https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog daily 1.0 2023-10-19 https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/an-introduction monthly 0.5 2021-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1619484766701-PKAU32CAOTJ9BTNJBZ69/Horiz+Existing+Plan.jpg Green & Shingled - An Introduction The house as it was in 2014 when we purchased it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1619485227956-3YJ95X3VYUYD2I4C7575/Horiz+Proposed+Sketch+Plan.jpg Green & Shingled - An Introduction This was my crude sketch plan from late 2019. The main changes are an additional wing behind the kitchen to add a main bedroom and bathroom and the reconfiguration of the kitchen to incorporate the space of the service porch and the second bath (which was built in the 1990s out of space from the original 2nd toilet and some of the adjacent bedroom closets). The bedroom closets get combined into a new hallway to access both bedrooms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1621292192356-EMWX5YA6G7VJQDV9O6DZ/Google+street+view+April+2014.jpg Green & Shingled - An Introduction - This is the ongoing story of what we are doing to our house. Follow along as our 1910 bungalow gets an addition and some much-needed rehabilitation after a long period of benign neglect. Here it is in Google Street View in April 2014, a few months before we bought it in September of 2014. https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/project-description monthly 0.5 2021-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1618708369946-96LYWATY8Y47YXXGGO2X/IMG_3351.JPEG Green & Shingled - Here’s the House I’m cuuuuuute! Just don’t look too closely, please. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1627855848400-QD2EUFGGUUVRJZR3G3WL/IMG_1050.jpg Green & Shingled - Here’s the House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1627855896981-F62NZOLTMNV13R2BVOOA/IMG_1038.jpg Green & Shingled - Here’s the House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1627855949729-GB3JILBGH2US6Z40YQL3/IMG_1049.jpg Green & Shingled - Here’s the House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1627855965204-XN6QP4Q7KJEIB3S568DB/IMG_1043.jpg Green & Shingled - Here’s the House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1627858279584-YOWJE5876PEYCVG61JCC/IMG_1045.jpg Green & Shingled - Here’s the House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1627855983072-V8IFUH8RM9CAM0ZXH0CY/IMG_0988.jpg Green & Shingled - Here’s the House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1627856003513-29Y5590U8T9BEBSESAK8/IMG_1034.jpg Green & Shingled - Here’s the House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1627856005825-11TJX1VT9C4OGJ9F8C1N/IMG_1036.jpg Green & Shingled - Here’s the House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1627856044021-JC88TYXMAAAXVZMLRHB8/IMG_0990.jpg Green & Shingled - Here’s the House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1627856078290-D5KBFDEWA6DCAQRECEE0/IMG_0997.jpg Green & Shingled - Here’s the House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1627856104166-HRU1CEZ1I7S8U29W5VIU/IMG_1004.jpg Green & Shingled - Here’s the House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1627858399475-OPY2YFF4E6G36PFM8ZT9/IMG_1003.jpg Green & Shingled - Here’s the House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1627856125480-TAX41SA3G1N0WY7LOBH8/IMG_1010.jpg Green & Shingled - Here’s the House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1627856130643-OP26K9DJD23G3FESHQ63/IMG_1019.jpg Green & Shingled - Here’s the House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1621366519571-N12XG0O1WYQ2I4CFH1SP/Horiz+Existing+Plan.jpg Green & Shingled - Here’s the House - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/heres-the-project monthly 0.5 2021-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1618891700263-JHMGQDZ0U4TKA4QK4RSJ/Blog+Revised+Floor+Plan.jpg Green & Shingled - Here’s the Project The plan. The hall, bath and bedroom at upper right are additional space (408 square feet). The space at the upper far right is a little office with windows all around it with a cased opening to the bedroom. The other hall (space 107, right below the kitchen in the plan) is carved out of the two existing bedroom closets; the long closets shown along the walls are new built-ins, which takes 2’ from each bedroom but eliminates the inconvenient circulation of the original plan. (Old houses! So inconvenient! Eew!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1618709421373-A4DIU7BXPHTGCGJRDLLF/Blog+Revised+East+Elevation.jpg Green & Shingled - Here’s the Project East side elevation view, along the driveway. A comparison of the existing condition, below, and the proposed, above. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1618714728905-BOYBS8007U2IR0T9GTST/Blog+3D+View+SW.jpg Green & Shingled - Here’s the Project 3D view of the addition from the driveway. The door in the center leads to the back hall and kitchen. An existing bedroom is shown at left, and the new bedroom is in the new wing at right. All these windows on the back are new, and all are casement windows except for the high windows along the walkway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1618714710757-Y757PRLQ7U2B2ZPR0W4X/Blog+Revised+West+Elevation.jpg Green & Shingled - Here’s the Project And the west side exterior elevation view. A comparison of the existing condition, below, and the proposed, above. https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/existing-conditions-the-gorey-details monthly 0.5 2021-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1618783285371-I0RNOUC92KI9QWRH636W/D1CA170C-C9BB-4DBA-BA6A-1F8162D33934.jpeg Green & Shingled - Existing Conditions - This is typical of the condition of our shingles. Cedar shingles SHOULD—and often do—last over 110 years. But it didn’t go that way for our house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1618716651145-LJ4GRFBS2Q7KT578FKJQ/IMG_3364.JPEG Green & Shingled - Existing Conditions - Need some help, here, clearly—the front windows got a coat of paint slapped on them for the sale, but not the sides! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1618715569156-TZ3NYF6QMCLWKPHZGYE0/IMG_3371.JPEG Green & Shingled - Existing Conditions - Phew! The back is clearly not living up to the promise of the beautifully landscaped front yard. They understood curb appeal in 1910, but back yards were for utilitarian uses, growing things, etc., not for family life and socializing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1618715626211-Q1F5CCXI9Y1AQGOS4LOH/IMG_3355.JPEG Green & Shingled - Existing Conditions - Back of the house: the side they didn’t expect anyone to see! Not much more to say about it than that, in this state. https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/history-of-a-house monthly 0.5 2021-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1621371026916-XOVBZK8M1HYKUOMI7D4K/2010+Oxley+St+Jan+1+1910+SWCM.jpg Green & Shingled - History of a House - This is the listing from Southwest Contractor & Manufacturer, a weekly trade publication, announcing the issuance of the original building permit in the last week of 1909. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1618785430049-9UIMGJSZ6GN2MJ8LTTEE/Permit+log+1909.jpg Green & Shingled - History of a House - This is the page from the City’s permit log showing the permit issued to the brothers on December 27, 1909. City staff were not even aware of this log! I happened to mention it to someone who researches houses locally and he had a copy that he’d obtained from the public library. https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/front-yard-landscape-2017 monthly 0.5 2022-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1627859455810-UPYTD9MGZC9C68GNMBQJ/garden+April+2020.jpeg Green & Shingled - Front Yard Landscape (2017) - Make it stand out The front garden in its full Spring glory, April 2020 (three years after installation). Below are images of the installation process and of visitors—human and animal—enjoying the garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1619556037038-1E7TXW1G32RMN0JLBAPI/IMG_1742.JPG Green & Shingled - Front Yard Landscape (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1619556044973-SBO5ENDHQLA3AD8BQX4C/IMG_2335.JPG Green & Shingled - Front Yard Landscape (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1619556050256-NYZUY9JVSAKILWM0ZHWL/IMG_2492.JPG Green & Shingled - Front Yard Landscape (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1619556046589-S69H70BVPUXGGEI6RHBG/IMG_2518.JPG Green & Shingled - Front Yard Landscape (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1619556057489-I8R9T9KL6MSCGRLSOINW/IMG_4693.JPG Green & Shingled - Front Yard Landscape (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1619556051578-P1RVC5Z4P0QICXUE7H7M/IMG_2611.JPG Green & Shingled - Front Yard Landscape (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1619556029352-YATMQX4L4ENYTRSCIOZU/IMG_0968.JPEG Green & Shingled - Front Yard Landscape (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1619556981614-AAG2HQ9W0PVYLRS5INK4/IMG_2003.JPG Green & Shingled - Front Yard Landscape (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1619556030591-GSLVIC68NQCYP0WKTU9W/IMG_1200.JPEG Green & Shingled - Front Yard Landscape (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1627859713121-FTBE9GVMBKS5NDYJYKQ1/Cat+and+poppies.jpeg Green & Shingled - Front Yard Landscape (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1619556040049-A3C5EPEWI73BKJ99DOIB/IMG_2107.JPEG Green & Shingled - Front Yard Landscape (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1619556029062-XAIDWMNX5F7FOLF1ELH4/IMG_0878.JPEG Green & Shingled - Front Yard Landscape (2017) https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/the-original-bathroom-2014 monthly 0.5 2022-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1622078962565-QA0PCAFZZBTZ2KYSY674/Plan.jpeg Green & Shingled - Remodeling the Original Bathroom (2014) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1622078960082-DZB2B6BZK3L0GWA5U6IM/General.JPEG Green & Shingled - Remodeling the Original Bathroom (2014) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1622078960294-TC54GXCCRDCHDLYKAMDC/Med+Cab.JPEG Green & Shingled - Remodeling the Original Bathroom (2014) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1622078956551-0F47WBAAQYAD45Q65PVV/Doorway.JPEG Green & Shingled - Remodeling the Original Bathroom (2014) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1622078963833-YG4T1HUKFKCEOS4O0PMX/Sink.JPEG Green & Shingled - Remodeling the Original Bathroom (2014) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1622078958686-QFUY7S56E8EG25WGSXBA/Faucets.JPEG Green & Shingled - Remodeling the Original Bathroom (2014) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1622078956005-F3TVYRM1IKKLANZRJPAE/Drawers.JPEG Green & Shingled - Remodeling the Original Bathroom (2014) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1622078958441-UW1EYU9EJ8POU61DWL1Z/Floor+Tiles.JPEG Green & Shingled - Remodeling the Original Bathroom (2014) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1622078962160-O7AW2AHZ81YGX0YJJPTB/Niche.JPEG Green & Shingled - Remodeling the Original Bathroom (2014) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1622078963378-PV0GS8E43EI0W3JCV3X7/Shower+Control.JPEG Green & Shingled - Remodeling the Original Bathroom (2014) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1622078964476-OB9801OME7JJ35VGA8B7/toilet.JPEG Green & Shingled - Remodeling the Original Bathroom (2014) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1622570339065-MHW2RQJHHIXL1G805ZHK/IMG_5514.JPEG Green & Shingled - Remodeling the Original Bathroom (2014) https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/and-so-it-begins monthly 0.5 2021-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1628179121201-OJLDU8KW7U17ATWN8L3S/EFA51F00-FD0D-4DEB-82C2-7609CD719BEE.jpeg Green & Shingled - And So it Begins! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1628272045158-SA9Z5R1ZGBV8CAA1DSOK/89F3D818-4EDE-40CA-801B-9D6F9D7ABF11.jpeg Green & Shingled - And So it Begins! - Make it stand out Sorry to say that this fir v-groove paneling in the service porch will go. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1628179274213-ION88BI1PBGS3R11GU7J/0142014E-F302-4006-99F5-23F972C334D7.jpeg Green & Shingled - And So it Begins! - Make it stand out Window removed for later! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1628179382382-Y1JHJMMM77RX73EVS079/4D2D77A9-F641-4D6E-AF9B-29836D77587A.jpeg Green & Shingled - And So it Begins! - Make it stand out This shows the “sandwich” of the whole wall under the shingles: shingles, horizontal battens to which they are nailed, air, then the back side of the interior wall. You can see the “keys” of wet plaster that are meant to ooze between the lath and grip the plaster wall in place as they set. https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/democontinues monthly 0.5 2022-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1628829739611-A6YEZUVWMWJGYOS2SHAL/IMG_6260.JPEG Green & Shingled - Demo Continues! - Make it stand out Look at all that good 1910 lumber! And 1910 wiring! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1628829840274-QFK9R2DLGBZSUJ0AHN0P/IMG_6245.JPEG Green & Shingled - Demo Continues! - Make it stand out This lovely scene, above, was our bedroom and will be a kid’s room. The wall at far right and the adjacent wall (behind camera) still have their plaster, as does the ceiling. They did a nice job with the removal. The opening on the right was the closet doorway and will become the entrance to the room in the new plan. The doorway at left was not original to the house; it was cut through to the dining room at some point and was then, later, closed up again. We knew it had been there because they didn’t even bother to make the frame flush with the surrounding lath so there was a door-shaped lump in the plaster in our room! Nice craftsmanship, former owners…ha. