Hi Everyone,
I have recently bought an 1890 Folk Victorian. I am currently doing all the renovation myself.
I have a number of contacts at building supply houses that get me close out supplies at $0.20 on the dollar. I recently got about 100 sheets of unfinished pine paneling and I would like to use it on my attic renovation. I’m a little stumped on how to handle the seems on the paneling since I want to leave it natural.
Any ideas?????
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"Renovation" doesn't mean updating it to the 1970s, but if you're going to do this anyway...check out the term "astragal". Maybe you can make a frame-and-panel look that doesn't bring Petula Clark to mind.
I think that about covers it now.;)
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I may have been a bit petula-nt there bec my Victorian had been "renovated" with walnut-colored paneling which ended a bit short of the 9' ceilings. When i got through ripping it off the walls (along with a million little nails whose ring-shanks, upon removal, destroyed the plaster), i discovered a note left by the perps. Written on the plaster right near the outline of a piece of 4-1/2" window trim they'd seen fit to dumpster so it could be replaced with that novel clamshell profile: "Paneling installed, 1970" I left my own note under it: "Removed that ####, 1988"
Ha ! Reminds me of an eviction I had to enforce once on one of my rental properties. I had done all the paperwork, all nice and legal, advance notice and everything. The guy just wouldn't leave on his own accord. Or Buick, whatever.
I met the Deputy at the house at the appointed hour, with a couple of gorillas to help with the grunt work - we were going to put his stuff out at the curb, just like the Dispossessory Warrant said.
There was a hand-lettered sign in the rear entry window, "MOVING"
We ingored it, moved everything out of the house.
When I left, I turned the note over and wrote, "MOVED" and left it in the same window !
Greg
Are you the guy who came up with the "Occupied, come back later"/"Maid, please clean this room" hotel doorhanger?!?!Long ago when i had roommates, i had three separate incidences where i had to ask someone to leave, and they just blew me off. I'd give lots of notice, but no movement, so after about a week past deadline, i'd stage their belongings on the porch to make it easier for them to pack out. All three acted like it was the first they'd heard of it. I always wondered if they actually believed their own protestations. I'm inclined to think they did. One incident like that after i became a landlord and i got a whole lot better about screening renters and written contracts. It's really pretty easy to get rid of a bad roommate, but bad renter...oy.
I left a not on the exterior sheathing of a house wher i was working for another contractor. he was having ahartd time getting paid, and there was a rumor in the air that the HO had alreaddy lined up another builder for after he had had enough.. We were talking about what he should do, and he was certin things would wind up in ccourt. Roof was about 60% finished, and I pointed out that he might have a stronger case if he showed good faith and due diligence by finishing the roof before pulling back for a few weeks. I told him I could have it done in a day or two. So he said go ahead. I did whilke the other guys cleaned up and got all tools etc out.on that sheathing wall outside between garage roof and two story house, I wrote, "cover your #### on this one boys" knowing that with the kind of HO it was,, they were likely to screw every contractor in line.My thread - "Cannonball house" from about 2004 - that house was built in 1800, upgraded in 1830, and downgraded by a "reno" in the mid seventies. That decade has to be one of the worst in the history of American building for many reasons
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I hope you wrote it high enough on the wall where the low-life HO couldn't reach it. But now i'll have to go find "the rest of the story", Paul Har...er..
rest of the story...I learned later, that the new contractor and that HO deserved each other
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Ah, a happy ending...
I smell burnt orange shag carpet.
who the hell burnt the first orange anyway? And why? I've had burnt orange rug burns, but I don't think its the same thing.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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Burnt orange, black, and chocolate brown shaggy swirls, to be precise. We called it "The Galaxy Room". It helped hide the oil stains from the motorcycle enthusiasts who ran their Harleys into the LR to work on them.One bedroom had purple and violet tweed shag; the other had orange and red tweed shag. I'm pretty sure they shopped for remnants.The indoor/outdoor carpeting in the kitchen, though...no idea what color that started out!