Comments on: Kitchen Transformation: 1% inspiration?

By: Pearl

Pearl — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:51:55 +0000

What a find. Are you putting a newer vintage in your new walls for future renovationists to find?

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 05:28:34 +0000

Just to be clear: finding this bottle isn’t a sufficient reason to remodel any more rooms.

By: Mari

Mari — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 01:27:39 +0000

Man, I wish an alcoholic left secret bottles in my house for me to find. Bummer.

Interesting bottle though, definately a keeper.

By: Emma's Kat

Emma's Kat — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:59:19 +0000

Wow, what a cool find! I like what srp said! If only the bottle could tell you it’s history!!

By: Barbie

Barbie — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:56:38 +0000

Your maternal grandfather would have appreciated that bottle since bourbon was his favorite drink. But I always thought of it as a Southern or an Appalachian drink. Maybe not all the craftspeople in Seattle at that time were Scandinavians from the middle west.

By: 'mouse

'mouse — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:08:30 +0000

What a great find.

Back in the days of my misspent youth I did demolition commercially. One time I found a cubbyhole under some stairs in an old building a stash of dentists tools from about 100 years ago. And a beautiful old wooden lightbox with a still working lightbulb labelled “Edison.”

I wonder if you could get a bottle of 2005 bourbon to (drink and then) seal in the wall along with a picture of the other bottle and a copy of your story. (Presumably the exhumed bottle will find a place to be displayed in the new kitchen, no?)

By: srp

srp — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:51:33 +0000

An antique for sure. Was it anywhere near any defects in the wall construction? I can imagine someone hiding it when the job foreman came by.

By: bill

bill — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:59:33 +0000

As for whoever left it, hopefully the use of it did not affect their work.