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This is just beautiful! I love the wallpaper! I took piano lessons in that house as a child and feel a connection even though I haven't been in that house for 30 years! Thank you for all your hard work and sharing. I love seeing the transformation and miss my hometown.

I LOVE your house, and this episode is fascinating!

Like the wall paper in the dining room.

Such a beautiful room. Thank you for sharing.

LOVE❤ the burgundy & gold wallpaper! ❤. Phone in the dining room? That was the first movie I thought of.

Love how the dining room turned out! Wall phone was a great touch!👍Looking forward to future projects around the house!

"Hey honey, whatcha doin'?" "That will be another project." LOL! You folks are an absolute joy to watch, listen to, and learn from, as you show us the restoration of your exquisite Barber home! Like many other viewers, I, too, hope to restore a Barber home someday. Your videos are the best as I learn many new things through your labor of love. Thank you for the uploads as always! You guys are the BEST! Keep up the GREAT work and never lose that unique and quirky sense of humor! THANK YOU!!!

I ❤ the dining room wallpaper. It looks great with that beautiful woodwork!

Great way to hide the thermostat, but I wondered, why did you go with antiqued/distressed looking William Morris paper and not new WM paper as it would have been installed in the house? Both of course would look just fine.

the phone would have been a statement look how much money i have I'm important

beautiful home my suburb were i live is called Fairfield

We hid one of the land line phones in our old telephone when we had a land line, so you had to open the bottom to answer the phone. Our old house was in Oak Park, IL. We still have the old phone but now just a wall decoration and something for hubby to bang his head on.

Love the clever idea of hiding the thermostat! Well done! And the wallpaper is beautiful!

I'm glad Iowa has wonderful homes to restore. Like the way you hid the modern thermostat!

I super enjoy your videos! The humor is on point. Also, that red wallpaper is perfect for the space. On a Victorian house tour. The dining room had red wallpaper. Because, and I quote, “red promotes digestion.” Whether that be true or not??? meh. Anyways love the house and cool to see the progress. It gives me the motivation to keep working on my house.

Did you think about lining up the patters horizontally between the rooms so your eye doesn’t “jump” as you go from one room to the next?

You could actually have one of those phones on each floor and connect them. They will work and you'd have an intercom.

Perfection ❤ Wallpaper choices are perfect and so is the phone!

What a great idea!! and yes "We know" lol 😜

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The dining room is beautiful! I cannot wait to see how the rest turns out. Love it

Love the "Meet me in St. Louis" photo to prove your point!

Please show us your DIY's...Love the wall paper!!

Enjoyed the video! Love that you put William Morris wallpaper through the house. Perfect! The dining room looks wonderful! And the phone is awesome. You definitely wouldn’t want it in the parlor. Looking forward to seeing your future videos. Hope you get some sweet corn soon! My husband drove up from Texas once and bought 200 ears, mostly for friends. A few great corn parties, too. Take care, Jan

The dining room is absolutely beautiful. I love that the woodwork is a lighter shade than what you typically see in older homes. The light fixtures are incredible. Love the old telephone too.

I was thinking about you guys and wondering when you would post another video again and here one shows up. Thanks for sharing 😊

I'm loving your posts. Very educational and humorous. Thanks for sharing. Ken from Indiana

What a beautiful gem of a house! It is refreshing to see people who want to preserve history like you guys are.

So much work but it'll get done. 👍

Beautiful decorations. You put a lot of time and effort in doing all that work and it shows. Thank you for sharing.

What a nice cozy place to read a newspaper and books. You are so fortunate to have found this gem of a house, though I know there is a lot of work to do.

I guess in Iowa you get more snow than we get in Southern Illinois. My routine is to shovel every 2 in of snow when they talk about six or seven inches are coming in. It just hurts my back lifting that heavy wet snow at one go, so this other way works for me.❄️

Nicely done🎃

How are you going to manage to get outside to fix that window? I'm already terrified 😱

Sadly, the tap root is very long, the dandelions are going to come back. On the other hand, you can make dandelion wine. 😉

Thank you for rescuing this beautiful home. ❤

I love your channel, I live just a few miles away in Brighton, Iowa. I’m so glad you are restoring and not destroying like a lot of people do. Keep posting the amazing videos!!!

Stunning display

PROJECT! 🛎️My new favorite channel 🎉

Without anything else said, can you imagine the cost to heat this house???

I would be inclined to leave that phone connection in place as it is part of the history of the house and it itself is now something of the past and it's in an out of the way place but in a way makes it quirky, by all means take it off retreat the wood but put it back on. You could also go as far as a small 1970's pedestal table with a dial up phone from that era, just a thought, Cheers.