The razor blade is from 1926. There is a formula with the number on the blade. 2153 The first number = the decade so 2 would be 1920. Second number + third number = the year of that decade so 1+5=6 1920 + 6 = 1926 Second number + fourth number = the week of that year it was made so 1+3 = 4 = 4th week of 1926. You may also want to put a paint lid or something over the toilet hole so gases dont come up in the house lol Loving the progress!!
Yes back gases are never pleasant. You may get them do to the fax water has not gone down the drain in some time. Over a long period of time water will Evaporate Trap.
I've seen people stuff a rag in the hole to keep the gases out. I'm trying to figure out why he's not using the existing area for his new toilet and putting his new sink where the pipes for the tub are.
@@rainydaylady6596 - owner is getting rid of tub so I assume he wants to redesign space to make it look like a welcoming powder room with new tile, floor, etc but keeping the two internal windows. He's also got a layer of concrete under the tile to get rid of, that the former owner put in, perhaps when this original butler's pantry was repurposed as a full bath in the house.
I hope you don't get too down on yourself about the speed of your progress! The house is coming along beautifully, and progress is progress, regardless of the speed. Try not to let 'slow' become a factor in judging the value or the worth of your progress. The house took a century to come to the state it's in, reversing the hands of time is hard work and the steps you take forward can come at your pace. In the grand scheme, a passion project like this is for life, so why sprint this early in the game? You're doing great. Thank you for sharing this incredible project with us! Your passion and joy for it is infectious.
In old houses (and even through the 60s) there was often a slit in the back wall of the medicine cabinet that was placed against an open cavity in the wall for razor blade disposal. Perhaps that’s how the razor blade got there’s:)
@@kate_cooper the bathroom mirror had a little opening and people would dispose of them like that. It sounds weird now, but it was a "modern convenience" at the time lol
I've lived in several old houses that had slits in the medicine cabinet for blade disposal. I've even read a science fiction short story where this was used in the plot.
“The old girl’s got her hat back on and she’s ready to go to town!” Lol This literally made me laugh out loud. I say random stuff like this all the time so I love it. Great to hear of all the stuff on the go and on the horizon with this project! ❤️
I did that on a greyhound bus going from DC to North Carolina 1997. It was Thanksgiving weekend so the traffic was horrible with lots of queing. When the bus driver told us we are arriving in 5 min , I just blurred loudly out "Thanks heaven" (from the 7-Eleven commercial) in relif that we could finally get off the bus. I gave the part of the bus I was sitting in a real good laugh. I am Swedish so it was probably extra funny with my accent.
Here’s an idea for that pattern on the walls. I had something similar and I got a stensil blank and cut the pattern in, rolled the paint on Then I only had to connect the gaps by hand. Much quicker and more precise. Love your videos and never miss a one!
Awesome Video, i thoght when i saw the puzzle box that it was made in Germany with the american machine. The German boy i am, i did some research and found an article about Sawinsky on the webpage of the history club of Troisdorf in Germany. Troisdorf is located between Bonn and Cologne. Born on December 28, 1884, Sawinksky owned at age 18 a toy factory and was very famous for complex 3D-wodden puzzles. He travelled all the way via route 66 to the St. Lois fair to promote his toys. It was a big success.
The puzzle is amazing! The alabaster - I used to clean those when I was a Victorian house museum director. I saw this one and was ready to grab the q-tips, distilled water and ammonia to make her bonnet shine! Some things just never leave your heart. :D
As for the downstairs bathrooms art glass windows they could be repurposed and backlit to operate off the bathroom's entry light switch. That would preserve the original features and have them serve a purpose. A suggestion for the wallpaper reproduction is to create the pattern on a linoleum block to print either on paper or directly on the walls. Good progress and Happy New Year.
If this is decided then he could use some kind of clear topcoat or even acrylic sheets on top to protect them from the damp. I love the backlit windows idea!
Little thought about the little chair table puzzle, maybe you or someone you know can 3d model it for you and maybe print it in wood fillament and you can sell them as a souvenir from the house?
Not a bad idea! Could even make up inexpensive paperboard boxes with a pasted on replica label on the front with another label on the back referencing the house info!
Pretty common to find razor blades behind tile and in wall cavities. Small gaps were sometimes made intentionally to be used as a disposal point. Once you tear into it I wouldn’t be surprised if you find more.
Just get a compost toliet or use a camping version until you get plumbing in. Good for emergencies anyway just in case of power outages or other water pipe woes.
This. A sawdust composting toilet works great! They are very inexpensive, stupid simple, and don't smell!!! Simply get a 5 gallon bucket, a "Luggable Loo" or similar snap-on seat/lid, and a bag of sawdust. I like to use a trash bag as a liner, but put a small amount of sawdust in the bottom and then use a cupfull to "cover up" every time you go. Because they are inexpensive & readily available you could have a "his & hers", one for each of you! I had to do this myself when my old septic system died a few winters ago, so I speak from experience!
Good morning Kaleb,hope you and Kim had a good holiday, can't wait to see one room completed! Keep up the good work and am looking forward to tour next video.
Who ever editing making this and all other videos are AWESOME! You should possibly due a video on how/who is helping…? We take for granted our RUclips experiences sometimes, but too much TALENT is put into actual creation of these videos!
That little puzzle is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I just was going through the comments hoping somebody knew what the extra pieces were for and can't wait to find out if you find out. Great job!! Your Enthusiasm is contagious and I love that you are so enamored with revealing what's under everything in your house. I would be the same way. And I truly commend you for all of the effort you're putting in to bring back the amazingly beautiful wood. Can't wait for the next episode!
