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In 1994-95, Janice &
Fred added two floors of modern space to the back of the house.
Here's the new 1st fl living room. The new master bedroom
& jacuzzi bath is upstairs. We also created a piano room/side
entry, centrally air conditioned the entire house, and wired the
house for mulitmedia.
The project was extensive.
Vendors we appreciated most included:
Sharon Weidner of Nancy
Foreman Design
Bill Thomas & Bruce
Grimes of Blue Sky Ventures
Larrick Heating &
Air Conditioning
Kyle Company Electrical
Contractor
Mason Barry Garland
Gramophone Ltd.
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Here's another view. The exposed brick in the background is
the exterior wall of the 1840s section. |
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Here's our home entertainment center designed by Susan
Leahy and constructed, circa 1996, by Wordworks Best, of Baltimore. |
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Another view of the home entertainment center. |
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This new stairway in
the 1840s section connects the 2nd floor to a new driveway-side
entrance lobby/piano room downstairs. Hanging on the right
is a framed oil-on-silk illustration of 'Calibri', Caribbean humming
birds, that we purchased during our 1992 honeymoon in St. Barts.
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Another view of the new
stairway. The brick wall to the left is the exterior of the
original house built in the 1790s.
Janice took the photos
hanging on the wall just ahead during her visit to Ireland with
sisters and her gravely ill Mother in 1993. Doris Uhlhorn
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A nice view of the stairway in natural light. All of the floors
in the addition are matched, random-width, 3/4 inch ash plank. |
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In 1998, we installed
ceramic tile on the side porch to cover badly chipped, 100+ year
old concrete. This view shows the side garden next to the
addition, and the 'bird garden' just beyond. Note the lid
to the cistern well in the foreground.
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Here's the back patio, designed by Fred and installed by local masons
in 1996. The porch roof covering the Marvin slider was designed
by Baylor CAD of Westminster and installed by Michael DeCesare in
2005. |
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Here's our bird & butterfly garden. It doubles as a snack-time
hang-out for our 16-year old cat, Snowball, and her furry neighborhood
nemesis, Cousin Cat. |
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Our 1800's barn, today. |
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Here's our 'two-holer' outhouse in the foreground, and pheasant
coop behind. In 2005, neighborhood friend and hobbyist-carpenter
Roland Childs used Fred's design to build two holding pens for pheasant
chicks that you can barely see inside the coop. Roland fox-proofed
the coop at the same time. Roland and his wife, Barbara, rented
the apartment in the house from Bill Devilbiss briefly during the
60s. |
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Here's an ancient corn crib attached to the barn. |
