The Historic District

Mick_VT wrote:... Nicole Curtis (who is obsessed with exposing brick) uses something on the brick after removing the plaster.

I'm having her arrested and charged this week!

My trim, from 1914, is painted bald cypress. Someone stripped it sometime along the way, (maybe Phil owned this house at some point ) but they really f*ed up the walls taking the baseboards off to strip, and then used gobs of caulk in place of where the broke the plaster to hell. For all the shit wo...

Wow, it does look nice. But it sounds like hell.

Great find! It's a Regency/Federal style table, which were very popular up to the 1940's, even though Regency is an 18th century style. The chairs aren't a technical match but they look great anyway.

BTW, nice floor. Is that white oak?

Vala, here are the curtains for Gothichome. They were sewn using the recommendations in Eastlakes 'Hints on Household Tastes'. http://i1075.photobucket.com/albums/w436/ronm2/1fdb4281578b642893ce200ba3f3291d.jpg He suggested, simple straight hung curtains that touch the floor but do not "puddle...

Vala wrote:Yea I guess I should have specified I was looking for correct curtain systems rather than fabric patterns, thanks I'll take a look at those.

Victorian Emporium sells period correct curtain hardware (for England). http://www.thevictorianemporium.com/

My 2 cents ... if the brick is a solid exterior wall, which it looks to be, I would not paint it unless I could find a moisture permeable paint. Moisture is absorbed by the brick and the mortar and it has to have a place to go. I suspect a lot of painted brick will be cracking in the near future, or...

I would have guessed a Scale Weight: m m But that would not explain how it got in the wall. Chris Scale weight is a possibility, particularly as it looks like it has been adjusted to a particular weight (drill point in bottom). I get quite a b it of stuff in my walls (as per previous posts), largel...

Nice to see another lime geek on here. I'm about to make about 10 gallons of putty for a future project. Welcome!

Seems to have been a thing at one time ...