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1628829624247-D6UAGW8HIUXO3L1Q2L59/IMG_6244.JPEG Green & Shingled - Demo Continues! - Make it stand out Well, isn’t THIS a lovely addition to our front yard! Evidently they didn’t get the memo about the color scheme (the Gamble House exterior restoration in 2004 had a custom BROWN construction trailer out front!). I wondered if it was delivered after the giant dumpster blocked the driveway, but apparently not, according to the security camera. https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/un-vrai-chantier monthly 0.5 2022-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1629397826548-J9MN3PBTQTCQVQTDO6UM/IMG_6298.jpeg Green & Shingled - “Un Vrai Chantier” - Make it stand out I think all that’s left to demo is the junky concrete on the right—then they can prep the ground for the foundation, coming soon. And I think the shingles on the front of the house are still intact, just to avoid that “vrai chantier” look as long as possible from the public right of way! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1630097648931-4AZHT8UE9RVM694XA4XW/cropped+BR+3.jpeg Green & Shingled - “Un Vrai Chantier” - Make it stand out See? Not so bad now! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1630097479404-CQQMKEF1SK6GJADJ58KQ/IMG_6466.JPG Green & Shingled - “Un Vrai Chantier” - Make it stand out Okay, I know this looks bad… but would a tornado stack the salvaged doors together (as at right) and come clean up after itself the next day? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1629330633719-0CZBICE1P51OLV7MV3XQ/IMG_6280.JPEG Green & Shingled - “Un Vrai Chantier” - Make it stand out That crooked stud to the left of the back door makes me laugh. We hired the contractor who did that, and I guess he thought no one would ever see it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1629505335366-L2PGQGYJ30JFZUYZUI75/IMG_6296.jpeg Green & Shingled - “Un Vrai Chantier” - Make it stand out YIKES. Just relieved that there isn’t more of this. https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/get-the-ground-ready monthly 0.5 2022-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1630787554595-OFTY8FEUHMMKXKPOROC3/81A840E1-CC13-43DE-B0BE-F063B8CA4BA4.jpeg Green & Shingled - Get the Ground Ready - More progress! A few days later they’d started to build the formwork for the concrete, but this is as far as it got before the crew was called off to another job. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1630444301689-K0WAX8IMB3M4W16Z5MID/IMG_6535.jpeg Green & Shingled - Get the Ground Ready - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1630444918839-HBYEZ71J56QBVIQ8O897/IMG_6299.jpeg Green & Shingled - Get the Ground Ready - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1630442245592-P6Z2U8PRGFKFNBKWT780/IMG_6546.JPEG Green & Shingled - Get the Ground Ready - Make it stand out Mini earth-moving equipment https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1630447241788-KQZ4GP3K808O5QCR9U3R/Bolt-Sill-Plates.png Green & Shingled - Get the Ground Ready - I just found this diagram which depicts pretty accurately the existing lower structure of our house. It’s from the National Center for Preservation Technology & Training (NCPTT) of the National Park Service, so I feel a little more legitimate now! What we have is not unheard of (at least the part above ground). I’m sure folks from NCPTT have seen it all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1629913730302-VY1TY85Q093I49JFRZ53/IMG_6446.JPEG Green & Shingled - Get the Ground Ready - Make it stand out A peaceful pre-work morning scene last week. Electrical demo was about to start—clearing out all the 1910 knob and tube wiring. The porcelain knobs themselves were left behind for future industrial archaeologists to discover (at least, that’s how I think of it). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1630443086650-YL6X4KSF5LNWPLYMJ05N/Marked+back+yard.jpg Green & Shingled - Get the Ground Ready - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1630443388453-WRR0YVHJCXCSM4C89EBW/Foundation+indicated.jpg Green & Shingled - Get the Ground Ready - Make it stand out The red arrow is pointing at the existing foundation. Yes, that is IT! The depth of the trench below the arrow gives you an idea of how much deeper the new foundations will be than the existing! https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/more-history-comes-to-light monthly 0.5 2022-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1629929076519-PEIHUO2BHZ4R1SYE9ZSW/1949+Our+house+for+sale+redacted.jpg Green & Shingled - More History Comes to Light - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1629929047969-RLZ367RMA8K5TJQTTRGS/1947+Forced+sale+redacted.jpg Green & Shingled - More History Comes to Light - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/just-paint-them monthly 0.5 2022-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1630609849983-2NUG7CKOBSF0M1NCX7BG/Concrete+patch+in+post+1.jpg Green & Shingled - Just Paint Them! - See that rectangle filled with concrete? Several of these, revealed by the paint removal, show where the original railing attachments were. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1629934859247-29DBBRWX7SOX388V6B33/IMG_1228.JPG Green & Shingled - Just Paint Them! - AAAUGH! AAAUGH! This is what we found underneath. So we kept going! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1629935093981-BBZUTFJSY4LVGWQ3TBTI/IMG_1635.JPG Green & Shingled - Just Paint Them! - All slathered and covered in plastic! Now we wait for the results. I will be honest, this is not the greatest thing ever built with arroyostone, but it’s got to look better in its unpainted state. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1630612090326-OA985MTCHAPVP0QVLLPD/front+porch+railing+changes.jpg Green & Shingled - Just Paint Them! - Make it stand out (Is there even a name for a quadrilateral with only one right angle and no parallel sides? This is just wrong.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1630607544875-Q95UIPLMQHTH9XBQWAPD/Arroyo+terrace+stones.jpg Green & Shingled - Just Paint Them! - Now HERE is some real artistry in arroyostone! But I digress. (garage designed by Charles Greene for his new Hudson, 1914) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1630083423611-M2O1AXHCKWTTQZ31DVP4/IMG_1231.JPG Green & Shingled - Just Paint Them! - Test was successful. Let’s do it! Applying the next layer over the horrible green ooze. Can you imagine what it would have looked like with the shingles and the stones all the same color!? