The Cool Thing About Old Houses

The cool thing about old houses in this area are some of the details like these light fixtures in the ceiling:

Some old houses were originally built without closets, and have brass hooks on various walls like this:

The not so cool thing is pulling up the rugs in the bedrooms and finding lots of unfinished floor that needs stained and/or varnished, like this:

Lately I find my constant refrain to be, "One thing at a time, one thing at a time".