WHAT DO YOU CALL THIS THING?
Ok the brownstone I live in has a great staircase, with a cool newel post, there is also a small landing at the foot of the stairs. At the base of the stairs there is another newel post and a thing on top of it that extends out from the wall. It’s a cool detail…
Ok the brownstone I live in has a great staircase, with a cool newel post, there is also a small landing at the foot of the stairs. At the base of the stairs there is another newel post and a thing on top of it that extends out from the wall. It’s a cool detail i would like to keep but maybe replace with something nicer. Can someone tell me what this thing is called? I’ll post an image soon. help.
I’m looking for carpeting for my stairs for the same reasons. They’re very noisy.
I don’t hate it, I’ve seen versions of it done better. My goal is to preserve aspects of the house and juxtapose them with modern furniture. The exposed pipes are a sprinkler system that runs through the entire house. I prefer it to having a nasty fire escape in the back. Ideally I would replace it with something more substantial. The thing is very rickety and is missing several pieces. Don’t think it was original to the building. And no I won’t just rip it out and toss it. I would probably just store it or sell it.
As for the carpeting, it came with the house. It’s pretty ugly but keeps the stairs pretty quiet.
I agree 100%, Bob.
Also, keeping Grandma’s corset is appropriate if she is still wearing it. An historic house is the same. Great info, 12:18.
If one doesn’t want an old house, complete with the details that define it, then don’t buy one, or get one that has already been stripped. If you must remove it, I agree, carefully put it in storage for the next owner. Can’t count the times people comment on how they found the original doors, shutters, fretwork, etc, in the basement, and were overjoyed.
I think the exposed plumbing is there for the hanging of canes and corsets referenced by 12:30.
Those aren’t balustrades, they’re spindles. I believe balustrades are the actual handrail.
The exposed plumbing works great for pull ups..
What kind of carpeting is that and where did you buy it?
Whatever you call it, it’s a whole lot better than the exposed plumbing up at the ceiling and going over the landing of the floor above.
Actually, they’re fairly common [allbeit still beautiful] in neighborhoods with houses built between the late 1890s and 1910s. Some houses on Rutland Road in PLG , for example, have similar details.My own house, on another LM street, has an elaborate fretwork screen separating the front and middle parlors, but nothing like this on the stairs.
I suspect that 12:30’s comment is tongue-in-cheek, but original interior features of a house aren’t really the same as old cloths. OTOH I know lots of brownstoners of my generation who would have felt justified in using those disgarded canes on the assholes who removed these irreplacable details in the ’40s and ’50s to make their houses “modern.” [NOT me–the previous owners of my house left virtually EVERYTHING. That’s why I bought it].