#old house love

[saopauloantiga]

Uma charmosa e bem preservada casa antiga da década de 1960 em São Caetano do Sul (SP)

[oldfarmhouse]

Dreamy light spilling into the dining room in Sedgwick.

𝗁𝗍𝗍𝗉s://instagram.com/christinasalway

[my-wife-doesnt-approve]

I want play, too! Our bathroom had an original ungrounded non-gfci outlet in the floor next to the toilet! They had run romex for the last bit, but it was powered by knob and tube on a 15 amp breaker!

(knob and tube circuits are only rated for 10 amps, all wet areas need GFCI outlets - the square ones with a reset button, bathroom outlets super duper need to be grounded, putting an outlet next to the toilet means any plumbing problems become electrocution/house fire problems, too!)

Mark the electrician has been here for five minutes and he’s already said “well that’s…weird” twice from the other room and frankly I’m afraid to ask.

[enimaximus]

I love how House MD episodes have these side plots where House is examining these random patients and every time it's some stupid shit, like yeah there's a patient with this extremely complicated case and we need to figure out a diagnosis but we can't ignore the guy with AN MP3 PLAYER UP HIS ASS in Exam Room One

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

why aren't there more mysteries that take place in nursing homes & retirement communities. i want to watch a group of deranged retirees-cum-amateur-detectives combine their powers of:

decades of life experience

boredom-fueled busybody shamelessness

access to the most gossipy next-door-neighbors in existence

"I am too old to be arrested and/or give a shit" attitude

and solve crimes. this should be an enormous subgenre.

[ynnu-64]

Hilson :)))) I made them as Mii’s and very much obsessed with them

[thevisualvamp]

Sweet

100 year old porch, their first home. (at Austin, Texas)

[goryhorroor]

“horror movies were reborn in the 1930s. sound revolutionized cinema across the board and had a huge impact on the horror genre— and not just in the form of dialogue. sound effects added an extra dimension to terror, from creaking doors to echoing footsteps to the rumbling of castle thunder. music cues built suspense or signaled the presence of a threat. as screen storytelling moved away from symbolism towards realism, the dreamlike wraiths of silent cinema were replaced by monsters that grunted, groaned and howled.”

[saopauloantiga]

Uma residência encantadora na rua Padre Marchetti, Ipiranga

[thinkingofmikey]

Our garage had a fire, before the 1950s, but unclear when. The roof joists were huge, definitely oversized, old growth Douglas fir (like most old houses in Portland) that charred maybe 1/2" into the wood. You can flake off charcoal bits, but the wood itself is still incredibly solid. They just sistered in new joists and called it good. And while it's not technically up to modern code, it's solid.

There's no way you could have tried that with the modern fabricated fake i-beam joists, the whole garage would have been gone.

someone in the notes on that “stop fetishizing old houses” post commented that builders before the 1970s were too concerned with elegance and grandeur, and that was all really just wastefulness

and I think about my apartment, a duplex from 1912, surely built for a middle- or working-class family. spartan, really; quite basic and no-frills. not much to look at from the outside. just like a thousand buildings of similar provenance in the Boston area.

there are flowers molded in the chunky, cast-iron radiators

there’s a design of concentric circles in the carved door-lintels

many buildings of this type have a little stained-glass window somewhere

 I think about ornate door hinges in the staff wing of a country estate from 1878.  think of patterned wallpaper in a mansion’s kitchen, from 1797. I think about purely functional spaces someone looked at and said, “this needs beauty”

the past was certainly guilty of waste in many ways. but I cannot call making a house more than just a box to live in one of them

[okct]

[therichwife]

[datcravat]

I LOVE KAY

[divorceblogger]

this show rules sorry

[cozylittleartblog]

girl help i have been transported back to middle school

artfight attack on @necrotic-nightshade !!

[rhaenyras-alicent]