Slackers & Angles

First and foremost, let me apologize for not posting anything recently.  I have to admit to a little despondency in the neighborhood of our to do list.  We are pecking away on so many things that it is hard to see (or feel) any progress.  But, we have made some academic discoveries. (Can I get a glovey clap?)

In earlier posts and discussions we had been puzzling over the "lines" of the house.  We want to respect her bones, but we need to make some decisions about restoring/ignoring some of the changes that previous owners have made over time. 

For those of you who would like to review: 

• Establishing a Basline
• Musical Windows: Symmetry, Rhythm & Balance

Since those earlier posts, we have discovered a bit more about the house through research, demolition discovery, and crawling around in odd places.  Specifically, the slope of the roof and the overhang are not original to the house.  The roof used to be steeper and it didn't used to have as pronounced an overhang as it does now.   How do we know?  Well, I don't know what they are called, but the VERY long beams that stretch across the attic back to front are no longer attached to the house. They are still in place, but just laying there -- too big to extract, I imagine.  The ends of said beams are short of the outside edges of the roof/eaves by several inches.  Also, the angles at each end where they used to match up with the roof structure are significantly steeper than the current roofline.

Credit where credit is due: ArchiDorks Nicole Rauzi and Tobias Sullivan (and Christina Gutierrez, I think), you were RIGHT! And thank you to Chad Mathrani of Vermont Natural Homes for making this discovery of loop-closing mysteries.