We know you know: Old house often equals small baths. Up ahead, how three such snug spaces got improved function and flair, by giving one or two elements a starring role.
Using original bits and vintage pieces, making this Craftsman kitchen functional was a high priority.
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We know you know: Old house often equals small baths. Up ahead, how three such snug spaces got improved function and flair, by giving one or two elements a starring role.
A couple with two young sons takes the starch out of a venerable California Craftsman, respecting its history while updating the interior and adding an overlay of fun.
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Do you have to renovate to honor your homes architecture. Short answer, no. You bought it and you can do whatever you want. Now… if you’re asking me what I would do, the answer changes. I personally think it’s okay to decorate in any style you like, but when it comes to renovation it is […]
Jessica Helgerson Interior Design has completed this gorgeous old house renovation located in the countryside of Iowa City, Iowa.
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At EM, we’re dedicated to celebrating the creativity and vision of homeowners and designers alike. Our home tour series offers an inside look into the spaces that have been transformed with love and ingenuity by moms across the country. Through these tours, we hope to inspire a sense of community and appreciation for the art […]
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All of the details on the bathroom vanity….
Old houses filled with period furniture are lovely, of course, but that doesn’t mean that they all have to be a museum. Homes are allowed to grow and change with their owners and with the times, and sometimes that results in a pastiche of old surroundings and new furnishings that’s even more delightful than the sum of its parts. Check out these three old houses whose owners have embraced modernism, with beautiful and unexpected results.
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A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR: If you're free after work on Tuesday, September 16th, and are so inclined, you can watch me accept a Preservation Award from the American Friends of the Georgian Group at a swell cocktail reception on the roof of the Central Park Armory (64th and Fifth). The venue has views of the park and the zoo most of us never see, and if you're worried about not knowing anybody, well, so am I, but I'm going anyway. A description's on the link below. If you want to attend, email me at [email protected] so I can put you on the list. The ticket costs $45 and you can pay at the door. http://www.americangeorgians.org/calendar.htm NOW, BACK TO BIG OLD HOUSES: This is Stan Hywet Hall, the Akron, OH manse of tire mogul Frank A. Seiberling (1859-1955), a magnificent anachronism from the moment it was built. Last week, we walked around (and around, and around) outside. This week, we're going indoors. Curator Julie Leone is my guide on a challenging tour. How do I document, in my usual exhaustive manner, a 65,000 square foot house and not lose my readers somewhere between the infirmary and the cook's pantry? Answer: by leaving a lot out. Here's the Great Hall at Stan Hywet, photographed in 1916, a year after the house was finished. When planning started in 1912, houses this big still fit into the context of an established world. By the time this one was finished, the First World War, though still ongoing, had already demolished that world. Stan Hywet's site, adjacent to downtown Akron, is hardly that of a country retreat or a villa in some fashionable resort. The site was chosen for convenience to work. Stan Hywet was a full-time family home on a 3000-acre edge-of-town lot. Seiberling, a co-founder with his brother George (1869-1945) of Goodyear Tire and Rubber, was immensely rich. Despite spectacular ups and downs in his career, he managed quite well to live up to this house. The view below shows multiple generations of the Seiberling clan gathered at Christmas to watch one of Grandpa Seiberling's farm horses drag a Yule Log into the Great Hall at Stan Hywet. In 1937, Frank Seiberling (on the right) and his wife Gertrude celebrated their 50th anniversary at Stan Hywet. Seen with brother Charles on the West Porch, they are the apotheosis of period Midwestern American pomp, combining era-specific style and grandeur with "can-do" American achievement. Today, the orientals and the bear skin rug are gone, the furniture has been pushed against the walls, and changing exhibits occupy center stage in the Great Hall. At the time of my visit a scale model of the RMS Lusitania made from 194,000 toothpicks had been tied, tenuously I thought, into a narrative of Seiberling family foreign travel. The arched door in the image below leads to the front stoop. The steps to the left of it lead to the main stair. We'll take a peek at the powder room, then head down the south corridor. You can keep track of our