Colt & Co., Colt Houses, 1954, Also see information about modern Colt houses in the U.K. at http://colthouses.co.uk/Below: Page from a 1925 Dodds Kit House Catalog. Dodds Kit Homes / Dodds Pattern Book HousesCirca 1914 by Everett S. Dodds, a Nebraska home designer, produced a ...
Cape Cod (1600s–1950s). Image Cortesía de American Home Shield "The first Cape Cod-style houses were built by Puritan settlers who came to America in the late 17th century. They modeled the spaces after the half-timbered houses of their English homeland but adapted the style to the ...
It is lovely to be here in the UK at the moment, but I will be leaving again in a couple of weeks, for more adventures. My aim is get all of the summer/ and autumn blog posts completed before I leave, as I then have seven weeks of travel before my return to Spain in April. I...
In the UK, “terraced houses” or simply “terraces” are used to describe rowhouses, while the term “townhouse” denotes a wealthy mansion located within a city. The rowhouse is amazingly adaptable to whatever period of architectural style it happens to be built in, because it follows a ...
We ensure everything that we do is not only built with care and precision, but is built to last a lifetime. The Hartley Botanic greenhouse company has been manufacturing hand made aluminum greenhouses in the UK for 80 years. Can We Help?
We are travelling around the UK in our motorhome. We discovered we liked it so much and found it all so interesting that we’ve not been home for three and half years now! Nick is a superb photographer (it’s his photos that have been used on this blog) and I keep the diary. ...
Serious damage from moisture has been found in 82 per cent of single-family homes built since the 1950s. The majority of the damage seen today in wooden buildings is concentrated in wet areas, base floor structures and the joints between the base floor and wall structures. In order for ...
Not these days. Original farmhouse examples are found in the Northeast where settlers first landed on U.S. shores, but they came into their own in the Midwest, where farming remains big business. Also, farmhouses are found a lot in country side in the UK as the picture above. ...
in both the US and the UK kicked in, she bought houses almost as often and as casually as a player in the board game Monopoly does. I believe at one point she owned eight at the same time, and even though her count dwindled into the 1940s and 1950s, acquiring and renovating and ...
During the 1960s the booming economy allowed a greater clientele than before to employ architects to create modern and individually designed houses. Examples that demonstrate this are the 1965 Littlejohn House in Karori, Wellington and the 1969 Tustin House in LowerHutt. Both were built by the ...