WE BOUGHT A HOUSE!! Tour Our 110 Year Old Cottage | XO, MaCenna 

I’m convinced you were meant to have this house because you don’t want to tear it apart you actually want to restore and highlight a lot of the original features and that’s so cool! I’m excited to see you turn this house into a home

The “sunroom” was originally a back porch which is why the floor slopes(to provide runoff for rain). The entire rear of my 1860 home was like that. Have the floor leveled if you decide to keep it as a room. The ceiling fan is not that old. The contraption on the dining room ceiling is venting, possibly for the original wood burning stove in the kitchen. This place will be beautiful!

Awn, the calm and joyful beginning of an horror movie

Was totally expecting him to mention a horror film, not the Rascals hahaha

OMG YOUR MOM!!!! 😭😭😭😭 "are you coming home" 😭😭😭

I like how she is so positive all the time, sees the best in an old, historic house and wants to restore it. Can't wait for the restoration videos. This channel is therapy for me...

Honey I don't even know how I found this channel but you got me looking all dumb, grinning by myself like I got the house too. Lol, congrats!

Love reading the comments seeing how much everyone knows about older homes as I sit in my basic ass apartment lol

I wish HGTV would do a show of you renovating your new home. You would be great! Congratulations

I am glad they sold it to someone who appreciates the fine details of the house! Can’t wait to see how you renovate it and still retain some of its beautiful and unique characters! I really like the windows and detailed frames!

The odd thing in the dining room is a chimney. In central Texas, you do not need a fireplace all year. People could set up a wood stove in November and take the stove back out to a storage shed in February. The hole in the chimney is for the stovepipe. Keep the chimney. It has character.

It's funny to discover the cottage then when I discovered your channel during the kitchen renovation. Such a transformation! Great job!

We'd love to see a drawn schematic of the house layout, property layout too and what you plan to do with each room.

Yay!!! I’m so excited for you! ❤️

The step down room off the kitchen looks like a canning pantry that had windows added at some point.

You've taken me back 30 years to when we bought our now 115 year old house. Your excitement is totally justified. You are going to have so much fun!! Best years of my life. I'm so excited for you and can't wait for your journey. ❤❤❤

The yellow room, Grama would call it the sleeping porch. When it was really hot, they would sleep on the screened porch between all those breezy windows! I remember sleeping on her sleeping porch 😊

Can we all take a moment to acknowledge how incredible this house is going to be?! ♥️

The fact that her parents have money, from the house tour she filmed of her parents home, I love how humble she is. 🖤 I love her channel.

Watching it now 2022, it's amazing to see how much you guys have achieved. I just love to be in a way 'part' of this journey. I've been so inspired by your projects and works. I love to catch up with you guys every week. Ps.: By 'you guys' I refer to you, Romeo, your mom and Kinsley 💕

Who has been a fan of MaCenna before 2021? 👇

that slanted long “add on” that had the queen sized bed was definitely an old back porch! i would LOVE to see it restored to being a porch. with some pretty rocking chairs and string lights it could look beautiful once again! can’t wait to see what you do with this beauty:)

Just when I think “ surely she is done decorating now-and the fun is over” ...you buy a fixer🤣 this is perfect!!!! So much new content coming our way. Congrats to you guys. Can’t wait to join the ride. This is gonna be fun.

Your optimism flabbergasts me.

It’s good the house went to someone who appreciates the history and original fittings of the house .❤️

Your mum's "you're coming home?" had me welling up! 🥺 Congratulations lovely, excited for the new project to start!

The "sunroom" had to have been an open porch/veranda. The floor is sloped on purpose so if it gets wet from (from rain or from getting rinsed clean) the water will drain off.

I hope you have a large budget for all the work this house is in need. Storage shack gives me a scene to a horror movie.

The area off of the kitchen that you’re referring to as a crafting room, most likely was originally used as a pantry for all your canning goods.

Excited to see the process of bringing this beauty to her glory.

Paige from Farmhouse Vernacular would be a huge help to figuring out those curious odd additions!

The weird “bedroom” was likely a porch that they enclosed. And the reason for the door off the living room was so you could go on that nice front porch directly from the living room

Old houses like that had sleeping porches. They would sleep out there with all the Windows open, hoping for a breeze in the Summer months.

