Here's a hard one. A heritage house comes up for sale and you want it. Price is right but it's rough, nothing is near code... 2nd floor is a bit spongy, etc etc.. and you really don't like the seven foot ceilings. Hmmm So you bite the bullet... and realize its going to need a roof... and floor joists etc. Eight foot ceiling height requires raising the roof. This of course is going to affect the overall aethetic of the building. you do it.
So, was this a successful solution?
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I guess you don’t notice how weird it looks from the inside. Keep your gaze down while entering and exiting and you’ll never see it.
It's like a bad toupée but on a house. I guess, maybe, it could be worse ?: https://pi.movoto.com/p/1009/110692_0_EU2zrE_r.webp
Ouch!
I was thinking about it. I might have put two or three dormers, maybe run the windows down through the eavestrough line.
Stone veneer would have been a better idea than siding (except for the dormer). It wouldn't "match" per se but would have blended better. My parents built a new barn and had the poured concrete foundation covered with stone veneer and it looks pretty authentic until you know what it is. Would have cost more but not a ton more I don't think.
I didn't consider that it looked weird until you mentioned it. You saved the place and it can be a dwelling for a family for another 200 years. Good job.
paint all the new parts Fluorescent RED. including the front door... don't make me photochop it.
Raising the roof was a good idea but that weird siding arrangement is dreadful. They could have done it as a nice Greek Revival frieze detail with matching little cornice returns and it would have looked classy and original. Someone could still do that. Cute little house though otherwise.
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