Sounds MARVELOUS! We've been following American Bungalow magazine and the other major Arts-n-Crafts-houses one (which I can never remember the name of!) for quite a while now.
Since it's only the 40's, that's probably too recent for any Sacramento heritage-housing organization to be interested in??? Such a group MIGHT have info about the early days of your house. The Rehab Addict gal (HGTV) often finds wonderful pictures of early days of her houses that way. Hope you have some medium or bigger, drought-resistant trees to help with microclimates and passive cooling! We have several maples and hazelnut trees that help our (VERY) little 50s rancher a LOT that way. Also, 2-acre garden, oy! Best wishes! chimene the envious, 8-) On Aug 30, 2015, at 12:30 PM, Lavolta Press <f...@lavoltapress.com> wrote: > The seller did a lot of work to prepare for the sale, including a new roof, > and we now have estimates for all the indoor work we want to do. So I don't > think there will be any more expensive surprises. > > The other surprises are kind of fun. The house is almost 5,000 square feet > (plus garage) and was built in the 40s as a Colonial Revival style. I grew up > in an area where there were plenty of real Colonial houses and see little > resemblance, unless you count wide hallways, and wide doorways to all the > public rooms. It could as easily be Mission, which is more the look we're > aiming at. Anyway, there have been a number of owners and each one has > remodeled the property in some significant way. We're not even sure how much > of the house is original and what was added on or when. We keep discovering > things. The other day a painting contractor who came to give an estimate > examined the drywall on the living room ceiling. He pointed out there were > long patches indicating that the ceiling once had ornamental Mission style > beams across it. I'd rather like to put beams in there now, but my husband > refuses. There is a family room next to it with an entirely wooden ceiling, > massive (pro! bably) nonsupportive beams and all, so I suppose that will have to do. > > We hadn't even really examined the grounds closely till recently. There are a > number of benches and things we may have to do something about at some point. > > Fran > Lavolta Press > www.lavoltapress.com > > On 8/30/2015 12:02 PM, WorkroomButtons.com wrote: >> ... BTW, for the few who are left in h-costume, I just wanted to say my >> husband and I are cashing in our SF house, which we've owned for over 30 >> years, to take advantage of the local real estate boom. And we already >> bought our dream house in the Sacramento area! We don't expect to move >> in till sometime in the fall. We're having the house painted in Arts & >> Crafts colors, oak flooring put into the few rooms that don't already >> have it, and remodeling the kitchen with custom "mission" cabinets. And >> some fixups here and there. There is a gorgeous garden (almost 2 acres), >> but we recently discovered the sprinkler system needs to be moved and >> part of the fence needs to be replaced . . . My sewing room is a huge >> master bedroom with a separate large room (formerly an indoor swimming >> pool, according to the neighbors), for use as a closet. There are two >> other bedrooms plus a guest suite, so we don't need to sleep in it, >> anyway for a bedroom it's absurdly large. So we are really excited. >> >> We also need to buy more furniture, preferably antique, late 19th/early >> 20th century. Especially more bookcases. So if anyone knows of any >> great antique stores in that area, email me! >> _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
