Is My Home a Craftsman? Victorian?
Laurie
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Can a Craftsman Style house have non-Craftsman style furniture?
Comments (4)Absolutely! We are in the process of remodeling our non-descript builder's special with Craftsman details. My dining room furniture is vintage Jacobean repro. The living room holds my vintage/antique Duncan Phyfe, Chippendale, and Federal furniture. I have a Victorian piece or two as well. You don't have to go all-out Craftsman. IMO, that's a boring, predictable way to go. Your traditional pieces will be smashing when teamed with a Craftsman style backdrop!...See MoreVictorian Italianate with an inner courtyard?
Comments (69)Center courtyard would be very hard to achieve realistically... Could you settle on the idea of a L or U-shaped house? Could fence the open side (brick, iron, etc) or do a wall of vegetation? When I envision what you're saying, I can't think of why I would want to spend that amount to be outside but not see the outside landscape... Maybe a roof terrace instead?...See MoreLooking for Paint Color Suggestions for Victorian-Craftsman Style Home
Comments (0)We would appreciate any suggestions for helping us find a paint scheme/color combinations for our house. Eastern exposure. We have torn out all the landscaping and there is now a stone wall with tones of beige, gold and gray stone in front. We will be using Benjamin Moore Aura Paint. Thanks very much....See MoreVictorian Folk or Victorian Farm House? Difference?
Comments (18)I recently went through this with my own house (built in 1892 in a large city), and it looks very similar to yours. And given my related education, I went down quite the research hole! First, the years given for eras of architecture, art, and design histories are the popular years — so it is possible for a person to build a Victorian house after it fell out of popularity, especially considering these particular architecture eras (Victorian, Edwardian, etc.) are based on the years of queens and kings (i.e., Queen Victoria‘s reign was 1837 to 1901). But I think there is definitely something to you finding the earlier record and the information about the fire. In my city, they started classification at the year 1900, so homeowners with the year 1900 have to take additional steps to dig deeper for the exact year — I got lucky and found my house with the label “being built” on an 1892 map. Secondly, the use of “folk” and “farm” are generalized terms. The style of your house is Victorian Carpenter Gothic — this is a specific type of the Gothic revival period that took place during the Victorian era. If it would’ve been built in a rural/farming area, then it would more so be referred to as folk or farm, or even Rural Gothic. The Carpenter Gothic house style was extremely popular throughout the US, as the invention of the scroll saw allowed basic carpenters to easily create ornate trim from wood or purchase it from mass-produced options. A general google search for Carpenter Gothic house will yield a ton of results from extremely ornate houses to simpler versions (like your house). I spent so much time looking at examples online to brainstorm the exterior rehab I’m doing, I finally checked out a book from my library called “Storybook Cottages: America’s Carpenter Gothic Style” by Gladys Montgomery, and it’s a great resource of photos and history — I highly recommend it! You can also buy it used on Amazon. And if you want to try and find your house on a map, one of the best sources are Sanborn maps; that’s where I found my house mapped. You can view a lot of these maps on the Library of Congress’s website, and then filter the results for your state, city, year, etc. The Sanborn Map Compamny was based out of New York, but they created maps all over the country specifically for fire insurance companies to use in assessing liability in urban areas — so the maps also include details concerning building materials, number of floors, etc....See Morelazy_gardens
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