Hermann house renovation

[littlebittybobby]

okay---Elroy(or whoever) is certainly VERY handy; It looks great. Yup. But WHY did it take a whole 3 years to finally get around to finishing that project? Did it have to do with vacation trips, to nowhere important? Butanyway, I attribute a lotta the progress-as-promised, ta quite a bit o' nagging. Yup.

[iris lilies]

okay---Elroy(or whoever) is certainly VERY handy; It looks great. Yup. But WHY did it take a whole 3 years to finally get around to finishing that project? Did it have to do with vacation trips, to nowhere important? Butanyway, I attribute a lotta the progress-as-promised, ta quite a bit o' nagging. Yup.

I dont have to nag, he is a hard worker although these days he works about 4 hours a day on our house, M-F. On Saturday and Sunday he works on his own projects like tree pruning, basement build-out, gardening, mowing.

This house is taking 3 years because he installed ALL finishes except for flooring: trim, doors, painting, tiles, cabinetry, brick sidewalks, rock walls, etc.

We are on the downhill slide now but upstairs bedrooms wont be finished until next year.

[iris lilies]

Periwinkle door completed

We are on the Hermann garden tour this year and so are running around sprucing up the front of our house. Finally got the periwinkle door I’ve been wanting.

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[catherine]

Periwinkle door completed

We are on the Hermann garden tour this year and so are running around sprucing up the front of our house. Finally got the periwinkle door I’ve been wanting.

Beautiful!!

Here is an ode to periwinkle--Periwinkle Sky by Victoria Williams

[Tradd]

Love the door

[iris lilies]

Ode to Periwinkle—nice.

In my little tourist town there is a new little shoppe full of crap you don't need called “Periwinkle.” Do ya think they have ANYTHING periwinkle colored in their window?On their sign?

They do not.

I feel like going in there to yell at them.

[iris lilies]

You will notice the plainness of the windows on my yellow cottage-style house. I sometimes think about putting up fake shutters but they are…fake. They would bug me, I think. See, we have real shutters here in Hermann on 1840’’s to 1870’s houses. Fake shutters were forbidden in my old Victorian neighborhood. I wish I didnt have an educated eye because i would like the splash of color fake shutters would add to our house. They were not be periwinkle, however.

[littlebittybobby]

You will notice the plainness of the windows on my yellow cottage-style house. I sometimes think about putting up fake shutters but they are…fake. They would bug me, I think. See, we have real shutters here in Hermann on 1840’’s to 1870’s houses. Fake shutters were forbidden in my old Victorian neighborhood. I wish I didnt have an educated eye because i would like the splash of color fake shutters would add to our house. They were not be periwinkle, however.

okay----they don't hafta be faux shutters, Faux. No, you could assign the handyperson the project of building REAL, functional shutters. In fact, with all this global um climate change and the wind storms we've been having, it would be like having emergency-preparedness. Yup.

[iris lilies]

okay----they don't hafta be faux shutters, Faux. No, you could assign the handyperson the project of building REAL, functional shutters. In fact, with all this global um climate change and the wind storms we've been having, it would be like having emergency-preparedness. Yup.

No, I don’t think so because our windows are not original. Some fool took out the original windows and put in one big window, replacing two windows. So windows are too wide for real shutters. They would not be nice. I try not to think about our windows In depth, I just pretend they are OK the way they are.

[rosarugosa]

IL: I am not OK with faux shutters either. What about window boxes?