Square Up: Old Houses

Dale and I are getting ready to sell our house. We moved to a retirement community in August of 2019, and shortly afterward our daughter and son-in-law moved into our house. They have been renting, but are now ready to buy it. They have done a lot to fix the house UP. Part of this was transforming the rooms with their own décor, but there have been some plumbing problems, too, because it’s an old house. (Guess who had to pay for the plumbing upgrades???)

You might say our old house, built in 1924, is a fixer-UPper, and I have no doubt that if we had tried to sell the house on the market, we would probably have to do a lot more renovations than we are getting away with. So, in honor of old houses that are worth saving, my contribution to Becky’s Square Up challenge today is fixer-uppers.

If the people who live in these houses were trying to sell them, they would be considered fixer-uppers!

This house has been continuously occupied as long as we lived in our old neighborhood in Des Plaines, but it has grown battered over the years – definitely a fixer-upper!
Unfortunately, I only have a photo of the doorway of 804, because I was taking pictures of doors decorated for Halloween at the time, but you get the idea!
Obviously (or hopefully!), no one lives in this house. Is this a fixer-upper or is it a lost cause? It looks as though someone has already begun to tear it down.
Many Dutch live in houseboats along Amsterdam’s many canals. I’d say this boathouse is a fixer-upper, but it looks like someone lives there – perhaps they’ve fixed it up better inside!

Below is another photo of this houseboat, which I couldn’t make square.

All I can say is, if the resident of this houseboat ever tries to sell it, (s)he will have to work on fixing up the exterior as well!

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