Small house 'style'
jasonmi7
16 years ago
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Comments (3)Do you have another picture showing the pagoda in the whole garden? I think something like that would look wonderful on the back side of a pond we want to build up the hill. Far enough away from the house to not be in the "yard", but close enough to enjoy the view. I can just imagine it with lanterns hung from the roof reflected in the water. I want one. :^)...See MoreWANTED: St. John's Wort or Mother Wort plant
Comments (1)St. Johns Wort (Hypericum perforatum) is a weed here in the Pacific NW (I am constantly pulling it here in my Portland garden). You should be able to find it easily if you just take a walk. The defining quality of the plant is the leaves that when held up to light look as though someone has put pinholes in them (perforated them). The stems this time of year are reddish and there may still be some blooms showing. Be aware that this plant can become invasive....See Morealternatives to recessed can lights
Comments (2)kren, my living room and dining room are both about 15 x 17 and each has original, 3 bulb (60 watt max each), ceiling fixtures. They hang down from the 9 ft. ceiling about 1 foot (on a stem) to a colonial pan and then have about 10 inch chains to each pendant globe. There is abundant light for each room. When we had the fixtures restored and the house re-wired, we put a dimmer on the dining room fixture. Soo nice. I would think for an 18 x 20 room you would not need more than a 4 bulb ceiling fixture. I love Rejuvenation for fixtures. You can look up their site on the web, and it has lots of advice about how to judge the size of fixtures a room might need. Remember too, that old houses tended to be less well lit than modern ones. A lot of times, I leave my ceiling fixtures off and just light lamps for the ambiance. Good luck....See MoreDoes my house have *any* style?
Comments (10)Here's what I see: a simple frame house with a wing that was intentional (not added later) - the windows match - and a porch with panache. A house built by someone who knew the land and climate - it has wonderful large windows on the west and south sides to catch the winter sun. It has a porch to protect from heat of the summer afternoon sun in the west. I think, from looking at the photographs, that the trees do the same: shade the house in the summer. A house built by someone who wanted some style - those double-hung windows with their 4 vertical divided lights were quite fashionable before WWI and in your area might still have been in style in 1925. The big window with the smaller light above was very stylish about 1905, and would have had stained glass if you lived in a city. The porch columns are what would have been on a bungalow. They are also called 'arts and crafts' and were not so popular after WWI as before. The interior trim in the main rooms is very simple , but done with care. You can probably tell which wings are later by seeing where your baseboards and window and door casings are different from what is in the front room and the kitchen. The small rooms with the little windows I think are probably additions to the house when it became a duplex. From my comments, I now wonder if your house might not be as old as 1915, or 1920. Where I live ( northeastern US) by the early 1920's, the late Victorian details (your windows, moulding and porch details) had been swept away, not to be used again until the 1990's when people once again appreciated Victorian sensibilities. Sometimes those details are considered 'Prairie' the world Frank Lloyd Wright came out of, and that was popular for longer in the mid-west. I owned a house that started life as a rental in the 1920's. I found it looked best with simple early 1900's furniture, rugs and curtains. I found books and old magazines in thrift shops and flea markets to give me a better feel for the era and went with an 'Edwardian' tone although I would have preferred arts and crafts. The arts and crafts pieces I owned - pottery, linens - never felt like they belonged - my grandmother's embroidered tea towels looked right at home!...See Morejasonmi7
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16 years agoI had always been a 1920s gal. I had a little 1,200 sq. ft. Tudor bungalow when I was single, then DH and I bought a 2,100 sq. ft. Storybook/Colonial, then a 2,600 sq. ft. Mediterranean Revival -- tile roof and all. I still love the homey, crumpled, cozy cottage look.
But the home we bought this summer is entirely different, and I adore it. MCM post-and-beam, lots of glass. It is modern, but organic with natural wood ceilings, paneling and privacy in the center of our wooded lot. Although some would find it stark, I'm sure, we find it the most relaxing home we have had so far. We plan to be here for a while.
We don't have any Eichlers in Alabama, but this is pretty close (albeit it has a brick and not a stone fireplace).
Now, outside to wash the windows . . .
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