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My wife and I are stopping over in Athens for one night. We get in @ 12pm (from Santorini) on a Sunday in July. Then we fly out the morning after @ 6:30am.
Would be great to get some tips on what to do from the afternoon/night including:
- Where to stay
- Where to eat
- Any sights to check out in town
Thanks in advance guys.
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What's your hotel budget?
Hopefully you are aware of the Parthenon, that'll probably do you for sightseeing if you don't arrive in Athens until midday. Shame you can't stay longer, it's a fantastic city.
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Normally I would recommend staying in central Athens, but since you have such an early flight consider the airport Sofitel. It is expensive, but oh so nice to be only five minutes away from the check-in counters early in the morning.
If you are flying from Santorini to Athens instead of the ferry it gets even better: Sofitel is right across the street from Arrivals in the airport terminal, and the metro station is next door to the hotel. Grab your bags, walk across the street to check into your room, then walk next door to the metro station. If all goes well you could be sightseeing in Athens by around 2 pm.
Get off the metro at Monastiraki and you will be in the Plaka area, where you can walk to most of the major attractions. Another idea would be to arrange a private tour with a company like http://www.athens-walks.com. They come highly recommended, and would insure you make best use of your limited time.
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>>>Any sights to check out in town<<<
You don't have much time. If you take Heimdall's advice above I'd then head for the Acropolis. Look up and you can't miss the Parthenon atop it. It will likely be hot and crowded so you can next see the new Acropolis Museum. Then go back down into the plaka for an ice cold Mythos beer. ;^)
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We had a similar one night in Athens in Feb, and opted to stay at the Hotel Plaka, which we really enjoyed. It is located right among the main tourist area of restaurants and shops, and walkable to the Parthenon (though in July I imagine the walk would be much hotter than it was in Feb. You could probably get a cab too).
The rooms there are basic, but the best part was thefabulous rooftop deck, which gives a great view of the acropolis and the rest of the city. So even if you never actually make it up to the acropolis, you will have a fantastic view of it.
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We also liked Hotel Plaka and the nice view from the rooftop deck. A few blocks away beneath the Acropolis we found the Scholareia Restaurant and enjoyed it-located in an old house.
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I'll ditto the Sofitel esp. with your early departure. I didn't find it outrageously expensive. The further ahead of time you book, the better rate you are likely to get. And maybe even better if you pre-pay. Then you can easily take the metro? into central Athens for as much sightseeing as you have time for.
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This is a closer view of that base detail on the pilaster: the two columns and the two pilasters has this missing row of half-sphere buttons. (For those who never took an architectural history class: a pilaster is a decorative half-column stuck to a wall; where a column is generally load-bearing and thus functional, pilasters are usually just decoration.)
This is the second story of the front bay, plus the bathroom window. I'm not sure what those pieces of wood are for. The trim around these windows is in better shape than the trim on the east side of the house (this is the north).
Most of the corbels at the roof line are in good shape, but are missing the rounded lozenges and the bottom piece of trim. woody is having a lot of these pieces made, and fabricating the ones that would otherwise be impossible to find.
In the meantime, his crew is sanding. The siding is looking more and more like a piece of furniture. The sanding gets the wood ready to accept the epoxy, which will preserve it.
One thing we are working on right now is restoring the side porch. Much of the original was missing when we bought the house, but thanks to paint marks and the fact that the Victorians tended to reuse the same profiles all over the place, we are piecing together what it looked like. Today Woody and I went over some sketches I made of the combination of our discoveries and also detailing from other similar porches on houses of the same era. I think it will look amazing when it is done.
A few weeks ago Woody told me the ceiling wasn't in good enough shape to just varnish and leave as bare wood -- other clients of his have done this and it is gorgeous. That's actually fine because I was planning to paint it light blue as is traditional on porch ceilings. This ceiling has seen many insults over the last several decades owning to having been built with no slope, and while we've finally fixed that, the wood is stained and a little ugly. Plus we removed one light fixture and put in two exterior ceiling cans, so there are patches. Basically, it will look great painted and I won't miss the look of the wood.
Everything is taking longer than I would like, and we just spent another wodge of money on wood trim replacements. But it looks amazing and every day we make progress. This process was never going to be fast, but right now it will just be what it is.]]>
And never has this been more true than on our house, as we approach the 15 year mark.