This is sooo exciting! Can’t wait to see what you do with it 🥰

Ps. I encourage you to look at the old deeds of the home to gather more history. It’s always exciting to find out who lived there before you. We just bought a log cabin home in the country this past summer (also not living in it yet as we do some projects). Five bedrooms 17 foot slanted ceiling in the living room. It has cute little intricate things that we are still discovering. We love our home in the country.

That thing in the "dining room" is where a wood stove use to be. In some historic homes there are closets even in the dining rooms and libraries. I hope you keep the historical charm of the house and not modernize it too much. Lovely house!

The hole in the room off the kitchen that you said you didn’t know what it is, is a chimney. They probably had an oil stove in there at one time. And the stove pipe went up and into the hole in the chimney.

The "craft room" is definitely an old pantry.

That hole in the ceiling of the dining room is probably a vent/chimney from a wood stove that was probably there before.

That extra door off the porch is called a Funeral Door into the Parlor (aka livingroom) for the viewing of deceased family members. ...it kept an overflow of people using the main entrance to the house.

The extra door on the front porch was for family to use when they entered the home. What we would consider the main front door was actually used for visiting guests which is why the realtor said that there was a sitting room there. Since the house was built roughly in 1910s it would have had a sitting room as its front room for guests, typically this was also the fanciest room in the house since it was only for show.

MaCenna is the ultimate thrift queen. SHE JUST THRIFTED Q FREAKING HOUSE!! I cant wait to see what you do with the house I am so excited! This means sooooo many more makeover videos!!! Aaaahh! Yes! Love youu MaCenna!!! I am so happy for you guys!!

I think that front weird room would be a nice sun room. With a bunch of plants and a relaxing coffee nook.

Girl you have your work cut out for you! This will be one heck of a transformation, and I'm super excited to see it happen in real time. Also I love that back porch where the bed used to be. Please don't tear it down 🥺

Your "sun room" might actually be a rain porch! The windows were most likely originally screen and the floor is sloped to allow water to flow out of the house when it rained!

The long room looks like a enclosed porch. Porch floors on old houses will lean out a little so the rain will run off. Congrats!!! Looking forward to every video. I love old houses.

The room in the back was probably used for sleeping in the summer pre-AC and the room off the kitchen is definitely a pantry. The channel Farmhouse Vernacular has been restoring, not renovating, a farmhouse from 1920. From the floors, walls, doors, trim, the kitchen and pantry are so pretty. They've done all the work. I love it because they've pretty much stayed true to the era and it still looks like a 1920 farmhouse. Your's will be gorgeous.

I can’t believe this was a year ago!!!! I still remember this video like it was yesterday, it’s crazy how much you guys have done I’m so in awe of you!!!!!

That house screams you! It shows so much potencial, character and it's already so beautiful, can't wait to see what you'll do! They must be happy for you buying too, since will maintain the history and all.

McCenna: “We’re gonna tear this down.” Me: “But you know what would look great in there??” *CARRIES IN TONS OF PLANTS* 🪴🌱🌿🌵🍀🌳🌴🎍🪴

a recommendation is to get a few farm animals or something. it will make your home more cozy and you will be more happy. i dont have a farm of my own but it would be wonderful!

so excited for you guys! the peace on the wall in the dinning room would have been where the wood stove pipes would have originally been

I personally can recommend Etsy if you need historical door knobs.

The "weird jut out" in the dining room is where the old stove pipe went up from the kitchen. Because they would only have had wood stoves for cooking back then. ^_^

So happy for you, that room off the kitchen is probably a pantry, in the old days they grew their own food, canned it and "put it up" on those shelves, the room that the queen bed is probably a sleeping porch, in the Summer they slept on a cov'd porch to stay cool. Have fun!!! I lived on a 130 yr old Ranch House, The McGrath Ranch in Oxnard CA. 😁

That hot tub room would make such a rad spa. Throw some plants in there & a cute bench maybe some hooks for towels! 😍

Why was I so emotional watching this? I’m from savannah ga so I really appreciate the value of a beautiful old home with super high ceilings. So happy for y’all! Good luck with the reno

The weird long added room seems perfect for a in Germany so called "wintergarten"! Its like a balcony but inside

Doors added value to homes so they would add as many doors as they could! So cute and so much potential!!

