Come Inside This Cozy 1740 Home In Salem, MA
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Old New England houses are like no other homes anywhere in the United States. The charm, elegance and character these homes have is incredible! This house is no exception.
Location: Salem, MA
Year Built: 1740
Beds: 2
Baths: 1
Sq Ft: 1,358
Acres: 0.02
Beautiful ❤ I’ve never loved an old basement so much !
I would absolutely live in the basement if this was my home.
Please protect this house from HGTV and all those crazy designers! This house is absolutely spot-on perfection.
Beautiful. As long as you're in Salem, you should make your way a bit further north to Newburyport, Mass. Lots of beautiful17th and 18th Century Colonial and Federalist homes there.
Bulls eye glass panes on the door, still get them widely in UK.. Beautiful house, love the green.. thank you for showing us round. Subscribed.
This home is stunning, thank you for the tour!
It is refreshing to see a home of this era done up with such accuracy. The colors, even down to the painted floors, are spot on period correct. The bulls eye glass and that door latch on the front door are the frosting on the cake. Seeing this home was a real treat!
Well, it is a functioning bathroom…the original housemistress would have loved running hot water to soak in that simple tube.
Agreed! The original housemistress would have loved to have had a bathroom...
I would literally give up showers for this house. I love it love everything about it
The only thing that makes showering awkward here is the slanted painted roof. From experience, a showerhose is much better than those odd showerheads in a wall. 😊
Same. Totally worth it. I've lived without a shower before and it's not the end of the world.
Actually lived the teals in the living room. I believe that all the colors used in the home are historically accurate.
I agree
Gorgeous as is. Cannot imagine living in a home built in 1740! Feel the history!!!
And the ghosts 😅
Ohhhh..my dream house..I wouldn't change a thing..❤
Me either!
An old roommate of mine bought a condo in the 1st floor of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s original home where he wrote the Scarlet Letter. It was very roomy and each room had a fireplace. Salem is so cool to visit as is Marblehead
I know that house!
Personally I'd love to see an AGA stove and an old fashioned refrigerator in the kitchen. The stainless didn't impress me. Lovely home tho.
years ago, my friend and I knew of a classic appliance shop here in California.
we had a1950's stove that we were refurbishing, and this place sold parts.
while we were there, we saw an old wood stove that had been converted into an
electric one, it was so clever! where the holes in the top were, they had installed
electric burners, and had replaced the mechanical valves with electric controls for
the burners and the oven, which had also been converted. it was so awesome!
but out of our price range, and would not have gone with out 1950's kitchen.
But, was wonderful to see someones ingenuity at converting it over.
Yes. Or the refrigerator hidden in a cabinet that matched the other cabinets in the room
100 percent
I'd rip out all the cupboards and put in old free-standing units. Hoosier cabinets aren't of the correct timeframe, but they're delightfully functional. It's not that we don't have enough storage space in our kitchens. It's that we have too much CRAP!
@gnostic268 - Yes! Hiding the fridge in a cupboard would be the perfect solution!
This house is totally livable. Get a banister installed for the stairs and add a sofa to the living room and take out the buffet table. Downstairs is a living room and dining room combined. It's great. Get a bike or car to drive into town. Perfect
They don't make houses like this anymore beautiful
Of course they do. Materials change but a house is just a structure. They build them “like this” every day.
@@ericjohnson4230no they dont
@@ericjohnson4230 No one is building a house today that is 240 years old.
That basement (cellar?) room is great. Bathroom sure is limited with options, though I might be tempted to find a small claw-foot tub instead, and disguise that sewer stack somehow. Great little house, though I prefer more land around a home. Perhaps there was more at one time, though this looks like a town house. How many changes has it seen over all those years? Thanks for posting this.
I'd probably keep the tub, it's such a tiny space, a claw foot tub would be difficult to fit.
Since bathrooms were not original features of homes of this era I think I'd choose practicality over style.
Enjoyed the video Andrew. The main entrance door handle is unique, especially with the bullseye glass panes. The color pallet in the houses you show sometimes don't appeal to me but I think the owners may have went with historical colors. As for the painted floors I prefer the natural wood too. Which many of the historical New England homes have eastern white pine floors.That is a tight bathroom but functional. I would have to install a shower for sure. Wow, that basement is a cool place especially with the two barrel vault recesses on both sides. I wonder what those were built for originally? Did you notice the size of those rocks in the foundation basement wall. Thanks for the video. Take care and God bless.
The arches in the basement are the base of the chimney. The paint in such vivid colors especially the blue green would have been available to only the wealthy. Earth tones would be more appropriate for 1740, but maybe the owners didn’t want to live that far in the past.
That blue green was striking, I loved it (after the initial surprise) it was refreshing to see period correct colors throughout the house.
