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Kk4i
Citizen
Username: Kk4i
Post Number: 50
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 8:59 am: | 
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does anyone have a source - a book, website, store, whatever - that they've used to find what kind of original details existed in a house like your current one? For instance, if your house style is colonial revival ca. 1910, this resource (or resources) has some images or drawings of the kind of moldings or fixtures that might have been installed in that genre of house?
The issue is that we are repairing a ceiling in one room of our home. One solution in streamlining the repair is to add crown moulding of some type. But our house doesn't have crown moulding anywhere else. Rather than install the crisp-straight-from-home-depot look that would obviously contrast with the other details, we'd like to install something that's if not native to the house, at least related to its style and period.
We can probably approximate it from the design of our baseboard moulding, but we'd enjoy a more scientific approach, I think. Any Ideas? Thanks! |
rssounds
Citizen
Username: Rssounds
Post Number: 337
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 9:39 am: |
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Old House Journal is a good resource to start with. Doing a google seach should lead you to some sources. Local college architecture schools. Barnes and Noble browsing. |
kathy
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Username: Kathy
Post Number: 1046
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 6:05 pm: |
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Dover publishes a number of reprints of early-20th-century house plan books and catalogues. Check Amazon. |
Michael K. Mc Kell
Citizen
Username: Greenerose
Post Number: 552
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 7:45 pm: |
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We recreate historical moldings by locating it or fabricating it ourselves.
I would love to help you out in your hunt. Send me a PL. |
runon
Citizen
Username: Runon
Post Number: 93
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, January 30, 2005 - 6:02 pm: |
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Next Saturday, NJ Historical Society in Newark is running a one-day workshop on researching your house's history. |
David Cataneo
Citizen
Username: Dave_cataneo
Post Number: 51
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, January 30, 2005 - 7:06 pm: |
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Maplewood Library has a couple of books in the reference section. One in particular was pretty detailed, with floor plans, exteriors and details for just about every style home up to around 1930 or so. Sorry I don't remember the title (I saw it a few years ago) but it was a reprint from that time period. |
Lydia
Citizen
Username: Lydial
Post Number: 901
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, January 30, 2005 - 10:52 pm: |
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I have photographs of the original style of our house c. 1940, it's enough to make me weep when I compare it to the hack job they did in the '70's.
Our four-square house was from a kit (Sears or Sears-ish) it matches up with the early kit styles,
Here's the site I used - you can navigate around and find your style:
house styles
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gj1
Citizen
Username: Gj1
Post Number: 114
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 31, 2005 - 11:24 am: |
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Homes & Interiors of the 1920's is an excellent resource. It's a reprint of a 1923 catalog for a millwork company and includes many pictures of interiors as well as a whole section of mouldings.
Most if not all houses would have had some moulding where the wall and ceiling meet. This may have been just a picture rail or a crown and picture rail. |
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