The Historic District

I've got a couple cool built-ins... but only one of which is original. Here is the original. And at least one other house in the neighborhood has one too! It's a cabinet located in what would otherwise be inaccessible dead space over the stairs. The cabinet has a counterweighted clothes bar that can...

Hmmm... well... if that center porch indentation is really the start of a walled in former breezeway running from the front of he house to the back, then maybe you'd call it a dogtrot. m ; m There's also something known as a Center Hall Colonial, but that's not this, so I don't think that's what you...

I KNEW it!

Chris

I offered mine for free on CraigsList. They were in good shape, newly painted, stored indoors (no rust), and went pretty quickly to a couple of guys restoring a house that had some bad ones. Just as an aside... I totally would have kept them in place and functional, but the cost of expanding the exi...

For the marks, it's clearly the scar from the deadly embrace of a House Kraken.

Chris

Well, I haven't used it, but the USDA Forest Products Lab does this:
http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/research/cente ... tsheet.php

Chris

It's been about 10 years since we put the addition on, but the wood starts changing color - slowly - right away. If it's a room with limited sunlight and low humidity, it will be very slow to darken, and a bit faster in a brighter room with higher humidity (like my kids-of-the-endless-showers' bathr...

Chris - what supplier did you use for the douglass fir in the second picture? That looks very compatible. If it is reasonably priced, I will just redo the entire upstairs with that. I used a floor place about 5 miles away from me ( m ). Depending on where you live in Connecticut, that might not be ...

Hi Nunnick, That's definitely quarter sawn yellow pine. In my 1925 Dutch Colonial, we have that flooring in the bedrooms, (and it was also in the kitchen) and then 2" white oak in the living and dining rooms. Here is an original floor in one of the bedrooms: http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s...

A great old house book is Richard McGuire’s graphic novel "Here". It is about the inhabitants of one specific spot over the course of hundreds of thousands of years. For a good chunk of the book, that spot is a corner of a room in a house in New Jersey. The book is not chronological - the ...