by Architectural Observer | Jan 29, 2020 | Blog, Projects
On a whim, I ventured into the unfinished part of the attic last week. A previous jaunt had revealed some antique drapery rods and curtain hardware. What else may be hiding between the dusty joists? A chimney, ever so slightly stepped to the left, marks the transition...
by Architectural Observer | Jan 23, 2020 | Blog, Projects
It’s been over a month since I last posted! Partly because we’ve been really busy at our ever-expanding day job (the interior of the house may be finished, but now there are outbuildings and site work issues to tackle) and partly because not much has...
by Architectural Observer | Dec 15, 2019 | Blog, Projects
In the course of preparing sketches of the proposed color schemes for the front porch, I was delighted to run across some notes I had previously made about the bay window. Somehow, when doing the color sketches of the bay window, I had completely forgotten that the...
by Architectural Observer | Dec 5, 2019 | Blog, Observations
Another one bites the dust. For the second time! A Second Empire “twin” house in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood, built around 1880, witnessed an exhaustive makeover in the late 1960’s in a semi-successful effort to transform the narrow...
by Architectural Observer | Nov 29, 2019 | Blog, Observations
Likely built in the 1870’s, this surprisingly small Second Empire style house definitely thinks big as it displays details more typical of a house five times its size. Built of native stone in the Kansas vernacular, the house has languished for years, appearing...
