Posted in Removing Popcorn Ceiling, tagged popcorn ceiling, suburbia on November 25, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Popcorn ceilings give me creepy memories of living in a treeless suburban track of ticky-tacky houses. Having lived within expanses of characterless drywall and wall-to-wall carpeting is one reason I really appreciate old city houses. I can still recall the constant pleading for the family car as my only means of escape…
Be forewarned that what [...]
Posted in House Virgin Hysterics, tagged Edwardian, Old house, Victorian on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Knowing the style of the house and how to keep that character is not easy for someone making the transition from apartment or condo living.
Assuming they care, people with old houses are forced onto a learning curve that can be very confusing. It is easy to tell which neighbours care about getting an old house [...]
Posted in Toronto's Bay-and-Gable Victorian Style, tagged Bay-and-Gable, Gothic, Italianate, Queen Anne, Toronto, Victorian on November 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Three story homes with ten foot or higher ceilings in the public rooms resulted in eccentric narrow and tall homes in both semi and row figurations.
The Bay-and-Gable homes of Toronto are unique within the world of Victorian architecture, in part due to taxation laws of the time that assessed annual taxes based on the width [...]