tour with floor plans at the end of this post. I am particularly fond of high class old houses with phone rooms. Immediately south of the Great Hall is a library that overlooks the lawn terrace we explored last week. Things to note: sumptuous overstuffed furniture, fringed lampshades, and a "secret" panel that leads to another which opens by the fireplace in the Great Hall. There's a small reception room across from the library, but it's so full of display stuff I decided to skip it. Instead, we'll proceed to the conservatory, or solarium as they call it, which faces the driveway through a curved wall of windows. Given the running water and the stone floor, I assume it was once a miniature emerald forest. The glory of Stan Hywet, more than the Great Hall, is its 2700 square foot drawing room, or music room as they call it. This is a good place to talk about the Panic of 1920, a financial crisis with which most people today are unfamiliar. The sudden end of wartime inflation brought about an equally sudden deflation in the American economy. The federal government handled the situation poorly. Unemployment jumped from 3% to 10% and more than 100,000 American businesses declared bankruptcy. Assuming wartime government contracts would continue, or peacetime demands for tires and consumer goods would replace them rapidly, Seiberling committed Goodyear to large scale forward contracts for rubber, etc. at inflated prices. Instead, the economy tanked and his company went from a $51 million profit in 1920 to a $5 million loss by mid-1921. Goodyear's board of directors peremptorily voted him and 26,000 company employees out of their jobs, then turned to Wall Street investment banker Clarence Dillon of Dillon, personal Read & Co. to rescue the company from bankruptcy. Making the situation worse, Seiberling had propped Godyear up with his own money during the countdown to disaster, and now all that money was lost. At the end of May, 1921, Frank Seiberling was 62 years old, unemployed, broke, and the owner of this extremely high maintenance house. Amazingly, 6 months later he managed to raise enough capital to start the Seiberling Rubber Company with his brother Charles. By 1927, the new firm had become the world's 7th largest manufacturer of tires. Frank Seiberling's son, Penfield, took over as president in 1938; Frank Seiberling remained chairman of the board until his retirement in 1950 at the age of 90. A musicians' gallery is located directly over an organ, the latter being a more or less obligatory feature of big houses of the era. The door below on the north wall of the drawing room leads to the West Porch, where the 50th Anniversary portrait was shot. The Great Hall is located at Stan Hywet's approximate mid-point. We've looked at main rooms to the south. Let's now explore those to the north starting with the dining room, whose entrance is under the left side of the hanging tapestry. If you went straight ahead instead, you'd wind up on the long arcade that leads to the garden in last week's post. I've seen Chaucer's Canterbury Tales more than once on a dining room frieze. It's driving me nuts that I can't remember where. The screen below would originally have better obscured the door to the serving pantry, seen behind the rope on the right. First stop on the rear hall is the kitchen, located through that door on the left. I could have posted 20 pictures of Stan Hywet's fantastic and totally intact old kitchen, but...we gotta move on. The service corridor (not to be confused with the rear hall) starts at the north end of the kitchen and leads to the cook's pantry and servants' dining hall seen below. We glimpsed the vista below, down the garden-bound arcade, from the main hall. The cook's pantry and assorted storage areas are behind the wall on the left; we're headed for the breakfast room behind us on the right; adjacent to the breakfast room is a vintage serving pantry. Stan Hywet's main stair is in the square tower next to the front door; the Great Hall is behind the camera; a billiard room and Mr. Seiberling's office are located beyond the arch on the first landing. It is a curious love that proclaims itself in the form of taxidermy. Her name is - sorry, was - Sophie, the beloved pet of a long forgotten Goodyear exec. She spent many motionless years in his office before being moved to the now defunct Goodyear World of Rubber Museum. A former Stan Hywet curator with an odd sense of humor plopped her down on Frank Seiberling's office rug. If Frank could see her now, he'd be more surprised than anyone. Time to go upstairs. Sleeping arrangements at Stan Hywet are typical of upper class households with children of both sexes. From Ipswich to Greenwich, I've seen the bedrooms of daughters and parents clustered in adjacent suites at one end of the house, while sons and guests are billeted at the other. Long hallways, purposeless lobbies or in this case, an open sided catwalk over the Great Hall, form a psychological barrier between them. The ornate timbered ceiling, by the way, is a stage set enclosed