So glad you plan to continue the channel. I have grown to love you and Kim and want to keep following your lives. I am 76 and my husband remodeled my parents old house that had been empty for years when we bought the property from my siblings. We have bern here for 20+ years now. You never get done is right! Needs change so house changes! So I enjoy your channel! You have great plans and you are so real! Bless you.
This house could not have gotten a better owner! No one would put their heart into preserving the house as authentic as you are or do the work so thoroughly as you, Kaleb. Thank you so much for sharing your process in restoring the houses soul and heart and making it possible for people like me in the northern most of Norway to tag along!
I normally just watch but I swear my great grandmother had one of those little puzzles and it unlocked an old memory of her babysitting me an playing with those wooden chairs.
Watching this take shape all along - it's really beginning to take shape nicely. I mean from where it started until now is like night and day. There is a long way to go no doubt about it - but your efforts, your constant work on it all in as original a form as possible - is admirable. And the video you did of the whole house tour - a room at a time - seeing a lot of things cleaned up, in their place, and having the plans of what is going to happen and when - well just FORCE ME to keep watching - but you won't have to because it's been an amazing journey to watch. You've all done an incredible job and it's really coming back to life. Brilliant Kaleb. Great great work.
I love listening to you talk about your plans for the different rooms and then seeing the progress toward that plan. I’m very excited about the powder room floor being redone with encaustic tiles. That will be gorgeous.🌸
Can't wait Kaleb! I've been making sure to comment on every single video of yours this last year to make sure the algorithm understands we love this project. It might make you more money once you get even more followers which in turn gives me more videos, a win win :)
I finally caught up on all the videos from the start, and just in time to begin season 2 and the new year! I've been binge watching your entire channel over the past few months in my spare time to catch up on this amazing project. Thank you for sharing this with the world. I just wanted to say that you've given me a real appreciation for the old buildings and architecture like this. I've done a complete 180 with my mindset! I come from Baltimore City, and while I don't live/work in there anymore, I always had the cynical attitude that the whole place should just drop into the bay due to the crime and negligence with all the rowhouses falling down. It's pretty depressing and hopeless. But then I find you and St Louis here, and it gives hope that it is actually possible to restore these old buildings. While the rowhomes I see aren't quite this fancy, it's been cool to actually recognize very similar elements like the wood trim around the interior doorways. And now, when I see such houses, I think about all the lovely wood that's been painted over and I think about you stripping it back to glory. I had no clue that such old rotten things could actually be fixed, so it's been very educational and enlightening to watch you literally bring the place back to life. And not only just the building, but all the furniture, fixtures, and other trinkets. I mean, your appreciation for such things holds no bounds! Even finding all that "trash" in the yard with the metal detecting and appreciating that. It really is extremely uplifting to see you find literal treasure in literal trash. It really is about the attitude, and now I see things your way. It's been refreshing. So now that I'm caught up, I can subscribe and follow along and keep learning and turning around my cynical mindset towards these buildings from "just knock the death trap down already" to "how could this be restored". Thank you for sharing all of this, and keep up the good work with the positive vibe and everything you do! Happy new year.
@@The2ndEmpireStrikesBack It's also amazing this community that has risen up around "your" house and "your" project, of course you're having an impact! And yet you still have time to read and reply to youtube comments. Nobody over 100k subs does that! I'm an engineer by day, so I love hearing you talk about all your details and plans for each space, your passion is contagious. And even if we're not all restoring houses, it's the mindset/attitude shift that you're encouraging that helps build up the general support for projects like this. I've always thought it would be cool to build a place or fix one up, so this is motivating for that. We've actually got an old early 1900's "four-square" house in the family that isn't quite as neglected as yours, but is in almost as bad shape from neglect, sabotage, and water damage. The asbestos siding is still perfect though lol. But the thought in the family has always been to knock it down because as they say "the land is worth more without the house on it". Maybe I'll end up with the house and can do something to it, it's on a quaint mainstreet and everything. It's just such a waste and shame when old things get "too far gone" so you're definitely an encouragement that there is still hope. On one of your videos, you acquired an old map of St. Louis and you pointed to where your house is, and out of curiosity, I found it on Google pretty easily and was very surprised to see how much open green space there is with just empty residential streets. Even worse than the clearing done in Baltimore. So all the best to you to save the place as your local impact spreads out to the whole world here on youtube!
Kaleb, The red glass item is Bohemian Glass wine decanter. There would be matching wine glasses to go the decanter. It would be kept in the dining room.
I'm so excited to see this beautiful house restored. I absolutely love the decanter, I noticed it had grapes on it so it was probably used for wine! Much love!
My guess is that the decanter was used for sherry or port wine, because of its size. Definitely etched Bohemian Glass. So fun to watch the progress and acquisitions. All the best for 22!
The bathroom wallpaper would be relatively easy to duplicate via stenciling. If you can take a hi res photo, it can be cleaned up in adobe and a pattern created to stencil it. Since this is a a low use bathroom (no shower or tub) you could, once you have a design image, have it duplicated on spoonflower. This would give you an opportunity to select the base color. More importantly you can have your own "historic wallpaper" (in varrious colorways) that you can sell and offset some of your restoration costs.
A great idea, and since it's going to be a powder room, there's no worry about steam lifting the wallpaper. I think it would look more authentic as wallpaper.
