The Historic District

Nicholas , we have a lot of overall upmuddles around here. Some over time, some recent. (Two shining examples of "WHY OH WHY" in particular spring to mind less than a 5 minute walk from our house.) Hi Lily, finally got around to reading your post. I am discouraged at what happened in my C...

Phil: As seen in your link, jalousies are the glass strips that all crank open together. very bad at keeping temperature out, also still seen on many Florida homes along with plastic pink lawn flamingos and shuffle board courts. Awning jalousies are larger panes that open the same way, (See: first ...

Hi all, Apparently earlier either my evil twin, or maybe my cat, took over my keyboard while drunk on coffee. Basically, what I discovered is that my windows originally were longer, I can see where they should have been which I noticed when we purchased the house. They have been resized when they in...

Manalto wrote:
I'm talking about the font in the article on the Long Island farmhouse that you linked to above, of course.

I'm not seeing it...but then again I just clicked and looked mostly at the pics...I have DuckDuck which eliminates most of the ad BS, so it loaded a lot faster.

Manalto wrote:
(The first time seeing that peculiar font with the conjoined "st" - I find it arbitrary and distracting; what do you think?)

What font are you talking about?

This is one of those click bait sites but if you can handle that this secluded house is full of antiques and treasures that have been rediscovered after 40 years

FARMHOUSE

Its great to see preservation like this. I also got a kick out of accompanied articles...like the hot tub under the office floor! Crazy stuff.

Thats quite the story Phil, and I am sorry you are going through this. I am also one of those that think the cure was worse than the disease, and it sounds that way with what is going on with you. Some folks suspect what is REALLY going on with this "trial run", but I know this is not the ...

I hate the stuff that's coming out of the US government, from the White House on down to the Tennessee governor, to our local officials. There's no guidance, no leadership, nothing but chaos. We need Captain Picard, but what we've got is Captain Jack Sparrow. Making our real estate (and old homes t...

I continue to keep my roof drip edges and facia trim clean. It is amazing what that one little thing can do to make the whole house look clean. Kind of like cleaning the whitewalls and hubcaps on a car.

I am also continuing with my salvage fence board picket fencing ops.