This old house is a half bubble off plumb
Maybe even three quarters of a bubble off plumb. We probably would never have noticed if it weren’t for the new curio cabinet. There I am trying to take a picture of it for a friend of mine when after snapping a couple of shots I couldn’t help but notice that in each picture the cabinet looked crooked. It’s not the cabinet, which is perfectly square. It’s my floors.
I should’ve figured that out right away because this house is well over one hundred years old. However, I’m sure others will agree that a crooked house isn’t the first thing that you’d think of at the time. Nooooo, you go ACK! My new cabinet is crooked. For what I paid, it should be straight. It’s after that initial outburst, that you realize it’s not the cabinet.
Maybe the day we put in new flooring our cabinet will be level…or not. With a century old house, you never have any certainty other than it is still standing after all these years. Yes, it is old but this house has character, a history, and it will probably last another century. You can’t say that about new houses.
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Doggonedmysteries 
Heck, my house is only 54 years old and almost everything in it is shimmed. At least my level doesn’t gather dust – but hanging a painting, so it gives the illusion of being level, is quite a trick.
I bet it is! Some of our walls are straight, a few of the doors are too, that is saying a lot for a house that is over a century old.