Old House Journal

92 Pages·2017·17.682 MB·English

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OLD HOUSE JOURNAL
contents
OCTOBER 2017
INSPIRE RESTORE DESIGN
14 Lost & Found 38 Understanding 62 Planning for Adding On
An 1885 Victorian Queen Anne Fireplaces Three architects discuss issues
fulfi lls a family’s dream. Learn what you need to do to beyond sympathetic design.
22 19th CENTURY MILLWORK keep hearth and chimney safe.
70 VINTAGE VISION
24 Staying True to a
46 QUICK MAKEOVERS
The emerald kitchen, 1931, as
1929Spanish Colonial
Pre-winter maintenance and depicted in a kit-house catalog.
An addition at the rear only
upgrades, attic to basement.
enhanced the house’s livability. 72 KITCHENS + BATHS
30 COLORFUL CALIFORNIA TILE 48 TOOLS + MATERIALS A bathroom redone in light-
hearted Aesthetic style.
50 KNOW-HOW
32 SUCCESS! 74 FAVORITE THINGS
A transom window restored.
Sometimes a bad addition For aging stylishly in place.
52 STUFF I SCREWED UP
just has to come down.
NA 76 THEY STILL MAKE…
N When drawers in the custom
B LEA 34 WINDOW SHOPPING cabinet open into the toilet. Period elevators.
BY RO Old houses that come with
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COVER PHOTO BY ERIC ROTH. SEE STORY ON PAGE 62.
From the Editor
SIDE
NOTES
SENSE OF PLACE
Architect Gil Schafer
says that success-
ful houses celebrate
the small moments
of life—they are
imbued with memory
and anchored in a
sense of place. The
design or remodel-
ing is successful if
the people who live
there fully embrace it
as home. In his new
book, Schafer shares
essentials: reading
the landscape, in-
Case of the Missing Piazza corporating memory,
balancing formality
and simplicity. Then
In OHJ’s June 2017 issue, this photo of an unfortunate Midwest Victorian ran on the “Remuddling” he presents seven
page. We speculated that the boxy addition took the place of a piazza, or porch. Because there’s no homes in depth, in-
apparent entry door, some correspondents thought that this is the back of the building. But the cluding an apartment
placement of the campanile (tower) suggests that this is the house’s front elevation. with a view of Central
Mistero risolto! The sender of the photo, Kathy, later followed up with the engraving above, Park, a hillside cot-
writing: “Here’s the drawing I was searching for, showing the pink house as it originally looked.” tage in Northern
With an unusual combination of Gothic Revival and Italianate elements, the Romantic-era house California, an updated
was formal in the manner of an Italian Villa, with an elevated piano nobile, or principal fl oor. The 1930s Connecticut Co-
porch spanned the width of the façade. Kathy confi rms that the “addition” was made during the lonial, a new Adiron-
house’s conversion to fi ve one-bedroom apartments. (We’re still scratching our heads about the dacks camp, and his
disappearance of an entry door, what with all those tenants.) own house in Maine.
“Remuddling” premiered in OHJ in October 1981 and has been a highly popular feature ever Photos and text em-
since. There have been objections, for sure, starting with my own phasize place, style,
mom, who called it “mean.” Objectors have stood up for the property scale, and materials.
rights of owners. (To which I counter, What people do to the outside Schafer even covers
of their homes is a very visible matter of public record, and so subject “the spaces in be-
to commentary.) One person even quietly championed insensitive tween”—mudrooms,
remodeling because it liberates architectural elements to be salvaged by closets, and laundry
those with a restoration mindset. rooms—explaining
Other readers love the feature, calling it instructive. “It’s everything their value. A Place
on one page,” wrote one reader: “comedy in the ridiculous things done to to Call Home (Rizzoli,
houses, drama (‘what will happen next?’), and sociology as we see what October 2017, $55).
people do to the artifacts of previous generations.”
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