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bard-owl · 2 years ago

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I've posted a version of this before but it was full of typos and oversights. So I'll just start over and skip the rough dimensions and estimated floorspace for now. This hypothetical giant A-frame design is something I'm calling Triple A or AAA in my notes.

It is essentially a large house with two preplanned additions for the future. Unless I became a millionaire and could do it all at once. The main house has a 60° pitch roof and the ground floor is slightly raised over a basement foundation. The additions use pier foundations with a conditioned crawlspace, thus the basement being partially above ground to keep the first floor level. The roof would actually be longer than the house to partially cover a large deck on one end and fully cover a small balcony on the second floor, these form the front of the house. On one sloped side of the main structure is a single slope dormer allowing the kitchen to have full wall usage and vertical windows negating an A-frame's natural disadvantage. The ground floor also has a master suite, a large bathroom, library/study, craft room, and dining room. The second story has a second master suite with its own bath and access to the balcony. On the opposite end of the second story are two bedrooms sharing a bathroom. While the master suite has a high ceiling there is a "third floor" above the other bedrooms that is a simple loft for storage or extra bunks. Down in the basement is the utility room, an office, a beer and wine cellar, and large pantry.

The first addition is a guest wing attached to the back flat wall. It is a smaller two story A-frame with a central hallway running from an exterior door to the main house. Two bedrooms run along one side of the hallway and a staircase, bathroom, and bedroom along the other side. On the second floor is a reading loft and the final bedroom. The second addition to the main house is a great room formed by a peaked dormer, keeping with the A-frame design. It is on the last sloped wall directly across the house from the kitchen. This is essentially an open floor design to be used as a rec room daily and cleared out as an open space for parties on special occasions.

This is an 8 bedroom, 4 bathroom, massive house, intended to be deep in the woods. It's purpose is to be a home, workplace, and a central rallying point for family and friends for generations.

#Triple A #AAA

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ultraheydudemestuff · 9 months ago

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Dr. James Bell House (Bell-Williams House)

1822 E. 89th St.

Cleveland, OH

The Dr. James Bell House, also known as the Bell-Williams House, a 1901 Richardsonian Romanesque home in the Hough neighborhood designed by noted local architect George J. Hardway that epitomizes the local reaction against the excesses of Victorian architecture, is a historic home located at 1822 E. 89th Street in Cleveland, Ohio. Designed by Hardway for Dr. James Bell (a local dentist), it was completed in 1901. The home is a prime example of the Cleveland-area reaction at the end of the 19th century against high Victorian architecture, utilizing elements of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture to create a highly individualized, severe style.

James Richard Bell was a prominent dentist in Cleveland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1900, he commissioned noted local architect George J. Hardway to design a large residence on E. 89th Street in the southeast quadrant of the Hough neighborhood, one of the city's oldest settled areas and which at that time was inhabited largely by white, middle-class and upper-middle-class residents. The block on which Bell chose to build was built up with a number of large residences over the past 30 years, ranging in style from Italianate to extremely elaborate Queen Anne style. The increasingly elaborate embellishments of Victorian architecture had fallen out of favor with homeowners and architects in northeast Ohio by the late 1890s, and Bell and Hardway agreed on a home that was simple to the point of being severe.

The Bell House is largely Richardsonian Romanesque in style. However, it deviates from this style by featuring a contemporary massing and relying on plain exterior walls. The three-story structure is constructed of stone and brick. The front of the house is roughly square, with an east-facing gable, a single dormer on the south side, and steep roof pitch. The third-floor windows are topped by round stone arches, with stone slabs constituting the lintel and sill of the first and second story windows. A rusticated stone porch with canopy provided the entrance to the house. The narrow-depth center section of the house features projecting polygonal bay windows on all three floors on the south side. This projection is topped by a hip-end roof. The north side of the center section is essentially a triple-wide dormer or gable facing north, with a gable roof. The rear of the building, which is about as large as the front section, returns to the square plan, although it features two dormers on the north side and none on the south. The home originally had 12 rooms, four baths, and a third-floor ballroom. By the 1970s, the ballroom had been divided and the house now had a total of 21 rooms.

Bell occupied the home until his death in 1912. The home was bequeathed to his wife, Anna Roeder Bell. She died in 1940, and bequeathed the home to her daughter, Frieda Meriam. Mrs. Meriam died in 1942, and the home was sold to John A. Smith in 1943.By 1947, the home belonged to the Sabo family, and by 1948 the Jaskell family. By 1956, it was owned by Enoch Spence, who sold it by 1961 to Harold C. Scheunemann, who in turn sold it to Raymond Beedlow by 1966. The Hough neighborhood became an overwhelmingly poor African American area by 1960. In May 1968, the mansion was purchased by the Berry Foundation. It became the home of the Martin Luther King Residential Youth House, a residential home for troubled black youth. The ballroom was probably turned into bedrooms about this time.

In the early or mid 1970s, the youth house closed, and the Lee Heights Community Church rented the structure for use by The Straight-up Half-Way House, a transitional residence for alcoholics, criminals, and drug addicts. The Berry Foundation sold the house in 1979 to a private owner, Margaret J. Williams. Because it exemplifies the local architectural reaction to the excesses of Victorian architecture, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 16, 1986, and it is part of a Register-listed historic district, the East 89th Street Historic District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 26, 1988. It was also named a Cleveland Landmark by the Cleveland Landmarks Commission, under the name Bell-Williams House.

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royalpain16 · 2 years ago

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Adelaide Cottage in Windsor Home Park

As we continue our series of Royal Residences, this post takes a look at another property on the Windsor Home Park estate; Adelaide Cottage – a pretty early 19th century home, close to Windsor Castle:

A stone’s throw from Frogmore House, and the closest royal residence to Windsor Castle (excluding the private apartments in the castle itself) is Adelaide Cottage. Though primarily known as Adelaide Cottage the property is actually made up of Adelaide Cottage and Adelaide Lodge, and is arguably one of the prettiest little residences on the royal estate. Constructed using building material from the handsome Royal Lodge, the cottage became its own residence when it was reconstructed in 1831 for King William IV’s wife; Queen Adelaide.

