Painting the House

[JohnDB]

I took a sharp putty knife to every square inch ... if I couldn't get the old paint off, I left it ... the only repairs were to the cornice where it butted up to the lower roof eaves ... so in that I got lucky ...

The Historical Commission shot down my 28 color scheme ... I wanted to simulate the Mid-Elizabethian Era common in the Panhandle neighbor of San Francisco (aka Height/Ashbury) ... but they said that wasn't representative of the local polices nor was it painted that way originally ... closed minded is what I say ... c'mon, man, psychedelia is as Victorian as apple pie, Chevrolet and drinking rye whiskey ...

The main difference is I'm done ... and you're not ... although I'm still repairing the antique windows ... and I brushed everything on ... oil primer, good quality chalking and latex enamel top-coat ... my philosophy is if I'm not constantly going back cleaning up runs, I'm thinning the paint out too much ...

Inside is a completely different story ... there was a fire you see ...

They used to make cornices out of cedar....just like shutters and shingles, So they will never rot. They do splinter and split after 50 years or so when exposed to the elements.

Just saying.

I don't have any historical board to answer to. And if I have any say I never will.

But there have been additions done in a rather "bubba" fashion. I'm going to fix that. Eventually.

 

[ReinyDays]

They used to make cornices out of cedar....just like shutters and shingles, So they will never rot. They do splinter and split after 50 years or so when exposed to the elements.

Just saying.

I don't have any historical board to answer to. And if I have any say I never will.

But there have been additions done in a rather "bubba" fashion. I'm going to fix that. Eventually.

Cedar rots ... it takes longer but it still rots ... my guess on the cornice was Bubba pushed it down to the roof, and thus the end was always wet and rotted off from there ... all. the rest of the trimwork was intact and in good repair ...

Structurally sound even where the fire was ... my main Bubba feature is he used scrap drywall pieces, didn't bed the tape, amateur finishing, and no, the rough texture job didn't cover up all the mistakes ...