quail , deer, pheasants
1976-1980
little money; debt;
Wallpaper & paint; contact paper, painting kitchen cupboards light green
Lew giving us carpet and helps us put in carpeting; new refrigerator; dryer in up laundry area
Running in house; making wooden frame for front window; buy table & drapes
Shop in room under our bedroom; library in room by furnace; family room and bath down
Pippin; as puppy Mom gave to us; large dog on rope; give to dog catcher who loved him
David sleeps downstairs with his toys and light on; Julene room upstairs
Plant walnut trees around yard; Freezer in laundry room;
Cut off garage and make shed; have cellar; Making tower from phone poles
Buying Chevy car for me & getting my own checks; Ken gives us cat- Fluffy
Garrett graduates in Building Construction; grows beard and keeps
Evergreens around house and trying to weed several gardens
Making sandbox; riding in wheelbarrow; Solar heating in laundry room
Primary classes Tuesday afternoons; Relief Society during on Wednesday mornings
Making stairs to attic; putting in attic floor; small stairs by our bedroom
Making two bedrooms downstairs for David and Julene; David helping
1979
We added stairs down by our bedroom which divided the downstairs large north room into two bedrooms; one for David and one for Julene. We also made stairs up to attic.
We bought the Chevy Monte Carlo.
We made a sandbox in our backyard.
1980
Garrett making baby’s room upstairs; yellow curtains & changing table; new white crib
Laura born March 8, 1980
David & Dad making down bedrooms, baby’s room, stairs to attic, rewiring, finish floors
Take out evergreen bushes and cellar; Take out many fruit trees, berries, and grapes
Take out old green livingroom carpet and brown kitchen, hall, & bathroom linoleum and finish existing oak floors; Put in washer drain line; fix front porch steps
1982
We repaired the cement front porch.
Elms on south removed for wider road; chain link fence on south
Repairing front porch; taking out bushes by house; put in small patio; use side door; shoes
Get old phone company van at auction
1983
We buy old Mountain Bell (phone company) van at auction and paint it yellow.
Garrett puts in washer drain line
1984
Getting rid of plants and scented items in home; Make side entrance to home; not use front door
Move shop to downstairs middle west room; move Franklin stove to family room closet
Take out old green livingroom carpet and brown kitchen, hall, & bathroom linoleum and finish existing oak floors; Put in washer drain line; fix front porch steps
Move shop to attic;
1986
Finishing livingroom floor; taking out old blue linoleum counters; large closet for all clothes
girls and boys share rooms
Move shop to attic; make David’s bedroom; Julene room in large closet
1988
We refinished our living room floor and camp-out at Timpanogos Cave park while it dried.
1989
Move shop to attic; make David’s bedroom; Julene room in large closet
1990
trip to Dallas; redid floor in kitchen, hall & bath;
Give away our sofa and stuffed rocker
1992
Julene moved out of small closet room and into Daniel's room
Daniel takes Family room as his room
bought Epson printer
make Julene's room into an Art room
cut down favorite tree mountain ash- side of house- allergies
1993
Garrett and David took out old linoleum and refinished kitchen and hall- another coat on living room
bought van just before Christmas
beginning of December, Daniel found "Misty" kitten in our yard
trouble with neighbor's dogs so Garrett and David put fence around front yard on Christmas day
1994
ice rink-new washer
fire on Maple Mountain
new Heritage chapel Main street
1998
We Start fixing up our home: paint kitchen door
We sell our condo that Julene and Laura had lived in and the money we received was $30 more than what we paid for it.
We clean downstairs and make Dan’s old room into library with deep shelves.
We cover the Family room floor with red rugs.
Garrett sands our bedroom walls and repaints it.
I remove old wallpaper from bathroom and kitchen. We paint the cupboards soft white to match the kitchen walls.
We move the stove to north kitchen wall and the freezer into kitchen on west wall.
2002
Our sons help us put in a new water heater.
We buy a treadmill.
I decorate with lace and plants and we Get rid of many things in attic.
Get rid of the grass in the front yard and plant periwinkle instead.
Julene moves out of condo and we sell it; put futon in our family room
We buy a closet for our entrance room and paint entrance room and stairs yellow.
