On 5/12/2018 10:05 AM, -MIKE- wrote:
On 5/12/18 8:30 AM, dpb wrote:
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There's no accounting for taste...


It's not for everyone.
The client loves it.Â* Win.

It's why my commercial ventures (as far as w'wking at least) never
worked; I couldn't make myself do too many things I didn't like well
enough to spend my time doing that...or at least quickly enough to make
it pay.

The speculative house restorations in the Diamond Hill and Federal Hill
districts of Lynchburg we began back in the late '60s/early '70s as the
beginning of the revitalization were something else again entirely...did
the interior work on several of those back to original or nearly so;
hard to find 19"+ clear pine even then to replace destroyed wainscot
panels or the like...most had been cut up into low-rent apartments and
they had just sawn openings into walls to add entry doors, etc., etc.,
with no attention at all to the historic value.

When the bunch of us descended upon Lynchburg in the big hiring boom
between Babcock & Wilcox (Nuclear Power Generation Division) and General
Electric (mobile radio facilities), the several hundred/year new young
professionals totally swamped the housing available; a bunch of about a
dozen of us began by helping just one or two guys who bought one of them
dirt-cheap rehab it; roughly six of us ended up doing it as a side
business for five-six years.

http://www.diamondhill.org/images/ Aren't many interiors at all,
unfortunately don't have any pictures other than on old slide film have
never digitized--now that's a thought.

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