The outside of my building currently looks like this:
The inside is a major mess although we have managed to get most of the heavy cleaning done on all three floors. The window you see in the photo above is the main floor. The four smaller windows above that is the upstairs where I will have my office. And on the lowest level, the basement opens out into the back alley behind this row of buildings in downtown.
The old Phillips Hardware sign is still visible on the building for now. My new sign will have to just sit on top of it. We didn’t want to paint over it because this is a historic building. It has been in the same family since it was built in the late 1800′s and has been a hardware store since it opened for business way back then. It only ceased to be a hardware store in March of 2011.
I would like to get something done to replace the aluminum awning that graces the front of the building but that may have to wait because we just discovered that the furnace/air-conditioning system for the main floor needs to be replaced. And it isn’t cheap! I still don’t know exactly how I am going to heat and cool my office area. There is currently no air-conditioner or heating of any kind on the upper floor.
It looks awesome!