We paint our downstairs family room floor green covering over the old linoleum tiles.
We Put in kitchen corner lights.
We Remove the old rock wool insulation from the attic and replace it with new fiberglass insulation.
We Paint the attic floor and rewire the house. Dan helps us with the attic and yard pruning. He spent most evenings with us and had dinner for the 1st year that he was out on his own.
David and Dan help Garrett rebuilt our roof and put on new shingles.
2003
We Take out the shelves in upstairs hallway. We Take out wall in laundry room and buy dishwasher which we put there.
We Put laminate wood floor in laundry area and upper back stairs.
2006
Growing pyrocanthia hedge around yard and Virginia Creeper on south fence
Move dining table downstairs to family room
Take out closet in family room; track lights; fix window frames; move stove
Paint rest of down floor green
Exercise room with treadmill; guest room with water bed (girls old room); library in boys old room; family/ dinning room; play room in old closet
Make entrance to house east door (painted green)
Garrett put in driveway around house; moves basketball standard
In 1976 when we moved our little family to Mapleton, it was just beginning to be a bedroom community for Provo.
Rid roses, lilacs, juniper, cedar, plant walnut trees from volunteers
Shop, sandbox, stairs, attic stairs, 2 bedrooms, washer drain line, redo front porch, make entrance room,
Written in 2016
When we moved to Mapleton in 1976, 1200 North was just a gravel road with a ditch and large Cottonwood trees growing along it. Main Street was just dirt. I often took Julene and David to ride down a little dirt hill there in their red wagon. 1200 N did not go to the highway (just a little past the red church). There were two churches in town; the White Church and the Red Church. At first we went to the White church. There was one school - Mapleton Elementary which was less than half the size it is now. There was a bank and small grocery store in Mapleton and one park (the old one by the white church).There was a small take out chicken place in Springville, an A&W Drive-in where we went for Root Beer floats, an Allens pharmacy and cleaners, a Happy Service Market, and very little traffic.
At first we tried to do things the way the Stevens suggested, even making apple juice with a pole from the sheep shed (What a mess!!!) and trying to can all the fruit, but we quickly realized that I neither had the health, time, or inclination for all the canning their little “farm” required. They had many trees: plumcot, apricot, apple, two cherry, two pear, peach, pecan (still here), walnut (still here), elms, birch, two maple (still here), cedar, large honey locust, and Mountain Ash tree (had orange berries).
There was a fence behind the small grass yard even with the walnut tree which separated the garden area. In the garden were raspberries, gooseberries, grapes (concord and green) and most of the fruit trees. The cherry and peach trees were on the north side by the driveway. There was also an old wild rose bush, rose bushes, a French lilac bush, peonies, iris, hen and chicks (little rubbery succulent plants), large red tulips and a few of other colors, snowball bush, yellow forsythia, wild geranium (still here), periwinkle (still here), and other flowers. There was Boston Ivy on the house (still here), but they kept it pruned back to just a few feet by the back door.
The was a small grass yard in the back with a small patio by the house and grass out front. There was a root cellar in the middle of the backyard just after you went through the gate into the garden area. It had a heavy sheet metal door (scary place with spiders and tunnels for mice into it). There was a cedar tree by the cellar and grape vines. On the south there was a juniper hedge and several evergreen bushes and trees around the house (removed all of them).
The basement was fairly finished. When we took out the old acoustic ceiling and paneling this month (July 2013 started remodeling the basement), we discovered that the Stevens had once wallpapered the family room walls and ceiling with a floral paper. Once they also had a door between the family room (south room) and the room to the west of the furnace. They had dug out the basement after they built the house and didn’t do it all at once and they never sealed the basement area. We had to remove all the walls and replace some of the wood studs because they had mold on them.
Part of downstairs had been used as a coal bin (pantry or fruit room under the stairs), and the duct work had been set up for a coal system. The walls were later paneled with nice mahogany paneling and they covered the family room ceiling with acoustic tiles. There was a wood burning Franklin Stove in the family room on a tile base, and old brown linoleum on the floor.
