Home profile: Before & after in Ipswich

May 19, 2012 | The almost 12-foot-wide fireplace in the huge family/living room, which was the original keeping room, has a bake-over, plus the original crane and hardware. For example, the house, which has many features of a late Georgian residence, has reasonably high ceilings for a 262-year-old — six fireplaces, a Captain’s staircase (and a back one, too), fabulous random width pine floor boards (six inches and... Original pine paneling is on two walls, but the “antique” delight in this room is a First Period hand-hewn ceiling beam with a gunstock/splayed corner post and a carved edge. Eight-over-12 windows insure that every room — they are all well proportioned — is filled with light. By the way, deep detailed molding is around the windows. Each window has two sets and they all work. One is a diamond in the rough, the other a move-in ready sweetheart. Ipswich has some of the top 17th-century houses in the nation. Classic and elegant, this 1750 Colonial has all the prerequisite elements — and a few extras needed to make it the showpiece it undoubtedly once was. Read more »

The Songs of Birds, the Crack of the Bat

May 19, 2012 | “It's as if the fountain makes the images of the mural come alive,” he said. In this garden, guests can listen to soft jazz and warm themselves by the iron fireplace. They can admire the cardinals, the doves and the blue jay that feast on the suet Mr.

Good Stuff

May 19, 2012 | Pleasanton's Annual Christmas Decorations Contest had its fair share of entrants, but it was the elaborate mural of Mrs. Stanley E. Thomsen that won the judges' admiration. Described as "a beautiful, hand-painted outdoor scene" by judges, the mural was

'Up' movie house replica sells for $400k

May 19, 2012 | Using the movie as a guide, Bangerter created a two-storey, colourful house with details including a mural over the fireplace and the painted mailbox. However, unlike the original, the Utah house has a basement (which would have been impractical for