Kelsey Holker Monticello Interior Design: September 2013

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Housing Styles

Tudor

This Tudor revival house features wood trim to suggest half timbers, a double gable front, and a decorative chimney. The front door wall is stone, the half timbered front is brick, and the rest of the facade stucco. 1920's, has a steep roof.

Neo-Classical Greek Revival

The Greek revival has pillars that form a classical Portico. The facade is symmetrical. It is very formal looking

Queen Anne has many gables, a turret, large porch, decorative shingles, and elaborate wood decoration.

Queen Anne

A Bungalow you can find a front shed dormer, full width porch, and exposed roof rafters. Usually has natural colors, with a low roof.

Bungalow

Ranch attached garage often dominates the design. Private patio.

Ranch (Split level)

The Prairie has wide overhangs, a hipped roof, and bands of casement windows. Horizontal lines, hidden front door, and stained glass windows.

Prairie

Colonial Revival - Georgian, demonstrates a symmetrical facade, spoiled only by the attached garage. the front door surrounded with its suggested pillars. The front door features side lights. this style lacks a central chimney. It is formal and simple

Colonial revival (Georgian)

International School floats on pillars and is and exercise in geometrical lines and space. Made of glass concrete and steel.

International School

Colonial revival - Cape Code- has a large central chimney, gabled dormers, and shingled facade. the front door uses wood trim to hint at classical pillars. has a classical doorway, it is smaller and has a detached garage.

Colonial revival - Cape Code

Colonial revival- Dutch has a Gambrel roof with front shed dormer. Barn type roof, arched entries

Colonial revival - Dutch

Neo-Eclectic - (post modern) This contemporary house features a Palladian window motif, decorative front gables suggestive of a Queen Anne style, and a front porch.

Neo-Eclectic - (post modern)

Housing Styles

Roof Styles:

Front Gable

Side Gable

Gable Roof: The triangular section of a wall formed by the end of a pointed (gabled) roof.

Gambrel Roof: A roof with two slopes on each side, the lower slope having the steeper pitch. Often found in Colonial revival houses in the "Dutch" style.

Gambrel

Hip Roof: (hipped Roof) A roof with slopes on all four sides. The "hips" are the lines formed when the slopes meet at the center.

Hipped roof

Saltbox

Saltbox: A frame house with two stories in front and one in back, having a pitched roof with unequal sides, being short and high in front and long and low in back.

Mansard

Mansard: a hip roof having two slopes on each side

Housing characteristics:

Bay Window

Bay Window: A set of two or more windows that protrude out from the wall. The window is moved away from the wall to provide more light and wider views.

Casement Window

Casement window: A window that opens by swinging inward or outward much like a door. Casement windows are usually vertical in shape but are often grouped in bands.

Clapboard

Clapboard:Also known as weatherboard or siding. Long, narrow boards overlapped to cover the outer walls. Used in Colonial style frame houses.

Dormer

Dormer: The setting for a vertical window in the roof. Called a gable dormer if it has its own gable or a shed dormer if a flat roof. most often found in upstairs bedrooms.
Eaves: that portion of the roof that projects beyond the wall. I call it the "over hang"

Eaves

The windows on the garage door are Fan lights

Fanlight: A semicircular or arched window above a door
Palladian window: A three part window featuring a large arched center and flanking rectangular sidelights.

Palladian Window

Pediment: A triangular crown used over doors, windows, or porches. A classical style.

The triangle on top of the porch is Called a Pediment

Portico

Portico: A large porch usually with a pediment roof supported by classical columns of pillars.
Rafter: A roof beam sloping from the ridge to the wall. in most houses, rafters are visible only from the attic. In styles such as craftsman bungalows and some "rustic" contemporaries, they are exposed.

Rafters

Turret

Sidelight

Sidelights: Windows on either side of a door.
Turret:A small tower, often at the corner of a building. Common in Queen Anne styles among others. A turret is a smaller structure while a tower begins at ground level.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Field Trip

JAMES J. HILL HOUSE

http://sites.mnhs.org/historic-sites/james-j-hill-house/hill-house

James J. Hill built a house that symbolized success, but one that also suited him and his family. He rejected stained-glass window designs by Tiffany and Company, saying they were "anything but what I want," and even replaced the architects when they ignored his orders to the stonecutters. He instructed his Boston interior design firm Irving and Casson to finish the project. Their work included a large number of custom furniture pieces on the first and second floors.

Completed in 1891, the mansion was the largest and most expensive home in Minnesota. It contained 36,500 square feet on five floors including 13 bathrooms, 22 fireplaces, 16 cut-glass chandeliers, a two-story skylit art gallery, an 88-foot reception hall, and a profusion of elaborately carved oak and mahogany woodwork. It also boasted a three-story pipe organ created by renowned Boston organ-maker, George Hutchings. Sophisticated mechanical systems throughout the mansion provided central heating, gas and electric lighting, plumbing, ventilation, security, and communication. The final cost totaled $931,275.01 including construction, furnishings, and landscaping for the three-acre estate.

