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Artist Studio Shed
Custom shed designed for an artist studio by Historic Shed. See more photos at http://historicshed.com/2013/05/a-sunny-artist-studio-shed/
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Snack Shack
Custom 12'x18' shed and bar combination designed and built by Historic Shed for a coastal Florida customer. See details at http://historicshed.com/2012/10/snack-shack-by-historic-shed/
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Craftsman styled Curly maple & Cherry kitchen
This kitchen is the centerpiece of an open concept 2000 square foot, self built bungalow loosely based on a craftsman theme. Like most of the home the kitchen was designed and built from scratch by...
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Mountain Porch Retreat
Our region has an extended outdoor season that the homeowners wanted to take full advantage of. The existing deck was not adequate for hosting large parties and had no covered space for protection...
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Board and Batten Shed
2 commentsCustom 8'x10' board and batten storage shed with a gable roof, angle cut rafter tails and eave brackets.
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Pink Potting Shed
1 comment8'x10' Custom Potting Shed by Historic Shed. The shed complements a 1920s residence, mimicking the jerkinhead roof shape, rounded rafter tails and arched doorway of the main house.
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Bungalow Shed
Custom 10'x14' home office shed designed to complement a 1923 bungalow in Florida by Historic Shed. The interior was finished with bead board ceiling, board and batten walls and wood floor. The shed...
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From Playhouse to Shed
Every time we visited Costco, our twins would marvel at the large play structures on display. By the time they were 6, they had made a pretty compelling argument that a play structure of their own was a "necessity".
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Herringbone in Rosewood
This Job was demo the old hardwood, replace the 1x sub-floor with Plywood, And in the living room i replaced most all the floor joists, due to dry rot. The floor was originally going to be only in...
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Patio and screen porch
10 commentsWhen it was time to replace our deck, I seized the opportunity to bring comfort and peace to our home by designing a patio and screen porch in the style of 1920's. In the twenties, the excesses of...
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Vintage Split-level - Total Gut Remodel
This vintage 1940's Seattle bungalow had good bones, but not a lot of space...typical for in-city housing. The older newlywed couple wanted a home to compliment their new committment to each...
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Screened Porch
We wanted a unique screen porch that related to the Craftsmen era of when the home was originally built while also using some modern day materials that make for ease of use----such as the decking ...
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Picket Fence
2 commentsThis is a fence my father and I recently completed for a small home here in Houston. The plan was to build a white picket fence that would more or less match the house's existing trim, but wouldnt...
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Reeds At The Lake
2 commentsFiberon Tropics decking bent with the Heatcon bending system with fiberon's hidden fastening clip.
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Simple Complexity
8 commentsBeautiful Lake View Deck This simple L-shaped deck was transformed into a work of art by adding an inlaid Celtic pattern. The weave goes down both legs of the L with the knot design in the center...
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Small, Cozy and Functional
1 commentHouses in the city often have small yards and, thus, small decks. By keeping the safety rails toward the outside of the deck I managed to gain the maximum useable space while minimizing that which it...
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Award Winning Restoration
1 commentWinner of the Griffin Award for residential rehabilitation in Asheville, NC, this home went from "in the rough" to "high-end, green restoration". As part of a whole house restoration, the...
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1925 Kitchen Renovation
Our 1925 bungalow in Asheville, NC, had seen many frightening updates in the last 80 years. As part of our whole-house restoration, we tackled the dysfunctional and ugly kitchen, whose...
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Kitchen of mass reconstruction
My Wife and I Bought a 1923 2 + 1 California Bungalow in need of a lot of love. With some elbow grease and the help of FHB we tackled the kitchen first. Peeled through 5 layers of linolium no...
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Goodbye 1970's
The bathroom was one of the first major projects we tackled on our own. Contractors would not call us back. Finally one took pity on us. "You can't get the project you want for the money you have to...
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Salvaged Kitchen: 1910 Bungalow Restoration
When we bought our 1910 Craftsman bungalow in Pasadena the kitchen was a disaster. The cabinets had been resurfaced with red oak veneer and lots of paint. The sink stopped working soon after and we...
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What WERE they thinking?
1 commentI bought a 1916 bungalow with much of the old woodwork intact, but an atrocious kitchen. With short money and a lot of ingenuity I gave it a whole new look. I replaced the bottom cabinets with...
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1950 CA Bungalow Bath Remodel
This bath remodel includes a HydroMassage whirllpool, custom cherry vanity with granite top, ThinWire floor heat, and Title 24 compliant halogen lighting. The vanity was designed to...
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Goodbye Halloween...
Initially, we were contacted to update the kitchen by keeping the same basic layout-- aka Rip and Replace w/ stock cabinetry, paint and tile floors/backsplash. The kitchen was closed off from...
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Outdated to Outstanding: A Fireplace Facelift
1 commentThe layout of the room and the off-center outdated fireplace made it difficult to figure out the best way to place the furniture or use the bland fireplace as a focal point. Working with the...
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Site-built Gable Vents on a Craftsman Style Addition
In adding on to a recently-built craftsman style home, I had to match the detailing of the original home. I did take a few liberties, where I thought I could improve on what had been done by...
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Greene & Greene Gamble House Pasadena
Greene and Greene's masterpiece of residential architecture in the Craftsman "ultimate bunglow" style. Photos from my visit on Jan. 30, 2009. "100 years ago a team of gifted craftsmen labored...
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Adding a fireplace and built-ins to a living room
2 commentsOur early 1900's home was without a fireplace so I added one (with some added perks!).
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Total Seattle Gut-Second Story Addition
7 commentsBought by my wife and myself as an investment, this is the 'house next door'...literally. When our neighbor of 20 years passed on, we decided to buy and renovate the property. We designed it to keep...
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Craftsman Room Addition phase 9
A challenging job for a difficult client, I did most the carpentry and drywall work myself, but used Extreme Plastering for the stucco (extremeplastering.com), and was very pleased with their...
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2nd Story Addition
1 commentAdd 1500 Sq Ft on top of 1950's era 2200 Sq ft ranch home. 3 bedrooms with jack and jill bath and hall bath servicing 3rd bedroom and upstairs playroom.
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