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The wooden framing is painted black and the panels between the frames are painted white. The style was part of a wider Tudor Revival in 19th-century architecture. Nikolaus Pevsner describes the movement as a "Cheshire speciality", [1] but states that it was not created in Cheshire and is not confined to the county.
Image credits: bluesaturday444 A century home owner and founder of Old House Dreams, Kelly DeLong, tells Bored Panda that her fascination with old houses started in her childhood. “When I was a ...
In timber framing a single floor is a floor framed with a single set of joists. A double floor is generally used for longer spans and joists, called bridging beams or joists, are supported by other beams called binding beams: the two layers of timbers providing the name double floor. In a double floor there may be two sets of joists, one for ...
This house was modeled on the Villa Pisani in Montagnana, Italy, as exhibited in the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio's Four Books of Architecture (1570). Colonial architect William Buckland designed this house in 1774 and the resulting house is a very skillful adaptation of the Villa Pisani for the warmer climate of the Chesapeake Bay region.
A Benjamin Moore painting expert explains the right way to prep, paint, and seal hardwood floors for color that lasts and doesn't chip or wear down. This Is the Most Affordable Way to Update Your ...
Whether you go all in on a checkerboard pattern or drench your floor with a single color, these painted hardwood floor ideas will add classic charm with ease. 15 Charming Color Ideas for Painting ...
The entrance hall of Old Government House notably features a black-and-white chequered floor, in keeping with the tastes of the period. However, due to the absence of building materials such as marble or granite in the early Sydney settlement, the floor had to made out of painted wood. The original wooden flooring can be seen to this day.
Painted Ladies in the Lower Haight, San Francisco, California. During World War I and World War II many of these houses were painted battleship gray with war-surplus Navy paint. [citation needed] Another sixteen thousand were demolished. Many others had the Victorian décor stripped off or covered with tarpaper, brick, stucco, or aluminum siding.