Much of my work on this house was inside but I rebuilt this entry in part. Some of the old solid columns had been replaced with stave cut ones that were coming apart at the seams. A week of epoxy, clamps, bondo, and fillers got them all looking similar and ready for paint.
The old porch roof was several layers of roll roofing and puddled water bad. I replaced some rotten joists and all the declking to create a little pitch and had seamed copper soldered on. We laminated the curved rail to imitate one from an old photo of the house and one of my guys decided to learn to run a lathe to replicate the ballusters. That’s all red cedar.
I spent about two weeks going around the house to replace some rotten wood gutters and repair the rest with epoxy products. Replaced all the leads too.
Excellence is its own reward!
“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
–Marcus Aurelius
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Piffin
Now that's an entry way!
Love those Palladian/Georgian architectural elements.
Great work
Doug
Me too. Classical elements have a mathematical purity, a defined beauty..
Excellence is its own reward!
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius
What happened to the rest of the shutters?????
Can only imagine what that entry cost to build. whewwww
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The caretaker/painter always has a few shutters in the shop.
I'm sure you know how much tender hateful care old wood shutters can take..
Excellence is its own reward!
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius
thanks for posting those pics Piffin..very nice...and you are right about Math and beauty....it may have been before your time here but we had an interesting discussion on Fibbonacci numbers and the Golden Rectangle some time back ( I won't even attempt a search ) and it is very very interesting to see the role Math plays in "nature" and how we percieve it.
regards
markQuittintime
Mark- I specifically remember those posts and often times wanted to go back to reread it but couldn't find it. A search for 'golden triangle' only turns up one obscure reference to a highway somewhere. It must have been before the changeover.Character? I never had any problem with character. Why, people've been telling me I was one every since I was a kid.
Here's a handful, in no particular order.
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages/?msg=12200.1
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages/?msg=16318.1
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages/?msg=9444.1
When you search, do you use the Advanced Search near the top of the left frame, or the retarded Search near the bottom? The Advanced Search is much more effective. The other one is nearly useless.
I was one of the initiators of that discusasion if it's the same I remember. I put the ratios to work whenever I can. I also did a walkin visit to the local HS math class to discuss practical applications of math and spent a third of my time on the golden mean.
Excellence is its own reward!
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius
Again, nice job. I really love doing achitectural millwork restoration, it can be very challenging. Living in the oldest part of the US, it comes up a lot.
I learn a lot from the ghosts of the old dead craftsmen. .
Excellence is its own reward!
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius
Piffin,
Entry looks great, what is the floor material on the porch?
Main floor part is fir T&G, painted with grey deck paint. I had to replace a few rotted pieces near one corner. I saturated all the ends of the fir with Minwax's wood hardener before turning the painter loose to sand and paint. The step treads are 2" Pine and weren't in too bad o' shape but I think they may have been replaced by previous owner sometimme in the last fifteen or twenty years, from what I saw.
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Excellence is its own reward!
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius
Piffin ....You got it together , looks great . I'm like anyone else I have my pet peeves and in noway any reflection on you or your work but it frost's my pumkin to see two pipes (vents ) sticking up through the roof on the front elevation between the dormers,ever notice how there not shown on the house plan before you start building.
This house was practically built before they invented indoor plumbing though, LOL
I agree that planning is needed to avoid that. You did notice that this was a redo and not new?
The attic space is pretty tight though. This photo shows what I mean. This bathroom was just a pot and a sink for the help. We fitted in a cast iron tub and robbed some closet space to create a shower. The plumber needed service access for annual drainage and service so I designed this linen cabinet to fit under the roof slope with casing to match the rest of the house. It slides out like a drawer after removing four screws to let him crawl in.
Off to the roight of it is one of the dormer windows you notice on the front of the house with the toilet under the window. as I shoot the photo, I'm almost sitting in a pedestal sink and the cast tub is to my right..
Excellence is its own reward!
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius
Piffin .....Ican see you had your hands full trying to do one of my famous "MagicWand" tricks .My comment about Vents on the front side is just one of the things we see and usually don't say anything about especially around our customers and I was trying to get you to share some of my guilt. One of the other things I see a lot of around centeral Illinois is fireplace caps that are galvanized metal Just shining brightly on the top of a $175.000 house that has been meticulously color coorinated everywhere below including landscaping . I've been covering the exposed to the eye area with coil stock or a piece of SL6 (fascia wrap) inverted thats the same color as on the overhangs , it"s not "Excellence "but it sure makes me feel good when somebody else notices and says "oh yeah he does that to all his houses" .......Have a great week and we can make it through January ,for sure.
I actually found it!! ( thanks for Uncle Duncs help in using advanced and remembering that a keyword was sunflower seeds )
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=12200.1
This actually a thread that I started...curiously I am named "Guest" as are many of those who responded. The other curious thing is that this thread originally went for a couple of hundred posts...it now has only 27
regards
markQuittintime
Lovely thread but not one of the ones I remember.
If the posts got lost in editing for quality, they missed a couple buit I loved the Italian humour like the term for an Italian suppository, Inuendo..
Excellence is its own reward!
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius