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Show Dilapidated Bid Shell Nm Brand New Home ; ' - ' $ : z 1 H , X'i " - v4 0 ! V ' ! ,v jf. avNn ? v if - ' Cn.-i ' . -. -o. ' i " 8 I : Vi v . - i , -r- ii 1 iV . -, ., y I y . L . J ' I ; - CT ! age chest, an old table holds silver, and for decoration, there's an antique telephone. 'Victor .built storage cabinets cab-inets above and below the sink," said Francine. "He also laid slate floors in the storage room. We picked the slate ourselves. Victor has done several rooms like it in Park City." Future plans include more storage space upstairs, finishing fin-ishing the upstairs bathroom, bath-room, and planting a garden out back. Eventually the Bucks plan to put in a new usable front door. Seven years ago, before Mr. and Mrs. Victor J3uck bought it, 4703 Woodside was a dilapidated broken-down broken-down shell. Today it's a bright newly-painted blue frame house, completely renovated on the inside. "The only thing we kept inside was an old bathtub," said Victor, maintenance manager at .Greater Park City Company. "We framed the whole house, propped up the porch, ripped off the old roof and put up a new one, put in stud walls, and did all the wiring, plumbing, and insulation sheetwork ourselves. our-selves. We taped and painted the house also. The only thing we had done by others was the carpeting and furnace installation." The house consists of two floors. Upstairs there are three bedrooms and bath. Downstairs there is a combination com-bination living room-den, kitchen, storage room, and bath. The Bucks have furnished their house with antiques they got here and in California. Calif-ornia. For instance, the living liv-ing room features a day bed, a pot-belly stove, rocking chair, and old mining cart thats used to hold the stereo and television. In a bedroom there is a spinning wheel. "The light fixtures are replicas of antiques," said Francine Buck, director of Kinderhaus. "The ones downstairs could all be oiled." oil-ed." The kitchen is perhaps the most eye-catching room. Not only is it visually pleasing, pleas-ing, but everything in it is completely functional. For example, an old washing machine serves as a magazine mag-azine holder, and the Hoosief cabinet contains a flour bin, sugar bin, and cherry pitter. A hall tree serves asastor- Victor and Francine Buck "We framed the whole house, propped up the porch, ripped off the old roof and put up a new one." , ' A n 1 Kitchen in the Buck home show the craftsmanship applied ap-plied by talented do it yourself ers. |