In 1986 we painted the hall and bedroom floors blue, then a few years later we painted all the downstairs floor green. There were old wool carpets downstairs which we got rid of after they got wet and smelled dirty and of coal dust. They were going to make the basement into a small apartment (bedroom, bathroom, storage room, kitchenette living area on the north of the basement) with the south part of it as a family room for them, but it didn’t work out (had to have a separate heating system), so they built the duplex next door.
Howard Stevens repaired TV’s and had a small shop in the large closet on the west end in the family room. They had a fruit room under the stairs (pantry). They put in an dropped acoustical ceiling in the apartment section of the basement and drywall ceiling in the large north room. For a short time Garrett used this room as a shop. When Julene and David were small (only a couple of years after we moved in), we put the north stairs in and divided this large room into two bedrooms, one for Julene and one for David. We are now removing all the old paneling and drywall. We will plaster the walls in pastel colors and put white tile on the floor and bathroom walls.
The attic had very steep stairs. Stella Stevens did oil painting in the attic, and they stored winter coats there. Only a small part of the north of the attic by the stairs had a floor. The rest of the area was open old gray rock wool insulation. We put in the floor after a few years. In 2002 we put in the new insulation. Shortly after we moved in, Garrett took out the steep attic stairs which went through the northwest bedroom and put in safer stairs to the attic with a landing.
The kitchen had old blue linoleum on the counters, contact paper on the walls by the counters and by the stove area which looked like blue and white Holland tiles, white cabinets, a big double sink, and a large white stove by the chimney. We replaced the old contact paper with strawberry contact paper right after we moved in, then with wallpaper in 1979.
In 2012 Garrett painted the kitchen drawers and put in stainless steel bottoms and took out the old counter (we had put in Formica counters). The floor was brown vinyl flooring in the kitchen, hall and bathroom and pea green acrylic carpet in the living room. Later, we found out that all the upstairs had solid oak flooring which we sanded and finished the oak floor in 1992. The Stevens just thought it was old wood and didn’t like it. My step-father, Lew Pearson, gave us new carpeting to carpet the bedrooms and hall.
Julene and David shared the west bedroom for a short time, then David moved into the family room. The hardware in the kitchen and bathroom was silver colored. We put the oak frame in the front window shortly after we moved in to keep the kids from running into the large low picture window.
In 2003 we put in air conditioning. There was gray wallpaper in the living room (made to look like paneling) and beige wallpaper in the bedroom. The other upstairs bedroom was used by Stella’s mother for several years while they took care of her. There was a bedroom closet where we put stairs into the attic. The mother lived to be about ninety. The only stairs to the basement were by the back door. The Stevens had a large chest freezer in the laundry room and had walled off the upper laundry area over the freezer which we later removed. They left the yellow (blond wood) cabinet, an old gold recliner, and a small beige loveseat for us.
There was an old garage where the Stevens lived while they built the house. It leaned a little. Later, we used the good wood in it and made it into a shed. Garrett put in the porch railing which he made in a BYU class. We cemented in the space outside the family room windows by the sidewalk. In 2012 (after our 18 year old cat, Misty, died) we enclosed the front porch making it into an office area.
We were on a septic system. The tank was under the ground by the back door. Garrett put in a washer drain line a few years after we moved in. In 1997 we connected to the sewer system.
There was a cement driveway on the north of the house. We added the wider part on the West. We put in a drive around cement driveway in the back of the house in 2000. In 2001 Garrett, David and Dan helped re-roof the house. In 2009 Garrett and David built the garage. In 2010 Garrett made a paver patio under the Walnut tree and a larger one under the pecan tree.
Just before we moved, when I was no longer living in the house, Garrett sealed the basement walls, put in insulation, new studs, new drywall, paint, carpet, vanity and tiles in the down bathroom. Upstairs we replaced the refrigerator and stove, put a vanity in the bathroom, refinished the floor, and painted the walls. It looked lovely.
We have enjoyed raising our children in this home and are now about the age the Stevens were when they sold this home to us. We moved to Mapleton with two young children, a boy and a girl, and now we have sold the old house to a young couple with a boy and a girl about the same ages our children were when we moved to Mapleton. Now we are ready, as were the Stevens, to move a home with less upkeep and turn the home over to a young couple. It feels right to have a young couple there enjoying raising a family in this home.
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