Tag: Doors
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When Apertures Become Windows
We’ve been finalizing a timely transition from porosity to fenestration in the icehouse rehab. Framed but temporarily concealed apertures have been cut out and transformed into doorways and windows. Jamb extensions, sills, and trims — carpentry confections that conjoin and integrate discrete elements into a cohesive architectural whole — are finally complete inside the icehouse.…
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West Elevation Doorway Installed
I’m thrilled to showcase the icehouse’s west facade with new double doors flanked with full-height side lites. What a transformation. With the west elevation doorway installed we’re approaching the point where reality resembles Tiho’s renderings. Remember that west elevation drawing Tiho created to help the team visualize where we were headed? The image below captures…
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Siding Before Windows?
Notice something peculiar about our clapboard siding installation? Typically windows (and doors) would be installed before siding. And before trim. It works better. For lots of reasons. But… We’ve added an extra challenge. Not by choice. Our timeline on this project, reasonable last summer, became more compressed as summer slid into autumn and then yawned…
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Icehouse Rehab 7: Window Apertures
It sure is fun to see the three double hung windows emerging on the north elevation of the icehouse. And the three fixies above. And the three fixies on the south elevation. And the freshened up window aperture in the southeast corner, opposite the new bathroom in the small anteroom (once framing, well, and everything…