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exterior upgrade/symmetry.....

5 years ago

Redoing an old farmhouse...need symmetry on 2nd floor. Window would be in middle of tiny bathroom....HELP!!!!

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  • 5 years ago

    We need to see the bathroom to help. Meanwhile, start getting the overgrowth cleared away and any serious structural issues taken care of. Have you finished with the interior or are you at the starting point? You need an overall plan; don't go at it in a random way.

  • 5 years ago

    I love it the way it is! Paint and landscape is all that is needed.


    What ever you decide, keep posting, we love seeing the update.

  • 5 years ago

    Don't have any ideas for you there, sorry. What bothers me more than the blank space is the windows that are there. They are off-period. I'd try really hard to stick with the style of the period during reno

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    5 years ago

    I have to agree the windows all need replacing and the blank wall is not a big deal but if you want a window IMO it needs to be the same size as the others and IMO centered above the door.The interior needs to be done all theway before worrying about the exterior, you also need to share what you are going for. Do you want an old farmhouse style or a more modern farmhouse ?If you ned some help with the interior then you need to post pics and to scale floor plans for that.

  • 5 years ago

    Love this!!! He siding looks great ! I’d add a third window. And possibly paint the trim black. Clean up the shrubbery obviously and maybe do a deep rich brown or even black door. Or you can just repaint the exhisting one. Remove the screen door. Also beef up the porch Columns and add a proper walkway. I’m picturing herringbone whitewash bricks

  • 5 years ago
    last modified: 5 years ago

    Can the window for the bathroom be put on the side of the house? Trying to match everything up may be a challenge. Putting the window on the side of the house, may work better.

  • 5 years ago

    Since you are redoing the farmhouse, do you plan to remodel the tiny bathroom? Please add some interior photos of the bathroom.

  • 5 years ago

    what bothers me more than the lack of a third window is the roof (apparently) over the porch seems to be different on the left side as it appears on the right side. Perhaps just how the photo shows it rather than what is actually there. but where the porch roof connects to the house; look at the 'visual' of that connection on the right and then how the connection is on the left.

  • 5 years ago
    last modified: 5 years ago

    new-beginning if you notice the roof and porch extends around the house on one side but not on the other. This is normal in some areas of the country.

    I do wonder if the door is actually narrow or if that is an optical illusion because the storm door is not completely open. Also given the way the windows were if internally the owner will find that the area to the right of the upstairs window and down was an add-on at some time in the distant past.

    If it is being redone for resale the siding appears to be asbestos and may create problems if new windows and doors are installed.

  • 5 years ago
    last modified: 5 years ago

    there are some w/diff size windows.

    Look at this one w/the tiny window above the door!



    but if you can do another window in the bathroom, great.

    and I'd do a metal roof over the porchh






  • 5 years ago

    Tiny window is my 2nd choice...also doing metal roof... thx!

  • 5 years ago

    You have symmetry ... the upstairs windows line up perfectly with the first floor windows.