Awesome find

Today we started pulling the siding off of the front of the house. It was an overcast day so the temperature didn't get too hot and we were able to work into the afternoon. Scott does most of the ripping off of the siding so he worked hard all morning getting the siding off in record time.

There were a few little holes that will need to be patched but mostly the front is in really good shape like the rest of the house.
The highlight of the day was this awesome find. See in the first picture how there is a rectangular hole that has been patched with newer wood? Well, I went into the attic to see it there used to be a window in that spot and look what I found:


There were two of the three missing panes laying on the attic floor which we will be able to put back in so as of right now there is only one missing pane which we will have made if we can't find it in the attic. It's hard to explain how awesome this is but I will try. Because we live in an historic district there are a lot of things we can't do to our house, like make changes to the outside structure that are not historically accurate. Our attic has a lot of space that we are hoping to one day convert to usable space and in connection with that we have talked a lot about putting a window in the front of the house where a future sitting room would be located. Before our find today that would have been virtually impossible with all the historic rules. Now though we have proof that there used to be a window in that location and so we would actually be making more historically accurate by putting the window back in place. Also before today our house was one of the most boring houses on our block it's just flat int he front with no embellishments well no more, soon we will have a beautiful stained glass window in the front to add light, life and character to our house.