CH: Day 45
More siding! See the siding to the right? That is the top-most siding!!!!!!!! Above that goes some trim.
Next week…I hope…the entry will be removed. Then the large window can be installed, centered under the turret. The large window has a leaded-glass diamond-paned transom. This has been restored but I cannot, at the moment, pay for it. So it will not return to the house for now.
This wall will be primed white and left as such for now. Although the right window will be painted in the historic colors. The sashes have been restored (gloss black!) and the trim will be painted in the historic olive green. This will, obviously, match the fully restored section way to the left (out of picture).
By keeping the first-floor mostly white, it will complement the second-floor. If I were to paint the entire first-floor west front in the historic colors the upper level would look disconnected. So, my solution will be, I hope, an artful dance: the first- and second-floors looking like they belong together, with tantalizing indications of What Will Eventually Be.
Ross excited.
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Oh, that is exciting. And the siding went really FAST compared to the first wall. Too bad the entire thing cannot be restored to historic colors but white primer is fine for now.
I am so excited to see the door removed and the window in it’s place. I’ll bet the inside will be transformed as well.
While you can’t restore the porch within the limits of the city’s time-frame, just what you are doing on this wall should be impressive enough. Slap some primer on the rest and they can hopefully sign you off. Then you can get the transom out of hock and go about continuing to get the house in shape.
Oh, but that siding.
Do the historic colors really have to wait until the dormers have been removed and the roof repaired?
I take it you will install the large window with a placeholder for the transom above it so the transom can be installed relatively easily when you get it. I’d hate to think that a shortage of funds would force you to have to do two complete window installations.
It may or may not be fun (and not all that time consuming) to pick out the underside of the turret in the coral porch ceiling color.
You know, just for funsies.
The scaffolding is already there.