No one can understand it. Why would a single, middle-aged woman move from Texas to NE Ohio to renovate a run-down 80 year old house? Someone who has lived all her adult life in Texas. Someone who has never lived in, let alone repaired, an old house. Well, maybe because I have always wanted to live in an old house. And maybe because I actually was born in and lived in Ohio until I was 10 years old. And even though this is a different city than the one I lived in, it still feels a little like coming home.
So, I had been toying with the idea of moving someplace to buy an old house. I had done some reading and research on the various styles of the late 1800's and early 1900's and had settled on the craftsman bungalow style. Then, one day while surfing real estate sites, the house found me. I knew the moment I saw it that this was the one.