Column Bases
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 12:38 pm
The columns on my house were replaced at some point and the wood they used is not...stellar.
The trim at the base was warped, falling off, and rotting because they only put a primer base on and called it a day.
We pulled the trim off the bases before we painted the porch, decided we didn't like the flat base paint, but it had gotten so hot we decided to wait til this fall to repaint the porch and finish out the columns.
Unfortunately with the *amazing* quality of soaking wet green wood they seem to be stocking stores with, we are going the PVC trim route, that way we won't have to deal with warping and rot..
I want to go as historic as possible, but I dont really have a reference.
The oldest picture I have from the house is the 80s, and you can't really see much detail, but what little you can see, the very bottom of the base is different.
I'm definitely not going back with the railing, I find it suffocating for such a long shallow porch, and just more railing to keep clean
I dont really know what "style" home this is. I've been told a Folk Victorian.
I *believe* it was built around 1907. Lots in the neighborhood started selling around 1905 and this particular lot bounces around in the deed books between a couple men for a couple of years with no mention of a dwelling on the land. I'm assuming the men were business partners because they owned a few lots on the street where they built houses and immediately sold them, so Im also assuming they were buying some sort of plans or kits
Most of the houses on the street built around this time period have square columns, but the bases all seem to have been replaced with the same cheapo wood ours was
I'm including a picture from the 80s and one from around the 4th of July this year where you can see on that last column how they looked prior to us pulling the other bases off.
Does anyone have any place to go for reference photos, have some to share, or opinions on what should go there?
The trim at the base was warped, falling off, and rotting because they only put a primer base on and called it a day.
We pulled the trim off the bases before we painted the porch, decided we didn't like the flat base paint, but it had gotten so hot we decided to wait til this fall to repaint the porch and finish out the columns.
Unfortunately with the *amazing* quality of soaking wet green wood they seem to be stocking stores with, we are going the PVC trim route, that way we won't have to deal with warping and rot..
I want to go as historic as possible, but I dont really have a reference.
The oldest picture I have from the house is the 80s, and you can't really see much detail, but what little you can see, the very bottom of the base is different.
I'm definitely not going back with the railing, I find it suffocating for such a long shallow porch, and just more railing to keep clean
I dont really know what "style" home this is. I've been told a Folk Victorian.
I *believe* it was built around 1907. Lots in the neighborhood started selling around 1905 and this particular lot bounces around in the deed books between a couple men for a couple of years with no mention of a dwelling on the land. I'm assuming the men were business partners because they owned a few lots on the street where they built houses and immediately sold them, so Im also assuming they were buying some sort of plans or kits
Most of the houses on the street built around this time period have square columns, but the bases all seem to have been replaced with the same cheapo wood ours was
I'm including a picture from the 80s and one from around the 4th of July this year where you can see on that last column how they looked prior to us pulling the other bases off.
Does anyone have any place to go for reference photos, have some to share, or opinions on what should go there?