The plot comprises of the lodge; a red brick double-fronted build complete with towering chimney stacks and pitched second-storey dormer windows, and the original cottage construction; a picturesque stucco-fronted cottage, which started life as a small bungalow.

When the cottage was first built, The Mirror wrote an article about the property in it’s 20th August 1831 edition, detailing it’s appearance and purpose in uniquely early-19th century verbiage. The property was described as ‘chastely elegant’ in which ‘its locale affords a delightful shade at all hours of the day’.

According to the article, the property was built specially for then Queen Adelaide, who first occupied the retreat on her birthday in 1831, and was made up of only two principle rooms ‘besides a retiring-room for the queen and the pages’ room’. At the time, the property also came with a picturesque porch running along the front east-facing side of the home, which still stands today, as well as it’s lush, manicured gardens, which remain almost unchanged in nearly 200 years.

‘The interior has been fitted up with the furniture and decorations of the Royal Lodge’, the paper continued. ‘It has none of that obtrusive splendour which characterises palace-building, but much of the quaint elegance of the embellished order of domestic architecture in the Old English school.

The original cottage stands at the central point of the plot, with a substantial side extension later photographed in 1900s. The cottage’s extension, which holds the 1831 date and the AR royal cypher for Queen Adelaide, includes a second storey, four looming chimney towers, an entrance hall and a smart porte cochère, which continues to stand over the gravel turning circle today.

The enclosed brick-walled courtyard joins the cottage to the red brick lodge, while a further extension is believed to have been added to the rear of the cottage at a later date. Today, the home enjoys a meandering gravel in-and-out drive, reasonabl e sized gardens, a red brick outbuilding and gatehouse; perfect for a small security detail.

reconstructed in 1831 for King William IV’s wife; Queen Adelaide.

The idyllic home comprises of a red brick lodge complete with towering chimney stacks and pitched second-storey dormer windows, and a picturesque stucco-fronted cottage, which The Mirror‘s 1831 write-up of the property described as ‘chastely elegant’ in which ‘its locale affords a delightful shade at all hours of the day’. The cottage originally stood with only two principle rooms but has been substantially extended and improved over the years to almost triple its footprint and contain a second storey. An enclosed brick-walled courtyard joins the cottage to the red brick lodge. Today, the home enjoys a meandering gravel in-and-out drive, reasonable sized gardens, two gatehouse outbuildings perfect for a small security detail, generous parking and an elegant porte cochère

#Adelaide cottage #windsor home park #the cambridges #royal homes #royal residences

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mcmansionhell · 5 years ago

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50 States of McMansion Hell: Fairfax and Loudoun County, Virginia

Howdy folks! This post has been months in the making. Scouring the hell that is the McMansion Trenches of Virginia for only the best (worst) houses for your viewing pleasure generated some truly awful contenders. Of all the counties in Virginia, it was the wealthiest DC suburban counties of Fairfax and Loudoun that delivered. I won’t leave you hanging longer than I already have, so without further ado, the countdown:

#10: The Trellis Terror (Loudoun County)

The scrunched up piles of roof and narrow windows are a casualty of trying to squeeze the biggest possible house complete with not one but two garages into the smallest imaginable lot. The second story over-the-garage trellis aims to invoke the Tuscan countryside, but ends up looking like a bad strip mall Olive Garden instead.

#9: Tricorn Turret (Loudoun County)

The consistency of cladding materials and window shapes make this house more well put-together than most McMansions. However it made the list for obvious reasons: a substantial and precipitous roofline, a rare triple turret dormer assembly, and that bizarre skeletal stone porch thing transform this house from country estate to ridiculous Hummer house.

#8: Fort Void (Loudoun County)

Usually the problem of McMansions is too many large windows, in this case it’s too many small windows, all of them different from one another as if this house was just a front for the Pella Window showroom. The monotonous brick swallows the windows giving the house a fortress-y aura. The juxtaposition of pastoral rolling farmland with an equally ugly house right next door is particularly choice.

#7: Mt. Nub’s Revenge (Loudoun County)

This house is a perfect example of how, even when they try really really hard, McMansions are incapable of symmetry. The more you look at this house the more “spot the difference” elements you find: the weird short colonnade vs the five-bay picture window; the length of the two wings, the roofline of the right wing is for some reason broken up because God is dead. And then there’s that nub.

#6: Sticker Shock (Loudoun County)

This robust residence is absolutely chaotic. No two gables are the same. Stone is applied liberally and without logical consistency. Gutters trail down columns and crevices. Every window antagonizes its neighbor. The only thing over which any control has been exerted is nature itself, repressed and dominated by a monocultural expanse of grass. Normally I am not so blunt, but I will be today: I hate this house.

#5: Chonky Corinthian

There is a certain type of house that is very popular in Fairfax County. It consists of a hulking range of hipped roofs punctured by a central (?) portico supported by columns that can only be described as thicc. This is one of these houses. The people who built this house could not decide when they were done building it. One can only assume that the myriad plans for this house were saved with file names like “House″ “House 2″ “House 2 final” “House 2 final final” “House 2 FINAL FINAL FOR REAL THIS TIME”

#4: Mad Hatter (Fairfax County)

First of all, this home is way too long. It just keeps going. It’s like six different houses stitched together. Roofs begin and end. Porches come and go. Two stories somehow transform into one. By the time the eye reaches the front entrance, one is already exhausted. Finally, whoever decided to take the phrase “nesting gables” and apply it in this way deserves a trial at the Hague.

