10 Odd Things About Our New Home

Aside from carpet in every room (yes, every room — kitchen and bathroom included) and hundreds of nails in every surface (even window frames and door jambs), our new home is filled with the results of some strange decisions. (When my father-in-law first toured it, he said, “You can just tell some old fart lived here and did all this work himself even though he didn’t really know what he was doing.”) Of course we were already aware of many of the home’s oddities when we bought it, but others are revealing themselves to us as we renovate. By now, we have quit asking “why” the former owners did what they did and have learned to just take it all in stride.