The Historic District

1. You take pictures of old 'sad sack' houses to get renovation ideas and/or get a better understanding of the design of the missing trim on your own home. 2. On a bad day, you dream of demoing your house, and moving a historic 'for sale' house onto your lot. 3. You use home incurred injuries as bot...

Warren, I passed on these...because of of the size and the potential for different wood. Then, my Mom fell very ill during the latter half of 2015. I'm back up and running again, and just put a deposit on a entire set of matching cabinets. Stay tuned..I'll start a new thread. Smelly's back

Er, um, bought an entire set of vintage cabinets for my kitchen. Ack. Thread to follow.

I second Bauer Brothers. The website is not at all representative of the amazing stuff they have there. Go for the big stuff.

Um, what exactly do you think we do here? Trade knitting patterns?!? I know...I just wonder if you all get sick of me doing the 'should I' dance....and you all are like, just decide already, would ya? But Warren, you bring up the 'point of inflection'. I'm thinking if I am going to mix styles, I sh...

Hi Lovesickfest! The challenge is that I'm probably 2 months away from engaging the GC and Carpenter. But in four years of looking, I've only found 1 other set of matching kitchen cabinets like these (they were a set of 6 apartment sized built in Hoosiers....which I still regret not buying). They lo...

Well, my quick jaunt to salvage stores in Minneapolis for trim turned into a potentially very, very expensive day. Not only did I find the trim to be pretty much what I needed...but I found (finally!!!!) a set of built ins that could (potentially) be used as kitchen cabinets, and a matching 3/4 heig...

Really good stuff in this thread. Oaktree, do you have pictures of what you are trying to work with? That might help us visualize. I've seen a fair amount of posts on buying a blower and building a custom wood hood....not as expensive, I don't think. There are a few kitchens with vintage hoods on my...

Am I in a posting time out, since this thread has been moved from the main board???

kelt65, Thanks for the link, but I can't put those doric/classical colums in my farmaglow...they are waaay too formal for a 5 room, 950sq foot farmaglow. Mick, I hear what you are saying about the mix of styles. However, my house is a mix of styles. I have rafter tails on the roof (Craftsman) and eg...