Wed 2 November 2005 - Period features
My house was built around about 1930-ish. Some period features that I particularly like:
Most of the doorknobs are of an Art Deco style that reminds me of something out of Jeeves and Wooster every time I open a door.
Most of the rooms have decorated deco ceilings. Thankfully the more recent insertion of heating ducts in a few spots hasn’t spoilt them too much.
The livingroom has two little decorated windows for letting in light.
The main bedroom has one of these facing almost due east, which is causing me some problems with beams of light bursting through at dawn, awakening me from my slumber. It’s like the ray of light in the Shrine of Remembrance at 11am on November 11th.
(Not period, as it’s in a part of the house extended more recently) The laundry and back toilet share a light.
This has the added advantage of being an indicator that somebody’s in there.
November 2nd, 2005 at 11:36am
We had a house with one of the shared lights. Would it really be cheaper to cut or build a hole in the wall than install two lights?
November 2nd, 2005 at 12:36pm
Howdy!
Nice house? Now will you get the 5.1 system like you promised in your “Here Is My TV” post?
November 2nd, 2005 at 1:26pm
Oooh, love the art deco featuring! Do you have rosettes around the ceiling lights too?
November 2nd, 2005 at 9:02pm
No, nothing around the ceiling lights. I think that sort of detailing was more common in earlier houses, but less so in the Deco period.
November 2nd, 2005 at 11:28pm
I’m a big fan of art deco ceilings!
Looks like it has character, wish i could say the same about my place.
November 3rd, 2005 at 10:21am
Eww.. it has an adition? Is the addition made of a different building material (ie concrete cinderblocks) to the rest of the house, and does it look like it was added on? (Or does it look like that it was always there)
November 8th, 2005 at 12:52am
Love the door knobs - we have exactly the same ones except ours are brass!
November 8th, 2005 at 8:57am
Hi Daniel,
Congratulations on your house. From your pics it looks gorgeous - well done!
Savvy.