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The finishing of the floors in the home was a labor of both love and frustration. We soon learned through trial and error, that commercial sanding machines were simply not up to the task. The uneven, knotted and gnarled 200 year old floor- boards tore up the sanding disks like paper in a shredding machine
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So sisters Pat (foreground) and Shari got on knees, and with scrapers, electric hand sanders and much energy proceeded to work the floors. Several other "friends" assisted in this back breaking work.
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Steve, the genius of clever innovation, suggested the use of paint and varnish stripper. Several gallons and many days later, layer upon layers of paint, varnish and floor wax had been successfully removed.
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This photo was taken looking north from one of the home's original upstairs bedrooms. This room has been identified as the "boys" bedroom and would, therefore, most likely have accommodated the Prophet Joseph during the time he labored for Joseph Knight Sr.
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One of the six rope beds that have been restored to the home. The beds, all circa 1815, were found and acquired from one or more of the numerous antique stores in the area.
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This photo features the pine and hemlock wall boards that were restored to the two upstairs bedrooms. The floors were stripped, sanded and stained in the fall of 2014. The walls were finished at that time also.
This is the combination chapel/bedroom in the lean-to. The wall to the front (behind the stand) is original vertical wall boards. The door to the front exits, left, into the parlour. The door in the left side wall, barely visible, exits into the basement. To the rear, partitioned by a plank wall is the Pantry.