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Show I Modernized Home Keeps Civil Wat Era Charm Remodeling brought this 80-year-old home up to date without losing any of its Civil War era charm. Despite its old style of architecture, archi-tecture, small rooms and inconvenient incon-venient layout, relates Practical Builder magazine, the house was made completely modern inside and out. I An unusual feature of this modernization project was the construction of the garage and breezeway of the same odd-sized sand and clay brick as contained in the original building. An adequate ade-quate supply of this obsolete brick was obtained by purchasing and dismantling another building build-ing erected in the Civil War period. pe-riod. In this way, the addition was made to look like a part of the original structure. The problem of how to remove the "undesirable" front porch without making the front of the house look bare was solved by taking away the porch superstructure superstruc-ture and leaving the stone foundation foun-dation and railing. This provides a patio for flower planting and a place for relaxation. At the same time, the house 'was made weathertight by application ap-plication of a new roof of fire-resistant fire-resistant asphalt shingles. Asphalt shingles in a subdued color were selected to "reduce the height" of the house to give it a more compact appearance. Bright-colored asphalt shingles are often used to give squatty houses an appearance of greater height. The " ' ! - I intr,i.-,.n.,.-..-,n..vJ-,--iilT 4&W Modernization achieved new styling styl-ing of exterior of the home above while retaining its original simplicity sim-plicity and charm as shown in picture at left. Addition of breeze-way breeze-way and garage and new roof of asphalt shingles give house new beauty and color, and its appearance appear-ance also was improved by removal re-moval of stone porch superstructure. superstruc-ture. roof color is the dominating note in exterior color planning. Improvements also included relocation re-location of the front entrance and numerous interior alterations. Replacing Re-placing a closed stairway, new stairs and baluster, finished in mahogany, blend nicely with the new mahogany vertically planked j interior of the living room. Tastefully decorated through- out to accentuate its classic simplicity sim-plicity and beauty, the house provides pro-vides an excellent example of what can be done to combine the best features of "new" and "olJl" in home modernization. |