The previous owner left buckets of paint in the basement from multiple projects. I don't know why people keep so much damn paint. Can't you just pick a few colors and be done with it??
My preference for old classic american craftsman houses (which mine kind of is, built in 1914)... should be bare wood anyways, the damn house doesn't even need paint except in a few rooms as most can be wallpapered!
but nooo, they wanted all the trim to be white! Then yellow walls in one of the bathrooms is different than the light yellow of the front and back parlors and the upstairs bathrooms are each their own colors of a light purple. The bedrooms were varying shades of dark green, light green, baby blue and white that they painted ON TOP of wall paper in 2 of them bedrooms. However, the baby blue of the 2nd bedroom DOES match the baby blue of the dining room ceiling. Don't forget the hallway that has a darker green on the ceiling than the walls of the same stairway, the upstairs hallways matches one of those greens, but I'm not sure which one because I still haven't got around to installing antique style chandeliers that the house should have after some loser stole the chandeliers out of the house before we went into escrow.
The kitchen was its own nasty shade of pink with a heavy almost stucco texture. (started scraping and painting the day we closed on the mortgage almost 2 years ago).
to the dump, I mean, household waste recovery center, I go!
Most of my family criticizes my choice...walls and ceilings are white, the doors & trim is stained wood, Oak natural wood cabinets...Brass ceiling fans with stained wood blades...However it is getting close to time to start replacing furniture items and freshening up the paint, and new flooring to replace the carpet through out. ???
I designed my own floor plan and built my place from the ground up, plumbing, electrical, roofing (replaced after Hurricane Katrina), AC/Heating was a joint effort with my uncle in the business.
Over the years I have accumulated stuff that needs to be put out to the trash but I'm waiting on Mike and Frank from American Pickers to stop by and buy some of it! :D
I think that could look pretty good shadow. white walls/stained trim is pretty nice. i have a few random stained wood doors the ones in this pic are not original unfortunately, done some time in the 80's, originally it would have been two large pocket doors, each about 4' wide. here is a pic looking towards the entry from the front parlor. if you do wood and aren't at risk for another flood (i dont know if you lifted it or not), dont do top nail floors like I have, makes refinishing harder but they do look really, really good IMO. I would do some type of narrow oak board, quarter-sawn, so you can see more grain texture.
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even signed up for an anonymous photobucket to save room on the 10mm server !
Actually my home is on a slab on the ground. Here is a picture in 1987, all of the trees grew bigger by the time the storm hit in Aug 29th 2005.
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I wasn't flooded in Katrina but we did have a serious rain event related to the storm, as the western eyewall past just 12 miles east on my location. I had as many as 30 big trees down...I had been cleaning up for several days prior to this picture. It took me 29 days to fully remove all the down trees and limbs. I was shuttling my 5500watt generator back and forth between my mom and dad's place and mine to keep the freezers and refrigerators going, till my brother brought in gasoline, a generator and chain saw for them.
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This is the living room (pld picture before I hung the 52" ceiling fans) the color is somewhat subdued...
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We were without power for 30 days, it was very hot outside as I worked. Working with the generator, I powered my water well pump, to build a full tank and pressure at times, warmed water on the propane stove to heat the bath water and washed clothes and towels in the tub and hung them out to dry. Afterwards I picked up a small window unit to run on the generator so when we got power back it was a much welcomed event toward getting back to normal.
We were fortunate to have come through this storm with just trees down and no electricity for days, afterwards we had 3 families (brother in law his family and another sister in law and my niece who's houses were destroyed) come to stay with us, had two FEMA campers and my own camper in my yard to house them. We hosted the birthdays and anniversaries and just special events for everyone over the next two years, till they were able to get into new houses of their own. It was an experience to say the least as so many lost so much!
Brother in law's place, the storm surge knocked his new double wide off it foundation and had 50" of water inside.
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His dad's place next door had water over the roof. Water line on the roof, brother in law on the other property. Eye of the storm when over their houses.
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Man that would be hard to deal with. My first floor is about 6' above street level as sacramento flooded all the time back before they built dams and big levees. Hopefully it never gets higher than that! Basement and guns are easy to dry out and ammo is pavked in cans and airtight mil equip boxes.