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I understand about the budget for a porch for now.
In the future, consider that a porch can be located very close to a street. Depending on the overall setting, it works.
Some of the most beautiful historic districts have porches very close to the street. It's quite charming.
If I had the extra money the porch design he made would sure be something I would be doing now. I really like that.
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I think a very pale greyish-blue would would be much better in place of where the other poster has put red. (Which is the outside of the living room?)
Yeah it may need some different colors down the line. I just went with all white when we redid it as it was just easy to do a solid color siding. Where he has red would be the entry way. I have thought of adding shutters to the house, not sure though.
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BTW, thanks for posting the pictures. I just love to see pics of old houses. BTW, I personally LOVED the retro bathroom and door handles on all of the cabinetry.
No problem. I love watching project threads so I thought I would start my own. And you may be one of the few to love the bathroom, lol.
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I can understand why it's a back burner issue for the OP. The porch will be purely aesthetics because it won't be used being so close to a busy road.
Yeah its a busy 2 lane road now so I couldn't really see myself outside sitting on the deck, though maybe late at night. But it sure does make the house look really nice.
I am not sure what the do with the cabinets between the vanity and toilet. They kind of make the room closed in I think. But if I remove them there is going to be a square box that runs floor to ceiling still on the wall. As inside is a vent pipe coming up from the basement.
I have thought of taking the cabinets out and extending that box to the right and left the width of the cabinet that's in there now. It won't just look like a square box coming out of the wall but mabe a vent or somethings behind it. Then hanging shelves off it that are open to open up the space.
Here's the barn I redid when I redid the house. The left "lean-to" wasn't closed in. There was no garage door on that side and the walls on that side where just wood that had wide slats in them. It was used as a "corn crib." Also the right "lean-to" wasn't even there. The barn use to end on the right side of the small service door. I added the right "lean-to" to make the barn more symmetrical.
And how it sits in relation to the house.
The small building between the garage and barn is a well house. There use to be a barn that is bigger then the other one there that was the horse barn. But it was getting old and wasn't worth redoing so I just tore it down. Also in the middle of the circle driveway is the pine tree which will hopefully be coming out this fall or next spring as I have a huge flag pole that I will be putting in there.
Found this when I removed the vanity mirror from when they had renovated the bathroom. Thought it was pretty cool. "Listen to Priscilla unless Al is home." My grandma was Priscilla and my grandpa Al.
The hole in the floor is what they used as a laundry chute. The door on the vanity opened and you threw your clothes into a basket in the basement. Also that huge pipe floor to ceiling is a vent that I am going to try to put in the wall if I can. If I can't ill have to build something around it. And the pipe coming out of it is for the sink. I am going to cap it on the tall pipe and just run it straight down from the sink and make a turn in the basement to put it back into the big pipe.
Thanks! And yeah I wish my grandpa could see the barn now.
Got all the drywall off except behind the toilet. Hope to get the toilet/tub out this weekend and go look for a new vanity/tub/toilet. And hopefully start dry walling the rooms here soon.
Great job! Its getting my ready for the work ahead on my new home - a serious fixer-upper!
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