Friday, October 17, 2008
Modern replacements are less attractive and it can be extremely pricey. The sliding wood-framed panes, counterbalanced with weights are actually simple for specialist to repair. Small holes in the frames can be filled with resin and larger sections are to be patched with good quality timber. In some victorian houses, fireplaces provided the decorative focus. Cracked firebacks can be replaced at specialist fireplace shops and graphite-based grate polish will be used on cast iron fire surrounds that has been stripped of paint to bring them back to lustrous black. Many old buildings still have their original floorboards like patinated features which should never be replaced, if they can be repaired. Centuries - old plasterwork is often the first feature to be stripped out in an unsympathetic renovation, though plasters and renders lend as much as character to a building as original flooring. Lime plastering is the best use for replastering whole rooms. posted
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Dallas - More than 10 employees from southern Land Company's architecture department in Franklin, Tenn., flew to Dallas and canvassed neighborhoods including Swiss Avenue, Munger Place and the Park Cities, armed with notebooks and cameras. Most enduring architectural styles and re-created at Tucker Hill, an 800-acre master-planned community in Mckinney. New home construction called as "new old house movement" that borrows the architectural grace and attention to detail of earlier is luring prospective homeowners away from Mcmansion styles to houses that look like the ones their grandparents grew up in. Most of the homebuilders focusses on 20th century charm that buyers of new homes are responding to - front porches, period hardware, windows with divided panes - and pairing them with modern amanities like open floor plans. posted
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