The house
A hundred years, told room by room
A master builder's house
A returnee craftsman, trained abroad, came home and built two floors of brick and carved timber for his family. Example story for this demo store.
The tailor upstairs
A second floor went on, and a tailor took the bright north room as his workroom.
The verandah years
Weddings, naming ceremonies and long evenings on the first-floor verandah.
Shutters closed
The family moved to the mainland and the house stood quiet for thirty years.
Doors open
Four years of patient repair, then eleven rooms for guests.
Restoration
How we brought it back
Example dates for this demo store.
2019
Surveyed
Every door, shutter and floorboard numbered and drawn.
2020
The roof
New timbers cut to the old pattern.
2021
Shutters and doors
Carpenters mended two hundred shutters by hand.
2022
Services
Wiring, plumbing and cooling threaded through the old walls.
2023
Opened
Eleven rooms, a parlour and a library bar.
Example story for this demo store.
The keepers
Who looks after the house
Example team for this demo store.
Folake
House historian
Leads the tours and keeps the archive.
Emeka
Head of the parlour
Runs afternoon tea and knows every regular's pot.
Bayo
Head carpenter
Mends the shutters, one hinge at a time.
A note
About this story
The history of the house on this site is an example story for this demo store. Replace it with the true history of your own building, its builders and the people who lived there.