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15_the_circle ([personal profile] 15_the_circle) wrote2007-07-09 06:39 pm

porch series continued

[OT from cottage renovations]

another image in the continuing irregular Grove cottage porch series. 

(click through these thumbnails for higher resolution images)



Maple Avenue

front porch

front porch
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[personal profile] gracegiver 2007-07-09 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Love, love LOVE the off-centeredness of the front door. But you didn't explain the yellow lily barricade.
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re: yellow lily barricade

[identity profile] 15-the-circle.livejournal.com 2007-07-10 02:27 am (UTC)(link)

by clicking through to the higher res views you might note that there are some structural issues there: the posts at the bottom and the stair treads are rotting, there's a general slope downwards to the right, and some other issues going on in the upper woodwork. 

the property owner has scheduled that porch for a rebuild; the work should get underway within the next few days if it hasn't started already.  it will be interesting to see how it comes out.  as a practicing architect and chairman of the Grove's Historic Preservation Commission he certainly knows this stuff. 

so the row of yellow lilies?  I would imagine they are intended to discourage anyone from going up or down those stairs until the work is done.