On 5/12/18 2:06 PM, dpb wrote:
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.


I was looking for a reason to try this burnt finish process and the
client wanted some "barn-wood" shelves for his top shelf liquors. I
told him barn-wood would be a fortune but I had an idea he might like.
He loved it and now I'm doing more.


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/Â* 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.


Those are some beautiful homes that actually have architectural style
and discipline.
So many builders around here are trying to replicate the look of those
old neighborhoods with the close homes, longer than wide, and 2nd & 3rd
stories.

Unfortunately, nary an architect (or at least one who got passing grades
in school) was consulted. They are just behemoth, rectangular,
monstrosities with five, six, seven, or eight architectural styles all
thrown in a blender and spewed forth onto a lot 600sq.ft.larger than
what they built on it.

It's really gross.
I love seeing the neighborhoods like in your link.


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