Thoughts on rendering?
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Is this an azalea? What's wrong with it?
Comments (4)If it is lace bugs the undersides of leaves are covered with dark brown to black, sticky spots of excrement. The fact that it could be lace bug is the main reason for not spraying. Lace bugs are normally controlled by beneficial insects. Sprays kill the beneficial insects that naturally control the lace bugs. The best long-term control for lace bug is to move the plant to a shadier area. Also, the National Arboretum warns: "excess nutrients may promote larger than normal populations of azalea pests like lace bugs and azalea whiteflies." Here is a link that might be useful: Common Problems and Their Solutions....See MoreWhat are your thoughts on this exterior rendering?
Comments (8)Is there any purpose to the dormers other than an exterior cosmetic change? Or are they just planted on the roof? (No opening to the interior. This is one way of doing attic dormers in my location, in the nearby suburbs anyway). The dormers are much too small and a barrel roof dormers are a kind of specific shape more common to the Federal Period and on houses with a very strict vocabulary of balance and proportion if not exact symmetry. Georgian dormers would have a gable, a pedimented gable or a hip. This is American Georgian architecture: in true Georgian architecture and its revivals Symmetry is the key element and relative Heaviness of details around doors and windows is key. This is Greek Revival: This is a rural example, which is much less concerned with symmetry than its urban counterpart but it still follows a rather strict formula--and has near symmetry within its two masses. And the two forms are separated historically by the Federal period, so there is little mixing of actual details between Georgian and Greek Revival. Greek Revival (especially urban Greek revival, is spare compared to Georgian--I live in a city with all three and lived in an 1838 Greek Revival myself). Your house is asymmetrical, garage, front, and has fairly slender profiles, and a Jerkinhead roof. The added pilasters and dormers are not enough to convert this house to anything with a classical look like Georgian or Greek Revival. Plus, even a revival of these styles would never have a beltline of stone around the first floor. The stone on Mount Pleasant, at the top, is the English Basement. And I think the three material mix on the facade of stone basement and brick quoins and chimneys with a stucco body is a rarity. Most of these houses would be all brick or all wood (exposed basement excepted). I think you'd get a lot more mileage out of improving the trim details and working with a neo-eclectic craftsman-y look because of the overall massing of the house and the roof....See MoreNeed Advice - Landscape Design - Front of House
Comments (18)I don't want to take all the fun of selecting shrubs away from you! Check locally and see what plants are easy to maintain at the sizes shown and have the personalities (leaf size/color/flowers/evergreen, etc.) that appeal to you. There would be a few options. The flanking space is that to each side of house front. We can't see how the house fits into its surrounding....See MoreExterior Paint Colors
Comments (7)I like your choice of stone for the fireplace. The stone and the Trex deck color are the two things that must inform the color palette for the entire exterior. You can't just arbitrarily pick out paint colors - you probably already know that. We'd need to establish core hue families found in the stone and then lower the value to find the medium-dark gray for the body and a darker charcoal gray for the beams. How dark the beams can go will depend on the species of wood if you are indeed "staining" with an opaque stain. The whole stain business is complicated. I don't like to tell people they need to go hire a color consultant who knows paint really well, but in your case it would be well worth the money to hire one....See Morewhallyden
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