The Historic District

I definitely see where you're coming from on the white - however, the 1916 Aladdin paint card I was using as a guide for picking colors suggests white, "flesh tint", and "centennial brown" as trim options for the color. I think that while the craftsman aesthetic was the fashionable ideal, there was ...

Been a long time, but not much happened this year ... My dad and I scraped the house and started priming a wall by hand, then decided to switch to a Graco Magnum X7 sprayer. We're converts! I tried Sherwin Williams's "Lemon Chiffonade" on the first coat, but it seemed too pale, so in the end we went...

Thank you! I did get it up on the wall for now, but have yet to clean out all the bottles I've been gathering to have a somewhat matching set of all Wagner bottles. Most of them still have their original labels, but we don't use some of the spice/combos that were popular at one point. I've been deb...

It's been a very long time, but although I closed on the house at the beginning of November, the owner's daughter and her friends were still allowed to live there until the second week of December. I hired movers for the Monday after, but spent a lot of time before and after that moving boxes on my ...

Be still, my heart! That china cabinet is magnificent. Did it come with shelves that are just not pictured, or do you need to make them yourself?

I renamed my thread as it's official - yesterday I closed on my house! I did a walkthrough and took home a key ... but I won't be moving in until the end of December. The house is still occupied by the previous owner's daughter and her friends, who need until the end of the semester + a couple of we...

I love your spice cabinet! Right now I'm using small magnetic tins that live on the front of my fridge - I'm going to have to find a nice period alternative for my house (once the kitchen Happens, anyway).

I've been pondering this for weeks, and finally realized what's been muddling me. My philosophy is "get what you like to live with, there's no need to match the period of your house," but what I like happens to be Arts & Crafts (both British medievalism and American Craftsman styles) a...

1918ColonialRevival wrote:- The deer are feeding in the middle of the day, which is uncommon this time of year.

I haven't seen most of these signs, but the deer activity has been pretty incredible.

If the winter is going to be very bad, it's a good thing working from home has become more normalized!

And now that I look again, I see that your staircase newel is the same as mine. I guess here in Northeastern Vermont they were still using styles from 10-20 years prior. This comment made me think of something. Newel posts in this style were made for probably 45 years. I have catalogs from the 1890...