tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83499329666485799492024-02-06T20:08:59.311-08:001915 CottageThe story of an old house and the old house-obsessed person that lives there.Diane Irvine Armitagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775862142053961191noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349932966648579949.post-4991170057524118402013-07-17T11:52:00.000-07:002015-01-02T07:39:31.142-08:00Little and Lewis Blue for My Garden Gate<div style="text-align: center;">
I'm a big fan of those garden guys Little and Lewis. Check out their extraordinary gardens in their book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Garden-Gallery-Plants-Hardscape-Little/dp/0881926728/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374086394&sr=8-1&keywords=little+and+lewis" target="_blank">A Garden Gallery: The Plants, Art, and Hardscape</a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Garden-Gallery-Plants-Hardscape-Little/dp/0881926728/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374086394&sr=8-1&keywords=little+and+lewis" target="_blank"> of Little and Lewis</a>. I especially love the blue they call Little and Lewis blue. It is a blue that leans toward lavender. I had my local paint store mix up something that I think is really close and I color washed my side yard gate. </div>
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At first it was kind of funny because it was so BLUE and there wasn't a lot of blue in the front garden to go with it, but I have been adding blue elements all summer to the front and now it is really wonderful.</div>
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These pictures were taken right after I painted it. I will get some good shots of the garden later this summer that will show more of the blue accents. My husband kept kidding me about it ... "Oh look, we have a gate! I never saw it before." Things like that : - )</div>
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Other projects lately have included an air conditioner (yeah!!!). It is a ductless, split system by Daikin and man oh man is it nice to have air conditioning on these hot summer days! Split systems are supposed to be super cheap to run and very efficient. We'll see when we get the electric bill! It sure wasn't cheap to have put in! ha!</div>
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Also, wood screens with copper screening added to the dining room windows. As you can see, I still have to fill in the missing shingles there and some paint would be nice : - ) </div>
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Things move at a slow pace around here. As my husband says ... "One man, one hammer, one nail." Somehow I got left out of that ...</div>
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Diane Irvine Armitagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775862142053961191noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349932966648579949.post-52050667191210631512012-10-05T11:15:00.001-07:002012-10-05T11:15:44.666-07:00Dining Room Windows In<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black;">It's been a busy summer!</span> We took on a bit more than we could finish and with the hot hot hot weather in August and September, it was tough to get out there and work. Not that all the time was spent lounging on the couch. I had a method - 15 minutes in the blazing sun, 15 minutes prone on the couch gasping for air like a fish out of water - repeat until you are about to die, then do it all again the next day. Anyway, here is an in-progress picture of the new (old) dining room windows. Well, not that there is a dining room, per se, OK let's call it the dining area of the living room.</div>
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As was the case in the front door and sidelights, these windows were part of the salvage from the 1922 Fullerton house. Our contractor Jeff built the jambs and did all the trim work and hung the windows. Now I just have to stain and varnish inside and caulk and paint outside.</div>
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I got started on the painting today with doing some priming. Finally some nice cool weather to paint by! I think it is going to be 78 degrees today, which is much better than the 99 degrees we were having throughout September : - (</div>
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My husband and I had to remove the original 1915 shingles so as to put all the necessary weather guard stuff in place around the windows (Moist Stop and of course black paper). Removing the old shingles is tricky because they are very fragile at this point, and this being the sunny side of the house, they are not in wonderful shape.</div>
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They are not actually shingles, but are called Split Barn Shakes and of course no one makes the 36 inches long by 6 inches wide version anymore. You can have them custom split, but when I talked to the guy about it a couple of years ago he said I had to order it in the spring and then they would go into the woods and cut the trees and split the shakes. Needless to say, it was pricey! I've seen pictures of the Riordan Mansion and their shingles are looking pretty weathered, so I figured as long as I keep things caulked in the gaps I may as well go with that Riordan Mansion look : - )</div>
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Yeah, like my shack is anything like the Riordan Mansion! Oh well, it is my mini-mansion. You can see the original color of the paint-stain on some of these shakes as we used whichever side was best. You can also see what a nice pinkish brown color the old brown paint ended up - ugh. So tomorrow is caulking, Sunday is painting and thank goodness I have Monday off for a second coat of paint.</div>