The general contractor gave me "late July" as a finish date relatively recently, but the painter blowup nixed that. In addition, the work on the exterior renovation is taking... more time. Today I talked to Woody about timelines, and let's just say that we both kind of laughed nervously when I said I wanted to be back in my house by Thanksgiving.
So what's happening behind the shrink-wrapped scaffolding?
For one thing, we've uncovered a lot of outlines of missing trim, and Woody has scavenged pieces from the trim from inside the house (which was the same stuff; the Victorians didn't discriminate) and ordered some custom profiles, and so on.
The crew has stripped the old paint off most of the way around the driveway side of the house. The other day I went over to talk to Woody and found him outside this window -- that little original window you see is the middle bathroom window -- prying the metal hooded casing off so check the condition of the wood underneath (all good!).
In fact, they've worked around the house pretty much to the end -- this is what I saw Monday morning:
That's one of the guys stripping paint off the kitchen bay window (formerly the dining room bay window). That bay window marks the end of the original part of the house: after that there is the addition, and then the part of the house that was stripped.
After they strip the wood, they sand it:
Which they are also mostly done with in the field parts of the house.
In the meantime, they are now going back and working on the parts they skipped over, such as the front porch. The reality is that with construction work going on inside, the front porch was in heavy play. Now that work is wrapping up inside, Woody has a chance to work in the front.
You can already see some of the details emerging.
After sanding, we have the epoxy, then a bunch of carpentry, then painting starts. Because of scheduling, I asked Woody to finish the area above the side porch roof first -- the roofers damaged the roof there when they were installing the gutters, and we are trying to schedule them to come and replace the panels they damaged. I'd also like to get the scaffolding off the driveway, because we'd like to rip out the existing concrete driveway to replace it with a new permeable pavement driveway (which will be wider! Something I really wanted and that the planning department insisted on, so win-win!), and we'd like to get that work done before too long.
BUT. All that work is not going to finish up quickly. We are looking at a month until the roofers can come back, and another month after that before we can take the scaffolding down. That puts our exterior finish date into October, and at that point there is still all the interior stripping and painting work to do.
So we are looking at hitting the two-year mark at The Admiralty, as little as I enjoy the prospect.]]>
I was at a building in Oakland recently and one of the tenants there does plaster, and I mentioned the medallions to him, asking him if he knew anybody who could do restoration work on them. Well, I did him a big favour -- donated some architectural services that would have cost him a lot of money to his organization -- and he offered to help me out with the medallions. Great! He said he would come by this morning, so it was time to haul the medallions out from the hole we shoved them into in the basement.
Mostly they came out OK, except the big one from the front parlour which was literally wider than the opening to the crawlspace where it was stashed.
Fortunately this has a happy ending: our neighbor was over and we conscripted her to help us turn the thing on its side to get it through the opening, then Noel lifted it (it's not that delicate so it worked just fine) and carried it upstairs.
The others moved more easily. We have five plaster medallions in various states of repair, including the one that was destroyed by the electrician's apprentice. The guy looked them over, we discussed some things that might come up in restoration (they were originally cast in place on the ceiling so they have ceiling thickness built into them, for example), declared that he could definitely work with them, and he's going to come back on Monday and pick them up.
He's going to see about the right paint stripping material to use, and I offered to pay for that if he needed to buy anything (it can get pretty pricey as I well know from our own adventures with paint strippers). I may dig around in the garage at the Admiralty and see what we have left in our Peel-Away stash.
This is pretty exciting and a reminder that the skill set involved in restoring a Victorian is not the same as the skill set involved in renovating other homes without preserving details. While the contractor who did the work on our house did an amazing job, and the carpentry work especially is very well executed, arranging this kind of thing is not exactly his wheelhouse. Even if you have the best contractor, if they don't specialize in restoring Victorians (and just about nobody does) then there are going to be aspects of the work that need owner management.]]>
Here's the deal: for more than a month the painter kept putting us off on starting the interior painting. I left a spreadsheet of paint colours with the contractor when we went to Japan and halfway expected to come back and find the whole house painted in colours I wasn't 100 percent sure of. Nope. Then last week the contractor contacted me and asked to talk about the painters, in person. Off site. Not a good sign.
Basically, the painter who was contracted for the interior painting said he would not do the job because he'd accidentally underbid it. So my contractor asked him to rebid it (because he knows we are reasonable about that kind of thing; we aren't interested in having contractors lose money working on our house). The number he came back with was twice what it had been before, which is a pretty significant underbid. So we had a dilemma: stay with him or try to find a painter to finish the interior?
