This shop has been compensated. All opinions are mine alone. #TryMembersMark The house that I live in now was built in the 1860s and there are a lot of quirks to living in a home this old.  The floors aren’t always even, there is coal storage areas in my basement, and there are rooms with no heating ducts, as well as other architectural oddities.  One of these (and one that is quite common in my area of Western New York), is that there was no dedicated laundry room when the house was built (for obvious reasons – no…