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that's a nice location for a house
there's no need to reinvent the wrench
It is even nicer than my attempt at photography shows.
Wonderful view. I've always felt that SE Minnesota has some of the prettiest land you'll find anywhere.
The landscape here is really great!
I am a little biased in my opinion since I grew up down there. :)
Sore just looking at it?
Because of all the troweling that took someone, or because you don't like the look?
I like it, getting tired of looking at level 5 all the time.
Mike
Trust in God, but row away from the rocks.
Hand troweling 2000 s.f. of ceiling would be tough on you, but the look is interesting.
Most people have nothing to view but the houses next door. There's something to be said for a rural view.
What's the plan for the eyebrow windows?
Are you trimming the interior nooks?
"Perfect is the enemy of Good." Morrison
That house is on a point and has woodland views on 3 sides, very nice.I'll case the windows on Monday or Tuesday. I still have 20 openings to case there and that wall has 6 of them. I get to trim the nooks too, they get cherry ledges, etc.
Excellent! I'll look forward to the pics
"Perfect is the enemy of Good." Morrison
Trimmed the palladian window wall today. Here is a pic:
Thats not a Palladian window
There appears to be a wide variety of windows given the palladian label and definitions vary from one source to the next.Here is one definition:--"A Palladian window is a large window which is divided into three parts. The center section is larger than the two side sections, and is usually arched."http://architecture.about.com/library/blgloss-palladian.htmMy use of the term is of convenience (a brief caption for a photo).
Edited 5/6/2008 11:12 pm ET by basswood
I know what Doug means, I call these arc or eyebrow windows. What I call a Palladian window incorperates a half circular window in the center top frame. Sometimes the window is more than a half circle and the frame comes to an acute point on either side.
However you spell it, they are a PITA to trim.
The Picture looks good! Who curved the mouldings?
"Perfect is the enemy of Good." Morrison
I think the eyebrow term would be at least as far off as Palladian:"Eyebrow: A low dormer on the slope of a roof. It has no sides, with the roofing carried over it in a wavy line.
Eyebrow window: A window in an eyebrow dormer."As I mentioned, I employed the Palladian term as a kind of shorthand, for a group of windows, with an arched top.Some purists would contend that Palladian windows have barrel vaults above the center window and columns between the center and flanking windows, etc.I'm not sure who did the moldings, I will ask the builder.
Some purists would contend that Palladian windows have barrel vaults above the center window and columns between the center and flanking windows, etc.
That's not so, a Palladian window does not have to have a barrel vault above the center window to make it a Palladian window, purist or not.
View ImagePalladian window, Buffalo, NY
Quite often, when I see a house that I love, it has a Palladian window. Palladian windows are named for Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), the Italian Renaissance architect who invented them in the sixteenth century. They are identified by the arch on top and the narrow panels on both sides of the central window. The Palladian window is one of Palladio's most popular and widely imitated design motifs. So appealing and influential was the design of Palladio that his work continues to inspire architects to this day.
Pictured is a very typical Palladian window. I wasn't picking on your definition or your title to your picture, figured that you were told it was a Palladian when in fact it is not.
Doug
Doug,That Palladian is closer than most, to the classical origins of that style, since it does have the columns between the windows (most palladian wannabes omit the columns) and the arched jamb evokes the barrel vault.I just borrowed the palladian label as I said, as a convenience, since that window wall is a related form for which I lacked a more apt term.
Yeah, eyebrow is what a group of trimmers and I used to identify the trim on a window with an arc at the top. We also called a curved panel between a fireplace and a mantle an eyebrow.
We used bodyparts to describe a lot of things around the jobsite. An overhang was called a lip. A tenon was called a tounge. Butt joints, finger joints, legs, feet and a least one arsehole on every job. One guy I knew called a catspaw a tooth. If he bent over a nail he'd say "That's OK I'll pull it out with my tooth."
Window companies would send out curved mouldings for common styles of trim but for larger casings we had to duplicate ourselves. It was pretty easy to do glue ups for slight arches, but the we would template more radical arcs and have a local shop make them for $50 - $100 a window.
Getting the exact profile was often too labor expensive so we would opt for a close match and often use rosettes at the top corners instead of miters. It was alot quicker, and the rosettes were usually covered by drapery anyway. "Perfect is the enemy of Good." Morrison
Looking at those arches and thinking about you're pipe you want to hide.
Is Minnesota under the IRC 2006?
Jeff
Short answer. Yes.But the code is enforced mostly in the Twin Cities and surrounding area and other mostly urban areas of the MNhttp://www.doli.state.mn.us/pdf/bc_map_county_jurisdiction.pdf"Out-state" areas like mine (Winona Co.) are largely unregulated.