In the end, we decided to opt out. I'd been talking to Woody about some details of the interior painting -- he has lots of opinions and honestly, a lot of experience -- and I asked him to give me a bid for painting the interior, as well, but no matter what, painting the interior is going to take much longer than originally planned.
That's because we have a dependency: The roofers can't come repair some things they damaged while installing the gutters until the scaffolding moves off the side porch roof, and the scaffolding can't move until Woody's team is done with their strip-sand-repair-epoxy-prime routine in that area. And the driveway construction can't happen until the scaffolding moves off the driveway, too. So Woody and his crew have to stay outside and focus on the exterior work for the time being.
In the meantime, I decided to nail down the paint colours for the interior. Over the weekend we chose a few options for some spaces where we were on the fence, and then went and bought a pile of sample jars. Then I spent a half a day doing this:
When I do colour samples, I like to do them on foamcore boards. There are a couple reasons for this:
I also like that I can save the boards for use on other projects (less of a thing for those of you who are only working on your own home). I tend to go with the same colours on multiple projects, and it's handy to have a large sample I can show clients so they see just what they are getting.
The only thing that the board samples don't get you: you still need to use multiple coats for saturated reds.
This was the first coat of the board for the dining room. I want a very saturated red in there, and this is pretty nice: Benjamin Moore AF-290 Caliente. That's an Aura paint colour, the only one we ended up using, so we'll see how a professional painter feels about using the Aura paint (for those who do not know, a post I made 8 years ago about Aura paint is the single most popular post on this site and still generates super angry comments that I have to moderate heavily).
Here's the sample board in place:
It's the darker sample in that photo. What's interesting is that in direct sunlight, the paint is actually not as dark as I expected because it reflects light so much. Here it is out of direct sunlight:
That other red sample was actually for this:
That will be the ceiling of the middle bathroom, in high gloss paint. Everybody panic now! It's funny to see the completely opposite reactions to that bathroom. Some people love it to pieces, some just shudder and remark that better my house than theirs.
(As you can see, I skimped on layers of paint for the sample and probably should have done at least one more.)
Some other colours we are considering:
I decided I wanted to warm up the colour in the parlours. Previously we had used Benjamin Moore Jamaican Aqua 2048-60, which is a lovely colour in that room (I was less in love with it in our bedroom, which faced south). In it's place, I am contemplating two options: Benjamin Moore Warm Springs 682 or Benjamin Moore Green Wave 681, and this picture shows them side by side.
I'm also trying to decide what colour to paint the library cabinets:
These are Benjamin Moore La Paloma Gray 1551 and Benjamin Moore Balboa Mist 1549, and I'm not sure if I want to go darker or lighter. Given that this room hardly gets any direct sunlight, lighter might be better. On the other hand, a darker colour is a little more sophisticated. I also need to consider how this will play with the wall colour.
I already planned to use Balboa Mist in the kitchen, and chose the backsplash tile colour to work with it. And the La Paloma Gray is the colour for the hallways, a nice warm grayish as a background for art.
Which is where my dilemma happens. What happens here:
Is that the same wall is in the hallway (the back stairs) and a room (the kitchen). Right now I'm thinking that the La Paloma Gray will come down and go into the bay window, then end at the tile backsplash:
Because it's a shade in the same family, it plays well with the backsplash, so that works OK.
(I am skipping a bunch of colours because the photos of the sample boards came out weirdly or they are kind of boring.)
Finally, the bay window bedroom is going to be a somewhat saturated blue. This was Noel's colour choice, and there you have it. He selected the colour on the left, and I added the colour on the right which is a shade lighter because colours can appear much darker on the wall. Both actually look pretty nice.
The trim is going to be, for the most part, Benjamin Moore Super white PM-1. It's a classic warm white and works in a lot of spaces, so I tend to use it a lot. They don't call it Super White for no reason.
The challenge, of course, is that now that I've done this I need to put together a detailed spreadsheet of the various surfaces to be painted so the painter has all the information needed to get to work on the house.]]>
What does that mean? Well, when the doors and cabinetry get painted, it's a good thing to have the hardware already installed so the holes are in the right places: you just carefully remove and document the hardware and set it aside, the painter comes through and does their thing, and then when you go to reinstall the hardware all the holes are where they need to be, and you don't need to possibly scratch up your nice paint job.
That's kind of boring to photograph. So I haven't.
How about this?