#3: Tragic “Tudor” (Fairfax County)

This is the house equivalent of an identity crisis. Elements of French, English, and Donald Trump commingle to produce a truly formidable facade. All of the landscaping choices in this post are sad, but this house takes the cake for most depressing scenery, and not just because it was photographed in winter. Stubby shrubs appear to be gasping for breath, what trees exist are mere, unstable sticks; beside the pergola, a fallen cypress.

#2: Foaming at the Mouth (Fairfax County)

This is a classic McMansion: it does its best to look dignified and imposing and instead appears cartoonish and cheap. Every element of this house except perhaps the wooden door is derived from petroleum products. The massive transom screams “climate denialism.” The grand entrance is overdone and top-heavy to the point of parody. In short: I hope this house melts.

#1: Brick Behemoth

If you combine all of the insipid elements of the other houses: mismatched windows; massive, chaotic rooflines; weird asphalt donut landscaping; pompous entrances, and tacked on masses; you’d get this house. The more one looks at this house the more upsetting it becomes. The turrets don’t match. The roofline is truly mountainous. The windows are either too small or too big for the walls they are housed in. The carhole is especially car hole-y. What sends this one over the top is its surroundings: lush trees and clear skies that have been desecrated in order to build absolute garbage. At least it doesn’t have shutters.

Well, that’s it for Virginia! Stay tuned for another installment of “The Brutalism Post” - this time about what Brutalism actually is.

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mnthpprt · 4 years ago

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Chapter 38: Nocturnal

[Am I procrastinating by writing yet another chapter? Yes I am. Pls send help.]

I wake up only a couple hours later to find Arthur is gone. He must have gone back to write in is room. I don something comfortable and pick up my blood soaked clothes from the bathroom floor to wash them. Though Sebastian knows what I did, I don’t want to wake him up in the middle of the night for this. He has done enough already, and I can deal with the stains myself.

I fetch a bucket and a jar of salt from the kitchen and bring it back to my bedroom before filling it with cold water. I then proceed to scrub as much as I can off the clothes inside the shower, using a thick salt paste, and when the water stops running red, I lather them in soap and leave them to soak in the bucket. The stains are fairly fresh, so hopefully they will come out in a day or two.

After drying myself off, I leave to aimlessly roam around the mansion. I need to do something, anything, to keep my mind occupied. I eventually end up in the attic, crawling onto the roof through the dormer window. I am pleased to find Jean is there. I don’t think I could handle being alone with my thoughts.

“Mind if I join you?” I ask, knocking on the window frame. Jean turns to glance at me before shuffling over, making space for me beside him on the edge. “This is becoming a habit, huh?”

“It’s not one I’m opposed to,” he shrugs. I light a cigarillo, and he looks at it disapprovingly. “Unlike that one.”

“Sorry.” Before I can smother the flame on the roof tiles, he holds my hand to stop me.

“I was joking...” he mutters. “I don’t mind if you smoke.”

I... did not think Jean had a sense of humor. His is a lot like Mozart’s, I think, in the sense that it’s hard to tell when they’re kidding. I chuckle and look up at the sky. The sun is still nowhere near the horizon. It must be around 3 in the morning.

After exhaling a cloud of smoke, I glance at Jean to notice him staring at my arm. My sleeves are still rolled up from the laundry, and most of my tattoos are fully exposed.

“Is that some sort of plant?” he shyly asks. I nod.

“A monstera adansonii. I used to work in a flower shop, and this is my favorite plant that we sold,” I explain. Though it is commonly referred to as ‘Swiss cheese plant’, the holes on its leaves have always reminded me of the craters on the moon.

“I own a shop too,” he quietly informs me, catching me by surprise. “I sell weapons.”

“Sounds about right,” I chuckle. His fascination with the objects is evident in his bedroom. “Do you make them yourself?”

“Only some of them. I mostly just make slight alterations.”

“Must be a lot of work, if you also own the place,” I ponder out loud. “No wonder I rarely see you during the day, you must be so busy.”

“Napoleon helps me with the paperwork. I wouldn’t be able to manage without him.” I tilt my head, wondering what he means by that. “I, uh... I can’t read or write,” he explains.

“Oh.” It makes sense, given the time that he lived in. Most people back then were illiterate. I open my mouth when a thought occurs to me, but quickly close it and sink down against the chimney, resigned.

“What is it?”

“I was going to offer to teach you, but I’m not much better off myself,” I chuckle. “I could not spell in French if my life depended on it. I can kind of read it, though. That, I might be able to help you with.”

“... Thank you,” he murmurs after a brief pause, before turning to look at me with his good eye. “I am glad that you are staying here, Anaïs.”

“Yeah, about that...” I mutter. “I think I understand how you felt that night. These baby vampire impulses are... a bit too much to handle. It’s rough.”

Jean nods slowly and looks away from me, as if thinking about something. When he finally speaks again, his voice is even softer than usual.

“You slipped, didn’t you?” His unexpected question makes me tense beside him. I guess he feels it, because he continues. “I was up here when you came back. I saw you.”

“I’m sorry you had to see that,” I sigh. “It was bad. I mean, it was self defence, but that doesn’t make it any less awful...”

“It does,” he declares. “Do you think that person would have died if they hadn’t attacked you?”

“Not really, but-”

“Then they deserved it and their blood is not on your hands,” he cuts me off. “Not literally, at least.”

I hadn’t thought of it that way. The logic in his argument is not exactly airtight, but it’s better than blaming myself for what I did. I helped Jean hate himself a little less, it’s time to let him do the same for me. Satisfied with my new mindset, I bring the cigarillo to my lips and inhale a deep puff.

“... People,” I finally correct him after I blow out the smoke. He looks at me, confusion in his ocean blue eye. “There were two people.”

