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- Keep The Character
- Fancy Wood Floors
- Vintage Detail: Square-Knot Inlays
- A Star-Shaped Ceiling Medallion Is Born
- Vintage Detail: Ceiling Medallion
- Retro Tile with Style
- Vintage Detail: Art Deco Bath Tile
- Mastering The Plaster
- Vintage Detail: Plaster Profiles
- Vintage Detail: Plaster Profile
“Not all houses like ours still have so many original details,” says Kurt Albrecht, pointing to the inlaid hardwood floors, ceiling medallions, Art Deco tile, and ornamental plasterwork that give personality to the current This Old HouseTV project, a 1933 Spanish Colonial Revival in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. Kurt and his wife, Ma...
The floors in the house’s living and dining rooms feature a perimeter apron made of strips of oak in a log-cabin pattern, inlaid with narrower strips of walnut with a square-knot pattern in each corner. “Inlays and intricate patterns became popular after the Industrial Revolution, when wood flooring became cheaper to manufacture,” says TOHTV master...
Flooring contractor Luke Hillerre-created the look for the floor of the new family room placing a ¾-inch walnut inlay within the 1½-inch oak strip flooring, all held together with tongue-and-groove joinery cut with a router. To make the knots, Hiller mitered one end of a long border strip, then mitered shorter lengths to form the square, and comple...
While the original four-point-star ceiling medallion in the dining room is made of oak, the TOHproject team opted for softer, easier-to-mill poplar for the replicas they’re installing in the new master bedroom and family room. Here’s how the crew recreated this detail in the new addition.
Custom cabinetmaker Larry Bucklan of Bucklan Design Woodworksused a molding gauge to copy the original medallion’s profile which was then used to make a knife fitted into a spindle shaper that cut the profile from a length of 2½ x 2½ poplar. Then four pairs of molding strips were mitered at opposing angles: one end at 21 degrees and the other at 69...
The original bathroom’s colorful Art Deco tile couldn’t be salvaged, but Kurt and Mary hoped to carry the style forward into the addition. For the downstairs powder room, they mixed handcrafted restoration ceramic tile in banana yellow from Mission Tile West with less-expensive black tile from Daltile. Keep reading to see how the crew recreated thi...
Here, contractor Juan Sandoval installs a border in the same sawtooth pattern that edged the old bathtub.
Kurt and Mary loved the fanciful “wedding cake” plaster detailing—named for its resemblance to piped-on icing—on the walls of their old bedroom. To re-create it, Home Frontplaster expert Alfonso Garcia traced the original onto a piece of paper, cut out a cardboard template, and traced the shape onto the walls of the master bedroom. Keep reading to ...
He used a canvas grout bag fitted with a star-shaped nozzle (the same geometry as the original nozzle) to apply plaster to the walls.
As he cleaned up plaster around the curve, he used the cardboard template to help maintain its shape.
S32 E22: Spanish Style: Stucco, Ornamental Iron, Hand Glazed Tile. Alfonso shows Kevin the last two steps of the stucco system. We see the house’s new period-appropriate ornamental ironwork. The reproduction tile for our project is hand glazed and goes up inside. S32 E21: It Never Rains In California?
This Old House Season 32 Episode 22 - Los Angeles | Spanish Style: Stucco, Ornamental Iron, Hand Glazed Tile
- John Tomlin
- January 1, 2011
- Kevin O'connor
Jan 19, 2022 · The low-pitched red tile roofs, decorative wrought-iron work, colorful tiles and stucco surfaces of the Spanish Colonial-Revival style of architecture define Southern California’s...
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The last steps of the stucco system, embedded mesh for strength and crack protection and a top layer with integrated color and a sand texture; new period-appropriate ornamental ironwork; how...