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Obviously more shingles to replace and work to do on the kitchen siding, but that's what the weekends are for, right?</div>
Diane Irvine Armitagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775862142053961191noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349932966648579949.post-9565026612864411242012-08-03T13:30:00.001-07:002012-09-05T05:50:50.398-07:00Wood Window Screens<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Finally, finally, finally we are finished with the sidelight window screens. Who would think this would be such a challenging project? Of course I have found that when trying to do things "as they were done in the past," one can find oneself in one pickle after another. The first pickle on this particular project was when I got home from picking up my screens from <a href="http://coppawoodworking.com/" target="_blank">Coppa Woodworking</a>, I found that the front door screen was three inches too short! My husband couldn't believe I didn't bring a tape measure along to measure them before driving them all the way home, but it just didn't occur to me that they could be wrong. And all of this is happening in July, so we are sweating it (literally) because with no screens on the front door and sidelights and three cats to keep inside, it can get pretty hot. So the front door screen is stored in the garage until I could get back up to San Pedro, most likely when I order screens for the windows in the dining room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">But not so fun to work with, maybe gloves would have been a good idea. Anyway, I did get it all stretched out pretty flat and stapled on, but I find this screening tends to break pretty easy where stapled and I'm wondering how it will hold up to my cats, especially to little Morticia the little black kitty that likes to climb screens. So before I do any more screening with the copper screen, we will test these out to see if they are cat-compatible.</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">And just to show that something as simple as a wood screen can be fraught with difficulties, we found that the screen frames were put together with long screws, which when trying to attach the hanging hardware, happened to be right in the way of the hanging hardware screws. Ugh. So my husband had to take out the top screws on the screen frames and use wooden dowels instead - and then finally, I was able to attach the hanging hardware.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">So up the screens go with the hook and eye latches installed at the bottom. Whew, two screens down, 14 more to go : - ) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oh and I also got new house numbers in the Charles Rennie Mackintosh style font from <a href="http://www.housenumberconnection.com/index.html" target="_blank">The Craftsman Home Connection</a>. They call them Glasgow and they are copper.</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">My husband added spacers so the numbers have a nice stand off of about 3/4" so when the light hits them, they cast a pretty shadow. Fun! He used a 3/16" brass tube that he cut with a pipe cutter into little 3/4" lengths. Then we strung the little spacers on a wire and I painted them the same color as the porch post (sage green). Next we used a thin nail that was long enough to go through the house numbers, the spacer and into the porch post. Now all the porch needs is some fresh paint and some flagstones on the flat surfaces, and I need to finish my mosaic to go on the stair risers. Maybe next weekend I can start on all of that : - )</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span>Diane Irvine Armitagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775862142053961191noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349932966648579949.post-64210150032758037512012-07-16T17:05:00.003-07:002012-07-16T17:05:57.782-07:00Staining Oak Woodwork<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I fully intended to get started with staining the
interior front door and sidelight woodwork this last weekend, but after trying
out various stains and combinations of stains and multiple layers of various
combinations of stains all week, I knew I needed to take a break and figure out
what the hell I was doing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I want really dark woodwork - dark like you're
lost in the haunted forest at night with no moon dark.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">My inspiration is
the house in that movie Practical Magic. Of course it is a witch's house
and the dark-stained floors and woodwork are perfect for that mysterious
"witches live here" old mansion look.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">But I'm dealing with oak
woodwork - some of it salvaged 1922 old growth oak and some of it new.
I'm finding that oak doesn't like to stain as dark as I would like.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I tried mixing Ebony in with the Dark Walnut and that wasn't getting the
right effect. Then I tried a light wash of watered down black paint
followed by Dark Walnut and that was getting closer. After doing some
research on the internet, I think I may have the solution. I was reading
that to get a really dark stain on oak, one can use a water-based dye followed
by a stain. So I ordered two of the dyes, a Dark Walnut and one that
looked even darker, Dark Brown, because even darker is what I want : - )</span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">So
I had to tell the husband to settle down because he just wants the staining to
start - just get the thing done! He will just have to have some patience.