“And you took them down on your own?” he inquires. I shrug. It’s not exactly something I’m proud of. “Impressive. I didn’t think a frail little woman like you could defeat one, even as a vampire.��

“Hey, I’m stronger than I look,” I laugh. I am still not sure whether he was teasing me or not, but I chose to take it that way. He looks at me before shaking his head.

“Nah, I don’t believe that.” Yeah, he is definitely messing with me this time.

“I am, I swear!” I play along, gently smacking his muscular arm. “Wanna take this to the training room?”

Instead of replying, he gets up and offers me his hand. I take it, letting him effortlessly pull me to my feet, and follow him back inside.

“You know,” I say on the way there, “I’ve been wanting to learn how to fight properly for a while. Ever since I saw you and Napoleon on my first day here.”

“How about I teach you that, and you teach me how to read?” he suggests. I smile.

“I’ll do my best.”

When we enter the training room, Jean turns the switch on the wall, making the lights turn on with a flicker. I wonder how he feels about all this new technology, so unfamiliar to him. He seems to have gotten somewhat used to electricity and running water, at least. Although I’m pretty sure his brain would implode if he saw the things that are common in my time.

He exchanges his rapier for a wooden version of it he takes from the rack in the corner, and hands me another one, identical to his. It’s heavier than I expected. I hold it between my thighs to tie my hair up as Jean expertly waves his sword around with a flourish, getting accustomed to the different handle in his hand. What did I just get myself into? Whatever it is, it’s going to be fun.

“En garde!” He takes a stance, and I try to mimic it, but my thin right arm is unused to the weight of the weapon, so my left hand instinctually joins to support it. “No, use only one hand,” he instructs. “Like this.”

I am surprised to see I can easily hold it up once I get past the mental barrier of what my human body was capable of. I am stronger and more resilient than I have ever been, though I think I’ll need some time to get used to that.

“Alright, I’m going to attack now. Try to block it,” he warns be before lunging forward and thrusting his sword towards my stomach. The movement is deliberately slow to give me time to deflect it, which I successfully do.

He slashes at me again, stepping closer. I push his sword to the side with my own, but it comes back in full force. I barely manage to block it this time, reeling backwards.

“Focus,” he orders me. “There is more than one way to avoid being hit.”

I nod, taking the hint. When he attacks again, I am quick to dodge his sword, focusing on agility rather than strength. While I struggled significantly to parry Jean’s hits, I can effortlessly jump and twist out of the way without ever having to lift my own sword. His movements accelerate, and I follow along, resulting in a graceful dance between us. It reminds me of waltz with Mozart, how he had spun me around the ballroom until my vision blurred and I struggled to keep up with his quick footwork.

“Ow!” I cry out in pain when Jean’s sword hits my hand, right on my knuckles.

“Désolé! (Sorry)” he apologizes, lowering his weapon. “Not bad, Anaïs. How come you’re so fast? You’ve never trained before.”

I simply point at my skates across the room, the red suede boots having become part of the training room’s vast collection of equipment over time. I started leaving them here, on the floor near a corner, when I realized I could never use them outside of the mansion.

“When you’re falling from a triple spin in the air, you gotta be quick or you end up breaking your leg, or something,” I chuckle. Jean nods, his eyebrows raised, as if he just considered that possibility for the first time. He probably did, but to be fair, he has been watching me skate for a month now. He should know better.

I slowly flex my fingers over the sword’s handle, but wince in pain when I try to move my pinky. It’s too sore for me to continue training.

“Are you hurt?” Jean asks, concerned. I shake my head.

“I’ll be fine, it’s just my pinky,” I brush it off. “It will be healed in a day or so.”

“We should continue another day, then.”

I want to argue, but he’s right. I can barely hold the sword straight. My pinky might have taken the brunt of it, but the dull ache expands through my entire hand.

“Okay, but I’m gonna skate instead, if you don’t mind,” I finally give in, walking to ‘my’ corner of the room, before kicking my shoes off. “I have way too much energy. I fear I’ll end up eating someone again if I don’t get rid of it somehow.”

As I struggle to tie my laces with a semi-numb hand, I remember something. I look up at Jean and stare at him for a few seconds before voicing my thoughts.

“Do you know any songs?”

“Yes, why?” he asks, confused.

“My headphones are dead.”

“Headphones?” He sits on the floor beside me and tilts his head.

“Yeah, you know those little things I wear in my ears sometimes?” I remind him. “They play music. And, well, it’s kinda weird for me to skate without music, so I was wondering if you could sing something...”

“Did I accidentally hit your head?”

I snort at his genuine question. Of course, he seems even more confused by my explanation. It is then that I remember my phone still works. I turned it off after my first night here to preserve the battery. It must be in my room somewhere, along with my wireless earplugs.

“Wait here,” I tell him, quickly pulling off my skates. “I’m just gonna show you. I’ll be right back.”

That said, I jump up and run barefoot out of the training room. I have no idea how I’m gonna explain this to Jean without him thinking it’s witchcraft, but it might be better if I just let him see it for himself.

#ikemen vampire #ikevam #ikevamp #ikemen #ikemen fanfiction #ikemen vampire fanfiction #ikevam fanfic #ikevamp fanfiction #ikemen vampire jean #ikevamp jean

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bard-owl · 2 years ago

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So this hypothetical giant A-frame design which I'm hereafter calling Triple A or AAA:

This has a 60° pitch roof and the main 3 story structure's ground floor is 40'x40' and in the foundation is an approximately 32'x32' basement. The roof would actually be 48'-50' long to partially cover a large deck on one end and fully cover a balcony on the second floor. On one sloped side of the main structure is a dormer allowing the kitchen to full wall usage and many windows negating an A-frame's natural disadvantage. The opposite sloped roof has the third frame projecting from it into a 21'W x 20'L x 18'H great room. The ground floor has a master suite, bathroom, library, craft room, and rec room, the second story had a second master suite and bath accessing the balcony, and two bedrooms sharing a bathroom. The third floor is a simple loft for storage or extra bunks.