That's the start of the handrail for the back stair. The wood there is to hold it at the right height while they worked out a few little details about how it snakes around the corner and down the wall.
The somewhat tricky bit was addressing how to get the handrail to transition from the bannister configuration to a wall-mounted handrail. Ideally we would just have a wider stair where it could run straight down, but that was not what we had because of various things including the overall width of the elevator. Handrails must be continuous, too, so we couldn't just have it die into the wall and then pick up as a wall-mounted rail on the next step.
This is how we addressed that, with the use of S-curved pieces and goosenecks (the transition down from the newel post). Fortunately the stair parts manufacturer offers prefab pieces that you can just choose from a catalog, so they didn't have to custom-manufacture any of them.
And here are the balusters being installed. They were able to get ones with a longer top pin, so we have the same detail of balusters stepping up the stairs as we have in the front.
Because the building code requires that guardrails have no opening large enough to fit a 4" ball through, we have three balusters on each step here. That ensures that at the top where the pin tops get really narrow, there is still enough coverage to meet the code. If you're wondering where that code requirement comes from it is because of babies of crawling age getting their heads stuck in railings. Usually just resulting in a hysterical crawler, but a couple of times resulting in a tragedy. Grim.
Anyway, I bet after a long silence you want more than just a couple of construction photos, right?
How's that for you? A finished handrail. I think it looks really graceful. Bunny also likes it.
In doing this handrail I wanted something fairly simple but also still nodding to the Victorian period. This handrail would have been unacceptably plain to the Victorians, which makes it perfect for a back, service staircase. This style is generally called transitional, because it leans both backwards to the Victorians and forward into today.
I've done many home renovations where what the owner wanted as an entirely modern interior. But I'm happy to let this house be what it wants to be, and leave the original details in place (with some repair). And because of that I wanted the addition to acknowledge those details. I think this handrail does a great job of both nodding to the front stairs and being its own, new thing. It's going to look amazing when it is finished.]]>
Let's see.
The glass partition was installed in the back bathroom.
As was the mirror.
The glass partition was also installed in the middle bathroom:
This partition is only half width and folds back against the wall, which works well in a bathroom that is designed as a wet room (with waterproofing all the way up the walls on every wall, rather than just in the shower).
The Accordion Room bathroom has really taken shape. The clawfoot tub is installed:
And so are the lavatory and toilet.
When we were there this afternoon, Noel remarked that as a bedroom, this was a ridiculously small room, just too small to be workable even for a child. But as a bathroom it is gigantic. Which is great.
Another small detail is that the contractor installed some new attic stairs. I'm still not sure why the old stairs we had didn't work, but for some reason the stupid things just did not want to open and close easily enough for a person my size to use them.
So we replaced them with a new set, and they are trimmed out and ready to use.
In addition, a bunch of extra details have been installed, such as the window latches:
The idea is to have the hardware installed before painting, but then remove it, so the holes get painted without chips or scratching, but the hardware isn't there to make extra work.
The carpenters have been working their way through the house installing doorknobs, too.
For the most part they are working out OK, though there are a few snags I need to handle.
One issue I didn't consider carefully enough is that a lot of the antique hardware I got was designed for thicker doors than we have. Which means a bunch of it won't actually work.
This plain pocket door hardware works fine, but the privacy version -- the version that actually locks -- is too thick to fit in the door properly. Arg. Have I mentioned how much of a pain the door hardware has been?
In better news, the guys bought a lathe and have been painstakingly copying one of the stair balusters to replace the missing one. I think it looks like they are getting pretty close. For some reason UPS decided to get all weird about delivering the package containing the knives for the lathe, so this is still the rough cut (you can see it's larger then the reference baluster).
Finally, look at this adorable door they made for the Harry Potter Room:
I mean, seriously.
This is Isidro and the door he and his brother Juan made. Note that the mini door has the same proportions as the front door. Perfect!
Tomorrow I plan to go climb around on the scaffolding and take some photos of the restoration of the exterior: the restorationist doesn't work Mondays so I can do that without having to wear a mask.
Mostly, I went by to see how far the plumbers got with the finish plumbing.
The finished installing the shower in the middle bath which looks amazing.
Plus the toilet. We still have to get the vanity and sink basin in place there. Also, I think the faucet may be off center now.
They also had all the pieces installed in the back bathroom. The sink, though not the drain for the basin.
The main shower.
And the back bathroom bathtub fittings, which include a handheld shower.