within the outer structure of the house. Irene and Virginia shared a pair of room with a bath in between. Their parents' room is located directly above the library. The library has a secret door to the Great Hall; the bedroom has a leaded window overlooking it. Mrs. Seibering's dressing room adjoins her bathroom, which is almost too divine for words. A corner sleeping porch connects to Mrs. Seiberling's and Mr. Seiberling's baths. Across the hall from Mr. S's bath is a so-called morning room. In another house, this might have been Mrs. S's boudoir or, just as easily, Mr. S's bedroom. The entrance to the musicians' gallery, oddly enough, required musical help to wiggle up a tortuous hidden stair from the music room, then cross the south end of the Seiberlings' private bedroom corridor. North of the Great Hall, sons Franklin, Penn and Willard shared bedrooms named Red and Blue with guests in other rooms named William and Mary, Colonial and Adam. By the time the house was built, brother Fred was already married and in the military. A housekeeper and four maids occupied spacious and much better than usual servants' rooms at the north end of the second floor. We saw this stair outside the kitchen on the floor below. Above it on 3 are more service, guest and storage rooms. Also on the 3rd floor is the curiously labeled "serving room." It's now full of stored junk but looks to have been intended for visiting grandchildren. This skinny corridor connects the north and south ends of the third floor. If we peek through an access door to the attic over the Great Hall, we can see how the Great Hall ceiling is supported. The south end of the house is used today for archival storage, but was designed as two large dormitories. But wait, there's more. Four floors up, at the top of the tower over the main stair, is an infirmary. I'm not leaving this place without a look at the basement where, among other things, there is a remarkable vintage laundry room. There is also an antique spa, complete with antique sauna... ...and an antique plunge. Truth be told, as fabulous as it is, I don't really like to swim indoors. Not an issue here, since this one hasn't had water in it for generations. Seiberling Rubber was eventually absorbed by Firestone Tire and Rubber. Seiberling tires are still marketed overseas, but have been reduced to "budget" status. Subdivision of the Stan Hywet estate began in the early 1920s after the Goodyear debacle. Frank Seiberling's death in 1955 forced the family to sell 900 more acres in order to keep the place going until they could donate it to a non-profit foundation. Until that foundation obtained tax exempt status, still more acres were sold and more ranch houses built, until the original 3000 were reduced to today's 70. Reduced or not, the house and its gardens maintain a gratifying integrity of site and are wonderful places to visit. The link is www.stanhywet.org.
I almost cannot believe that the bathroom is nearly done… it feels like it’s been ten years. We’re still waiting on a few things like a second sconce, and towel bars, So in the meantime, here are some details we’re using that reflect an authentic vintage bathroom… Cove molding at the base of the subway tile. […]
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Allora, siete pronte con il primo appuntamento della nuova rubrica? ^_^ Credits Oggi protagonista la mia stanza preferita: il bagno… veramente il MIO bagno, o perlomeno quello che diventerà tale!! Credits Il bagno per me è la stanza magica in cui il tempo si ferma. Quella stanza in cui ci si può concedere un po’ di relax e di calma… anche se solo per una volta al mese! Per questo deve essere una stanza luminosa, accogliente, dai colori rilassanti, e con la vasca da bagno… assolutamente!! ^_^ Ci vogliamo mettere anche la doccia, perché diciamocelo, mica si può stare tutti i giorni ad asciugare il pantano che solo un uomo sa fare facendosi la doccia in piedi nella vasca, no? Credits Dovrà essere una stanza nella quale mi sentirò protetta, un buon compromesso tra rustico e shabby, tra provenzale e inglese! Il mio sogno sarebbe avere la boiserie, ma Sandro ha messo il veto sull’uso del legno, quindi dovremo optare per la ceramica. Credits Per il colore delle pareti per ora siamo indirizzati verso tonalità azzurro polvere o carta da zucchero... Ma iniziamo dal principio! La camera da letto più grande ha il bagno in camera. Per accedere alla camera da letto si entra in un piccolo disimpegno, già arredato con un grande armadio a muro, che funge da mini cabina armadio, e diviso dalla camera vera e propria da quello che diventerà un muretto a mezza altezza... (non commentate -_- io odio i muretti, ma non posso boicottare proprio ogni proposta di Sandro, no?) Il primo intervento che vogliamo fare è spostare la porta del bagno dal punto in cui si trova, alla parete che lo separa dalla camera. La parete verrà anche spostata di circa 30 centimetri, giusto per essere certi che in bagno ci sia lo spazio sufficiente per tutto quello che vogliamo avere! :P Un grande armadio a muro è presente