Attached to the main building is a 2 story guest house/wing. A hallway runs its length with 2 bedrooms on one side, a staircase, bathroom, and bedroom on the other side, and the second floor had a loft ending in another bedroom. The guest wing has an exterior of its own. The basement has the laundry room, an extra pantry, my office, and a wine and beer room.

#this is maybe the craziest design I've thought of #i kinda want to model it in cardboard #aaa #a frame

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mujeeburrehman · 4 years ago

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A Hamptons Beach House Renovation Gets a Full Pop Art Redo

Artist Katy Garry’s beach house renovation in Long Island includes a garage conversion for lounging

“After” photos by Lena Yaremenko for Sweeten

My Sweeten Story | Sweeten homeowner Katy

A house flood sets off a new start

Sometimes you can spin a disaster into an opportunity. That’s what happened with Hildreth Place, our house in the Hamptons. We used a devastating flood as a prompt to create a happy, modern home where family and friends can meet.

Hildreth Place has been in the Garry family for more than 40 years, and my husband and I have owned it for 10. The house is in Hampton Bays, New York, 50 yards from Meschutt Beach, where families gather to swim in the bay and live music plays every night at Tiki Joes. The house was originally built in 1970, in a traditional Cape style. We have long used it with family, shared it with friends, and also rented it.

Two years ago, a pipe froze and burst. After discovering eight feet of water in our basement, we decided to go down to the bones and renovate. Our goals were to make the home more efficient from both energy and maintenance standpoints, all while turning it into something beautiful that our family and friends can enjoy.

A new chapter for a family home

Cara Boyce of Red Wagon Design partnered with me on the interior design and helped me reimagine the home. We planned to revise the façade, giving it the relaxed appearance of a modern farmhouse, and use the interior redesign to solve problems and increase our living space. With Sweeten’s help, we found the perfect contractor to help us with our Hampton Bays home renovation. He worked on time and within budget, keeping cost savings in mind and brainstorming solutions to construction challenges. The house had a few!

Hildreth Place has endured quite a bit, and we needed to prepare it for the future. The house has been standing 50 years, and is close to the beach and exposed to the elements, so our biggest investment was on exterior improvements. The materials needed to withstand the environment. We installed James Hardie clapboard on the exterior, invested in a fiberglass front door, and chose fiberglass casement windows rather than old-school wood.

A garage bay turns into a lounge space

One of the biggest interior changes we made in modernizing was on the home’s ground floor. The first floor was very traditional for a beach house, and the formal dining room, which was in the front of the house, wasn’t practical for entertaining.

By raising the roofline, we were able to add about 200 square feet upstairs, creating space for a center hallway.

We decided to create an open floor plan that connected the kitchen to a walk-through dining room and then to a new inside-outside room we carved out by stealing just under 300 square feet from the garage. This “garage room,” which opens to the back via an industrial-style roller door, lets the indoor space flow to the outdoors, and is an ideal casual gathering spot for coming off the beach.

On the second floor, there was another flow blockage to overcome: We had four bedrooms, including a big dormer for the kids, but the only way to access that bunk room was through one of the other bedrooms. It was an awkward layout for children trying to find the bathroom at night. By raising the roofline, we were able to add about 200 square feet upstairs, creating space for a center hallway. The resectioning also found us space for a master bathroom, a nice bonus.

Personalizing with color and art

Seeing my murals and paintings transform the house has been incredible. The master bedroom got a bold, black-and-white brush-stroke mural. I love it! I have a moody painting tucked between the shelves in the master bath and oceany pieces in all the first-floor rooms. A guest room with a bright bamboo theme features a hand-painted ceiling by me and is inspired by colors that I’ve been gravitating to—the combination of orange, hot pink, and red makes me happy.

Down on the first floor in the powder room, we added wallpaper—this Dorothy Draper look was a dream of mine. The lush green print and chartreuse ceiling color is the kind of pairing that inspires me as an artist. Such a surprise when you open the door! I always recommend spending money on things that give the most bang for the buck. I told my husband that the splurgy wallpaper was more important than running water.

Many of the room designs in the house are inspired by my paintings, as I really wanted to bring their joy into our home. One of the best examples of that is the “goldfish bathroom,” which is bathed in a dappling of water-blue penny tile and features several playful fish paintings.

Natural elements soften

Throughout the house, we also chose simple items to offset the highly visible ones. We went with pre-painted cabinetry in the kitchen, and the same hardwood floors as in other rooms. The lights are modern loft pendants, clean in matte white.

I’m intimidated by the process of picking out kitchen appliances, so I let my mother-in-law—a holiday-entertaining superwoman—choose; she picked a single oven with the largest cubic heating space she could find. The living room fireplace mantel is made of a rustic, hewn-wood beam.

With Sweeten’s help, we renovated and built a home that has exceeded our expectations. Hildreth Place makes me so proud. We took a tragedy and turned it into a house that makes you feel like you are on vacation the moment you walk in.

Thank you for sharing your Hampton Bays beach house renovation with us, Katy!

Materials Guide

EXTERIOR RESOURCES: Plank lap siding and vertical siding: James Hardie. Casement windows: Andersen Windows & Doors. Fiberglass entry door: Therma-Tru. Avante garage doors: Clopay.

LIVING ROOM RESOURCES: Paint in Decorators White: Benjamin Moore. Bona Traffic Four-inch wide oak flooring in Bona Traffic satin finish: Bona. Light fixture shade: Hand Painted by Katy Garry.

