This very historic home will be featured on #ThisOldHouse Season 44, follow along behind the scenes on our social media accounts. 📢 Announcing our newest project: Welcome to #TOHIpswich! The people were friendly and nice, but it is an extra worry for cast and crew … and it can rob them of time, he said. They drove around Detroit until they found the house,” he said. “I’ll never forget: we were in Detroit doing a project, and these people came from Iowa. “People follow this show and they will drive from the Midwest to find a project.” Tomlin said This Old House does not like to give out street addresses while shooting takes place in case it attracts crowds.

There were some concerns from neighbors who attended the hearings, but the project was ultimately approved. It fell into disuse and was forgotten about after the advent of indoor plumbingīecause of its location, the project had to go to the town planning board, the architectural preservation district commission, and the conservation commission. The Van Oehsens asked if it could support a Rumford fireplace, and McCullough determined it could.Īn old cistern used to collect rainwater. Tomlin said McCullough has already been in to inspect an original chimney. The show’s other experts - such as mason Mark McCullough and electrician Heath Eastwood, a Newburyport resident - will also be in town. Work on the project will be done by general contractor Charlie Silva. She joined the Ask This Old House in 2015 and officially became landscape contractor for This Old House in January 2020. Nawada first worked on This Old House in 2010 alongside Roger Cook, who has since retired as the show’s landscaping expert. There wasn’t much down time, but the end result is likely to end up as a three- to five-minute segment, Tomlin said. Nawada and Sherwoood spent a couple of hours discussing the plans and reshooting scenes. Five other crew members worked on video, sound, and other functions. Running the shoot, Tomlin is the show’s senior producer and is also an Ipswich resident. It was so good we’re going to do it again.” After one of the first takes, John Tomlin said, “That was awesome. The two walked around the property while Sherwood explained her plans to Nawada. In town last week to film the introductory landscaping session was the show’s landscape expert Jenn Nawada and Ipswich landscape architect Rue Sherwood.

Jenn Nawada (left) and Rue Sherwood film a segment Noting that she had a similar old barn once, planning board member Laurie Paskavitz told the Von Oehsens at the time, “It actually looks like it was built by the same drunk people.”īill said he was told the property was a goat and sheep farm in 1970s - “where neighbors bought goat cheese and complained about the smell.” Unlike the old barn, the new one will be built on a foundation. Plans call for a portion of the house to be demolished and rebuilt and for a ramshackle barn with a chaotic set of additions and lean-tos to be torn down and rebuilt. The converted barn could be used for visiting family or a caregiver, should the need arise in future, he said. Nearing the end of their working lives, they are thinking of aging in place, Bill told the board. “We want to retire and spend the rest of our lives in Ipswich,” he said. The couple bought the house in 2020 - 300 years after it was built in 1720 - and are moving from the Washington, D.C., area. “We are so excited about moving to Ipswich,” Bill Von Oehsen told the planning board at its first hearing on the application earlier this year. Although the familiar faces of Tommy Silva, Kevin O’Connor, Jenn Nawada, Richard Trethewey, and others can be seen from time to time in the neighborhood, the crew doesn’t like to advertise the fact during filming.

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