Clue to the mystery razor… they used to build a slot into the wall where you could dispose of your used razor blade. Can’t tell you the exact era, sorry, but I have seen them in houses built from around your house’s era, and a few decades after. Congrats on the second season, here’s to moving into the house with a working bathroom in 2022! 🎊🎉🥂
Maybe there was a medicine cabinet over the sink at one time? They had the slots for razor blades built in, too…There could be a ton of old rusty razor blades inside that wall! Lol
@@melodyfisher1512 Maybe so. Didn’t know they had medicine cabinets like that too. Wonder if they did that when they stopped building the slot into the wall. Seems like when they put that white tile in, the may have cleaned out most of the razors, but missed one.
@@janice7467 That’s very cool! Wonder who came up with the idea of just disposing of old razor blades in the wall. Bit odd, really, and yet kind of makes sense. Best way to make sure no one accidentally cuts themselves on an old blade, unless you’re tearing the wall out.
Amazing & Beautiful house!! I am so excited to see it finished, don't worry about ur progress...slow is smooth, smooth is fast👍😁 I Love the heart ur putting into preservation & restoration! Good luck to u.❤️
I had a 1920s home and the bathroom was mostly original. The medicine cabinet had a little slot that was for you to put your used razor blades in and it would just go into the wall. What a silly thing but I loved it
The little puzzle from the World's Fair a neat find! So special! I like the idea of your painting the wallpaper pattern you found on the walls of the bathroom!
Loved the small furniture set, cut from one block of wood without computers, just by eye and hopefully a full set of fingers. Powder room definitely sounds like a priority.
Those tiles are to die for! A shower. During my remodel I made a shower in the basement using a garden hose with a sprayer tied to the floor joist of the first floor. It worked ;-)
As Nanci Bishof said, making a stamp from a linoleum block or making a stencil of the pattern is a great idea. I can hardly wait to see the rebuild on the mansard. Restorable? YES! Easy? Not even! Worth the effort and wait? A big "Hell Yeah!"
I love watching you work on this beauty. It inspires me. Our craftsman house was in bad shape and it took us many many years and tears to rebuild it. Our family never came to check on us or ask about our progress. It was tough but we got it done. Good luck dude!
You are just too cute. I love your enthusiasm and your laugh. I can hardly wait to see the rooms you are trying to finish. Love your collection for the decor of the house. God Bless.
Omg ! So exciting to hear the plans for next 6 months ! Can’t wait to get to the point where your living there ! Super interesting and rewarding year ahead to look forward too !
That bathroom brought some memories and everything was smooth and rounded and was very textile to touch and be in. Your bath brought me some memories. We had a claw foot tub but it was never as comfortable as that built in very very very smooth porcelain and sink and yes even the toilet seat was soft and porcelain. You can't buy that now. I would try to keep it and revel in it, they don't make stuff like that now. It was a true joy to be in those bathrooms then and nobody's grout ever turned black.
Turning a house into a home is always perfect satisfaction; Especially if it's a joint venture 😃 May you and Kim remain focused and strong throughout all 😃❤️
Your channel has spoiled me for when RUclips recommends other channels of people working on old houses. So many people don't seem to care as much about preserving historical features.
First floor Powder Room will be A Great Project. Light 💡 Heat 🔥 & Plumbing 🛁 are major parts to a Home. You & Kim have done Much Work in Restoring Your Home. June will be A Great Time To Move In. New Year 🎉 Good Wishes from Galway ⚓, Ireland ☘. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
You have an ambitious schedule, but with good luck, good health and good weather you may be able to get it done. It would be such a big step to have enough completed so that you can move in!
Happy New Year! You are off to the races, as they say. We have 1930s tile set in concrete too, and you either leave it, or the whole floor has to come out. With two bathrooms, we did one of each, based on the condition. Replaced the floor of the one with swimming pool tile (the only tile we could find that nearly matched the two-color tile wainscotting on the walls) custom cut to fit. You are so thoughtful in your decisions to reuse, repurpose, gift, or sell items before recycling becomes the option, and items only hit the dumpster if there is no other option. Good on you, but I'm not surprised. That wood puzzle is fantastic! The perfect thing for you. I wonder if the 'ottoman' pieces with the cut-out could hold the flat piece with the wavy top at an angle and form a settee, with the final piece being the seat. It's the sort of thing kids will figure out right away. :D
I imagine little stain glasses in the small windows, to add to the design of the room and for privacy. Also, Happy New year Kaleb and Kim, I can’t wait to see all the changes to come ! :)
Wow love the little puzzle. I am also very happy you were able to get the tiles back for your fireplace. What a labor of love it is to restore and old place to its original glory.
Make a stencil for replicating the wallpaper pattern. You’ll have it done in no time. Vitroc (I think it’s called) glass tile….aaaahhhh soooo beautiful! Reusing it is a must! I saw some black and 20’s green Vitroc for sale on eBay. It’s out there so if you don’t have enough and also to make a contrasting color Art Deco design.
Happy new year Kaleb, I hope you and Kim had a great holiday with your family! I am so excited to see the powder room after it's finished, I loved the look of the tiles you showed and I think they'll look great once you get them in. Good luck with everything, it's such a huge project but I know you and Kim can take it on. The old girl may have her hat back on, but remember, now she needs her dress and her pumps, too! 😜
OMG!! That wooden puzzle is the BEST!!! What a treasure!!! Older medicine cabinets had a slot in the back, to discard razor blades. You might find quite a few...lol I can't wait to see completed rooms, see you guys moved in!!
Stuck at home with Covid and one of your videos came up on my recommended watches. Well, I'm hooked! You are doing an amazing thing, and have so many skills to tackle bringing this amazing house back to life! You've done a lot already and have such dedication. I have subscribed so I can see the Grand Old Lady when she is restored!