@12snapper43 - The original homeowners of this fine little town home would have had the means to use these period correct colors.
Whomever did the restoration of this home did a stunningly accurate job with the painted finishes.
Salamandra glass from Portsmouth in the window of the yellow bedroom! Omg! I miss New England.
Love this home!!
Amazing door!! So charming! My house is 1958 and just about the same square footage. My kitchen/dining room is smaller.
This is gorgeous. Very thoughtful conservation. Salem is filled with pre-Revolution or pre-Civil War houses. In any other city these houses would be in the "historic" part of town but Salem IS the historic part and the houses are everywhere. The best part is they're all lived in like normal houses.
That basement - WOW!!! 🤯
This house is gorgeous! Just think that people have raised entire families in small houses.
I think this house is so charming ❤
I would never change a house that old...never...its perfect as is!
I love a fireplace in the kitchen. I always wanted one and an Aga cooker. The stairs must have a handrail for safety.
I believe the glass on the front door is called bullet glass. Great video.
Bullseye. 😅
@@judithmontmarquette-nq6bn Yup, Bullseye. Thx.
Bulls eye glass
I lived in an apartment building that was built in the 30s that had a bathtub arrangement similar to this one including the sprayer on the hose instead of a tub spout. However, instead of a sloped ceiling, there were cabinets above the tub. I don't recommend a tub that doesn't have enough clearance for a stand-up shower head. I'm only 5' 2" and that got old very quickly.
The only thing I might change is the paint in the bathroom, but I would still opt for something period accurate. What a beautiful home! So lovely, thanks for the your.
I wouldn't change a thing! This house is perfect.
I grew up in North Reading, MA, and our neighbors’ house up the street was from the 1700s.
I love the green 😊
I do like painted plank floors. I think that was how they were originally treated. I owned a home with plank floors. Kitchen floor was painted, the rest were varnished. The paint was lower maintenence.
So well maintained...Beautiful
Those Windsor-style chairs in the parlor side of the basement! (I don’t know if that’s the right name.) So stark but elegant and and architectural! [*swoon*]
It's beautiful, but only for young people with no arthritis. An active family wouldn't have enough space. Hats off to the people who don't mind discomfort to live in a historical home!
Basement is a winner selling point!
Perfect for a couple or a single.
So charming ! This house is cozy and has character. Love it.
Love this!
Had to check this out, the exterior looks exactly like a house around the corner from where i lived in the Plateau Mont Royal area of Montreal, Quebec. That particular area had originally been a couple if little villages back in the mid 1800s before being incorporated into the city proper at the end of the century. It's a great neighbourhood with a variety of historical houses next to modern apartment buildings.
Nice my uncle used to work in the Sheriff Dept in the 60s in Salam Mass. My sister used to live across from the House of the 7 Gables.
I don’t care for the green either, but it has good bones
While strange to modern eyes, those colors are period correct.
LOVE the green!
That basement made me gasp with joy!!
The basement is the best part of the house.
My favorite part of the house was the basement. I, also, like the floors and the fireplaces. I would, however, change most of the furnishing and try to get more period pieces.
Great basement!
The basement was the best part of the house.
I loved the whole house and the color choices too.
The basement was FANTASTIC! And a great use of space because there wasn’t a lot of room on the main floor. Gorgeous home but I couldn’t live there. A bit claustrophobic and the bathroom situation wasn’t ideal. But than again I’m Second Empire Victorian super fan.😂
I’m in love… this is an American classic. It’s just me and my husband, so it’s the perfect size. Yes I’d make changes, however I’d keep to the colonial style…. So historic🇺🇸
Historicus, a Latin word that means historical.
What great use of the basement!
Nice house. Love, love the basement. It's the best part.
Just gorgeous. I could give up showers.
Love this house!
I’d change the vinyl siding to wood and the asphalt roof to shingles.
I would definitely refinish all the painted floors back to natural wood stain and I can see a fairly easy solution to have a traditional shower head in the tub so yes I would do some work on the bathroom. I like the kitchen but I think I'd have to have more cabinets, both upper and lower with counter space so look at sympathetically adding to the kitchen. I don't mind the green color in the living room, I know that the green color was one of the colors that was used back then so historically accurate. The bedroom fireplace I just would make sure they all had fireplace mantels that went with the era of the home so that would be something slightly different. The lower living space aka basement looks wonderful and only additional thing I would want for not only My safety but my dogs safety especially since one of them is blind is to have a railing system added to the lower stairs. I wish we had seen the outside rear of the home and property even though it is a very small lot. I wish it had more property. If this property was able to have this done I would like to have a 1/2 bath on the main level and also on the basement at a minimum and if possible a shower installed with it on the basement level in case you have company staying down stairs or young one's who don't mind the trek down there and Back up.
