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cimoreneHaha remember our tenant who was on the verge of fainting when she was here and needed to call the health center to get tested? Well, it turns out she had been experiencing a slight allergy flare-up of her historic severe allergy to cats and her friend who has a litter of kittens had loaned her some allergy medicine and forgot to mention that the side-effects included sleepiness and fainting. Fortunately it passed before she drove, because that could be a really bad medication to accidentally borrow before an hour+ roadtrip?! But on the plus side, yeah, she has no symptoms when the medication has worn off so false alarm.
ION, the contractor who has been so reliably and busily doing Various Things is removing the horrible stripped painted-on flat-head screws holding the hinges of the built-in cabinets so I can paint them and halfway installing the bathroom fixtures (just putting them in without connecting the pipes which is the plumber part), and he finally got our plumber to say he definitely doesn't have any free time so now he's trying to call other plumbers. We live in hope I guess.
We are going to have to replace our outer door at the end of all this, which reminds me that I need to get exact measurements of it - but anyway, Finland has these little airlock rooms a lot of the time on old houses and it's the inner door that's weathertight; the little enclosed portico is unconditioned space; so the outer-outer door isn't all modern and fancy and it can be vintage. So I'll try to find a vintage one; the current one has been ruined by a past Bob nailing rough boards to the front right over the paneling. Anyway, so the one thing that we are going to have to paint on the outside of the house soon is the door, and thinking about the door led to thinking about what colors we ultimately want to paint the house. The house is sort of vanilla cream colored with unpleasant medium brown foundation and accents, and the main house is rough stucco which looks great in that color but the mismatched 70s addition is covered in asbestos cementitious shingles painted the same color which is just REALLY unfortunate. The paint is currently in too good a condition to be recoating plus we won't be done fixing everything else for a few years, but the color of the rest of the house does affect the color of the door, so. I've been obessing about this to the point of redrawing the architectural elevations of the house in order to more easily color them, because those online programs that do it with a photograph weren't finding the right areas of color efficiently.
Summer 2019. Observe the vanilla paint unwisely applied to both halves and everything about the 70s half not matching - shed roof, angled portico etc. Even the tin roof is painted brown, though the roof on the stucco half is terracotta. WHY??? Like literally just untinted primer paint would be better. The brown HAS to go. And in the vertical-oriented picture, taken from the back of the house (which faces the street lol), you can see a cantilevered stripe of horizontal wood planks painted brown under the high side of the shed roof. Must've been extremely groovy in the 70s...
I'm currently thinking something more or less like this with the other side in two shades of green, but within those parameters I'm still not sure about the door.
ION, the contractor who has been so reliably and busily doing Various Things is removing the horrible stripped painted-on flat-head screws holding the hinges of the built-in cabinets so I can paint them and halfway installing the bathroom fixtures (just putting them in without connecting the pipes which is the plumber part), and he finally got our plumber to say he definitely doesn't have any free time so now he's trying to call other plumbers. We live in hope I guess.
We are going to have to replace our outer door at the end of all this, which reminds me that I need to get exact measurements of it - but anyway, Finland has these little airlock rooms a lot of the time on old houses and it's the inner door that's weathertight; the little enclosed portico is unconditioned space; so the outer-outer door isn't all modern and fancy and it can be vintage. So I'll try to find a vintage one; the current one has been ruined by a past Bob nailing rough boards to the front right over the paneling. Anyway, so the one thing that we are going to have to paint on the outside of the house soon is the door, and thinking about the door led to thinking about what colors we ultimately want to paint the house. The house is sort of vanilla cream colored with unpleasant medium brown foundation and accents, and the main house is rough stucco which looks great in that color but the mismatched 70s addition is covered in asbestos cementitious shingles painted the same color which is just REALLY unfortunate. The paint is currently in too good a condition to be recoating plus we won't be done fixing everything else for a few years, but the color of the rest of the house does affect the color of the door, so. I've been obessing about this to the point of redrawing the architectural elevations of the house in order to more easily color them, because those online programs that do it with a photograph weren't finding the right areas of color efficiently.
Summer 2019. Observe the vanilla paint unwisely applied to both halves and everything about the 70s half not matching - shed roof, angled portico etc. Even the tin roof is painted brown, though the roof on the stucco half is terracotta. WHY??? Like literally just untinted primer paint would be better. The brown HAS to go. And in the vertical-oriented picture, taken from the back of the house (which faces the street lol), you can see a cantilevered stripe of horizontal wood planks painted brown under the high side of the shed roof. Must've been extremely groovy in the 70s...
I'm currently thinking something more or less like this with the other side in two shades of green, but within those parameters I'm still not sure about the door.
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Date: 22 Sep 2020 01:29 pm (UTC)I like how that plan looks on paper at least :D Something cozy about your house looking like two different individuals joined at the hip.
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