Bare bones.

We have the rare and amazing opportunity to see Camp Kimball's structure. It's amazing to me that so much care was put into building houses 100 years ago. So much new technology exists, which does make a lot of homes better, but sometimes you don't need to fix something if it's not broken. We're so thankful that the previous owners didn't decide to make any serious structural changes to the house, because these walls were built to last. The first floor bathroom really shows that off.

We're having the window replaced with vinyl and frosted glass. At the very least we have the resources to put windows in bathrooms that won't rot. There's a sneak peek of some DIY plumbing over there on the left. The PVC pipes are the newer ones that the previous owners must have installed themselves. Our contractor explained that the way it was rigged, there was no proper drainage for the tub, so a good amount of water was draining into the basement bathroom wall. Good thing there used to be a hideous blue tub there, or we may not have wanted to rip it out to find the bad plumbing job.

Here's a close-up of the bathroom wall.

Another amazing new technology we get to add to the gutted rooms is insulation! No wonder this house was frozen solid to the core this winter... No such thing as insulation in 1888...