My Money Pit Called A House

well some of you may not know i've been doing a Bob Vila special with my house and restoring America so i'd have a place to live. here is perty much the whole story since i know ya'll want to hear it.

once apon a time there was a school house built in Boston GA. it was a 2 room school house the bigger side was for the begining education and the other side was for the higher education. half of the other side was a concrete area that was used as a "vocational" school to teach women how to do canned goods. this was in 1904.

then during WWII the "Vocational" side was eliminated due to the young boys going into the draft and the whole half for higher education was turned into a canning plant to make canned goods for families that were strugling during the war due to no males being around to provide for them.

then in the late 40's early50's Boston had a new school house built less than a block from the old school house and it had multiple rooms for classes and the old school house was renovated into a living house for the principal of the school.

in the late 60's the Boston school burnt down and it was about the same time as integration was going on and all the schools were trying to combine together to create a "central" school Hence Thomas County Central Middle School and Thomas County Central High School.

the house sit vacant for a few years until in the early 70's the county auctioned it off to the public. my grandfather lived across the street from the house and he didn't want 1 particular person to buy it because he told him he was going to tear the house down and put up a gas station on the property. needless to say my grandfather bought the house and lot next to it for $5,000 and had his garden on the lot for YEARS after that until he passed in 89' and him and my grandmother rented out the house up until a couple of years ago.

when me and my wife got married we were looking at houses to buy as i don't ever want to have to rent if i can avoid it. we found a few houses but i wanted either one finished ready to go or a diamond in the rough. well my grandmother is now like 80ish and can't drive at night so we descided to fix up the old rental house and stay across the street from her. (atleast i know i could get some good cookin' every once in a while)

my cousin had been renting the house but was over a year behind on rent and him being family my grandmother wouldn't kick him out. he kept saying that he wasn't gonna pay rent till we fixed the place up. well he let it get so bad that you could see the sky from the living room and from inside the garage with the doors closed. it was a big job to do so we found a jack of all trades (master of not a damn thing) to come in and do some of the work to get it livable again. there is alot i did like add a walk in closet in the master bedroom, converted the 1/2 bath into a full bath, and opened up a wall from the kitchen to the dining room and built a bar. here are some before and after pics for ya'll to see.





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