Happy new year! Nice to see all of your plans. I know Kim doesn't like the bloody carafe thing, but I really like it (gore and vampires, yay!) The small furniture set was so cute, what a great find. The bathroom plans sound beautiful. I would love to see some graphics of the house, of what room you are working in, so we can get a feel of the house. Like a picture of "now we are at the second floor bathroom" the room marked red on a overlay og something. Just an idea I had.
1) That is one elaborate stink pipe! 2) The Gillette blade is from one of their early "safety razors" - 1920's +/-. 3) Stencil. I would get a stencil made of that simple wallpaper pattern. Then you could paint it onto the plaster. Makes it a bit easier (and quicker) than painstakingly trying to draw straight lines.
I'm a fan of 20s style, I'm so glad you were able to get those vitrolite tiles off the wall without breaking them. Even if they're no use to you, someone else with another project will definitely want them. That little wooden furniture box is awesome. Did you figure out what all the extra pieces were? Happy New Year. ☺
I just found your channel a couple days ago, and I have been binging videos since. I can't wait to see the journey on this house, and I love that you're doing a restoration instead of a renovation! I have always loved old buildings, and I hope to be able to do something like this someday. But until then I am excited to live vicariously through you!
Caleb, maybe you could repurpose a portion of that black pipe from the bathroom by using it as an exterior lamp pole. If you welded some ornate iron pieces onto it & added the lamp itself, it could look pretty cool!
Coming along! Slow and steady wins the race, she will be gorgeous again when your done. Love the little puzzle table and chairs, too bad it didn’t have a paper inside to show you what it’s supposed to look like when it was taken apart.
Back in the day, medicine cabinets used to have a slot that you could put used razor blades into. They fell into the empty wall behind the sink. Strange, but true. I'm sure other things, like bobby-pins could fit in the slot, also.
You should wainscot the sewer stacks. It would match and you have the least destructive material should they fail. In your year end that hole in the mansard was scary large. Some drone footage of the work will be excellent. I think you can put them in hover mode. The tile slate is going to be so vibrant when installed.
Happy 2022! I’m looking forward to watching the progress continue on your beautiful home. You will be moving in before you know it. You are meant to be there.
Happy new year. I believe the Gillette razor blade is an original three pin razor from c. 1903. If you found it behind the tiles, if not construction debris, it is possible that the bathroom had a medicine cabinet with a slot in the rear for disposing of used blades. Often the used blade then simply fell into the wall cavity. Best of luck with all for ‘22!
Ohmygosh... I just finished watching the last video and literally ended up with the sniffles. So happy I didn't have to wait too long to get this new update! :P😅 and YAYY for the puzzle!!!
Awesome Season-2 Episode-1 Video!!! Love❤ what you accomplished this week & for the up & coming Plans for the next 6-months. I see nothing but Progress Progress Progress for your home & Your excitement to getting started on these Projects is Awesome. Looking forward to next week's episode Kaleb. 🎉Happy New Year🎉
I love how your passion for this house comes through on your videos. It makes me get so excited to see what you are doing next! I can't wait to see the old girl with her hat on
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The razor blade is from 1926.
There is a formula with the number on the blade.
2153
The first number = the decade so 2 would be 1920.
Second number + third number = the year of that decade so 1+5=6
1920 + 6 = 1926
Second number + fourth number = the week of that year it was made so 1+3 = 4 = 4th week of 1926.
You may also want to put a paint lid or something over the toilet hole so gases dont come up in the house lol
Loving the progress!!
Yes back gases are never pleasant. You may get them do to the fax water has not gone down the drain in some time. Over a long period of time water will Evaporate Trap.
I've seen people stuff a rag in the hole to keep the gases out. I'm trying to figure out why he's not using the existing area for his new toilet and putting his new sink where the pipes for the tub are.
@@rainydaylady6596 - owner is getting rid of tub so I assume he wants to redesign space to make it look like a welcoming powder room with new tile, floor, etc but keeping the two internal windows. He's also got a layer of concrete under the tile to get rid of, that the former owner put in, perhaps when this original butler's pantry was repurposed as a full bath in the house.
I hope you don't get too down on yourself about the speed of your progress! The house is coming along beautifully, and progress is progress, regardless of the speed. Try not to let 'slow' become a factor in judging the value or the worth of your progress. The house took a century to come to the state it's in, reversing the hands of time is hard work and the steps you take forward can come at your pace. In the grand scheme, a passion project like this is for life, so why sprint this early in the game? You're doing great. Thank you for sharing this incredible project with us! Your passion and joy for it is infectious.
The "vinegar decanter bottle" at 7:27 is called a cruet. Bohemian, cranberry cut to clear glass, most likely once a pair, circa 1890s. Very pretty!
Nice. Just saw as saw comment 🤣
In old houses (and even through the 60s) there was often a slit in the back wall of the medicine cabinet that was placed against an open cavity in the wall for razor blade disposal. Perhaps that’s how the razor blade got there’s:)
I was going to add the same thing, often they dumped into the wall cavity so you may find a pile of blades somewhere if you keep exploring...
People used to get rid of used razor blades by shoving them into a hole in the bathroom wall? You learn something new every day.
@@kate_cooper the bathroom mirror had a little opening and people would dispose of them like that. It sounds weird now, but it was a "modern convenience" at the time lol
So weird but interesting 🙂
I've lived in several old houses that had slits in the medicine cabinet for blade disposal. I've even read a science fiction short story where this was used in the plot.
Your enthusiasm is contagious, I suddenly feel like fixing something.
I tell my husband the SAME THING!! He usually grumbles oh great another project, we currently have a 1930s home.