Nobody was at the house working, as is appropriate on Father's Day.]]>
In the kitchen the main faucet and the pot filler were installed.
And the pantry faucet was also in place.
Upstairs the toilet was installed in the Accordion Room (and also in the middle bathroom, and possibly in the back bathroom, but both were fully occupied by plumbers who I was trying not to pester).
Impressive, considering I once watched a licensed plumber take four hours to install a kitchen faucet.
And for reference, this is where Woody's crew have gotten, all the way around the house:
At this point we need more scaffolding so he can get his paint stripping done.
(Edited to fix the headline and a picture and apparently I need an editor.)]]>
This is the stepped arrangement. The base of the balusters is level on each step. But as you can see the one that is in the inside corner there is a little too short to reach the bottom of the handrail (drawn above). This is the arrangement I'd like if Carolina Stair Company -- our baluster provider -- can get us a baluster with a longer spindle.
Here's our other option: the smoothed version. Each baluster base moves evenly down the stairs, making a diagonal line. This will work because the balusters are available with longer bases. But it doesn't "talk" to the front stair balusters as much as I'd like.]]>
That's all the finish plumbing for the Accordion Room.
A similar pile was present in the back bathroom.
And just outside the back bathroom.
Looks like they are getting ready to have the plumbing install the finish plumbing. Very exciting! I'm looking forward to being able to use a real toilet at the house again.]]>
The code requires the handrail be mounted at a graspable height (I put handrails at 36" above the finished floor unless I have a really good reason to move them to the top or bottom of the allowed range), and be continuous for the entire flight of stairs. That means we have a bit of a funky-dunky spot where the stairs go around the elevator shaft, but I think it will work out.
The top of the handrail ends at the guardrail at the top landing. Guardrails have to be 42" above the finished floor, which means you end up with a transition between the handrail and the guardrail (this is residential stairs only, note; other occupancies have a slightly different set of requirements). This is solved by using a piece called a gooseneck, which transitions down in a smooth line.
The guys are working out the layout of the handrail/guardrail first, then they will fit all the balusters and the newel posts into place.
Here's our little stash of balusters. We had a little site meeting and discussed how we wanted to align the bottom of the balusters, and the guys are going to do some research to see if a part that would be needed to do the stairs one way is available or not.
Basically, on the front stairs the balusters step up, step by step. The pieces we have are a little short in the corners to reach up to the handrail while stepping up like that, so we're going to see if a longer baluster is available. Otherwise, we'll have the balusters slant up smoothly. (I will try to find some pictures to describe this better because I know what I'm talking about and I'm not sure I got that.)
The bay window bedroom, previously used for tile layouts, is now in service for stair layout. You can see in the background the balusters lined up. On that sheet, they've drawn the existing steps and the handrail as it needs to be installed, and we ran through some baluster layouts there.
Finish carpentry is really fiddly, detailed work, and I'm glad to have some very experienced people doing it.
Some other news around the house:
The vanity for the powder room is in place.
This vanity will have a custom-made stone sink. I just need to get that fabricated. I wanted to see the vanity in place before I did the final design, though.
This vanity is made of carbonized bamboo. It's kind of neat.
The trim is on the Harry Potter Room, too.
A little less dramatic, but we're inching towards being ready for painting.
And outside, the shrink-wrapped scaffolding is slowly extending around the house. What with the house having eaten the poor scaffolding contractor, there's a bit of a delay on installing the rest around the side porch, but it will happen.
The shrink wrap allows the restorationists to keep the neighborhood safe from any incidental lead from the restoration. It also allows them to keep working even when it is rainy, as it was earlier this week.]]>
Here's what the Japanese Alps look like. We climbed halfway up this mountain to this scree slope, and this is the view up to the top (where there is a little shelter you can reserve, and if it is like every other remote place in Japan, five bars of data coverage and a vending machine). We decided not to climb any further that day because we had not brought ice hiking gear with us. Also, it was getting on for lunch time and we had a bus to catch. At any rate, the wireless signal up on the mountain was just fine, but down in the valley my ipad was having trouble connecting. This was my first big trip in... maybe 15 years? without a laptop to do nightly image dumps, and there are clearly still some kinks to work out. So you got no post and I have this out of date post to update.
So back to the house. More tiles.
The tilers have avoided the fate of the roofers (cardiac event, doing much better now), and also the fate of the scaffolding guy (double stroke, poor guy, I feel for him), which means the house is satisfied with its blood meal and we need to get this job done fast before it gets hungry for another contractor.
