Jones Revival

1 of 6 trees 🎄🎅🏻

Christmas is loading over here🥹🎄🎅🏻

I’ve been slacking with posting updates here.. life has been busy 🤣

We spent the weekend prepping our walls to install new wallpaper from York Wallcoverings. The stairwell will feature their bird and blossom chinoiserie in gold. The second floor hallway is going to have a high wainscoting painted antique white with the cross weave grasscloth above it. Stay tuned!

This past week we’ve been working on restoring some of our attic windows that were in desperate need of fixing. Most people would look at the before photo and throw them in the trash. Trust us, it’s so enticing to go buy new windows and not put the work in to preserve these, but then the originality of our home will be compromised.

A little sweaty equity and time, they are brand new and ready for their next chapter!

You may have noticed that we finally finished the railings on our porch. And then added some cute pumpkin decor this weekend 🎃

After 2 years of working on the porch, we finally have railings again!

Starting our balustrades. We’ve had the balusters sitting in our garage for 2 years now lol.

Beginning to wrap up this chapter of our restoration and we can’t believe how beautiful it looks. There are still some final things to complete— moulding to add in, touching up stain, hardware, and furniture.

Sitting on the stairs admiring how far we have come 😭

Glimpses of our restored staircase wood 😍👀

Happy Pride 🌈 ❤️

This foyer is starting to feel like a permanent glimpse into the past. Sometimes I think about amount of people who walked through these doors in the last 137 years. What they were there for, who they were visiting, and why?

We have found newspaper clippings from all different events over the years including weddings, dances, family gatherings, car accidents, funerals, and even one son who escaped his bedroom and jumped a train to Wilkes Barre.

We will never know how our home looked originally, but a heavy wood entrance & period appropriate lighting just feels right. And while we haven’t had any weird happenings, I’m sure the ghosts will let us know if they don’t approve.