CH: Day 65
Wednesday.
I predrilled for a bunch of finish nails.
Pounded bunch in.
Set nails.
Painted with turpentine mix.
I am doing what I can via standing up. I could do more by contoring my body and go lower. But, I have learned to be careful about my 66-year-old body. It vastly prefers vertical to bent.
After this section gets painted, I will lower the deck of the scaffolding.
An older image.
I keep getting asked the same question: Why aren’t you going to paint the first-floor in the historic colors?
And my reply is the same: Because then the second-floor will look disconnected from the floor below.
It will be many years before I can properly paint the exterior of the Carriage House. I have not even fully painted the exterior of the Cross House yet! Thus, my plan is to complete the Violation Work and, after all the scaffolding and blue tarp is removed, to assure that the exterior of the Carriage House looks…mostly…like a unified composition.
But…drum roll, please…with hints of What Will Be. Hence the far left being painted in the historic colors, and the window to the right. I think this will work. I suspect that people passing by will think: Oh! This house looks a lot better! And, oh, it looks like it will later match the Cross House!
The second floor is mostly three colors: two shades of gray and white. In talking with Kenny today I realized that painting most of the first floor white will not result in my desired goal: the two floors looking unified.
For this, I will need to paint the window trim the dark gray color. Oh!
After all the work is done, and after the scaffolding and blue tarp are removed, my #1 desire is that this wonderful house looks good, baby.
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Have you thought about tinting the primer a light gray and then just leaving it primed?
It doesn’t really matter what color it is to satisfy the violation notice as long as it’s painted, right? You could just slap anything on it and then go back and repaint it with whatever you ultimately decide would be cohesive to the upper story.
I still have it on my list to get down there and see it. Tell Kenny hi for me.
Ross, your comments on the paint got me to thinking (a somewhat dangerous situation at best). Since the carraige house is no longer located behind the Cross House, why not just simplify things and go ahead and paint white with the gray trim and a little dark red to highlight the trim (put some earrings on her so to speak), and let her have her own personality. She would not compete with the beautiful color scheme you have chosen for the Cross House but could stand alone as a smaller, but still beautiful Victorian house. Since I’m still not sure I even agree with myself on this thought, I’d love to hear your thoughts as well as your loyal followers. Whadda you all think?
Randy, the Carriage House was never behind the Cross House. It was to the south, and against the alley. It was later moved a bit west.
Originally, it would have matched the big house, paint-wise.
As I’ve no time to properly repaint the Carriage House in the historic colors, I’m doing an interim color scheme: white on the first floor with gray trim to match the second floor. But with small, select areas done in the historic colors.
I think it’s vital that the Carriage House and the Cross House…eventually…have the same paint scheme after, at least, a century of disconnect.