Bradford Hall Tudor brick - complimentary paint?
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Comments (33)bodica, Very good advice. It is hard to remember to pause and enjoy the experience. I assume we will never do this again. This is supposed to the the "forever" house. :) Days when we make a lot of progress, we are on cloud nine. Days when we don't it hits us hard, but, we will get there and I know it will all be worth it. Analogous to having a baby... sdionnemoore, I love talking to people who are at the same point as us. I really love the SW Blonde strip and all the colors on it. Please post pictures as your paint goes up! I'd love to see them. Humble gold will be the main color in our house, but there are a lot of different colors as well. Here is a link to our blog if you are at all interested in seeing some of them. Good luck with your painting also! Jaymie...See MoreRemodeling kitchen in 1920s Tudor-style home
Comments (55)Ha, Becky...you are not wrong. At this point I think that I’d rather have multiple root canals while touring colleges than ever, EVER do another kitchen renovation. I should have known from reading the posts here that it wouldn’t be smooth sailing, but I’ve been surprised by how much I’ve disliked the process. Mostly due to our own poor planning but also some unforeseen complications, we’ve had to have the plumber and electrician out countless times over the past week. The appliances were installed today, but because of the position of the gas line, the slide in range sticks out an inch beyond what is called for/looks reasonable. The only solution would be to have our cabinet installer come back out to re-set the two small base cabinets on either side of the range, but he is booked out til infinity and I can’t even imagine how bummed our cabinet designer is going to be when we reach out with this request (she’s gone so far above and beyond for us on this project that I feel dreadful even asking). We obviously can’t have the counters templated until we deal with this situation, so we’ll have plywood counters for eternity. My husband decided that they needed to be more water resistant so he bought fake marble contact paper to add to the plywood and at least that is making me LOL. I’m just kind of down in the dumps and questioning my choices again (this time appliances). I have to head out of town on Thursday for work and honestly I think that it will be good for me to have a bit of space from this. I intend to take some stellar naps when I’m not at the conference....See MoreHelp me Update my Tudor!
Comments (68)I usually have an 'each their own' perspective, but when I saw this, it saddened me. All that beautiful architecture molested by the idea of renewing and lightening something up. I totally understand the need to make houses more efficient, but why try to make a tudor what it's not... sell it and buy a different house! That original brick work had it's own natural colors and was beautiful! So was the diamond lead glass windows in the front that were not spared! I only hope as Debbie Downer mentioned that the appropriate methods were used because masonry is meant to breath. Liberties of paint shouldn't give the assurance of improvement. I feel a loss of culture and character when I see all these beautiful thing that lasted the test of time, covered up. It's like people who paint over the amazing grain patterns of non-wormy, American chestnut trim to modernize the interior....See MoreTudor: Your touch needed to blend side of house eyesore. Desperate!
Comments (22)yes, check that stucco as a priority. @Jilly (true stories from Italy: When railroads were invented, hundreds of walled Italian cities and towns pulled down their medieval walls so that the train tracks and and stations could be brought into the city center. It was also a popular thing to do to show that Italy was now politically ”unified” as well as commercially unified and “modern” — but a few towns that had for centuries been very wealthy (because they made good wine or textiles) had built walls so thick to keep out the invaders who wanted their wealth, it was really just too difficult to get rid of those walls, so they gave up and their train stations were put outside them. One of those towns was the Tuscan city of Lucca, and the sad residents, who felt left behind and old fashioned inside their “ugly” old fat walls, soon noticed a strange thing: Italians from miles around would come to Lucca on Sundays, for no other reason that they missed the old walls of their town! This was more than 150 years ago, and Lucca is now credited with being the first Italian town to grasp tourism could be developed to revive the local economy — but you had to hang on to what you’ve got. They built a promenade and bike path on the top of the walls to make it easier for Italians to enjoy them. They opened the first school of tourism in the country, where young Italian developers still go today to learn about sustainable tourism. Other cities now wish they had their walls back......See Moreelcieg
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