Saturday June 3rd – This Weekend! Company is Coming at the Yellow Farmhouse.
Tag: How-to Projects
Antiques Elixir Vol. One | Company is Coming at the Yellow Farmhouse
Antiques and old-world charm bring me joy. It’s the warmth I feel when surrounded by early painted furniture burned with years of built-up patina. I am in my happy place when surrounded by old textiles, quilts, samplers, folk art etc.… It is all beautiful to me.
Beau Pré In the Beginning | Chapter One
“Welcome to Paradise”!!! I replied: “The House or the Town”??? Rick Replied: “Oh geeze… definitely the town”!!!
Old Home Repair & Restoration Workshop | Nova Scotia
Introducing the Nova Scotia Homeowner’s Series 2022. LIVE and In-Person – Paradise, Nova Scotia October 1st, 2022
Heritage Building Pathology | Professional Intensive Program
There is a critical shortage of heritage professionals who perform Building Pathology on the vast stock of older houses and commercial buildings across Canada and the United States.
Bits and Pieces | A Restoration How-To Project
During the restoration of timber elements such as doors, windows, etc., the inevitability of tearing the wood is frequent and sometimes unavoidable.
The Spring Homeowner’s Series | June 11, 2022
Saturday June 11, 2022…. Old House Restoration & Repair for Homeowners – A new approach to help historic homeowners get the high quality, research-informed information they need to repair and restore their most valuable possession… their homes! Now you can take our award winning course from anywhere in the world!
The Spring Homeowner’s Series | June 11, 2022
Saturday, June 11, 2022 — Old House Restoration & Repair for Homeowners – A new approach to help historic homeowners get the high quality, research-informed information they need to repair and restore their most valuable possession… their homes! Now you can take our award winning course from anywhere in the world!
Heritage Building Pathology | Professional Intensive Program
There is a critical shortage of heritage professionals who perform Building Pathology on the vast stock of older houses and commercial buildings across Canada and the United States.
Tin Ceiling Conundrum!
The kitchen has been driving me crazy, mainly because it was in the most miserable condition of all! The tin ceiling had great chunks of lead based paint dangling from it, hmm images of a big pot of stew or soup simmering on the stove with paint chips floating down into it like autumn leaves!
A Heritage Landscape | Neo-Classical Fence
This lovely 18th century house (circa 1716) is located north of Boston, Massachusetts. These images were taken in the early 1930’s and are a record of both the building and this most remarkable wood fence. I would surmise the fence would date from the mid 19th century, but it has a very Neo-Classical flavour to the design so it could even be earlier.
The Eastlake Movement | House Spotting
Eastlake – is it a man, a piece of furniture or an architectural design style?
Floorcloths | A Fashionable History
Floorcloths or “Oylcloths” are first mentioned in Britain at the beginning of the eighteenth century. They were painted by humble house painters and often offered in the classical designs used for marble floors by the fashionable architects of the day.
The Jacobean Revival | Style Guide
During the last two decades of the nineteenth and first two decades of the twentieth century, American and Canadian architects became well entrenched in the British Arts & Crafts movement, with some embracing elements of the Tudor and Jacobean Revival house styles of the time.
Wood Shingles | A Once Ubiquitous Crown
Their contractor warned wood shingles was more expensive and yet also, not as good. Their contractor was a coward. That last one was my assertion, and it still is!
Painted Brick? What to do?
Many times I come across houses that have been painted and many of our subscribers ask what to do with the painted bricks and in some case, how you can remove the paint from the brick?
Repairing Antique Hinges
Many wooden doors that have given faithful service for a century or two suffer from sagging because of screw holes which have become, after literally thousands of sharp shocks with closing and opening, too large for the screws. The whole door binds and sags, making it difficult to shut.
Green Water DIY – An olde fashioned wooden rain barrel solution.
The problem with most commercial water collection barrels is they are plastic and unattractive and do not fit in the landscape of a Vintage Home very well.
How-To Project One – Prop-It!
Summer is here and it is always nice to prop open your old fashioned guillotine windows (a window devoid of weights and pulleys) and take advantage of cool evening breezes. The problem with this is what to use other than a book (see Image 1). During our visit to the east coast a couple of…
Old Home Living 