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“The old girl’s got her hat back on and she’s ready to go to town!” Lol This literally made me laugh out loud. I say random stuff like this all the time so I love it. Great to hear of all the stuff on the go and on the horizon with this project! ❤️
I did that on a greyhound bus going from DC to North Carolina 1997. It was Thanksgiving weekend so the traffic was horrible with lots of queing. When the bus driver told us we are arriving in 5 min , I just blurred loudly out "Thanks heaven" (from the 7-Eleven commercial) in relif that we could finally get off the bus. I gave the part of the bus I was sitting in a real good laugh.
I am Swedish so it was probably extra funny with my accent.
Here’s an idea for that pattern on the walls. I had something similar and I got a stensil blank and cut the pattern in, rolled the paint on Then I only had to connect the gaps by hand. Much quicker and more precise. Love your videos and never miss a one!
Or cut the pattern on a linoleum block & use an ink roller to roll on paint then stamp the wall
Did you use regular wall paint?
Great idea!
Awesome Video, i thoght when i saw the puzzle box that it was made in Germany with the american machine.
The German boy i am, i did some research and found an article about Sawinsky on the webpage of the history club of Troisdorf in Germany. Troisdorf is located between Bonn and Cologne.
Born on December 28, 1884, Sawinksky owned at age 18 a toy factory and was very famous for complex 3D-wodden puzzles. He travelled all the way via route 66 to the St. Lois fair to promote his toys. It was a big success.
amazing
I'm confused, is 1984 the correct date?
@@xanderjames6510 sorry its 1884 my bad
The puzzle is amazing! The alabaster - I used to clean those when I was a Victorian house museum director. I saw this one and was ready to grab the q-tips, distilled water and ammonia to make her bonnet shine! Some things just never leave your heart. :D
I swear, I'm showing your channel to my husband the next time he gripes about doing one little small repair job to our home.
As for the downstairs bathrooms art glass windows they could be repurposed and backlit to operate off the bathroom's entry light switch. That would preserve the original features and have them serve a purpose. A suggestion for the wallpaper reproduction is to create the pattern on a linoleum block to print either on paper or directly on the walls. Good progress and Happy New Year.
If this is decided then he could use some kind of clear topcoat or even acrylic sheets on top to protect them from the damp. I love the backlit windows idea!
I too love the back-lit idea for the tiny windows, particularly if stained glass were used.
@@98Zai This will be a powder room without a shower so I wouldn't worry about moisture at all.
@@Ragnar8504 Well, he mentioned how he wasn't sure about using wallpaper in there because of it being a bathroom. So, I just dropped some ideas!
Backlit window is a great idea! Love the puzzle. How Cool! I really appreciate your effort to bring it back to an original form.
Little thought about the little chair table puzzle, maybe you or someone you know can 3d model it for you and maybe print it in wood fillament and you can sell them as a souvenir from the house?
Not a bad idea! Could even make up inexpensive paperboard boxes with a pasted on replica label on the front with another label on the back referencing the house info!
Excellent idea!
I would buy one, a great fundraiser idea!
I’d buy one, too! That puzzle is so very clever.
Great idea
Pretty common to find razor blades behind tile and in wall cavities. Small gaps were sometimes made intentionally to be used as a disposal point. Once you tear into it I wouldn’t be surprised if you find more.
Just get a compost toliet or use a camping version until you get plumbing in. Good for emergencies anyway just in case of power outages or other water pipe woes.
This. A sawdust composting toilet works great! They are very inexpensive, stupid simple, and don't smell!!!
Simply get a 5 gallon bucket, a "Luggable Loo" or similar snap-on seat/lid, and a bag of sawdust. I like to use a trash bag as a liner, but put a small amount of sawdust in the bottom and then use a cupfull to "cover up" every time you go.
Because they are inexpensive & readily available you could have a "his & hers", one for each of you!
I had to do this myself when my old septic system died a few winters ago, so I speak from experience!
He’ll have to make sure they are legal where he lives.
Typically a decorative bottle that held vinegar is called a cruet. Hopefully that helps! Beautiful bottle!
I am pretty sure that is a wine decanter for the sideboard in the dining room, not a vinegar bottle for the kitchen.
@@danielulz1640 you could be right! I didn't get a very good look at it! :)
There's a calm happiness that comes over me when I see a new video of the house progress. Always love seeing what's happening 😍🤩🤗🥰
Remarkable Wooden Puzzle from Mr. Hall to you!
Good morning Kaleb,hope you and Kim had a good holiday, can't wait to see one room completed! Keep up the good work and am looking forward to tour next video.
Who ever editing making this and all other videos are AWESOME! You should possibly due a video on how/who is helping…? We take for granted our RUclips experiences sometimes, but too much TALENT is put into actual creation of these videos!
Thank you Kelly. This.is Kaleb and shoot all and edit all of my own videos.
@@The2ndEmpireStrikesBack OMG even BETTER! 🤗
We have a few woodworks who make wood puzzles like this. Usually everything serves a purpose.
That little puzzle is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I just was going through the comments hoping somebody knew what the extra pieces were for and can't wait to find out if you find out. Great job!! Your Enthusiasm is contagious and I love that you are so enamored with revealing what's under everything in your house. I would be the same way. And I truly commend you for all of the effort you're putting in to bring back the amazingly beautiful wood. Can't wait for the next episode!
So glad you plan to continue the channel. I have grown to love you and Kim and want to keep following your lives. I am 76 and my husband remodeled my parents old house that had been empty for years when we bought the property from my siblings. We have bern here for 20+ years now. You never get done is right! Needs change so house changes! So I enjoy your channel! You have great plans and you are so real! Bless you.