KITCHEN RESOURCES: Cabinets and countertops: Central Kitchens. Cabinet hardware: Lowe’s. MDF shiplap backsplash: From general contractor. Pendant lighting: Mitzi Hudson Valley Lighting. Kohler sink/faucet: Green Art Plumbing. Refrigerator: Samsung. Dishwasher: Asko. Stove and oven: GE. Lighting fixture over island: Shades of Light. Lighting over sink: Rejuvenation. Paint in Decorators White: Benjamin Moore.

DINING ROOM RESOURCES: Paint on ceiling in Van Deusen: Benjamin Moore. Chandelier: Ballard Designs.

GARAGE ROOM RESOURCES: Garage doors: A Better Door Co Inc. Ceiling fan: Shades of Light. Custom resin bar: Painted by Katy Garry. Bar stools: Wayfair.

POWDER ROOM RESOURCES: Wallpaper: Dorothy Draper. Paint on ceiling in Yellowcake: Farrow & Ball. Floor and shower tile: Marble America, New Rochelle NY. Kohler toilet, faucet, and shower hardware: Green Art Plumbing. Mirror: Ballard Designs. Sink vanity: Wayfair.

MASTER BEDROOM RESOURCES: Custom wall mural: Painted by Katy Garry. Paint on fireplace wall in Mopboard Black: Benjamin Moore. Sconces over mantle: Aerin Lauder. Light pendant over seating area: Vintage.

BUNK ROOM RESOURCES: Stencil paint in Poppy Red: Benjamin Moore. Light fixture shade in custom fabric: Red Wagon Designs.

BAMBOO BEDROOM RESOURCES: Paint in Decorators White: Benjamin Moore. Ceiling mural: Painted by Katy Garry. Light fixtures: Shades of Light.

MASTER BATHROOM: Bathroom floor tile: Cement Tile Shop. Shower wall and floor tile: Marble America, New Rochelle NY. Sink/vanity: Lowe’s. Kohler toilet, polished-chrome hardware, and shower fixtures: Green Art Plumbing. Light fixture over sink and large ceiling lights: Shades of Light. Shelving lights: CB2.

GOLDFISH BATHROOM: Paint in Blue Nova: Benjamin Moore. Kohler bathroom floor tile, bathtub, toilet, hardware, and shower fixtures: Green Art Plumbing. Sink/vanity: The Home Depot. Mirror/medicine cabinet: Robern. Vanity lighting: Triple Seven Home. Center ceiling light: West Elm.

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ADUs or accessory dwelling units can transform into home offices, living space for family or as a rental, or a retreat.

Sweeten handpicks the best general contractors to match each project’s location, budget, scope, and style. Follow the blog, Sweeten Stories, for renovation ideas and inspiration and when you’re ready to renovate, start your renovation with Sweeten.

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Mayo-Carter House

205 West Franklin Street Built, 1895 Architects, Carrère and Hastings

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The French Renaissance on Franklin Street.

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Sophisticated and distinguished in composition and detail, the Mayo-Carter House is now the headquarters of the Junior League of Richmond.

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Chamber of Commerce publications at the turn of the century describe Franklin Street as “the Fifth Avenue of Richmond,” and here the New York firm of Carrère and Hastings introduced high style to Richmond’s residential architecture.

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The limestone, orange brick, and steep tile roof suggest a French Renaissance residence. The relationship of the dormer, triple window, and elliptical arch of the first floor is worked particularly well. The restored interior focuses on mantels and plaster cornices of particular quality.

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We should be thankful that the 200 block looks the way it does, because it could easily have gone the way of 300 West Franklin, with it’s high-rise hotel and apartment buildings.

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There are a lot of reasons why it is time for you to consider new replacement windows. If you live in a much older home or recently bought one, then it is time to do some house make over. Homes that are even a few years old may have been built with a lower costing window option.The problem is those inferior windows can end up costing you a lot more money every month when you pay your bills. There are several factors that go into what makes one window better than another. But first, let's look at some of the most common reasons someone may need a replacement window:·

Leaking which can lead to problems like mold·

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Finishing the Side of the House: THE BIG REVEAL!

WELL. This has been a long time coming. About two and half years ago, I embarked on what’s likely the biggest renovation that my house will see under my care, and it was a DOOZY. The goal was to bring the south-facing side of the house back to some semblance of how it was built, which meant demolishing two additions, adding windows (prompting a complete demo of my kitchen, and partial demos of my bedroom and den), insulating, restoring the original clapboard siding and various trim details, re-roofing a bay window (twice!), a ton of prep and paint, adding downspouts…it was a lot of work. Most of it was completed during that first summer, but then the remaining to-do list sort of languished as I attended to more pressing matters. At the end of this past August I was able to dive back in, and over the course of about 2 months I got most of those remaining items completed! There’s still work to be done, but those things could take years and I want to show you what I did NOW!

Did you know that there’s an archive function on Google street view? I did not know! So this is what the Googlemobile captured on its way through Kingston after my house had been put on the market but before I ever saw it! Check out that crazy antenna toward the back of the roof! This was also before the listing agent had a crew of painters quite literally slap a fresh coat of paint over everything (you can imagine how well that’s holding up), which to their credit did fool me into thinking the exterior was in better shape than it actually was. Lol whoops.

Then I moved in, and a few months later had the roof replaced and the fire escape demolished.

Later on I replaced the chainlink fence, demolished that boxy addition off the back, and added a little bit of landscaping. Which left us here! THEN THINGS GOT CRAZY.

More than one person walking by literally asked if we were tearing the house down—that’s how dramatic it looked at times!

I sort of love this photo. That bay window looks so BLEAK. The clapboard is about half new and half old. As in the past, all of the siding was removed, planed, primed, and usable pieces were put back up. I’m not sure why I’m using the passive voice because THAT WAS ME. I DID THAT. It’s a little cuckoo crazy but it feels like the right thing to do, and the old siding boards maintain more character than the new ones do. It would have been nice to have enough stock of old siding to use it exclusively, but I didn’t.

