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pine or other softwoods the wood
will mellow over time but there will
still be imperfections.
Lighting fixtures:
Very few older houses had
ceiling -mounted fixtures originally.
If you want to stay true to the period
you would be better choosing wall -
mounted brackets. The room will
also look larger if you have lights
mounted on the walls.
Pick fixtures that are either old
ones refurbished or that look old.
Take one style of fixture and use it
throughout the house. There were so
few fixtures in the old days that they
used the one style everywhere in the
house.
Fireplaces:
We think of fireplaces in old
houses but very few of the large old
houses built in western Ontario had
fireplaces, Rutledge says. By the
time most of these houses were built
box stoves and furnaces were
providing much more warmth and
comfort than a fireplace ever could.
If you are wanting to put a
fireplace into an older house, it
should be small and simple.
Elaborate modern fireplaces used to
provide some heat through blowers,
etc. should not be in the main, older
part of the house.
Back staircases:
Many older houses had two
staircases, a more decorative front
staircase and a smaller rear staircase.
By today's building codes, many of
these back staircases at too steep and
too narrow and often lack proper
headroom. As long as you don't alter
the staircase it can be retained. If you
make changes, however, you'll have
to redesign it to make it conform to
modern building codes. If, for
instance, there is a door at the bottom
of the stairs you can keep it, but you
couldn't build one that way today.
"In some houses it is appropriate
to have a back staircase," he says.
Remember to make all your
changes simple. As Rutledge said
about last month: "Architectural style
is a certain set of details that go
together and have a certain oneness.
The desire to have it all doesn't
work. Things end up fighting each
other. Err on the side of plainness."0
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