Erm, sorry, maybe that belongs on my secret construction-themed horror fanfic tumblr.
The Accordion Room
How about this fine mortar bed?
That turned into this fine floor:
I'm very happy with how this floor is both very traditional and also not blah blah boring traditional. This is a marble tile from Artistic Tile, and it comes in this grey version and also a black, but I find the black a little too contrasty for this room. It depends on what you are looking for. I wanted a hex tile with a neat pattern, was pondering a black and white border pattern, and then this popped up on my radar. Sold!
The Laundry Closet
Here's another exciting mortar bed that turned into a floor:
(That'll be the laundry closet.)
Most of the grey tile for the utility areas is covered up with paper for protection right now: it's in the back entry, the kitchen, the pantries, and this laundry closet. The laundry closet, being out of the way, is not covered, so there you go.
You can see the copper drain for the washing machine drain pan popping up. Washing machines on upper floors should always have a drain pan to prevent really hideous water issues. Also, remember that washing machine hoses have a life span of about five years and should be replaced before they burst and destroy your home. Even if it feels like dropping $20 replacing what feel like perfectly good hoses is a waste, imagine how expensive repairing extensive water damage will be.
The other thing you can see in this photo is the transition between the wood flooring and the tile.
Here's a little more detail. This is a simple strip of brass. You need some kind of edging between the two materials, because they handle moisture differently. I like the nice clean line of a metal edging at the tile rather than a nailed-on cover strip.
The Middle Bathroom
And now we have the way I knew that the post hadn't gone up as expected:
This is the finished tile in the middle bathroom. This is beautiful. I spent ages designing it and worrying over it and then was super fussy with the tile contractors, but it was 100 percent worth it. I know it's too busy for some people, and that this is sure to inspire some angry emails and comments about how I am destroying the entire world by having a visually stimulating bathroom. Chill, folks. It is a small bathroom that you literally never need to step foot into. Unless you are Noel in which case SORRY, you knew I was this way when you married me.
I love it. Let me show you how.
Here's how the tile meets the ceiling. For background, this tile comes in pieces that are twice this thick from top to bottom, so I made those poor tile contractors (the ones I am trying not to have my house destroy!) cut each piece in half lengthwise. I wanted the tiles to lay out so that the top row was a full tile, which if you have never tiled a wall is a HUGE pain in the butt.
Normally you start at the bottom and every subsequent tile is set in on the row below. These guys did that, of course, during the actual installation, but to get everything the right height so that the wall would end with a full row they had to lay out the tiles in the bay window bedroom from floor to ceiling, row by row, with a template of the floor slope there to guide them. This bathroom is a masterpiece.
The ceiling will be painted a bright red. Because red is the hardest colour to paint and I am going to try to kill every contractor.
The bottom was three rows of black tiles to make a dark basin at the floor. When you have a really strong pattern, one way to pin it down is to ground it on a base, sort of creating a pedestal for the pattern to land on. The black tiles floor does that for this room. I feel like it really grounds the pattern.
The trim around the windows and door is flush, 3/4" wide, and will be painted high gloss white. I love this bathroom. It is the little crazy jewel box I wanted. With some wood shelving for soap and orchids, it will soften up a little, but not too much.
The Back Bathroom
I'm replacing the photos I had of tile in progress in the back bathroom completely. The in-progress photos are fine but they're also a big whatever compared to the finished photos.
The tile I chose for the back bathroom walls is lovely. I love it. It's a stone chevron pattern (distinguished from herringbone because the stones don't interlace at the ends, so there is a straight line between stacks of V's) and it is a great warm marble colour and yet still a little dramatic. It's from Walker Zanger it tends to have a pretty long lead time, but is worth the wait; just give yourself a couple of months to get it and you will be good. Perfect for a modern luxurious bathroom. Walking through with the contractor today he remarked that the room is just calm and relaxing, which was what I wanted. A bit of a spa feel without taking up as much space as a bedroom.
I did penny tiles on the floor because I love penny tiles. BUT. The thing about penny tiles is that they can be a little challenging to install. If your installer doesn't have a lot of experience, you can end up seeing the lines of the square sheets the tiles come in telegraphed all over the place.
When they're installed well, they are a dream, though. With lots of grout lines you get grippiness (what you need on a bathroom floor), and I like the soft pattern of the variegated colourway. They work well as a backdrop to the more dramatic wall tile. Plus they match the dog which is always a plus since somebody had the great idea to put in dark walnut flooring in the rest of the house.