Can’t wait to see the progress this year!! Happy New Year
This house could not have gotten a better owner! No one would put their heart into preserving the house as authentic as you are or do the work so
thoroughly as you, Kaleb. Thank you so much for sharing your process in restoring the houses soul and heart and making it possible for people like me in the northern most of Norway to tag along!
Why did the faucet handles start moving on their own when you left the room? Were you lossening them from behind the wall or do you have a ghost?
LOL!. I was on the other side of the wall using an access panel to help loosen them.
I normally just watch but I swear my great grandmother had one of those little puzzles and it unlocked an old memory of her babysitting me an playing with those wooden chairs.
Watching this take shape all along - it's really beginning to take shape nicely. I mean from where it started until now is like night and day. There is a long way to go no doubt about it - but your efforts, your constant work on it all in as original a form as possible - is admirable. And the video you did of the whole house tour - a room at a time - seeing a lot of things cleaned up, in their place, and having the plans of what is going to happen and when - well just FORCE ME to keep watching - but you won't have to because it's been an amazing journey to watch. You've all done an incredible job and it's really coming back to life. Brilliant Kaleb. Great great work.
You can still get that hex penny tile, so don't feel too bad.
I love listening to you talk about your plans for the different rooms and then seeing the progress toward that plan. I’m very excited about the powder room floor being redone with encaustic tiles. That will be gorgeous.🌸
Can't wait Kaleb! I've been making sure to comment on every single video of yours this last year to make sure the algorithm understands we love this project. It might make you more money once you get even more followers which in turn gives me more videos, a win win :)
I finally caught up on all the videos from the start, and just in time to begin season 2 and the new year! I've been binge watching your entire channel over the past few months in my spare time to catch up on this amazing project. Thank you for sharing this with the world. I just wanted to say that you've given me a real appreciation for the old buildings and architecture like this. I've done a complete 180 with my mindset! I come from Baltimore City, and while I don't live/work in there anymore, I always had the cynical attitude that the whole place should just drop into the bay due to the crime and negligence with all the rowhouses falling down. It's pretty depressing and hopeless. But then I find you and St Louis here, and it gives hope that it is actually possible to restore these old buildings. While the rowhomes I see aren't quite this fancy, it's been cool to actually recognize very similar elements like the wood trim around the interior doorways. And now, when I see such houses, I think about all the lovely wood that's been painted over and I think about you stripping it back to glory. I had no clue that such old rotten things could actually be fixed, so it's been very educational and enlightening to watch you literally bring the place back to life. And not only just the building, but all the furniture, fixtures, and other trinkets. I mean, your appreciation for such things holds no bounds! Even finding all that "trash" in the yard with the metal detecting and appreciating that. It really is extremely uplifting to see you find literal treasure in literal trash. It really is about the attitude, and now I see things your way. It's been refreshing. So now that I'm caught up, I can subscribe and follow along and keep learning and turning around my cynical mindset towards these buildings from "just knock the death trap down already" to "how could this be restored". Thank you for sharing all of this, and keep up the good work with the positive vibe and everything you do! Happy new year.
Thank you for saying that. It gives me hope that what what I'm doing can have an impact.
@@The2ndEmpireStrikesBack It's also amazing this community that has risen up around "your" house and "your" project, of course you're having an impact! And yet you still have time to read and reply to youtube comments. Nobody over 100k subs does that! I'm an engineer by day, so I love hearing you talk about all your details and plans for each space, your passion is contagious. And even if we're not all restoring houses, it's the mindset/attitude shift that you're encouraging that helps build up the general support for projects like this. I've always thought it would be cool to build a place or fix one up, so this is motivating for that. We've actually got an old early 1900's "four-square" house in the family that isn't quite as neglected as yours, but is in almost as bad shape from neglect, sabotage, and water damage. The asbestos siding is still perfect though lol. But the thought in the family has always been to knock it down because as they say "the land is worth more without the house on it". Maybe I'll end up with the house and can do something to it, it's on a quaint mainstreet and everything. It's just such a waste and shame when old things get "too far gone" so you're definitely an encouragement that there is still hope. On one of your videos, you acquired an old map of St. Louis and you pointed to where your house is, and out of curiosity, I found it on Google pretty easily and was very surprised to see how much open green space there is with just empty residential streets. Even worse than the clearing done in Baltimore. So all the best to you to save the place as your local impact spreads out to the whole world here on youtube!
Missed most of the live but I will definitely watch the replay. One year down and year two of the project. 👏
Kaleb,
The red glass item is Bohemian Glass wine decanter. There would be matching wine glasses to go the decanter. It would be kept in the dining room.
I'm so excited to see this beautiful house restored. I absolutely love the decanter, I noticed it had grapes on it so it was probably used for wine! Much love!
The glass bottle is a decanter. Usually used for wine not vinigar in Europe. Check out in internet why wine get decantered😁
My guess is that the decanter was used for sherry or port wine, because of its size. Definitely etched Bohemian Glass.
So fun to watch the progress and acquisitions. All the best for 22!
The table and chair wooden puzzle is a gem. Thank you for the card.
OMG, Kaleb, that puzzle is totally rad. What a find! So cool...I would have done a happy dance!
LOVE this unique wooden puzzle!!! Just maybe he made them for toys for children that came to the fair!
The bathroom wallpaper would be relatively easy to duplicate via stenciling. If you can take a hi res photo, it can be cleaned up in adobe and a pattern created to stencil it. Since this is a a low use bathroom (no shower or tub) you could, once you have a design image, have it duplicated on spoonflower. This would give you an opportunity to select the base color. More importantly you can have your own "historic wallpaper" (in varrious colorways) that you can sell and offset some of your restoration costs.