I did take some creative liberties, either where I just had no clue what was here historically or thought I had a better idea. The two new kitchen windows (bottom right) are an example of the former. I don’t feel like they’re especially right, but I was trying to take into consideration the second floor dormer window, which was likely added in the 1930s and isn’t the most elegant thing in the world.

Another departure from history was increasing the size of the cornerboards, which are originally 4″ on this house. What can I say! I like a wide cornerboard on a Greek Revival house! The front/main section of the house now has 12″ wide cornerboards, while the back kitchen addition has 8″ cornerboards. Once the other sides of the house are done, I’ll add some trim to the tops where the cornerboards meet the fascia, which is how they’re typically done to give the appearance of a pilaster.

Speaking of cornerboards, one decision I’m very happy about was to drop a wide “cornerboard” between the main house and the kitchen addition to kind of subtly delineate the two structures. The siding actually was continuous between the kitchen and the rest of the house underneath the vinyl, so it was tempting to stick with that…but I had this eleventh hour idea that I really thought would work, or look completely dumb, so I went for it and I’m glad I did. To me it’s just enough to restore the proportions of the original house without getting too crazy, you know?

Lastly, the windows! Originally, the “window” to the left of the bay and the one directly above it were both faux windows—trimmed with a casing and sill but with a set of closed shutters rather than a window. Purely decorative! People think this is nuts but I SWEAR a) it’s how the house was built and b) it’s actually how a lot of houses were built—you might see it more often than you think! Next time you see an old building with one or two shuttered windows, it might be because there’s nothing behind those shutters!

So anyway, I made the upstairs faux window into a real window, and moved both of them a smidge to the right of where they were originally so that the spacing between all the windows would be more even.

Then I proceeded to take two years to get around to actually modifying the shutters and installing them, so it feels like the whole town knows there’s just housewrap behind them. That being said, literally as I was screwing in the last screw on the shutter hinge, someone walked by and asked why I was shuttering just that one window…so. JUST MAYBE nobody is paying as much attention to me and my house as I am paying to me and my house.

SO ANYWAY.

It was all really intense, you guys. I really didn’t want this to look like the product of recent work (especially major work), so getting those details right was extremely important to me. Moldings had to be recreated, the new windows had to blend with the old, and preserving as much remaining original detail as possible was the name of the game. The whole time I tried to think about how I might react to seeing this house if I didn’t own it…would it look like a new (tasteful, hopefully, at least) renovation, or just a nicely preserved 19th century building? The goal was definitely the latter and…I think I did it?

My, how those little pear trees have grown! Let’s run that back one more time.

Before.

And after!

Before…

During…

After! I don’t miss that skinny enclosed space one bit. The dining room used to be kind of dark and dreary, and now it’s all bright and cheerful! This house already had good natural light, but these changes allowed that to be true in every room and that makes it SO worth it to me. I very rarely turn any lights on inside until the sun goes down—they just aren’t needed.

Recreating the third side of the bay window took some serious patience and even more serious head-scratching, but I’m REALLY happy with how it came out. There are some imperfections if you’re really inspecting it, but I’m considering them part of the history. A professional carpenter might have done a better job, but hiring one would have been too costly and…well, it’s just not the story of this house. It’s not a museum piece. It’s my home. And I do my best with what I’ve got.

In the past when I’ve painted the house I’ve tried to do two colors (bright white trim and less bright white clapboard) in two finishes (flat for clapboard, semi-gloss for trim), and I was never especially happy with it. More and more I noticed that my favorite white houses seemed to be using just one paint for everything, so that’s what I did and I’m so happy about it. It would have been more period appropriate to use a less bright shade of white (evidently they couldn’t make paint THIS white back in the day), but the aforementioned slapped-on paint on the cornices is very white and repairing/repainting those completely is a project for another time, and I wanted it all to blend. Also bear in mind that the front of the house is still covered in vinyl and pretty much untouched, so this keeps everything looking relatively uniform in the meantime. So, white it is!

I can’t give you a color because I got a little frustrated with the color and finish, and ended up combining a few different paints which resulted in a mix with a really nice satin sheen. I wrote down the “formula” so I can recreate it for future painting, but this is what happens when you have a billion half-used cans of paint leftover from lots of projects. I think the color would be similar to Ben Moore’s Simply White mixed at half-strength.

The painting alone felt…ENDLESS. My neighbors started making fun of me after a few weeks because HOW ARE YOU STILL PAINTING THAT HOUSE?! WHAT IS SO WRONG WITH IT?!

Well…enough that it took a very long time, that much I know! I tried to do a REALLY GOOD JOB so I really hope it lasts a long time. Like long enough that I can afford to hire a good painter next time and sit on my ass instead.

I’ve found a couple of shutter hinges in the yard, and you can see where they were mounted on the original window casings. House of Antique Hardware sells very similar reproductions, and I’m really happy with how nicely they match what was here! Someday I’d love for all the windows to have shutters, but for now that’s kind of a pipe dream.

My smoke bush was so tinyyyyyyy.

The shutters themselves I bought new (ordered through The Door Jamb locally), but I had to cut down the length and increase the width. I also added a bead detail to the center, which most old shutters have on the rabbet.

Originally each shutter had two hinges, but they just looked kind of naked so I added a third to the middle. Look at me being so naughty! Original shutters would have probably been black or dark green, but I thought that would look too jarring while the rest of the windows are shutter-less.

The next phase of exterior work will be dedicated to restoring the windows! Four of the original windows still have the aluminum triple-track storm windows, which I’ll remove one by one as I restore the windows behind them. That window on the right was under the cover of that solarium addition for the last century+, so it’s actually in good shape but desperately needs new glazing and paint—it kinda kills me I couldn’t get that one done this fall, but it’ll still be there in the spring. At some point I’ll get around to the little basement windows, too—I think they’ll look much better in black! I’ll also have to repoint the stone foundation down the line, but let’s just pretend I won’t. There’s always something to do.