These are the wall tiles. Photos don't really capture the depth of a real stone tile. The range of colours is wider than the camera can capture, even on the nice big camera. The colours here go from a warm white to a warm dark grey, and there's both drama and softness.
I had enough tile to do the tub surround in the same tile, so why not? I gave some serious thought to just running the floor tile up the side of the tub, but in the end decided that wasn't really what I wanted.
Another neat little detail: the shower had a linear drain that is concealed under the bench. I've done this a lot and it's a great way to hide a feature than can be kind of eh or even jarring. In the middle bathroom we splashed out on a fancy linear drain and have it exposed, but in here we went simpler and the drain is basically out of sight. That does mean you have to be more proactive about clearing hair from the drain, by the way. We'll live.
And with that I think I've caught up on getting all our pre-written posts updated and posted.]]>
For the last couple of months, our restorationist, Woody, has been hard at work stripping the old paint off the house, pulling damaged trim, and getting us ready to restore the facade to the original Victorian appearance.
The first job Woody worked on was tracking down the leak in the east side windows. This photo shows a clue about that leak:
That big chunky black thing in the middle there is debris. Chunks of weird random inner-wall debris that are falling out of a hole. A hole that works both ways, of course.
This photo shows it better. Basically, the siding ends a little short behind the jamb pilaster of the window, and any water that gets behind the trim -- which has a gap every time the siding curves inwards for the groove -- just runs down to that hole and into the house. Brilliant.
This has caused every one of these pilasters to get rotten at the bottom, which was not helped by the old felonious painters gooping it up with sealant.
How do you fix that? A couple of things. Woody is going to fill those gaps at the grooves with chunks of wood, and he is going to cut off the rotted wood, add more trim under the pilaster, and then put a repair piece of trim over it. The hole will be closed up, and so will the primary path of water.
We'd assumed the leak was coming from the metal roofs over the windows. Those are leaky and terrible, but not the way we thought.
What you can see here is that Woody has peeled a layer of sheet lead off a rusting galvanized metal roof. Somebody relatively recently did this repair (we are assuming it was the previous owners, sometime around when they bought the house in 1958). We know it was post-Victorian because the Victorians tended to use an alloy of lead and tin for their metal roofs rather than pure lead sheets, as you'll soon see is what we have on the curved metal roofs at the bay window and porch.
The is the view up at the bottom of that metal. Look at all those nails! Sometimes more is not better, people. The wood they were nailed into was completely rotted and needs to be replaced.
There's also quite the layer of sealant between the two roofs -- another sign that this is a modern repair. It wasn't helping.
The plan is to make some modifications to those roofs to add slope for drainage (they are currently dead flat), replace rotted trim with new stuff being milled for us, and it should be good.
In the front, the curved metal roofs we thought we would have to replace are actually in great shape under some horrible paint.
This is the roof over the bay window. It feels completely solid, there's a wooden structure under there holding the metal out. And as they strip the paint off it, it is coming off cleanly, which is great.
You can see in this photo how those metal roofs interact with the main house. A little strip of wood is adhered over that joint to conceal it. Not a detail I would use now but it's still solid.
The curved wooden bands are stuck quite solidly down where they are still in place -- some had rusty nails and came off easily, and those ones will be repaired or replaced.
The funniest part is this: somebody painted this roof with shiny silver metallic paint at one point. (The red was the original colour, the grey was us.) Now I'm imagining this house in a combo of Barbie pink and metallic silver.
The best part of this was that the wood is actually stripping nicely, it's mostly in terrific condition, and the restorationists love it and are very happy with it. I like hearing that things can be restored; that's always my preference. After the disaster that was our window sashes, I was not too hopeful, but it looks like we have hardly any wood to replace on the facade that hadn't already fallen off.
That light layer there is the original "primer" layer: a coat of plain oil-based lead paint mixed with shellac. It sticks to the wood really well, but comes off in sheets when the right solvent is applied to it.]]>
For some background, the tile is made by Fireclay Tile, which makes tiles to order in their workshop in the central valley. They're a little more expensive than everyday subway tiles, but I wanted a couple of things:
1. Not too shiny. This wall faces the bay window that faces west, and in the afternoon sun just pours in here. I didn't want a shiny reflective surface to make my life miserable every evening.