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1629935825251-QH2PMCYLR8ZQCBL8E0LL/IMG_1721.JPG Green & Shingled - Just Paint Them! - And here’s the newly finished result! I was surprised by the black mortar, but once I started looking at similar features on other houses in the neighborhood I saw that it was pretty common. The (mis)alignment of the pillar, cap, and column above makes me suspect that this house was built with day labor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1629935871732-K8NQPNMHKNAUTXFTU1XS/Clean+stone+from+street.jpeg Green & Shingled - Just Paint Them! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/buying-our-house monthly 0.5 2022-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1630362713364-819TOY7WRGDPGEA2KQJ5/Rear+of+house+view+S.jpg Green & Shingled - Buying our House - Make it stand out A windowless lean-to sits on the left side of the creaking deck and houses an old washer and dryer. The disgusting space is filling up with dryer lint stuck to every lower surface, including the slumping, delaminating plywood doors outside to the deck itself—thankfully not shown here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1630436734298-2J1K91PMWLDN58RDNEHL/DR+view+north.jpg Green & Shingled - Buying our House - Make it stand out I kind of liked that table, but I’m glad the fan is now just a memory! Apparently there used to be a proper Craftsman built-in over on that far side in the center, but it must have been pretty small. This is kind of a snooze as bungalow dining rooms go. It’s not clear whether more features were removed at some point. No plate rail or wainscoting? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1630362622239-1ZOCR4UVH754Z3MFKOWI/Living+room+view+SW.jpg Green & Shingled - Buying our House - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1630436912019-38D4YXYJ9PBEV2VQ2BRD/Kitchen+view+N.jpg Green & Shingled - Buying our House - Make it stand out It looks deceptively clean in this photo. Very deceptive: those oak-y cabinets are completely grimy where for years (lacking any hardware) they pawed at the corners of the cabinets to open them and never once, it appears, attempted to clean them. https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/decisionsdecisions monthly 0.5 2021-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1633204328970-4ZLY1EGWOB7VHSAUERZI/IMG_6832.jpeg Green & Shingled - Decisions, Decisions - Make it stand out It looks so READY, doesn’t it? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1633204156177-FM1QQ3QAVC08GSGNL27C/window+order.jpg Green & Shingled - Decisions, Decisions Doors: one panel or five panel? Raised panel or flat panel? Mortise lock or tube latch? Paint grade or stain grade? What size and shape and type of hinges? Knobs? Metal color and finish of knobs: brass? Satin, antiqued, polished; lacquered or not? Windows: swing in or out? Crank or push? Fixed or roll-up screen? Paint or stain? Metal color and finish of screen frame, latch, hinges; and if you have to mix manufacturers, will they offer the same finishes, and will the satin brass of one match the satin brass of the other? Will you notice? Will it matter? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1633203028784-GEODZEATZS4BECSCCT3S/Marmoleum.jpeg Green & Shingled - Decisions, Decisions - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/now-its-in-concrete monthly 0.5 2021-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1634160103025-U7IO5VGEIFUY0SRA4OU8/Consultation.JPEG Green & Shingled - Now it’s Set in Concrete - Two weeks or so ago, our contractor and engineer met on site one fine morning to discuss some adjustments to the foundation and window placement. It was the first time I’d met the engineer, who expressed sympathy for how long it’s taken us to get to this point. He engineered the two-story plan that we were originally planning to go forward with, so he knows how long we have been at this. Some of the delays along the way were the fault of his office being SO slow—ahem. But none of us is blameless in this project taking so long. Except maybe our contractor so far, contrary to what most people assume. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1634160887072-AUA7R1081P6W3KE7VDSB/formwork+in+progress.JPEG Green & Shingled - Now it’s Set in Concrete - Make it stand out The holes with cylindrical forms are for footings. These two at left will be under the walkway that leads alongside the bedroom from the back door to the back yard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1634163458513-IIKT17HENELL7JX15OMC/Finished+concrete.JPEG Green & Shingled - Now it’s Set in Concrete - Make it stand out And by the end of the day…ta da! NOW THAT IS A FOUNDATION. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1634160755696-LCUPQLR7HYEJD5MXJ28V/IMG_6746.JPEG Green & Shingled - Now it’s Set in Concrete - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1634160703928-K0OVO4BMJEEVUPZEHPAT/IMG_6747.JPEG Green & Shingled - Now it’s Set in Concrete - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1634159821981-YNSGP8VA3XEZNN82MTCN/Concrete+pump.JPEG Green & Shingled - Now it’s Set in Concrete - Make it stand out Mixer was to pull up to the pump to the left where the hopper is, but hadn’t yet arrived. The hose in the foreground carries the mixed concrete down the driveway. https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/on-the-level monthly 0.5 2021-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/4ebdd060-c98e-45ea-a0ae-142c937ef458/IMG_7323.JPEG Green & Shingled - On the Level - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/6b23150f-e4fe-46ea-b081-41c36c610a3b/IMG_1215.jpeg Green & Shingled - On the Level - The subfloor is being installed in the new bedroom! They’re even starting to frame out the roofline of the new rear-facing gable. They said that they plan to finish this roof framing—which covers the existing house—so that they can cover it with tarps if rain is expected. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/9fa304e0-3398-4ff0-beb4-e4ab5e3a955c/IMG_1627.jpeg Green & Shingled - On the Level - Here is a bird’s eye view of the progress happening at the site! Our neighbors have the best perspective on our project at this point. They sent us this shot from their second floor. It does remind us, though, what a piece of junk our garage looks like. This will be a big improvement for them! Actually, they won’t be able to see that garage any more. There will be a lot of bulk of the new addition blocking it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/81ff5318-3502-4d75-9be9-c35bfb3a3561/IMG_4540.jpeg Green & Shingled - On the Level - Look at that! The huge new north-facing window of an existing bedroom is framed out. Darn—I meant to have the size of this window changed so that a desk would fit under the sill, but I guess I didn’t. I will have to pretend like this is okay. This room has a lot of windows, so we’ll see if a desk even fits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/a8ae6cc3-c6e6-40a2-ad96-cc1c09762477/IMG_7240.JPEG Green & Shingled - On the Level - They replaced that termite-devoured end joist along the rear of the building (the new horizonal member at left). You can see that the vertical members of the