Love the house. I dont think it is small.
I live in an old house on Cape Cod, MA. I wonder how difficult it was to get the furniture up the stairway. I have trouble with that. At least hers goes straight up, no curves. My basement is a cylinder/ root cellar and dirt crawl space; not nice.
I love it! ❤
Love. Love. Love.💕
Don't change a thing. If I owned this house, I would open it up to the public for free tours for a few days during the months of Oct and Dec. Great educational value for kids too.
That’s insane to think that thos house was around during the French and Indian wars
I'd make a few paint changes, but that's just cosmetic choices. Well done and huzzah to the remodeling effort.
Admittedly those colors are surprising to modern eyes, but they are absolutely period correct.
This home is one of the most perfectly decorated homes of that vintage I have seen (except for the kitchen - but even there the color is an authentic one).
I like the green
Maybe add a bathroom with a shower in the basement?
I'll live in the attic!
The bedrooms are cozy but the bathroom needs to be reconfigured
It is always a challenge to find the space to fit a bathroom in to a small colonial era home.
I'd probably keep this one and think about installing a more luxurious one in the cellar (which would not have been finished as living space originally).
I want a house like this! I like the green but not so much the wallpaper
Very nice except for the odd bathroom.
I think I would see about adding another bathroom in the basement - with a shower.
Nice.
I would live in the basement!!
This house is 58 sqft larger than my 3 bedroom 2 bathroom house and I had a Smaller kitchen sqft wise but much more cabinets, drawers and countertops. Just depends on how it's set up.
The basement is beautiful! ❤
Original hardwoods should never be painted, I grew up with them, so awesome, they were varnished. Like the living room on this one. Wish it was totally original!
200 year old wood flooring is raw wood and does splinter. The paint prevents the floor from severly drying out. The coloring of the rooms is typical of the time period. Piping for modern stuctures in old homes tend to be a nightmare. No room, and having to take down the walls and put the plaster back up is not easy.
Btw, hardwood floors in the 1950's had aluminum oxide added to them in the manufacturing process, which strengthens the wood, prevents the wood from drying out and splintering.
Gorgeous house!! And that basement is amazing. I'd spend all of my time down there
Beautiful! Thank you!
I personally love the green paint around the fireplace and windows in the living room. Nice pop of much needed color in my opinion.
Totally update bathroom.
I prefer stained flooring To many bright colors. Magnificent home. Thank you from Vermont/FloridA
The paint is ok, but I'm a believer in original woodwork. I also like non-painted floors. Keep the bathroom the way it is.
Kathleenschiller2767, I agree with you 100%. Keep the floor natural, not plant them.
I mean paint.
Actually, this home is period correct in having painted floors and strong colors.
The townsfolk considered painted finishes to be a sign of success, and felt that only the poorest country folk would have bare wood.
@@lapsedluddite3381 Strong colors for sure! Blue greens and red oranges contrast too much for me in those small rooms, but I can't say that it isn't interesting
I think it should be part of a historic museum! ❤
Bathroom is ugly. Needs help.
Beautiful ❤ who lived/lives there?
This house is incredible. I would redecorate but it's wonderful. I like the floors BUT I would have kept them natural just due to their history.
Actually, painted floors are more correct for the era. Our colonial forbears were fond of strong colors, and painted finishes were considered a sign of being well off. They believed only poor people would still have bare wood.
@@lapsedluddite3381 ACTUALLY I was stating what I would do. Old wood is historic and beautiful. I don't care if they painted it or not. Reel it in.
Those were Bullseye glass panes in the front door. Impossible to buy, unfortunately. Tried to put in my Cape Cod front door in Ohio but no one would sell them to me..
Very nice home. ❤ thanks for sharing 😊
Too bad it wasn't restored to this original time
Love the green!
Charming little house😊❤
Lovely Thanks 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
cute, small but mighty
Sweet!! Agree on the green, not big on that
i think houses back than where small. people did not collect al ot of stuff nor did they have a lot of clothing. the house is nice and i would restore it all back to what was in it when it was first built. ok... cept the bathroom.. i have to have a bath lolo
Actually, as far as the colors and the painted floors, this home is absolutely period correct. It has the most accurate color scheme I have seen on this channel so far (but I do still have many videos left to binge...).
Green paint ■ love it!! M
Please, never, never ever paint wood floors. It's tacky workmanship . My opinion.
It would be nice if the details of the tour came with historical information. Like showing us the windows and explaining how they were made back then and why there’s ripples. Instead of just giving your opinion throughout the video. I’m not sure that making the tour just to voice your opinion of what you like and what you don’t is really what we as your viewers want.