writing reference

[Trinique_Fire]

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/NEIGHBORHOODS/woodside/attachedaddresses.jpg

the material of the house...what is that? wood? vinyl siding? i found this picture and it's almost a perfect picture of the vision i have in my head of the house in my story.

 

[kendo1]

PM Cat.
I'm not up on US naming of building materials and styles.

Ken

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Based on those white outlines around the windows I'm gonna guess it's cheap vinyl siding, which of course is supposed to evoke an impression of wood clapboard. But I can't tell for sure.

 

[Trinique_Fire]

Based on those white outlines around the windows I'm gonna guess it's cheap vinyl siding, which of course is supposed to evoke an impression of wood clapboard. But I can't tell for sure.

*stalk*

 

[kendo1]

Where is SeaCat when you need him?

*Taps fingers*

 

[Weird Harold]

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/NEIGHBORHOODS/woodside/attachedaddresses.jpg

the material of the house...what is that? wood? vinyl siding? i found this picture and it's almost a perfect picture of the vision i have in my head of the house in my story.

Depends on where the house is.

It looks like it's an old New England apartment/townhouse, so it would be cedar clapboard

The column looks a bit like southern architecture, which would be either cypress or white pine clapboard siding.

Given the style of the light fixtures, the conditionof the beadboard ceiling, and the way the paint is peeled on the column, I don't think it's vinyl siding; a generic classification of "wood" is probably correct.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Depends on where the house is.

It looks like it's an old New England apartment/townhouse, so it would be cedar clapboard

The column looks a bit like southern architecture, which would be either cypress or white pine clapboard siding.

Given the style of the light fixtures, the conditionof the beadboard ceiling, and the way the paint is peeled on the column, I don't think it's vinyl siding; a generic classification of "wood" is probably correct.

People who know what they're talking about are sexy.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Depends on your story. If you want the people who live there to be kind of gothic and scary, make it wood clapboard. (There's nothing spooky about vinyl siding). If you want them to be more modern and suburban, make it vinyl.

 

[oggbashan]

It could be that once universal Australian building material - corrugated iron.

Og

 

[Weird Harold]

People who know what they're talking about are sexy.

Being addicted to This Old House and other home renovation shows helps.

 

[CharleyH]

Depends on your story. If you want the people who live there to be kind of gothic and scary, make it wood clapboard. (There's nothing spooky about vinyl siding). If you want them to be more modern and suburban, make it vinyl.

Agreed. I think the pivitol point made in the question was "It looks exactly "like'" something she wants to use in a story, and vinyl siding is not really scary, and it's not really sexy unless the owners are fake and thats the point.

Without seeing the whole house I think its hard to even give a good answer, other than what Doc said - it's up to the writer to make of it what she or he will.

 

[Trinique_Fire]

Agreed. I think the pivitol point made in the question was "It looks exactly "like'" something she wants to use in a story, and vinyl siding is not really scary, and it's not really sexy unless the owners are fake and thats the point.

Without seeing the whole house I think its hard to even give a good answer, other than what Doc said - it's up to the writer to make of it what she or he will.

Charley, I hadn't thought of it that way, but that's good. I wasn't picturing vinyl siding anyway...the house in the story is pretty old and beat up. the front porch is rotting, and i picture the exterior of the house to be sort of the same. not disgustingly rotting...but...i guess "tastefully" falling apart. lol....

ETA: My character, Liz is also "tastefully" falling apart as well. Or, gracefully...I suppose it makes sense then.

 

[Bizkit_Writer]

looks like siding of some sort

 

[SeaCat]

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/NEIGHBORHOODS/woodside/attachedaddresses.jpg

the material of the house...what is that? wood? vinyl siding? i found this picture and it's almost a perfect picture of the vision i have in my head of the house in my story.

From the looks of the picture I would have to say ClapBoard of some type. Most likely Cedar or Pine.

From the looks of the windows in the door as well as the column this is an older house. No vinyl or other man made substances. (It looks almost like the front of some of the houses in New England with the column and ceiling of the porch.)

If you're writing about this house and picture the person looking throuh these windows remember that older window glass tends to be slightly distorted. It makes the view somewhat wavy.

Also if it is during the colder months the older houses were drafty.

Cat

 

[JRaven]

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/NEIGHBORHOODS/woodside/attachedaddresses.jpg

the material of the house...what is that? wood? vinyl siding? i found this picture and it's almost a perfect picture of the vision i have in my head of the house in my story.

Definitely an old house. It was originally numbered 43 and 45. Those numbers are in the windows above the doors. The post office doesn't renumber whole streets very often. Essentially, the street would have needed to be extended by 69 blocks to get the new numbers they have.

Jenny

 

[Weird Harold]

Essentially, the street would have needed to be extended by 69 blocks to get the new numbers they have.

Not necessarily.

My childhood home was originally #1664 W.Second street. In the mid-seventies, the City change the numbering system for the whole town to a "nationally standardized system." Instead of being sixteen blocks from the street origin, my new address was 47726 W. Second st, being 47,726 feet West of the post office/town center.

The numbers in the picture look like the same sort of change from a block/street-based numbering system to a grid-based system.

 

[JRaven]

Not necessarily.

My childhood home was originally #1664 W.Second street. In the mid-seventies, the City change the numbering system for the whole town to a "nationally standardized system." Instead of being sixteen blocks from the street origin, my new address was 47726 W. Second st, being 47,726 feet West of the post office/town center.

The numbers in the picture look like the same sort of change from a block/street-based numbering system to a grid-based system.

Okay, you're probably right.
Still the numbers in the window look almost like they were made into the glass. Like stain glass or something.

 

[Weird Harold]

Okay, you're probably right.
Still the numbers in the window look almost like they were made into the glass. Like stain glass or something.

I'd guess etched or sand-blasted into plain glass -- "frosted" lettering in glass was popular until around the seventies or eighties and the development of epoxy based paints that would stick to glass and stay stuck. It did make changing numbers/lettering difficult which is probably why the old numbers are still visible.