Needless to say, he is not obsessed with the fiddly details like I am.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Oh
and I ordered a wood screen door for the front and also wood screens for the
sidelights. Our door guy, Jeff, was supposed to make these for us before
he left for another job, but you know how that goes. Luckily, I found
<a href="http://www.coppawoodworking.com/?gclid=CMXZpN-zn7ECFURfTAoddW1iWw" target="_blank">Coppa Woodworking</a> and they are in Redondo Beach, so I can drive over and get
them when they are finished. I ordered the most simple wood screen door
(so as not to detract from the nice diamond-paned pattern on the front door) in
Doug Fir, unfinished, with no screening. Same for the sidelights - just
the frames, then we will prime, paint and use the copper/bronze screening roll
that I purchased and put half-round moulding over where the screening attaches.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I
found some great spring-loaded hinges from my new favorite long-distance
salvage store -<a href="http://www.auroramills.com/" target="_blank"> Aurora Mills Architectural Salvage</a> up in Oregon. I discovered them when
I was searching for window screen hardware and they had 11 pairs of original
Stanley window screen hangers - new old stock - with a cute little bag of
original screws.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">And only $3 a pair! Of course I bought all of the
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Screen door hardware from <a href="http://houseofantiquehardware.com/" target="_blank">House of Antique hardware</a> is on the way
and that should be all I need. Somehow anytime I order something from
House of Antique hardware, it is on back-order. I am beginning to wonder
if they wait until they get an order before getting their stock : - ) I'm
sure that's not the case. I really wanted to use some salvage screen door
hardware that I had - the knob and mortise lock, etc, but unfortunately the
mortise lock was broken and unfixable, so I had to go with the repro stuff.
David is happy though because the repro one won't have to be mortised in
like the old one would. He dodged a bullet on that one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> Pretty PD : - )</span></div>Diane Irvine Armitagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775862142053961191noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349932966648579949.post-57170869998265772222012-07-12T11:38:00.000-07:002012-07-12T11:38:22.460-07:00Work Starts on the Front Door and Sidelights<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">
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A friend of mine with a little 1930s Tudor house in Hemet,
CA gave me the phone number of a guy he used to put in a new (old) back door at
his house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jeff came highly recommended
to do a great job hanging doors and installing old mortise locks – just the
things we needed for our front door project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When Jeff came out to take a look at the job, he was really enthusiastic
and said he really wanted to work on our project and it would probably take
about 2 days to get the crappy old door and sidelights out and the new salvaged
door and sidelights in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My husband David
and I had already built the jambs, but something went horribly wrong with the
door jamb somewhere in the last two years as it sat gathering dust in the
garage and by the time Jeff started the project, it didn’t fit and he had to
build a new one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it was the flood,
or perhaps incorrect measurements, we’re blaming it on the flood.</div>
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Working on the door a couple of years ago</div>
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Anyway, Jeff got started and the first thing he did was demo
the old door and sidelights and then he started doing whatever it was he
did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know because I was at
work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>David was at home herding cats
because we just got a new kitten and our cat Pandora hates the cute little baby
kitty, so keeping the cats in separate places is a must.</div>
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And that’s kind of tough with a big gaping
hole in the living room where your front door used to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So mid-week Jeff is grumbling about working
on old houses and the words “can of worms” were used as I recall, but things
started coming together and I came home on the fourth day to sidelights, but
still no door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Day five the door was
installed and man oh man, we were excited!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I had stripped the door and sidelights a couple of years ago and put the
colored glass at the top in the diamond panes and to finally get to see the
full effect with the afternoon sunlight was well worth the wait.</div>
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So after 7 days (things really do take 3 times as long and
cost 3 times as much!), we had our new old front door and sidelights with
hardware.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yay!</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Time for me to get out there and caulk and
prime and paint, which I did all last weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I spent a couple of hours at the Benjamin Moore store working with the
lovely Connie trying to match the original brown of the old stained
shingles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If only someone hadn’t painted
the house yellow!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s no going back
to the beautiful old stain now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My only
hope was to find a paint color that would look close.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally Connie tried using Van Buren Brown,
but she left out all of the white which was killing the color and making it too
dull and gray and, voila!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Success! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A nearly perfect match!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got it in flat, to further attempt to look
more like the original stain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was so
