse #Restoration #OldHomes #ColorStudy #OldHouses #ColorPalette
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13/n Some of the downspouts will descend alongside the enclosed brick porch. Those will be a bricky red, to avoid the clash of the blue against brick.
#ResidentialArchitecture #Architecture #OldHouse #Restoration #OldHomes #ColorStudy #OldHouses #ColorPalette
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12/n The new gutter color, "Pacific Blue", started going up on Monday. So it's the final choice. And it's the best of the three.
#ResidentialArchitecture #Architecture #OldHouse #Restoration #OldHomes #ColorStudy #OldHouses #ColorPalette
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11/n Last week, we learned that the 2nd gutter color choice, "Ivy Green", had been discontinued by the manufacturer. The gutters themselves are seamless, extruded on-site from large rolls of finished sheet metal. Pre-fab parts, such as corner miters, are not, and critical parts were no longer stocked.
So, last Friday I chose yet a third gutter color ...
#ResidentialArchitecture #Architecture #OldHouse #Restoration #OldHomes #ColorStudy #OldHouses #ColorPalette
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10/n It's been a month, and lots of changes in that time.
3 weeks ago, I selected the color for the window casings, and possibly other trim: Benjamin Moore's "Hathaway Gold".
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My Freedom Avenue House, shortly after I moved in, in 1994. #victorianhomes #oldhouses #1990s
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My Freedom Avenue House, shortly after I moved in, in 1994. #victorianhomes #oldhouses #1990s
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The toxic, corrosive reason #saltwater intrusion would be a catastrophe for #NewOrleans
By Ella Nilsen, CNN
Published Oct 16, 2023 12:14 PM EDT
"It would be a nightmare for any city: A massive wedge of saltwater creeping up the Mississippi River, contaminating drinking water at treatment plants one-by-one and threatening the health of hundreds of thousands of residents.
"But it’s a looming catastrophe for New Orleans, where officials estimate that tens of thousands of the city’s water pipes are made of lead.
"New Orleans is far from the only city in the US with lead pipes, but over the last few weeks it faced the possibility that, without a herculean and costly effort to stop it, saltwater could corrode those pipes and leach toxic metals into the drinking water supply."
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