cripple wall below it were replaced, too. It still droops downward toward the outside corner (which was causing plaster cracks in the bedroom there) but we had to call it close-enough at some point. The slope in the floor will be corrected with the way they lay the subfloor (which will vary in thickness—thicker at the low points), but the sinking corner will stay where it is under the assumption that it is stable. (Look at all that promising, fresh lumber behind in the driveway!) https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/entering-the-third-dimension monthly 0.5 2021-12-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/78a5bbd3-436f-4ef1-89a2-b41df5a84909/IMG_7671.JPEG Green & Shingled - Entering the Third Dimension - One other problem of the sort you don’t see until you can really look through the window: the view from the shower of the neighbors’ deck and back yard! Nothing wrong with that view, but it means they have a view right back at the bather’s head. So it’s back to the glass shop to choose an obscure glass, quick, before the window order that has taken over a month to finalize gets set in stone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/dd6142ea-c4f8-4832-bb6a-60a37d73443b/IMG_7409.JPEG Green & Shingled - Entering the Third Dimension - Make it stand out Left, new framing of the wall between the kitchen and future bathroom. Center and right, the west and north walls of the new bedroom and bath! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/54b26615-6be3-4bbe-93f7-851c79c101fa/IMG_7457.JPEG Green & Shingled - Entering the Third Dimension - Make it stand out It’s gotten a little harder to photograph now that it’s becoming a solid volume. But this is the view through to the back yard, where there is still a reasonable amount of space. The bedroom is the newly framed portion here, with the nook off the bedroom visible just beyond it in the center. The high windows are for privacy and to deemphasize the view of the driveway (and the beast of a house next door). There will be a deck along here, though, and the windows will be at head height, to give you an idea of the scale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/e474e8a2-9d82-453f-9680-1c2cb323ed39/IMG_7402.JPEG Green & Shingled - Entering the Third Dimension - Make it stand out That new window opening at left appears to be off-center, but it won’t seem so once the gable over it goes away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/ede2fc26-67af-42e7-9e03-b89484da0bf4/IMG_7455.JPEG Green & Shingled - Entering the Third Dimension - Make it stand out And another week or so later, here is the inside of our new bedroom! The sill on the floor towards the back is where the wall between the bedroom and bathroom will go up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/c38456de-fd94-46c3-b03d-5b21d3f3994e/IMG_7543.jpeg Green & Shingled - Entering the Third Dimension - I chose the mini-reeded glass on the left. It had a lot more character than the other obscure and frosted samples. I’d like to think the glass of the enclosure could be reeded glass too, but in truth I just want a curtain (neither of these will happen, for a number of reasons). https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/u8nbgyzyd121stnu24bh3z1ye5wgkx monthly 0.5 2022-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/f7ed5c54-236d-4d76-93a3-387de4707e1c/IMG_8354.JPEG Green & Shingled - Have You Vacuumed Your Room? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/67d75c21-2c6e-4d6d-b7ec-bf8d00b902c6/IMG_7940.jpeg Green & Shingled - Have You Vacuumed Your Room? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1642388393207-OC1L659XLPK2YWY3DGRV/IMG_3796.JPEG Green & Shingled - Have You Vacuumed Your Room? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1642388393414-P6EYT6LTN5YX9V5XEMDW/IMG_3825.JPEG Green & Shingled - Have You Vacuumed Your Room? https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/fully-sheathed monthly 0.5 2022-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/7d276006-7228-4ae5-9ec0-7aaabb08aac6/IMG_8558.JPEG Green & Shingled - Fully Sheathed - Make it stand out The pile of lumber is getting significantly smaller! The rough carpentry is nearly done. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/d5462839-d56f-41e1-afd7-f3b93c3f14fc/IMG_8480.JPEG Green & Shingled - Fully Sheathed - Make it stand out Old (painted) and new (unpainted) nailing strips exposed in the eaves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/74cc1063-6084-40d4-a7f5-08e9c1f0c9ed/IMG_8560.JPEG Green & Shingled - Fully Sheathed - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/707b2454-5d85-4473-ad3c-090f9045f175/IMG_8564.JPEG Green & Shingled - Fully Sheathed - Make it stand out The “nook” of the bedroom, with windows on three sides. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/4d244220-a7a7-43db-b287-1b0f64c0f174/IMG_8563.JPEG Green & Shingled - Fully Sheathed - Make it stand out Inside the bedroom. It’s a wonderful space! That will be the closets at the end, and the door to the room is on the left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/a679bcba-599a-46ba-8852-ebb1c1acc7e4/IMG_8554.jpeg Green & Shingled - Fully Sheathed - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/c5e63ff0-0ff7-4ab5-9cd6-4ab510010082/old+outlet+wiring.jpeg Green & Shingled - Fully Sheathed - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/02c7c0f0-8154-4928-96eb-426fff104013/IMG_8562.JPEG Green & Shingled - Fully Sheathed - Make it stand out The unsheathed part of the roof at left will become an open trellis over the walkway. It’s taken some time on everyone’s part to work out the details. More on that area later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1643662709283-J1555S3CGQH74X7TL1VT/IMG_8474.JPEG Green & Shingled - Fully Sheathed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1643662709002-QQO1TPDSR5C8P0FU8YK7/IMG_8565.JPEG Green & Shingled - Fully Sheathed https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/its-electrifying monthly 0.5 2022-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1644626797582-9K83WPG9GQ0L9UBO4PQB/IMG_6256.JPEG Green & Shingled - It’s Electrifying! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1644626797428-MF707S29QABJQ1QFXQ89/IMG_6260.JPEG Green & Shingled - It’s Electrifying! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/398f3c14-c30b-4b91-941c-17b6e0e1fb5c/14+in+schoolhouse.jpg Green & Shingled - It’s Electrifying! - Make it stand out Hmm—it’s about this big… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/7a481f5b-cca6-439c-b3d3-45cc6e3a2a90/sized_Y2019B1_Powder_Room_DETAIL_4098_adj_C5406.jpg Green & Shingled - It’s Electrifying! - YES, PLEASE. This is what the switches in a 1910 house should look like. Nickel was the finish of choice for bathrooms and kitchens. In this example, the mother of pearl on both buttons indicates it’s a three-way switch. Otherwise, on a single-pole switch, the dark button is “off” and the light one is “on.” They used mother of pearl so that you can find it in a dim room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1646700606928-VJ5TXQFUFDN9T3XDJH8Y/Electrical+panel.jpeg Green & Shingled - It’s Electrifying! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1646700606204-VY4BAP7TTL7MM0NDF4V5/Old+electrical+box.jpg Green & Shingled - It’s Electrifying! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/13d5209d-ce5b-4dd8-96c3-3009425424e7/Wood+conduit+for+insulated+wire.jpeg Green & Shingled - It’s Electrifying! - Here’s an example from the basement of a house built a year before ours where the basement light switches (of a now-rare rotary type, only used in the service areas of the house) are fed by the original wood conduit. (Thanks to videos by the historic Glessner House in Chicago, whose coherent explanations of some of these early electrical details were to helpful to drawn from.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/5d6a32a8-80bd-4a97-abd1-cfd2ae54bef1/Vacancy+sensor.jfif Green & Shingled - It’s Electrifying! - NO, THANK YOU. I found a nice and ugly example of a vacancy sensor, didn’t I? Even where we have to use these, at least we will use nice matching metal plates like the one above, just with an appropriately-shaped opening. https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/better-with-windows monthly 0.5 2022-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1648527629046-PJKAB2DWGOPJE2WQEQ4N/IMG_9529.jpeg Green & Shingled - Better Living Through Windows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1648527632383-8PJ7QW8Q29HW8YO8X280/IMG_9530.jpeg Green & Shingled - Better Living Through Windows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/9b94564f-65e1-4170-8a1a-cdf3a590b004/A8ED1E99-B4B7-4BE7-A1D1-6144780038A1.jpeg Green & Shingled - Better Living Through Windows - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/adb6d489-8f56-4a71-8878-b4b22d4d965e/367EA90C-3D34-4CD7-BC9E-B878CD5C417B.jpg Green & Shingled - Better Living Through Windows - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1ec3fb67-3e63-4b4a-a1e5-efb80a55e378/24CE3C92-0721-44A5-9FCC-83F51D2212E3.jpeg Green & Shingled - Better Living Through Windows - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/026e7b66-4580-454e-9d30-460b2d705f81/6046A16A-DFB7-4B7F-AD3E-6B70EE7AC07C.jpeg Green & Shingled - Better Living Through Windows - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/facc7666-cd74-47f2-911e-03e56820aa85/124C8697-43C9-421C-89D0-1AEDF1BF1350.jpeg Green & Shingled - Better Living Through Windows - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/a78c1fa0-5a35-47b4-a6ad-fd3b9bc1474d/2DF8029B-63C3-47C0-8649-EDCAE100E556.jpeg Green & Shingled - Better Living Through Windows - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/a87a1876-6dd5-43c6-aacc-b2feb8e435d3/B7B0F532-CA24-4DB0-B99D-D9522C168146.jpeg Green & Shingled - Better Living Through Windows - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/78a3b92c-64ef-416c-8cb1-b2d23eb3f75e/FC8DC706-1573-4534-9F4C-28C0CB30671F.jpeg Green & Shingled - Better Living Through Windows - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/color-story monthly 0.5 2023-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/faaf261d-fac0-4708-9633-799c3d3eb947/Exterior+colors.jpg Green & Shingled - Color Story - Make it stand out Left: green opaque stain for the shingles—this is the body color. Center: eaves, trim, and window/door casing color; Right: Sash and door color (in the background is the current too-white of the trim). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/5152e586-1277-4458-8ec6-a3a052c44649/IMG_8182.JPG Green & Shingled - Color Story - Make it stand out This is how it’s done! In this area of the wall, behind the painting shown above, conservation scientists removed layer after layer of paint and somehow dated them to various redecorating campaigns (I assume by correlating with records from the site). The house was built in the 1750s. Raw plaster is at the bottom, and the dates above that I can read clearly are 1765, 1857, 1912, and 1925. This little rank of samples encapsulates one thread in the history of a room in an extremely tidy way, even if it takes a conservator and a historian or curator to interpret it properly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1650677115752-92M9LDPZSYJKEM77YJ6D/IMG_6538.JPEG Green & Shingled - Color Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1650677137747-TVKXX2S1UOCR0NKMJU37/IMG_6504.JPEG Green & Shingled - Color Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1650677156446-UJU2KRY1FSBKH6YFQFKM/IMG_6513.JPEG Green & Shingled - Color Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1650677184090-OO2IHC0OP634WEGI90ZY/IMG_6798.JPEG Green & Shingled - Color Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1650677222123-ZQ4QRXRF519YA1DI5LKE/IMG_6512.JPEG Green & Shingled - Color Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1650733425653-73T4QEQ5LIK9NRR1XXOJ/IMG_6511.JPEG Green & Shingled - Color Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/d66a04ad-8efd-4507-b858-d838ee3949d6/Bathroom+colors+2014.JPG Green & Shingled - Color Story - Make it stand out This was what we found in the original bathroom of the house when we had it remodeled in 2014 before we moved in. The light in this image is a little too warm, but there’s a minty green and a pink layer. That lowest layer looks a bit gold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/2b60d305-bf34-4366-af69-fbc5a857232d/IMG_6808.JPEG Green & Shingled - Color Story - Make it stand out Our stratigraphy looks more like this. Here’s a view of the plaster at the top edge of the wall in the back bedroom. The tan is probably raw plaster and the yellow looks like an early layer. There’s some kind of wallpaper that was only left behind the skinny picture rail at the top of the wall, which is weird—was it stripped from the rest of the walls at some point? And how did it end up behind the picture rail, which presumably was installed before the walls were papered or painted? This raises more questions than it answers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/78b5773b-7655-4753-b9cf-15d13d23890d/Kedleston+Hall.jpg Green & Shingled - Color Story - Make it stand out Here are an English curator (who works there—no cause for alarm), American architectural historian, and French curator (all had the longest arms in the group) muscling an honest-to-god Rembrandt painting off a wall at one of England’s great houses to show us the paint stratigraphy behind it — a thrilling behind-the-scenes moment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/95f32519-5786-4b08-96dc-b354e8f7a8e2/IMG_6815.JPEG Green & Shingled - Color Story - Make it stand out This patch was in the dining room. That tan color of the raw plaster shows up again. The oldest color layer might be that turquoise color. Turquoise!? The next layer appears to have been a pale yellow. And then pink on