It’s every home renovator’s dream: You lift a floorboard in the attic and, voilà! There are the original blueprints, with dimensions, specs and elevation drawings. The mysteries of your house are solved, and you have a roadmap for repairs and restoration.For most of us, this is only a dream. In the early 1900s and before, builders rarely drew up the kind of detailed specifications found in modern blueprints. House construction was largely a matter of convention, using methods passed down by word of mouth. Written manuals and pattern books often contained the hazy instruction, “Build in the usual way.
In addition to Aladdin, another notable manufacturer of kit homes was International Mill & Timber (IMT) located in Bay City, Michigan. In 1916, they published a catalog of houses representative of the prevailing American taste in homes. A range of styles is shown including the traditional, but very popular, Colonial Revival and its kin, many permutations of the Craftsman-style bungalow, and a nifty English Tudor designed to be added onto as one’s finances allowed. We’ve published about 15 different homes that provide a taste of IMT’s range.
Many customers we’ve spoken to have complained about the inaccuracies of other services. Through our research we found that the reason for the discrepancies was due to two major factors. First, the material cost and labor data was not updated often enough. To solve this, we maintain real-time updates. Since StartBuild is continuously building homes, they receive new material prices continuously which are then immediately fed into the Cost to Build Estimator. Second, we found that the other estimators did not take into account the dramatic difference in price that customer’s choices make. For instance, high-end windows, granite counter tops, exotic hardwood floors, specialty roofing materials can cost 3-5 times as much as lower end materials. Our estimator enables you to expect and control those costs, before you ever break ground.Suggest yellow tones for your family room and dining room. Both rooms probably have the woodwork stained a warm brown, like old Italian walnut.
In the room with a fireplace – have a paneled chimney-piece, carried to the ceiling, and a heavy wooden molding at the ceiling line. Just below the molding, a stencil design in ivory would look perfect ,At the windows straight curtains of yellow silk. Dark wood furniture with loose cushions of liberty velvet in yellow tones.These rooms require no rugs, but should have the floor stained like the woodwork and highly polished.A stone or tiled floor will improve the resonant quality of the room.In the next room – use and orange-brown for the walls. Add an Oriental rug in blue and orange tones. Brown velor hangings at the doors into library and dining room.For adjacent rooms… woodwork stained a medium green, and use green tiles in the fireplace. Use wallpaper in two tones of green.The woodwork of the dining room will depend upon your furniture.
With oak have a dark shade of golden oak.OrWith mahogany, finish woodwork in stained mahogany.Paper the walls with wallpapers which have green figures, on a warm tan colored background, and an irregular tracery of black lines.Curtains of plain Arabian net, and a rug in green and brown tones.For the second story, for the northeast rooms, I would suggest white woodwork, a striped paper in two tones of buff and furnishings of cotton with bright flowers on a buff ground.In the smaller south room cover the upper third of the walls with a blue and white paper and the remainder with a blue-gray cartridge paper. Have white enameled furniture, a blue cotton rug, and use blue and white cotton for curtains and cushions.
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