2. Subtle colour. I didn't want plain white, but I didn't want a bright colour here. I'm a huge fan of colour but with purple cabinets I felt like the wall needed to take a step back. Also it is twelve feet tall and to not look unfinished I wanted the tile to the ceiling.
Fireclay had a tile I liked and also made the shapes I wanted, because this is what my design looked like:
The design is made with three sizes of tile: 2x2 squares, 3x6 subway tiles, and 4x8 subway tiles. The 3x6 subway tiles are either in a running bond or a vertical soldier course, so it looks like more kinds of tiles.
The idea with the pattern is to make a subtle texture on the wall, like a Gansey sweater.
Here it is in indirect light:
And this is what it looks like with the wide angle lens from across the room, later in the day when the light gets a little crazy on that side of the house:
The kitchen walls and ceiling will eventually be painted a colour very similar to the tiles.
Here it is a little closer up. Because these are handmade tiles, and they are designed to have subtle variation in colour, the wall kind of subtly moves and looks different colours as you move around and as the light changes on it. Some tiles look very dark while others are shinier and for others, you can see glimpses of the red clay body.
The light grout kind of blends the whole thing together, which was the idea. I'd originally considered a dark grey grout, but decided I didn't want the wall too busy. I guess if I change my mind I can regrout, or stain this grout. But right now I like the light grout.
Behind the stove we put in a stainless steel backsplash because it's easy to clean. The surface is set about flush with the tiles, and runs down to the floor. When I do a stove wall I like to include a cleanable surface for the backsplash all the way to the floor, because I have pulled the stove out to clean behind it and suffered through scrubbing drywall sticky with grease from frying. It is no fun. Easy-clean surfaces will make your life a lot easier. Plus it looks cleaner and more finished.
We're starting to inch towards completion at long last.]]>
The new treads look great, with added center blocking they feel strong and solid, and you can hardly tell that so much rework was done on them.
At the top of the stairs the handrail is back in place.
The joints in the handrail were originally made with metal bolts that had loosened over time, so the carpenters replaced the bolts and tightened everything up. The wood had expanded and contracted on either side of the joint as well, so they sanded it smooth.
What you can't see here is the added height in the floor in the hallway. I think it is very clever how they concealed it behind that upper band of trim. If you didn't have the original to compare it to you really would not know we'd added height to the floor at all.
One thing we do still have is one missing baluster. This was missing when we bought the house, and I asked the carpenters to fabricate a replacement. Even though this was always Mr Kitty's favourite place to stick his head out and watch people go by in the hallway.
Because the floor height changed, and every riser height changed, we needed to add a little bit of wood to the bottom of every baluster in the handrail to even things out. Once the pink is gone and these are painted (black!), you won't be able to see the added wood.
With the front steps mostly done (apart from that missing baluster), they've moved on to the back steps.
This is the run of stairs from the back entry to the kitchen. The treads here are a slightly more durable and less expensive white oak that has been stained dark to look like the flooring.
As they install the final treads for each step the stairs firm up nicely, so this staircase is a real transitional experience: the construction steps of loose plywood, then thunk you are on a nice solid staircase that feels really substantial.
The treads are in place for most of the back stairs from the kitchen to the second floor. They've taped paper over them to protect the surface during construction.
It looks like they will start installing the handrail here soon. The upper landing edge needs to go in -- it's being stained to match the flooring which is a little tedious and annoying, but worth it.
We ordered a bunch of prefabricated stair parts, and I'm looking forward to seeing how those work out. The contractor was very impressed by the prices for unfinished balusters and so forth, so either it's going to be great or a total disaster.]]>


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RealtyTrac Foreclosure Data Out On Thursday
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Once a mainstay in the top five states with the highest foreclosure rates, California has dropped to 11th in the nation.
Once a mainstay in the top five states with the highest foreclosure rates, California has dropped to 11th in the nation.
Daren Blomquist is with the foreclosure listing service RealtyTrac. He said about 17,000 properties got a foreclosure filing in May.
"And that 17,000 was down 60 percent from a year ago which now continues a string of year-over-year decreases in California we've seen for the past 18-months," Blomquist explained.
He said one reason foreclosure rates are down is that home values are up, helping homeowners on the edge of losing their property.
"If their home value is rising, that gives them another option to avoid foreclosure with a refinancing of that loan to get a lower payment or possibly selling the home," Blomquist said.
Florida had the country's highest foreclosure rate…followed by Nevada at number two and Ohio and number three.
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