As a guy who lives in a 1902 Livery converted to living space in 1994, and is working on restoration of another 1902 building (publishing museum) AND is working to convert a 1919 warehouse into my workshop/storage area, I can say: congratulations!!! Lots of challenges and road blocks. Looks great. Are you in a historic district? If so, did you have any issues with the preservation commission?
Charlie asked: "Did you ever second guess on if you just should have started from scratch ?"
For me, there is no second guessing on the museum project (can't really start from scratch when the building is PART of the museum) and not often do I second guess our home. But there have been many times when I have second guessed myself on the workshop. If I had known some of the issues I would have run into, I would not have attempted this. I keep telling Sherri: "OK, this really is going to make a great workshop, right?" Building from scratch would have been much easier. But, I never would have ended up with as much square footage as I will eventually have from the warehouse.
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