anche in bagno, all'interno di una nicchia grande 70x125, e non abbiamo intenzione di rimuoverlo. E’ di legno pregiato, e fatto a mano da un artigiano ormai più di 30 anni fa! Ha due grandi sportelli in alto, tre cassettoni e due vani per le scarpe… insomma il minimo indispensabile dovrebbe entrarci!! ^_- Forse in un secondo momento lo tratterò con cera bianca… ma questo è un altro argomento! Credits Entrando dalla porta ci si troverebbe di fronte il lavello, a seguire i sanitari e l’armadio. Sulla parete opposta disporremmo nell’angolo ottuso la vasca e subito dietro la porta una doccia a semicerchio con box in cristallo, sportelli battenti, lineare, il più possibile senza intelaiatura. Credits Per i pavimenti siamo indirizzati su un gres porcellanato a listoni grandi che simula un parquet sbiancato, da riportare in tutti e tre i bagni. Considerate che in casa abbiamo i pavimenti di meraviglioso cotto rosato veneto, tranne nel piano delle camere, in cui si trova un travertino lasciato semi opaco. Credits In uno dei nostri sopralluoghi abbiamo trovato un gres di Cerim con venature bianco-grigie e una texture abbastanza materica e ricca di nodosità, proprio come piace a noi. Credo che si adatti bene agli altri pavimenti della casa. Credits Anche se devo dire che la proposta di Cisa ceramiche (la linea vintage greige, nello specifico) è ancora più realistica! Giuro che se non vai a toccare con la mano è esattamente uguale ad un parquet sbiancato, quasi industrial!! Favoloso!! Se riusciamo, sceglieremo quest’ultimo!! Credits Per i rivestimenti, ci siamo innamorati delle boiserie che propone Grazia ceramiche, e Cisa. La linea electa e boiserie di Grazia Ceramiche, propongono listoni opachi alti 80 cm da abbinare ad un’alzata e a tori più o meno alti, oltre che a fregi vari, che però noi non amiamo. La soluzione che vorremmo effettuare è pressappoco questa: Credits peccato solo che il prezzo non sia dei più economici –_- Credits Questa è invece la linea Liberty di Cisa! Sempre pannelli opachi, dimensioni 32x75, sempre da abbinare a torello finale e alzata. La ceramica presenta una trama che simula le venature del legno… meravigliosa!! Il costo è pressappoco paragonabile… Per non doverci rinunciare in toto, abbiamo pensato ad una soluzione che preveda la boiserie sulla parete che ospiterà lavello e sanitari, e una parete di piastrelline 7,5x25 che invece verrebbe posizionata alle spalle di vasca e doccia. Qualcosa del genere (solo che la vasca non sarà in mezzo alla stanza ma su una parete, quindi le piastrelle andranno a sostituire completamente la boiserie): Credits Ovviamente tutto in colore panna!! Credits Qui abbiamo la boiserie dietro la vasca e piastrelline per il resto del bagno, esattamente l'inverso di quello che faremmo noi! Che ne dite? non è bellissimo differenziare le due pareti? Io li trovo degli allestimenti meravigliosi!! Credits I sanitari saranno in stile inglese. Questi sono della linea Retro di Kerasan. Questo marchio propone vasi con cassette alte o a zaino, oltre che alle soluzioni con cassetta interna. Ma dopo anni di geberit incassata nel muro, non credo che potremmo mai fare a meno della cassetta ispezionabile!! Credits E poi vogliamo parlare del fascino che hanno le cassette esterne? Unico! Credits Anche la linea Arcade di Simas sono proprio il genere che desideriamo, e anche questo marchio propone vasi con cassetta a zaino o alta!! ^_^ Il lavello sarà unico e a colonna, con uno specchio enorme sopra… che devo ancora trovare!! Credits Credits Kerasan propone la vasca con i piedini, circa 180x80, ma in resina, mentre quella Simas è in ghisa, ma più piccola! Credits Stiamo valutando quindi la Gentry Home. Una casa inglese vera, i cui sanitari sono davvero strepitosi!! Addirittura con i reggi-cassetta lavorati… *_* Credits Le vasche sono tutte in ghisa e in ogni dimensione! Per fare la scelta non ci resta che valutare per bene il costo di ognuna delle marche!! Credits Infine capitolo rubinetteria… e chi se lo aspettava che i rubinetti che dovremo acquistare per i tre bagni costano quanto l’insieme di sanitari e rivestimenti? A momenti svengo! Credits Per ora stiamo cercando di capire se puntare sul fascino delle due manopoline ai lati della bocchetta, oppure optare per una soluzione più pratica con miscelatore! Credits Cristina rubinetterie per esempio propone la linea art elite, che coniuga la comodità del miscelatore ad uno stile quantomeno non troppo moderno. Credits Anche la Fir propone una linea piuttosto retrò, la Melrose. Devo dire che a livello estetico non mi convincono del tutto, ma d’altro canto siamo pur sempre nel 2014, no? Ed ora chiudo questo post valanga, che vi avrò annoiato abbastanza!! Siete arrivate sveglie fino a qui? Eroiche!! ^_^ Che ne dite delle nostre idee? Avete consigli? Un abbraccio stretto stretto Invia tramite emailPostalo sul blogCondividi su TwitterCondividi su FacebookCondividi su Pinterest
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Using original bits and vintage pieces, making this Craftsman kitchen functional was a high priority.