The house was owned by : James Jerome Hill

The architect was : Mark Fitzpatrick

SUMMIT AVE, ST.PAUL

The people who lived on summit avenue, and the ones who live in these houses today, are the wealthy. The upkeep on these homes is very expensive, and the tax alone on a house on Summit avenue is nearly $30,000 a year.

I think the most common style of house on this street is probably Queen Anne.

I don’t think I really have a favorite I like them all so much. They are all so pretty, and I love the antiqueness of them. I’ve always wanted to live in a cool house like these. But they are so expensive!

INTERNATIONAL MARKET SQUARE

Before 1915 After

The international Market Square was originally a factory. Undergarments continued to be produced in the Glenwood Avenue plant until 1980. In 1981 Munsingwear halted manufacturing at the Minneapolis plant and transferred operations to other locations. Machinery was gathered up and shipped elsewhere. The factory buildings were cleaned and dismantled. An atrium was created to connect the buildings and create an interior space out of the railroad loading and unloading site. The actual structure of the plant complex has been changed little after the last major building was finished in 1915, and the exterior of the International Market Square appears much the same as it did back in 1915. In 1985 the old Musingwear Inc. building became International Market Square (IMS), it is Minnesota's largest renovated building. IMS is a showplace for home, office, and commercial furnishings and accessories. International Market Square's primary function is to serve professional designers, architects, specifiers, contractors, builders, and their clients. Providing quick access to information on new trends, patterns and services. IMS has 70 plus showrooms to showcase new high class design features. Their inventory includes virtually every single item for the home or office environment. It was the first design center anywhere to include architectural buildings products like brick, tile and moldings with home and office furniture and accessories. The building also includes 96 residential lofts that can be viewed at www.imslofts.com

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Housing Life Cycle

Middle years- Family Home:

9414 Oriole LN.

Monticello, MN 55362

$169,900

3 bedroom

2 bathroom

Heated 2 car garage

I like this house because it’s not too small and not too big. It’s the perfect size for a family. I’s got a good amount of storage, with a heated garage. I like that it has a small porch. It has a good sized kitchen witch I love because I really like to cook. It provides you with Love and belonging because you it has neighbors, also it is right across the street from the schools. It is also not very far from my childhood home where my parents live. It has good shelter with a basement. Also has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.

Young Adult- Apartment Cheap house/ roomates

1512 Pine St.

Brainerd, MN 56401

$64,000

2 bedroom

1 bathroom

1 car garage

This house Is a cute little house. Great for young adults, it’s a 3 bedroom house with 2 bathrooms, great for a few friends to live together. It’s affordable to rent. At $248/month.Great for young adults just starting out. It has good security and safety with a porch, and enclosed porch with a locking door, and then the front door. So you have two doors to protect you. It has a fenced in yard and a one car garage. It has a crawl space basement, which could be used for storage and shelter in case of bad weather. It has a really cool light post in the front yard that I really like. its got creativity the inside of the enclosed porch is all pink which is unique.

Senior years- Downsize

1323 Eklund Ave

Duluth, MN 55811

$108,000

2 Bedrooms

1 Bathroom

1 Car garage

for an elderly couple this is a good size house it is a

great location, there are tons of cool fun things to do and see in Duluth. With two rooms so in case the grand kids come to visit for the night you'll have a spot for them to sleep. it has a little shed out back for some storage, and it has a cute little kitchen. it gives love and belonging with neighbors. but also privacy because the houses aren't really close to each other.

Senior Citizens-Assisted Living
living in an assisted living town home, you have close neighbors, and friends. but you also have your own personal room for your own privacy. There is always someone around to make sure you are safe and have everything you need. the location is great being in the heart of beautiful Colorado.

Adult Day
Assisted Living
Chaplain Services
Continuing Care RetirementOption
Home Care
HUD Housing
Memory Support
Rehabilitation
Residential Living
Respite Care
Skilled Nursing
Tailored Living (A La Carte)
Vibrant Town Center
Community Marketplace
Onsite Physicians Office
Indoor/Outdoor Fireplace
Convenience Store
Billards
Alter-G Anti-Gravity Treadmill
Water Feature
Eden Alternative Lifestyle

Friday, September 6, 2013

Mood Board Olio Board

I grew up on a farm, so I really like the antiques, the rustic look. I also really love Disney and still enjoying the occasional moments of “being a kid” so I put the Bambi clock on there. Photography is one of my hobbies and I love picture frames. I have picture frames in my room just hanging there with nothing in them. Someday I will fill them but I like the frames so they will hang empty for now. I am a very outdoorsy person which explains a lot of the woodsy items on here. I go to church on a regular basis which is why I but the cross in there, also its got a western look which I enjoy very much. I am very artsy which is why I have a painting on there.

Villeroy & Boch Mariefleur Kitchen Tea Kettle 67 1/2 oz

$35

Mossy Turtle by Cyan Design 01061

$54

Western Star Cross Wall Plaque

$13

Path Through the Corn at Pourville, 1882

$13

Ferm Living - Animal Farm Wall Sticker : Ferm Living - Animal Farm Wall Sticker-Blue

$110

Colorful Embossed Metal Monterrey Wall Candle Holder

$50