A Cotterpin House

September 19, 2007

Anyone know a good plumber?

Filed under: architecture, brick, renovation — cotterpinhouse @ 7:02 pm

The second opinion we were waiting on for the bathroom fell through last night-  no sign of the guy.  So, onto a #3- if we can find a reliable #3 out of the 1,000s in the phone book. 

 Until then, feel free to enjoy a random architecture picture- I never knew (until 5 or 6 years ago) that  that Cream City brick (the yellow brick in the picture) was unique to Milwaukee….other cities’ bricks are red because of the iron in their soil.  

Feel free to use that little tidbit the next time you’re on Jeopardy.

love the arched windows

September 5, 2007

Old World Charm

Filed under: architecture, brick, walkway — cotterpinhouse @ 1:47 pm

So, if you’ve been reading my other blog- A Cotterpin Life-  you’ll have seen that we went to the Amana Colonies.  Absolutely beautiful old buildings- I would love to have a house with the same type of brickwork.

 house in Amana

Or even have a walkway of cobblestone coming up to the house…maybe that’ll be on my spring renovation list…

 brick walkway- love the colors!

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