excited because although we painted over the ugly yellow back in 2000, the
house has always been kind of a chocolate brown house ever since.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love chocolate, but not on my house : - ) Finally,
a nice dark brown that works.</div>
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For the trim, I used Brookside Moss (also from Benjamin
Moore) – it is this crazy yellow/green color that is really lively and kind of
quirky/artisty and I absolutely love it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I paired it with my original sage green color on the sash and door,
Dragonfly Wing (a Home Depot color that I had mixed up at Benjamin Moore
because I like their paint better).</div>
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the yellow/green and the slightly darker grey/green look great together and pick
up the colors in the front yard, especially the cactus along the driveway – oh
and the color of my cat, Pandora’s eyes : - )</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I plan on painting the house the dark brown, original shingle color and
I will also paint the gable fascia and side trim that dark brown and just have
the green combo on the doors and windows and a little bit on the porch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like that look where the gable and side
trim don’t stand out, especially because my gable is so unremarkable – there’s
no point in calling attention to it – yawn.</div>
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Next weekend will be the second coat of paint and hopefully
a start on staining the woodwork on the inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Stay tuned …</div>Diane Irvine Armitagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775862142053961191noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349932966648579949.post-83116981094926428732012-07-12T11:17:00.003-07:002013-02-13T16:09:06.851-08:00A Little History<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">
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My house is a little (1,100 square foot) cottage that
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Some say it may have been a bunkhouse on the
ranch – no one is really sure just what it was used for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like to imagine it was used by an artist as
a little art studio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lot of the
California Impressionists used to stay at the local ranches and paint on
location.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I digress …<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was owned by the Ross Family and in 1931,
David and Iza Ross had the little house moved to its current location a couple
of blocks away from the historic San Juan Capistrano Mission.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I believe the house was just over 700 square
feet originally, but a back, shed-roof addition was added, maybe after it was
moved in 1931.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The house was originally
single-wall construction with dark brown stained shingles.</div>
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Unfortunately, when we bought it in 2000, it had
been painted bright yellow and most of the original doors and windows had been
removed, probably because one of the owners decided to build up the thin
outside walls with 2x4s and put insulation in between and when the wall more
than doubled in size, I suppose the old windows wouldn’t fit anymore – or maybe
they had deteriorated to such a degree, that they just didn’t want to deal with
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever the case, the challenge
now is to put back in period-appropriate windows and doors, old lighting and
about a million other things. <br />
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As an artist, I’m a big fan of the early Arts &
Crafts/Art Nouveau ideas and in the tradition of Bailley Scott, Voysey and
Mackintosh, my desire is to make my little cottage a “House Beautiful.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I plan on keeping the outside as original as
possible, but want to make the inside into a little jewel box of early 20<sup>th</sup>
Century ornament and design.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This blog
will not only show the restoration work involved, but will follow the journey
of my little “Artistic House.”</div>
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Diane Irvine Armitagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775862142053961191noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349932966648579949.post-79171229988890226772012-07-12T10:47:00.001-07:002012-07-12T10:49:19.126-07:00The Beginning<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">I
love old houses. There’s just something
about them that makes me happy the minute I walk through the door. Maybe it’s the ghosts of all the people and
time gone by that resonates there, but whatever the reason, I’m most
comfortable in an old house. My favorite
old houses are the abandoned, derelict ones with all of their original details
there just waiting for someone to rescue them.</span></div>
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is my story about my little old house in San Juan Capistrano. My husband and I bought our 1915 cottage in
2000 and over the past 12 years we have built a new garage/art studio with
studio apartment above in behind our little house. We did most of the work ourselves, only
hiring out the plumbing and electrical and some of the framing.</span></div>
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Original garage with dirt floor. Held together by way of termites all holding hands.</div>
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Husband.</div>
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wanted the building to look a similar age as our cottage, so I salvaged old
doors and windows and found antique lighting and hardware and went as far as
using antique ceiling fans that I had restored.</span></div>
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Upstairs new building - studio apartment.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Now,
finally we get to the fun part … working on our house! I have waited 12 years and have stockpiled a
small trailer-full of salvaged parts and I’m ready for the fun to begin.</span></div>Diane Irvine Armitagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775862142053961191noreply@blogger.com1