The add-on is a summer sleeping porch :-).

I literally screamed when I saw the notification! My husband looked at me and said "what's going on loca!"🤣😂

The weird looking structure on the ceiling in the 'dining room' would probably be the place where the stove was hooked up or some kind of woodburning furace. I think it may have been the kitchen at one point in time. Or the main room.

That weird door to the other room, it would likely have been the sitting room (living room) and the extra door usually was for funerary services so guests could come into your house without having to be in the more private parts of the house, and pay their respects. Such a cool house with a lot of character! I can’t wait to see what you do with it.

It's so crazy watching these videos back and noticing how much of her Texas twang came back after living primarily in Texas this last year!

My husband and I bought our first house 3 years ago, affectionately known as the “wallpaper palace”, and I loved watching the moment when you actually realize you get to paint walls and renovate things that are your OWN after renting for so long! So exhilarating! Congratulations! Also, I too got attached to the very strange little things I found in the house and still like them. Crooked floors and shelves in front of windows have to go tho!!

Your new old house is in better shape than my 1916 two story farmhouse with a wraparound porch was when we bought ours 28 years ago. We still have 2 rooms left to do. And outside siding to do. We have been doing sections. And have done all the work ourselves. And in 28 years we have had to redo some of the rooms paint etc. And we have 3.2 acres. So that takes time. And I have a large garden and greenhouse we built last year. And now I got chickens and we built a large area for them all fenced in and covered. So there is a lot to do. And now that we are in our 60's. Things take longer to get done. Just remember to have fun along the journey. And enjoy the things you get done. Don't just always focus on the to do list. Remember the to done list to. Take alot of before pics. Then look at them from time to time. Then you can see the progress. Its easy to forget.

The possibilities are endless. The doors......ahhhh those doors are dreamy AND you could build another couple of houses will all that land!

The room with entry from the porch was probably an office. I live in Texas too. A former owner could have been a lawyer or dr, and saw folks in his office.

That weird thing up high on the wall in the dining room was likely where the a coal burning furnace or stove would have been vented through. The room behind the kitchen was most likely originally a pantry. We used to have something similar in our old home. I'm so excited for you both! What a great house! On the outside it says cottage but the inside is way too grand for a cottage! I can't wait to see what you do with it!!

The 2 trees in front are gonna look good!!! So much potential for the front yard!!!

Her: This house was built in 1910 People on youtube: That house has a lot of potential Me: That house has to have so many ghosts!!

Congrats!!! When you find "The One" you just know. So excited to watch everything you two do with it!!!

My dream cottage! When I first saw your house hunting video, I knew this house was going to be yours. Congrats!

As someone who bought an old house (70/80 years old) and has spent the past 7 years renovating it and taking my time, I can say it is simultaneously one of the most exciting and stressful things you can do in life! It's amazing to restore some original features and to add your own touch when you bring in something new. I am excited for you! It's a lot of work but wow, it is such an amazing ride! Well done and good luck!

It’s not “ their kitchen” anymore. It’s yours!!!! YAY !!! So happy for you, love your excitement.

In Australia we have Texas heat. That enclosed "room" around the house was originally a verandah (porch), and people enclosed them because usually these old houses were built with 2-3 bedrooms. But they had about 8 children. They enclosed them to put extra beds in for the kids, or to put the beds out on the verandah to get cool air while sleeping during the hot summer months, but still feel safe. My gran had one and I remember spending many a summer night as a kid sleeping on the verandah. It was so much cooler than the house. I'm 50 BTW. Please keep it as a porch. You'll appreciate it. Even with airconditioning, there's nothing better than going outside at night to get a cool breeze. Beautiful home MaCenna ✨

The room off the kitchen would have been the canning closet/pantry.

The room that you're referring to as the craft room is the pantry. It is just shelves and has no light probably because they were canning food to store through the winter out of their garden or fresh produce and they canned and stored it there. If it does drop down significantly that could also be to have the room stay cooler for the canned goods. Love love love this house and can't wait to go on this journey with you!

Definitely getting reminded of the house I grew up in. The modifications (not the kitchen appliances or toilet) are definitely 70s/80s. I'm up in North Texas, and the aforementioned house was my grandparents' that was built I think in the 1950s. I honestly feel that whoever did the mods/additions during the 70s/80s weren't good at all. Pretty much whatever you have to fix, my grandparents' house needed it too! Lovely home, so I'm excited to see what you do!

