The new stairway...

We hung a very old map of Kentucky and a map of Shakertown on the walls, as well as putting in some furniture, such as the settle [seat] on the left bottom and a 3-seater Hitchcock chair on the landing, (which is obscured by the old Santa hanging on the railing).

I also hung a folk-art chandelier, made from old bits of tin, coiled up in swirlies. This matches other similar pieces in the house; e.g., the wall hanging in the kitchen over the wall pantry.

This is the old stairway...

What the master bedroom looks like now...

This is what the master bedroom looks like now. Note that we are still deciding on which paintings to hang in this room. Also, we have removed the vinyl horizontal blinds and replaced them with interior wooden shutter blinds, per the period.

What the master bedroom used to look like...

This is what the master bedroom looked like, when we bought the place:

What the front parlor looks like now...

Now, the front parlor has a brighter look, and is loaded with period antiques. There are some nice oil paintings of animals, like horses and sheep, and some needlework samplers.

What the front parlor used to look like...

When we bought the farm, the front parlor was all white; a blank canvas. The front parlor looked like this:

The new kitchen

This is what the kitchen looks like now. We removed many of the old plain, maple cupboards and replaced then with:

• A Victorian store counter, with a white marble top
• A Civil War-era store cupboard
• A Victorian short cabinet, with a 2-inch thick marble top
• A Victorian glass-front food pantry, from an old girls' school in Louisville

We also have removed the border, which visually hightened the room, as well as brightened it, and added an old butcher block (which looks like a table in the photo above). It is being used as a small 'lunch' table, in the kitchen.

What the kitchen used to look like...

This is a picture of the kitchen when we bought the farm. Something of a rooster motif, with a rooster border, and a whole lot of cabinets, everywhere.