1950.

2014.

2018.

Thank you for your patience with me, house. I hope you like your fresh new look.

You can read all about this project from start to finish by clicking the links below! I put them in chronological order and everything.

Restoring the Side of My House

Matching My Historic Windows

The Wreckage: Part 1

See Ya, Second Floor Bay Window Thing!

Found in the Wall!

The Solarium is Gone!

The Bedroom Has a Fourth Window!

Finishing the Side of the House: Part 1

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Finishing the Side of the House: THE BIG REVEAL!

Then I moved in, and a few months later had the roof replaced and the fire escape demolished.

Later on I replaced the chainlink fence, demolished that boxy addition off the back, and added a little bit of landscaping. Which left us here! THEN THINGS GOT CRAZY.

More than one person walking by literally asked if we were tearing the house down—that’s how dramatic it looked at times!

SO ANYWAY.

My, how those little pear trees have grown! Let’s run that back one more time.

Before.

And after!

Before…

During…

The painting alone felt…ENDLESS. My neighbors started making fun of me after a few weeks because HOW ARE YOU STILL PAINTING THAT HOUSE?! WHAT IS SO WRONG WITH IT?!

My smoke bush was so tinyyyyyyy.

1950.

2014.

2018.

Thank you for your patience with me, house. I hope you like your fresh new look.

You can read all about this project from start to finish by clicking the links below! I put them in chronological order and everything.

Restoring the Side of My House

Matching My Historic Windows

The Wreckage: Part 1

See Ya, Second Floor Bay Window Thing!

Found in the Wall!

The Solarium is Gone!

The Bedroom Has a Fourth Window!

Finishing the Side of the House: Part 1

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dallasmbrownb · 6 years ago

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Bullet Journal Brainstorm #1

I had this idea for a tiny house design in my head, threw it into my bullet journal, and took it all the way into SketchUp. I thought I’d share the process with you – and start a new blog post series at the same time. I hope you like it.

I began just sketching a quick outline of the size house I wanted. Then added some approximate locations for all the stuff I wanted in the house, which was:

Space to sleep a family of four

A lower level bedroom that doubles as a living room

The bedroom needed to have a closing door, but open wide when used as a living room

A dedicated and private home office

A large bathroom with a soaking tub

A flexible yet simple table for work, crafts, home schooling, and meals

An ample kitchen

A fair amount of storage

A porch

Plenty of windows for views and light

Aerodynamic tongue side of the house for easier transport

A tall shed roof or shed dormers to open the space up to the maximum height

32-foot triple axle bumper-pull trailer.

Here’s the initial sketch. It’s very rough because I only intended it for me to see – and I was just trying to place all the required stuff. I did several iterations. I don’t think I’ll use a fat Sharpie in the bullet journal again – it bleeds through the paper (but not through multiple pages luckily!).

The next step was to work out the details in more detail – to see if everything fit. Since I’ve got stencils, I used those to roughly block everything in. Again I wasn’t worries about how it would look because I didn’t intend to show it to anyone.

I’m showing you now because I think it’s good to see that any rough idea is worthy of putting on paper – even it you think you can’t draw. Don’t worry, your drawings can be just for you… so let the ideas flow!

The advantage of this bullet journal is that it gives you guidelines to quickly draw a tiny house on wheels to scale, with or without stencils.

I was digging the design a lot, so I threw it into SketchUp. The advantage of using software like SketchUp is that you can continue to iterate… but for getting the basic idea started I prefer putting it down on paper. Starting with paper also helps to make the SketchUp work go much faster.

Above is the floor plan of the lower level.

Below is the living room with the U-shaped sofa bed. These sections would slide around and reorganize into a bed without much effort.

The kitchen and large table are in the center of the house with the tallest ceiling. The table has two sections that fold down so you can choose how much of it to have open at once.

The bathroom is large enough to move around easily, get dressed, and would feel like a normal bathroom. The tub is 4-foot long.

The home office below is really a must for most people these days. I’ve been working from home for over a decade and really appreciate the door sometimes. Most tiny houses don’t have a dedicated space for work. This one is super small, but I could see making it work.

The little room to the left is an exterior accessed utility closet for the water heater, solar electric gear, and similar stuff you typically want out of the living space.

Below is a peek inside from the living room.

Below is a look from the bathroom toward the living room. Notice the cabinet above the sink doubles as a drain rack.

I decided to use a hip roof on both ends with two shed dormers in the center. The hip roof provides a lot of aerodynamics on the tongue side and looks more nicely balanced if it’s on both ends.

The shed dormers give you the most volume in a tiny house. The pitch on the dormers is 3/12, the hip gable roof is 10/12. The transom windows at the top should be operable for ventilation.

There are two lofts, one under each hip roof. The loft over the living room is deeper and could actually handle a queen size bed. The other loft is better sized for a twin.

The house would be built on a bumper-pulled 32-foot triple axle trailer.

A fold-down porch connects the two doors. The door on the right is the office. I continued the slope of the hip roof down the roof over the bump-out. This should be a fairly slippery design rolling down the highway – and it’s looks like it belongs too.

I think I might add this design to the Steel Tiny House Kits I offer and the Wood Framed Tiny House Plans. What do you think… is it worthy?

You can pickup the The Tiny House Bullet Journal and Tiny House Design Stencils here too. The bullet journals are on Amazon right now and the Stencils are currently on Kickstarter.

I’ll continue this series if people like it. I’ve got tons of tiny house designs in my head that often never get this far. Now that I have a place to jot them down, and a blog to share them, I think it might be a great way to share.

What do you think? Let me know in the comments below.

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