Renovations: Plaster Molding Repair
[nggallery id=”27675″ template=galleryview] A regular reader sent in these photos of his recent efforts to repair the plaster crown moldings in his Clinton Hill brownstone. Turns out that back around 1910 someone added a screen to the parlor floor. As part of this project, the reader recycled the screen by handing it off to a…
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A regular reader sent in these photos of his recent efforts to repair the plaster crown moldings in his Clinton Hill brownstone. Turns out that back around 1910 someone added a screen to the parlor floor. As part of this project, the reader recycled the screen by handing it off to a homeowner in Park Slope. Way to go!
Thanks for the validation, Bob (whose tastes I always agree with, here). We’re sure some of our neighbors might have been appalled to see us take out the screen, but we knew it was the right call. Aside from it being not original, thus eligible for removal, we found the screen to be utterly the wrong style. Our house, while a mishmash of styles like all of these brownstones, is a neo-grec with Eastlake details. Also, the screen carved up the room in a manner that might be functional if you wanted to have a library or a string quartet playing at one end, but threw off the proportions and fought with the chandelier and fireplace mirror for focal-point attention.
More important, we thought the Stoners would dig seeing more shots of plaster-pulling, which I think is such a cool process.
I love my screen, but they belong in a turn of the century house–not a Clinton Hill Italianate. Removing the screen, restoring the plaster, and passing the screen on to someone with a later house is a really good solution.
Yea! Classic restoration! More please.
Great job! Brava!
I’ve seen this process before on TOH. We are likely to see it again on the soon-to-be-aired new episodes starting in a week or two on TOH-Brooklyn.