A great idea, and since it's going to be a powder room, there's no worry about steam lifting the wallpaper. I think it would look more authentic as wallpaper.
Clue to the mystery razor… they used to build a slot into the wall where you could dispose of your used razor blade. Can’t tell you the exact era, sorry, but I have seen them in houses built from around your house’s era, and a few decades after.
Congrats on the second season, here’s to moving into the house with a working bathroom in 2022! 🎊🎉🥂
Maybe there was a medicine cabinet over the sink at one time? They had the slots for razor blades built in, too…There could be a ton of old rusty razor blades inside that wall! Lol
My grandmothers home built 1888 had a razor slot in the wall.
@@melodyfisher1512 Maybe so. Didn’t know they had medicine cabinets like that too. Wonder if they did that when they stopped building the slot into the wall. Seems like when they put that white tile in, the may have cleaned out most of the razors, but missed one.
@@janice7467 That’s very cool! Wonder who came up with the idea of just disposing of old razor blades in the wall. Bit odd, really, and yet kind of makes sense. Best way to make sure no one accidentally cuts themselves on an old blade, unless you’re tearing the wall out.
Amazing & Beautiful house!! I am so excited to see it finished, don't worry about ur progress...slow is smooth, smooth is fast👍😁 I Love the heart ur putting into preservation & restoration! Good luck to u.❤️
I would have never thought I would want to visit St. Louis MO until now… I had no idea there were so many historic sites. 😍
I had a 1920s home and the bathroom was mostly original. The medicine cabinet had a little slot that was for you to put your used razor blades in and it would just go into the wall. What a silly thing but I loved it
The little puzzle from the World's Fair a neat find! So special! I like the idea of your painting the wallpaper pattern you found on the walls of the bathroom!
Thank you so much!
Loved the small furniture set, cut from one block of wood without computers, just by eye and hopefully a full set of fingers. Powder room definitely sounds like a priority.
Those tiles are to die for! A shower. During my remodel I made a shower in the basement using a garden hose with a sprayer tied to the floor joist of the first floor. It worked ;-)
That little wooden puzzle is a great, great find! So very appropriate to your house and city.
Wow! That little table and chair puzzle! What a find!!!
Woah that puzzle is amazing! :} Reproductions would make a great gift shop item for your museum some day.
As Nanci Bishof said, making a stamp from a linoleum block or making a stencil of the pattern is a great idea. I can hardly wait to see the rebuild on the mansard. Restorable? YES! Easy? Not even! Worth the effort and wait? A big "Hell Yeah!"
I love watching you work on this beauty. It inspires me. Our craftsman house was in bad shape and it took us many many years and tears to rebuild it. Our family never came to check on us or ask about our progress. It was tough but we got it done. Good luck dude!
You are just too cute. I love your enthusiasm and your laugh. I can hardly wait to see the rooms you are trying to finish. Love your collection for the decor of the house. God Bless.
Loved the like, jazz trombone, ragtime piano and surf guitar combo in that tile removal time-lapse!
Omg ! So exciting to hear the plans for next 6 months ! Can’t wait to get to the point where your living there ! Super interesting and rewarding year ahead to look forward too !
So much respect to you for doing all of these projects yourself! Skills!
The other two pieces are benches that go on the "long" side of the table. So awesome. Thanks for sharing!
That bathroom brought some memories and everything was smooth and rounded and was very textile to touch and be in. Your bath brought me some memories. We had a claw foot tub but it was never as comfortable as that built in very very very smooth porcelain and sink and yes even the toilet seat was soft and porcelain. You can't buy that now. I would try to keep it and revel in it, they don't make stuff like that now. It was a true joy to be in those bathrooms then and nobody's grout ever turned black.
You sound so positive and look happy to be restoring that beautiful home
Turning a house into a home is always perfect satisfaction;
Especially if it's a joint venture 😃
May you and Kim remain focused and strong throughout all 😃❤️
Your channel has spoiled me for when RUclips recommends other channels of people working on old houses. So many people don't seem to care as much about preserving historical features.
The Hall and Brown puzzle is remarkable!! So glad it found you!
I love the tile. I’m glad you are saving it. I lay tile for work and believe me… just like you said someone somewhere needs it.
First floor Powder Room will be A Great Project. Light 💡 Heat 🔥 & Plumbing 🛁 are major parts to a Home. You & Kim have done Much Work in Restoring Your Home. June will be A Great Time To Move In. New Year 🎉 Good Wishes from Galway ⚓, Ireland ☘. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I love how you guys have respect for the house. I can't wait to see how it turns out.❤️❤️
I take my hat off to you mate, I thought I had a lot of work to do on my house... You're doing an amazing job, keep it up.
Very cool find! Love how the universe connects dots.
You have an ambitious schedule, but with good luck, good health and good weather you may be able to get it done. It would be such a big step to have enough completed so that you can move in!
Happy New Year! You are off to the races, as they say. We have 1930s tile set in concrete too, and you either leave it, or the whole floor has to come out. With two bathrooms, we did one of each, based on the condition. Replaced the floor of the one with swimming pool tile (the only tile we could find that nearly matched the two-color tile wainscotting on the walls) custom cut to fit. You are so thoughtful in your decisions to reuse, repurpose, gift, or sell items before recycling becomes the option, and items only hit the dumpster if there is no other option. Good on you, but I'm not surprised. That wood puzzle is fantastic! The perfect thing for you. I wonder if the 'ottoman' pieces with the cut-out could hold the flat piece with the wavy top at an angle and form a settee, with the final piece being the seat. It's the sort of thing kids will figure out right away. :D
Wow, this house when finished, will be amazing. I cannot wait to see the finished home. Good luck to you .😀
Yes to painting the powder room walls in the same pattern as the old wallpaper! Great idea!
