Quote from: ungeheuer on November 05, 2011, 04:35:47 AM
On the other hand maybe they'd leave by this convenient exit 

Rats Never leave conveniently.

Your house looks cool as hell.  It irritates me to no end what some people do to old houses. I owned a 1915 Craftsman in Sacramento that over the years had its original woodwork painted over. Hours and hours of labor it took to strip it all off down to the orignal.
I've seen too many beautiful old Craftsman porches enclosed. My current house is a 1926 brick Craftsman in North Carolina. Someone had installed these hideous aluminum awnings all over the wrap around porch. They completely ruined the natural lines of the house. I ripped 'em right off.

Quote from: Blackout on November 09, 2011, 07:28:43 PM
Your house looks cool as hell.  It irritates me to no end what some people do to old houses. I owned a 1915 Craftsman in Sacramento that over the years had its original woodwork painted over. Hours and hours of labor it took to strip it all off down to the orignal.
I've seen too many beautiful old Craftsman porches enclosed. My current house is a 1926 brick Craftsman in North Carolina. Someone had installed these hideous aluminum awnings all over the wrap around porch. They completely ruined the natural lines of the house. I ripped 'em right off.

Most of my interior woodwork survived oddly enough....beat up but except for the kitchen it was spared the paint brush...

guess crack and smack heads weren't going to waste good dope money and hustle energy on paint,,,,and painting

That was one of the reasons I picked the place up....it needed to be restored rather than undone (and then restored) as in your case(s)

My plaster walls are a disaster however I found an old fellow who will glue the walls, put up brown mud and then a finish coat of plaster....50 bucks an hour....

but good plaster guys have to move fast as hell and get it right the first time....if you have ever seen them work it is impressive...

he has done extensive work in a lot of the old public buildings, churches and mansions in A-ville and surrounding area, he brought his photo book with him

Once the walls are done and painted I need to refinish the floors....they have been hit at least twice before so I don't have any original finish to salvage

The original exterior paint scheme was chocolate brown and white, the shingled mudroom in the back is still the original colors....I will leave that as-is for some future owner's reference if they want to go to "as-built"

someone along the line painted it gray-blue and white which I decided to stay with

What town are you in in NC?  Any pictures of your brick house?  Four-square?

I say forget the finials and just do a Vlad the Impaler and mount dead rats on the posts....

Quote from: zooom on November 10, 2011, 07:01:58 AM
I say forget the finials and just do a Vlad the Impaler and mount dead rats on the posts....

I was in fact looking at cast iron and brass long spike finials....but they are more for the gothic and victorians

but with impaled rats they could be universal