4/2/2023 0 Comments Popouts by timeworksAluminum covered wood windows do have some problems, mostly with moisture trapped beneath the aluminum eventually rotting the wood, and by the time you notice, they are shot. Usually this is a longer-lasting and less expensive solution, although I applaud you for going with wood rather than vinyl windows. DIY interior storms can be nearly invisible and are easy to change out in the summer-there are kits available online for the plexiglass and magnetic strip type and inexpensive wood frame and plastic ones directions are available at Mother Earth News and other sources. John Leeke at Historic Homeworks and the Craftsman Blog have good info on fixing and weahterstripping old windows, and Bob Yapp has a good article on the subject as well. Are you sure the old windows are beyond repair? Usually even the most horrible of windows can be repaired and have exterior or interior storms added to nearly equal new window efficiency, and old growth wood is better quality than new. How old is your house? It looks to me like it dates to around 1910-1930. A lighter door surround will do wonders-Colonial Revival ones never look right painted black. Remember if you house jumps off the block it doesn't make you home look any better or your neighbors either and it also impacts your house's value as well. It all depends on how you want you house to look and feel. You could make this a painted lady with strong colors or a quiet craftsman with monochromatic colors- or anything in between. Visually these are essentially structural elements although they aren't actually and they should feel like they are part of the whole- so they want just a small degree of differentiation. You can see from these porch braces how using to dark a color makes them feel like they are stuck on the porch posts and could just be popped off. It would also be a good idea to uses a mid tone punch color for the knee braces and porch braces. This will bring your eye back down to the interesting parts of the house. Lastly to create a visual stop as your eye naturally goes up to the top of the house, paint the fascia of the roofline a dark Punch color. You should paint the eaves (soffits and rafter tails) in a light color so they will shadow and get noticed but you don't want to draw attention to them by highlighting them in a color. It will naturally project but it is not an element that wants to make a major statement. Paint the shake balcony element in the same color as the shake on the gable. Make the basic element of these items a light trim color: the posts, window/door trim, ceilings, railings etc. The next element is the porch and second floor balcony. If you change hues make sure the two colors blend. I would use a color a couple of value steps lighter than the base color for this. The next section is the second story and the gable. Make these the darkest value so the house has come weight. Start with the first floor and the siding below the porch. The house sits up high so you want to act to bring it down and ground it. The next is to figure out color placement in terms of value (the light to dark scale of color) Once you know how the color values work together you can punch in the same value in whatever hues you are contemplating. The key to developing a good color scheme is to first find the major design components of the house and their relationships to each other. It should be dictated by what pleases you and modulated by its context, ie the next door neighbors.
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