top of it for good measure. Yeesh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/998fe345-9122-45c5-a01b-2283cb0b4c64/BR3+fir+floor+painted+2.JPEG Green & Shingled - Color Story - Make it stand out Here is some painted FLOOR color. I wasn’t expecting that. The bedrooms had narrow strip, plain-sawn (not quarter-sawn) oak flooring, which seemed disconnected from the fancier quarter-sawn oak of the living and dining rooms. This really isn’t how the hierarchy of flooring normally goes. They would never, c. 1910, have used two different grades of oak in one house; they would use a hardwood (almost always oak) in the main rooms and a lesser wood (almost always fir in a house of this grade, or sometimes maple) in the secondary rooms or second floor. Some houses would have had all oak or all fir, too. Just not two grades of oak. So when the plainsawn oak was taken up, I was not surprised that it turned out to have been laid at a later time. There was, in fact, earlier tongue and groove fir flooring underneath, which was also the finish floor in the bathroom and kitchen (both were still intact under much later vinyl flooring). It’s clear that they used the fir flooring as a finish floor for a while, and it was mostly likely painted due to wear (and later covered with plain sawn oak, if you’re following me…). In the middle bedroom, it had this decorative color scheme of red border and black field, and in the back bedroom it was a sort of gunmetal grey. I believe from the dimensions of the later plain-sawn oak floor that it was installed over the fir flooring in the 1920s. Below, now, are several greens that show up on the exterior. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/4085f3a5-5c2d-4dd1-9549-6eb983578e60/1911+Green+bungalow.jpeg Green & Shingled - Color Story - Make it stand out One of our neighbors has spent a lot of time looking at Craftsman style architecture and certainly did his homework in preparation for the expansion of their house about 20 years ago. He wondered aloud about the white trim on our house, which is one of the things we, too, long wanted to eliminate. But at some point along the way I realized that many English Arts & Crafts houses have light sash set in a very dark wall. Better yet, I also found this image dating to 1911, above, from a paint company brochure. This house is a bit like ours in the style, type, scale, level of fanciness, and even the window design, and the image was published only a year after our house was built. Judging from the colors we found at the lowest levels on our house, I think ours was similar in appearance to this, and it lends some support to my theory of the color scheme that we believe ours to have had historically. I consider our house to be only lightly Craftsman in style (like the house pictured here), even if it’s squarely within the bungalow type, so going with what we think of today as an ideal craftsman palette involving more dark greens, browns, even dark red or burnt orange accents, etc., started to feel a little contrived—even though it could have looked beautiful. I am happy we are sticking with green, and the new sandy-white that we have for the trim is so much softer and more delicious that what we have lived with in the past! We can’t wait to see the colors all come together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/e6bfe986-81bc-463f-8325-6679f36d5bd4/LHJ1915-02p28+bungalows+cropped.jpg Green & Shingled - Color Story - Make it stand out Our house (yes, our actual house!) as it appeared in Ladies Home Journal in 1915 and again in the “Journal Bungalows” special publication in 1916. https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/old-wood-new-wood monthly 0.5 2022-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/c278a847-c8c0-4bb3-bb0c-454f3f5daaa0/5476083D-840E-4A48-A4A6-D93D124B2CA5.jpeg Green & Shingled - Old Wood - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/df53b8ec-dd05-403c-b8f3-13cf1448dd40/west+side+of+DR+cased+opening.jpeg Green & Shingled - Old Wood - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1657482937625-6PO9LBUW1L72K9A0PAPC/IMG_0852.jpeg Green & Shingled - Old Wood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1657482938552-JVZFK838TKZ5ZZ5SRU4J/IMG_0853.jpeg Green & Shingled - Old Wood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1657479895114-JMGH2NMRRGXLB2MPD78L/IMG_7378.jpeg Green & Shingled - Old Wood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1657479896965-Q671ACLW2Q7VJAO0JPT9/IMG_7379.jpeg Green & Shingled - Old Wood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/f6439000-39a0-42b4-8d79-a4b2f17cb551/3AF9767A-AE83-4733-B794-C18EE4C25AA9.jpeg Green & Shingled - Old Wood - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/shingles monthly 0.5 2022-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/f2a4a201-497b-4c2f-9e2f-f37e5d9ecd9d/IMG_2337.jpeg Green & Shingled - You’ve Got Shingles! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/c65deb75-5cca-4f93-b1f6-780b11bb27c5/IMG_0742.png Green & Shingled - You’ve Got Shingles! - Make it stand out Exactly one year after moving out of the house, and ten months since we started construction, here we are! The end is in sight, but we are easily looking at rounding out one year of construction before it’s all done. I’ll feel better when they finish the front of the porch. I’m tired of looking at the Tyvek wrap on that front. How many shingles are we talking about? Our best estimate, based on the number of square feet ordered (2,000) and the number of shingles per foot (hard to estimate), is TEN THOUSAND! That’s 20,000 nails! All by hand by two people! Way to go, team. Beautiful work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/92daf62f-9f0d-467b-84bf-696aed73599b/Shingle+delivery.jpg Green & Shingled - You’ve Got Shingles! - Make it stand out Each one of these shingles is destined to be nailed individually to the whole exterior of the house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/04bb1253-1ede-47bc-8017-aee34bcb9093/01B8A3B7-9F88-4FCA-AA33-77D6A6E929C0.jpeg Green & Shingled - You’ve Got Shingles! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/b393ef05-cd3a-4f21-974a-40268636120f/2D567EF6-2757-462D-AC8F-8C70C8503971.jpeg Green & Shingled - You’ve Got Shingles! - Make it stand out The view from the camera mounted on the garage showing the driveway covered in plastic with shingles laid out to dry. The prepared shingles were stockpiled inside, below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/e3884d03-a5a5-42ca-939e-aa2c0a35b171/80D63891-AA22-4543-9D3F-51F96ABC19C0.jpeg Green & Shingled - You’ve Got Shingles! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/29240cf2-b824-4019-92d4-33ae2d0e45db/IMG_9956.jpeg Green & Shingled - You’ve Got Shingles! - Make it stand out Side flank of the house along the driveway. Just missing the trim under the sills, which is not a full “apron.” It was just a molding piece with mitered ends to return to the wall. We picked a similar trim to replace it, but not so thick: the original didn’t allow for a drip edge on the sill! Not sure what original builder O. E. Williams was thinking with that, but he did the same thing on another house nearby that he built. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/ed50c6d8-fbbc-45cc-a818-10729de87955/IMG_0793.JPEG Green & Shingled - You’ve Got Shingles! - Make it stand out Here is the back of the house with the new roofline at mid-left and the new addition at right. The green and white appears more contrasty here than it strikes me in person, but we also think that the second coat of stain will lighten the color a bit more (less brown showing through). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/58388984-fbbd-40ce-b83b-f27a55190a4d/IMG_0792.JPEG Green & Shingled - You’ve Got Shingles! - Make it stand out Nice job on the shingles clear up into the dark corner over the back door! The blue is from the chalk line that keeps each row of shingles level and straight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/0839e0ed-d909-454a-b5d0-20d7bc797496/IMG_9831.JPEG Green & Shingled - You’ve Got Shingles! - Make it stand out The flare at the bottom of the wall was built out to recreate the original wall profile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/39579b35-d58a-420e-bc5c-45f127728310/660BB193-BEB9-40B6-AC99-0408472E6AD0.jpeg Green & Shingled - You’ve Got Shingles! - Make it stand out They started on the back of the house to warm up their technique! Good plan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/7c20d369-4da0-4e07-81e3-a1baaa3dc1df/C761E274-41A6-47FD-80AB-C03AAB498ED1.jpeg Green & Shingled - You’ve Got Shingles! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/dad5918b-aa59-41c3-afb4-d4072bf479a5/IMG_0699.JPEG Green & Shingled - You’ve Got Shingles! - Make it stand out The stepped side of the chimney received a painstaking edging of sheet metal flashing; the shingles were cut precisely to follow the line. Thank goodness only ONE side of the chimney had this detail—the other side is straight! https://www.greenandshingled.net/blog/interior-progress-report monthly 0.5 2022-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/1d67a0c8-627c-4377-ada6-0cab23594bf2/IMG_2941.JPEG Green & Shingled - Interior Progress Report - Make it stand out Bathroom has its tongue and groove paneling, marble tub surround, and porcelain hex tile floor installed! Nearly all of the light is coming from that solar tube in the ceiling! It seems miraculous! Just waiting on the cabinetry—medicine cab, sink cab, and a cabinet above the toilet. And the sparkling polished nickel lighting and plumbing fixtures that have been sitting in the garage since the spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/4627e13e-1a55-46a8-b867-bdf2cc192c40/IMG_2940.JPEG Green & Shingled - Interior Progress Report - Make it stand out In the third photo of the bedroom, that void is where the closets will go (and the door to the hall is to the left of that). The room has progressed since these were taken, but the light was better before the windows were covered in paper for painting! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/489a15ea-542e-43ee-935a-f0980641baa1/Wallpapers.jpg Green & Shingled - Interior Progress Report - Make it stand out WALLPAPER!! But which one from this William Morris smorgasbord? Still negotiating. Stay tuned. In this photo, you can see just how truly fine our old woodwork is. (HA, HA. Nervously hoping it’ll look presentable when stained.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/bcb1046b-7e7b-4ef1-8d33-5d4916fa8016/IMG_2938.JPEG Green & Shingled - Interior Progress Report - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/76709dd1-a3fd-493c-a870-db808b0f567b/IMG_1554.JPEG Green & Shingled - Interior Progress Report - Make it stand out Dining Room: It is shaping up, and it will be something special! The kitchen is to the right in the lower photo. The center bay between the columns will have an island engaged to it, with stools to sit in on this side. The Douglas fir straight grain board and batten wainscoting is new (not complete—no battens, etc. yet) and just what the room needed. Along with… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/b14baf89-9421-44fc-8c43-a30df726aafe/IMG_1064.jpeg Green & Shingled - Interior Progress Report - Make it stand out Don’t forget to ooh and aah over the stripped quarter-sawn oak veneered front door on your way in! It’s just waiting for a clear finish and a cleaned up mail slot! And maybe some way to fill those holes where we took out the Colonial Revival doorbell/knocker. And also the hinges are still caked with paint. But it’s come so far! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/be19e021-cd12-46ea-908a-4a6756640ebb/IMG_1750.JPEG Green & Shingled - Interior Progress Report - Make it stand out I have to slip in one view, though, of the fantastic new oak floor went in this week! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/f72eba68-20ad-4dfd-b0c1-e80f34330bcd/IMG_1552.JPEG Green & Shingled - Interior Progress Report - Make it stand out Two views of the west side of the kitchen, the second with a little more trim completed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/e046e7e4-aab5-417e-a175-be795965d3d7/IMG_1553.JPEG Green & Shingled - Interior Progress Report - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/85c836db-a86a-462f-b509-7c7729f2aa8f/IMG_2937.JPEG Green & Shingled - Interior Progress Report - Make it stand out Here’s our bedroom, with the coveted nook at left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/9774da68-33bb-4d3d-8f66-9681c97259d7/IMG_2943.JPEG Green & Shingled - Interior Progress Report - Make it stand out Back hall with exit to the rear deck and backyard. Door to the boys’ rooms is at far right (the other opening by that table is where the pantry will go). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6072160b2328d216aa27822e/8968ee92-3b77-43b5-899a-6aa061416330/IMG_1557.JPEG Green & Shingled - Interior Progress Report - Make it stand out Living Room: The original flooring has been taken out (swear I wouldn’t have done this if the old floor had been acceptable/repairable) and the diagonal subfloor re-nailed. The windows were reinstalled shortly after this photo was taken. 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These fixtures can be mounted in either direction (shade up or down), but I know I want them to face down, like they’ll be in the matching pendant in the middle of the room. That’s the wallpaper that we’ve chosen for this space, too—looks good with the metal finish that I chose months and months ago! Whew! (The wallpaper is Morris & Co., “Fruit” in limestone/artichoke.) We limited the plate rail (the little shelf) to one side of the room since it was too complicated to resolve how to fit it against door casing and too fussy to have around the outside corners at the window nook. 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