Labor of Love

Old Lady Antebellum Homes require a little extra elbow grease to keep them "Big, Bold, and Beautiful". 

They are truly labors of love, and it is an incredible privilege to own one.  We have re-invested every penny of revenue during our tenure back into Everhope.

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• Drive gate

• Barn extension

• Purchase 15 new rocking chairs for the "rocking" porches

• Add an additional water well

• Sand and paint main antebellum home

• Swimming pool? ;)

• Flower and vegetable gardens

• Plant pecan grove

2019

• Replaced air conditioning unit

• Replaced rotten wood siding on outbuildings with Hardie board

• Painted interior and exterior of addition

• Replaced two door handles/locks with authentic period hardware

• Custom built new Everhope signs for each entrance

• Shutters, shutters, shutters! (in process)

2018

• Replaced rotten wood siding on addition with Hardie board siding 

• Installed two custom pine carriage house doors from Tennessee

• Re-painted about 60% of Everhope's white "horse fencing"

• Painted Everhope addition exterior

• Bricked the last interior wall of the pecan shelling house

• Extensive tree trimming

2017

• Pecan Shelling House Restoration, which took 10 months:  2 bathrooms, living room, loft bedroom.  Everhope can now accommodate 16 guests (in beds...LOL ;>) !

• Custom built fire-pit using old brick

• Laid 4 truckloads of gravel to beautify and secure one driveway

• Poured some 8 trucks of concrete into the carriage house, including two patios

• Acquired, restored, and installed two c. 1930s gas station doors into the carriage house

• Placed a "bamboo xhield" around the bamboo garden to contain the growth

• Rebuilt decayed fencing

• Re-painted about 50% of Everhope's white "horse fencing"

• Power-washed the antebellum home and outbuildings

• Incorporated commercial grade rolling suit/dress hanging rack in each bedroom

2016

• New architectural shingle roof on the antebellum home  (40+ feet in the air! Everyone was safe.)

• Landscaping gardens with "native" plant life

• Bucket truck used for extensive tree trimming

• Drew up the plans/costs for the Pecan Shelling House Restoration to be completed in 2017

2015

• Rebuilt front porch of main home with Trex decking

• Front porch columns repaired and re-sealed

• Rebuilt fencing where decay occurred

• Bucket truck used for extensive tree trimming

• Carriage House Restoration: Installed 1830-ish barn wood on all walls.  Installed lighting

• New tin roof on the back of the house (a 1990's addition)

• Replaced some wood siding, on the house addition, where needed

• Laid a brick walkway to the Pecan Shelling House

• Re-pointed the front of the antebellum house brick walkway

2014

• Painted the the house addition - back wall and porch

• Replaced a water well, pump and piping

• "Custom" built 3 new screen doors

• Professionally cleaned all windows

• Restored one dependency

• Reconstructed second dependency from the ground up

• Installed brick stairs, on top of existing concrete, at the front of the main antebellum home

• Built brick pedestals for 2 Lions to protect the front of Everhope ;>

• Re-pointed the interior chimneys

2013

• Purchased and hung an antique British Street Light chandelier on the front porch

• Removed some 15 dead peach trees and planted 3 pecan trees, some 10 peach trees and a couple fig trees

• Built grape harbor and planted some grape vines

• Power-washed the antebellum home and outbuildings

• Rebuilt a section of fence

• Took tenant quarters down board by board

• Excavated fence line overgrowth

• Bucket truck used for extensive tree trimming

• replaced multiple thorn bushes with azaleas

2012

• Replaced water pipes in main home

• Purchased and installed a 2,000 pound utility pole as a flag pole with US and Alabama Flags

• Purchased and hung picture rail on plaster walls

• Inserted cedar into closets

• Painted front porch

• Painted some of interior