Omg! Congratulations! Me being excited bc Macenna is going to feed us with a TON of renovation video’s YAS! Can’t wait.❤️✌️

For the non working door in the second bedroom that faces the front of the house-I’ve heard that early 1900s homes often had 2 front entryways, the one on the right usually ONLY being used for a person to finally leave their home after they had passed away (ie. wakes/funerals)! I hope that helps!

That room with the windows would be a cute SUNROOM! Put a couple patio decor out there, I think it would be cute!

The birds at the end. Love. This house is sooo drool worthy. It has so much potential. Can't wait. 😍

Is it just me? But I got teary-eyed when Macenna got the news. OMG. 🥲💖 Can’t wait for the makeover videos.

The house was more than likely heated with wood and coal. My guess is that not only was a heating stove in your dining room but on the reverse wall (in the kitchen) a cooking stove.

You’ve got a gun rack in the craft room. These are best used for wooden dowels where you can dispense your ribbons, cords, tapes, string etc.

You & Rachel Metz both bought your first homes, so excited for you!! Congratulations!!!

The sun room thing was probably a porch that they closed in at some point

The craft room off the kitchen would be great for a large pantry.

i am BEYOND excited for you! this is going to be amazing to watch you create

I'm so so glad I saw your short! I free watching horses getting some loving care!

Congrats! Someone probably already said this, but your “sunroom” is likely a porch that was converted to a room. My dad always jokes he slept “on the porch” at his grandma’s but really it was converted to an add on. Maybe why it leans so badly?

Your "weird lean too" was most likely a screened sleeping porch that was enclosed at some point. It probably is original if I was guessing. Interested to see what you discover!

Can't wait to see the finish look. It's similar to one of the houses that I lived in as a child. Big old house with the same height of ceilings. Built in same era. We had huge pocket doors. Had the same type bathroom between 2 bedrooms. Another bathroom connected to the master bedroom with 2 doors....one led to hall. Had a breakfast nook. I have to say, I loved that house. It was beautiful. That was when I was around 11 years old and I'm 65 now, so sadly I don't have any pictures...only memories. Incidentally, I live in Louisiana, where the house was, but it was torn down, when they extended the road and widened the nearby bridge. Spent many a day on the floor hand waxing the beautiful wood floors in the entry way. Had an enclosed staircase to a huge attic. You brought back many memories. Congrats on your new house!!!

So exited for you guys. Very surprised how tiny the house looks at the front and magic happens when you get in. The first room when you open the from door is a receiving parlor room. You can set small chairs and table to actually do business. Owners will keep in this area anyone they don't want to share the rest of the house. I would still keep it for that use.

One of the most exciting things about you all buying this home is the creative content to follow as you renovate🎉 Congrats to you and Romeo and yay for us who follow you💕

Love the doorbell. Definitely a lot of work. To find the home's previous owners or purchase history you can always check with the county tax assessor's office, the country recorder, or city hall.

I am pretty sure that the walk in “closet” in the kitchen was a pantry. I love old houses! I hope you stay somewhat true to the antiquity of the home. I would not get rid of the solarium porch. You may enjoy sitting out there on very hot days. or cool days! When you have children they can play out there. It can be a toy room. I lived in a house with tall ceilings like this. The house was built in 1775...so...really old. It had a maids quarter. Later years, they lowered the ceiling with panels, but when you lifted the panels There was another 4 feet! And the ceilings were blue with a pattern on them like you would see in a church. They were beautiful! Hey, there’s an idea; you can paint your ceilings with a design to draw the eye upward. Congratulations!

The room with the sloping ceiling is probably a porch that was enclosed which is why you see the long window the was originally part of the outside wall of the home. The outside door without a handle could have gone into what would have been the original kitchen area or the family parlor area. Both were common rooms off a porch, separate from the formal entry. The home probably did not have a bathroom in it originally. Is it possible that 3 closets were joined to create the bathroom? There are so many unique features to this house. It's easy to see why you fell in love with it. Can't wait to see how you restore her beauty!!!

Low key felt like we knew before Romeo when she whispered, “we got the house” 😂 Congratulations!! 🎉