Has anyone ever seen a window with no trim molding? Modern?
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Comments (42)Amazing thread! Great tips. I began salvaging the old double-hungs from our 1913 house we sold to a builder -- he gave me 7 days to get everything out I wanted and was amazed that I pluck so much: all the doors, windows, stair rail, cabinets, even the lovely trim around all the doors and windows. I used them to rebuild a house on our ranch in Texas. Fortunately I had a skilled carpenter who built the house around the salvage material. The next house he built required more windows, which I found through a demolition company who called me whenever they had a house with windows in good condition. Great way to harvest shiplap as well. We're in the process of building again, and this time my "picker" got windows that need work, so I sent them to a carpenter who is framing them so the crew can just slip them in like a store bought. The key is to get the entire window out, in the frame, and don't forget the weights! You'll save a lot of money if you don't have to build the frame and all the mechanisms of the weighted window. My attempts to deal with the vinyl replacment contractors has FAILED -- they simply refuse to take the time to pull the window out in the frame, like the pictures show above, they leave the frame and rip up the sashes as they pull them out. Crazy!!! I offer them good money, too. Fortunately we live in a neighborhood where anything pre-1940 is being bulldozed and replaced by McMansions. That's the best place to hunt....See MoreHas anyone ever seen...?
Comments (1)I'm pretty sure I've seen several in the Finished Kitchens Blog (FKB). Go to the FKB: http://finishedkitchens.blogspot.com/ Click on the "FKB Categories" link (right side of the page) Scroll down to the "Cabinets" category Look for "Multiple colors/shades of cabinets:" Click on the "Mixed Cabinets" link You will be presented with a list of the kitchens that have mixed "colors"...usually stained & painted Click on the name of the user ("[username]'s Kitchen") I'm almost certain I saw several instances of white cabinets with dark crown molding. I think there are actually examples of both...where the crown molding matches the cabinets and where it contrasts (matches the darker color (floor or cabinet)). Good luck!...See MoreHas Anyone Built or Seen a Custom Home by an Architect?
Comments (47)Sure, and they all have memories and stories. Many years ago, I worked on one of Christopher Alexander's houses in the Berkeley hills. He used a lot of graduate student grunt labor. His team would take months to make even the most trivial decisions, with endless discussions. IIRC that house took five years to finish, and the couple who commissioned it got divorced before it was done. I once lived down the street from a pair of Thomas Gordon Smith post-modern numbers (the Tuscan and Laurentian), kind of a snarky send up of the typical suburban snout house. They were painted in a sort of Pompeii meets Miami Vice color scheme, with a neoclassical column in the middle of their wide garage doors, to break up the span. Sadly, one house was eventually repainted in boring colors, and some quirky exterior details removed. I never saw the insides, which were painted in huge classical style murals. When I first got married we went to England and saw the Colefax and Fowler building, the one with the Wyatt/Wyattville yellow drawing room. It's up on the second floor, via a dark, narrow, twisty flight of stairs papered with what look to be bad baroque paintings, but may be theatrical backdrops. The room itself isn't as wide or tall as it looks in pictures, and the arc of the ceiling is quite shallow. When I saw it, all the Nancy Lancaster furniture was gone, it was full of lamps. The paint work was a little obscured by nicotine and wood smoke, but you could still see the complicated oil glazing-- there are tiny pin point flecks of many colors in the glaze, which give an almost pearly effect. I think Fowler deliberately allowed the painters to use dirty brushes!...See MoreHas anyone ever built a home on stilts over a 1 story home?
Comments (27)The "flyover" house in my post above was a concept--not an actual house. The idea was to provide cheap new housing fast in crowded urban areas of Port Elizabeth, S.A. The company does not seem to exist anymore while the principal runs hotels and restaurants. There are hundreds of capped bungalows in our city. But none that I know of that were done on stilts. Below is a capped home I renoed (interior only) that started as a bungalow circa 1920. Capped bungalow. Danforth Village, Toronto. Sold 11/17 for C$935k The only advantage I see is that you might be able to live in the existing house with less disruption during the construction phase. Short-term gain for long term pain. Move out and do it right!...See Moreannzgw
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