That World's Fair puzzle is killer!! So freakin cool!
I imagine little stain glasses in the small windows, to add to the design of the room and for privacy. Also, Happy New year Kaleb and Kim, I can’t wait to see all the changes to come ! :)
Wow love the little puzzle. I am also very happy you were able to get the tiles back for your fireplace. What a labor of love it is to restore and old place to its original glory.
Make a stencil for replicating the wallpaper pattern. You’ll have it done in no time. Vitroc (I think it’s called) glass tile….aaaahhhh soooo beautiful! Reusing it is a must! I saw some black and 20’s green Vitroc for sale on eBay. It’s out there so if you don’t have enough and also to make a contrasting color Art Deco design.
Happy new year Kaleb, I hope you and Kim had a great holiday with your family! I am so excited to see the powder room after it's finished, I loved the look of the tiles you showed and I think they'll look great once you get them in. Good luck with everything, it's such a huge project but I know you and Kim can take it on. The old girl may have her hat back on, but remember, now she needs her dress and her pumps, too! 😜
OMG!! That wooden puzzle is the BEST!!! What a treasure!!!
Older medicine cabinets had a slot in the back, to discard razor blades. You might find quite a few...lol
I can't wait to see completed rooms, see you guys moved in!!
Stuck at home with Covid and one of your videos came up on my recommended watches. Well, I'm hooked!
You are doing an amazing thing, and have so many skills to tackle bringing this amazing house back to life! You've done a lot already and have such dedication. I have subscribed so I can see the Grand Old Lady when she is restored!
Thanks for the update!
Happy New Year and a new season! I'm excited to see your plans unfold. The puzzle from the World's Fair is definitely the best gem!
Hey Kaleb and Kim, keep up doing what your doing. Home is where the heart is.
Happy new year! Nice to see all of your plans.
I know Kim doesn't like the bloody carafe thing, but I really like it (gore and vampires, yay!)
The small furniture set was so cute, what a great find.
The bathroom plans sound beautiful.
I would love to see some graphics of the house, of what room you are working in, so we can get a feel of the house. Like a picture of "now we are at the second floor bathroom" the room marked red on a overlay og something. Just an idea I had.
Good idea for the map.
Too cute is the souvenir from the Fair represented by Hall and Brown. The powder room will be great for both of you and your guests.
1) That is one elaborate stink pipe! 2) The Gillette blade is from one of their early "safety razors" - 1920's +/-. 3) Stencil. I would get a stencil made of that simple wallpaper pattern. Then you could paint it onto the plaster. Makes it a bit easier (and quicker) than painstakingly trying to draw straight lines.
Wow! What a GREAT find of the Puzzle its so intact I bet you could 1 grand plus
I'm a fan of 20s style, I'm so glad you were able to get those vitrolite tiles off the wall without breaking them. Even if they're no use to you, someone else with another project will definitely want them. That little wooden furniture box is awesome. Did you figure out what all the extra pieces were?
Happy New Year. ☺
I just found your channel a couple days ago, and I have been binging videos since. I can't wait to see the journey on this house, and I love that you're doing a restoration instead of a renovation! I have always loved old buildings, and I hope to be able to do something like this someday. But until then I am excited to live vicariously through you!
That puzzle is an amazing find! Yay!
Caleb, maybe you could repurpose a portion of that black pipe from the bathroom by using it as an exterior lamp pole. If you welded some ornate iron pieces onto it & added the lamp itself, it could look pretty cool!
Coming along! Slow and steady wins the race, she will be gorgeous again when your done. Love the little puzzle table and chairs, too bad it didn’t have a paper inside to show you what it’s supposed to look like when it was taken apart.
I am so happy for you and Kim. Your excitement with your upcoming projects makes me smile.
Exciting, this old house must love you 🤗👍🏻
Look forward to seeing this happening🤗🤗
See you on the next one 🤗🤗
Love Sue❤❤❤🇬🇧❤❤❤
Back in the day, medicine cabinets used to have a slot that you could put used razor blades into. They fell into the empty wall behind the sink. Strange, but true. I'm sure other things, like bobby-pins could fit in the slot, also.
You should wainscot the sewer stacks. It would match and you have the least destructive material should they fail. In your year end that hole in the mansard was scary large. Some drone footage of the work will be excellent. I think you can put them in hover mode. The tile slate is going to be so vibrant when installed.
Happy 2022! I’m looking forward to watching the progress continue on your beautiful home. You will be moving in before you know it. You are meant to be there.
Happy new year. I believe the Gillette razor blade is an original three pin razor from c. 1903.
If you found it behind the tiles, if not construction debris, it is possible that the bathroom had a medicine cabinet with a slot in the rear for disposing of used blades. Often the used blade then simply fell into the wall cavity.
Best of luck with all for ‘22!
Ohmygosh... I just finished watching the last video and literally ended up with the sniffles. So happy I didn't have to wait too long to get this new update! :P😅
and YAYY for the puzzle!!!
Awesome Season-2 Episode-1 Video!!!
Love❤ what you accomplished this week & for the up & coming Plans for the next 6-months.
I see nothing but Progress Progress Progress for your home & Your excitement to getting started on these Projects is Awesome.
Looking forward to next week's episode Kaleb.
🎉Happy New Year🎉
Season two!!! You make me happy!!!
I love how your passion for this house comes through on your videos. It makes me get so excited to see what you are doing next! I can't wait to see the old girl with her hat on
The med cabinets in the old bathrooms use to have holes in the where people dispose off old razor blades.