CH: Day 53
Are ya’ sitting down?
Is your seat-belt strapped on?
Do you have a glass of celebratory wine?
The circa-1921 entry is being removed.
With the interior trim removed, more circa-1921 ‘grass cloth’ wallpaper (previously discovered) is revealed.
Up, up, and away. Justin (L) and Scott.
Gone! Squee!!!!!!!! That is young JP helping out.
It is important that, when cleaning, to give in when the urge strikes to dance.
With the entry removed, we discovered this tacked onto a 2×4. Huh? It develops that this is a tobacco tag. We left it in place.
New 2x4s. Ross excited.
The Fab Four (L to R): Justin, JP, Scott, Brock.
OMG! OMG! OMG!
SQUEE!!!!!!!!
With the window now relocated, I can finish the lap-siding. The sashes for the window need to be restored. The clear-glass lower sash takes up about 2/3 of the opening. The upper 1/3 sash is diamond leaded-glass. This has been restored but I have not been able to pay for it. David R. recently sent a ‘release the window’ donation via GoFundMe which made me laugh. And, bless him.
Tomorrow, if the heat does not melt me, I will concentrate on infilling the missing siding.
I will use the window as a door until the circa-1921 entry can be relocated to the NW corner.
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Amazing feeling when work gets done and everything goes according to plan. Do you have any photos of how the carriage house appeared when first built?
That is amazing. And all in one day. What a crew!
I totally see that this is the way the Coach House should be. The flow of the house is so much better with the door relocated and that big window where it now is. You would enter and face the stairway and that area would have light from that big window. Then you would turn left into the living room. It just makes sense.
Ross, I couldn’t see it before but now that the window is in place I understand why you wanted to make the change. Also, it’s so much more pleasing to have the window centered.
What is the link for that go fund me?
Rick: Scroll up and look just above where the comments appear on this page. You should find the Go Fund Me link there. Just in case the link I post here doesn’t come in correctly.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/restore-the-1894-cross-house
We also found a tobacco tag nailed to a beam in our house when we did some demo!
Wow!!! So much progress! ❤❤❤
Yes, Ross, be careful of the heat!! SO dry here in southernish Illinois, too. Leaves dropping from my massive old oaks, grass turning brown, things blooming that never do this early….we need RAIN! Air very smoky, hazy….weird.
Stay cool and good job out of your loyal construction crew!
You must be so happy with the progress! Your baby steps took a great big step today!
Kudos Ross and crew! The emphasis is on the turret now and will look more in line when the scaffolding and tarp are gone. Exciting.
From the moment this change was conceived it always seemed the way to go. It’s nice to see this finally come to fruition. Visually, the whole facade just makes SO more sense. When the clunky center dormer goes away too, that will be another huge leap in the right direction. When it disappears, the stair landing window will seem more appropriately placed.
The only leftover weirdness is going to be the obvious misalignment of the far bedroom window with the dormer above. For so much effort to be expended on elevating the main facade to what it always should have been, it’s probably going to stick out like a sore thumb, eye-twitch inducing.
The window looks great there!