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September 16, 2005
Front Hall Partition and Door
This is how the partition came out in the front hall of the parlor floor. A necessary evil given how we are dividing the house, both to create separation from the garden floor rental and the private "studio" for our sister at the back of the parlor floor. Notice the pipe molding that we rescued from another part of the house to try to make the doorway look more at home. It is what it is though: Out of place. But what can you do.
Comments
It looks good, and it is a nice door too. Well done with the molding.
Posted by: Anonymous at September 16, 2005 1:31 PM
We did the same thing albeit it is not a permanent situation for us. You might think about reproducing the chair molding on the left and putting it up on the wall that is covering the other banister. That and maybe some kind of molding on the top of the wall over the door. It doesn't look bad the way it is, but you could do a few things to really pull it together to make it look more like it belongs there...just my 2 cents.
Posted by: sba at September 16, 2005 1:55 PM
Like the idea for the chair rail molding. Thanks.
Posted by: Brownstoner at September 16, 2005 2:47 PM
We did something very similar and its worked out well (gave us a separate entrance from our tenants, as well as some badly needed closet space.) You will be surprised at how quickly you get used to the new spatial configuration. (Hall? What hall?)
Posted by: Naomi at September 26, 2005 4:40 PM
P.S. Ours is hopefully a temporary situation too. We took an opposite approach from you with regard to integration-- went for generic, modern detailing without historic embellishment in an attempt to make it "go away" instead of "look at home." It works well aesthetically-- as does yours. Just another way to skin the cat.
Posted by: Naomi at September 26, 2005 4:47 PM
just bought a townhouse in bedstuy. the owner made a lot of crazy changes to the stairway. plant pedestals, wood carvings, etc. anyhew, we want to remove this stuff that extends out about a foot beyond the staircase, but when we spoke to the construction guy, he told us that there was some kind of load bearing wall holding up the staircase. i see in your picture that you have about 4 or 5 inches of sheetrock next to the staircase. question, is that your addition? Of course we'll talk to an architect before doing any work on it. but i am just curious because i've never seen a staircase like this before.
please let me know.
Posted by: Anonymous at October 6, 2005 1:16 AM
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