This is our home, do you think it is from this movement, at least? i'd like to repair it, paint it historically accurate colors and such, but i can't find another one like it in the internet. It's the biggest house on the block too, and all the other ones have a covered porch, while ours is open. Thanks.

Yes it is! You are soooooo lucky you don’t have aluminum soffit covering your roof lines. Sherwin Williams as a fantastic line of colors for arts & crafts homes. Looks like they did make the mistake of replacing your wood storms with those ugly good for nothing new one ones, if you lucky the old ones will be stored somewhere, mine were gone so I made my own. Congratulations have fun.
p.s. love the swing......

I don't think they're here, or i would have found them by now, we bought it in Nov last year. Most of the woodwork inside is painted white, except for the living room, i guess because the person who used to own it didn't have time to do so, i found the paint in the basement. Any idea where i could find original plans for it, or another similar one? i found a piece of wood in the basement with a number burned into it (i don't know if that helps) We also discovered a hidden fireplace (or the chimney, actually- for the thing is long gone) made of brick, hidden under sheet rock in the corner of the kitchen and the dining room (they covered the plaster in the kitchen with sheet rock)- I believe it might have been facing the dining area. It goes all the way to the attic, where it was cut so it wouldn't go through the roof (why would anyone do something like that, i don't know)- They made the kitchen bigger, added a room upstairs on top of this addition too. My camera has no batteries, but i'll get some more pictures and post those too.

here's another one

It looks like it could be a house by Sears Roebuck possibly. I have the book Houses by Mail, but right now I don't have any way to scan an image of the house model I'm thinking of.

Sears Carlin Model Kit Home, 1918.

Oh man, it's a perfect Sears Carlin! The Sears Carlin was a diminutive version of the Sears Westly.

That's a cutie pie of a house. You should take extra good care of it and give it a wee kiss from Auntie Rose!

Rosemary Thornton
www.uglywomansguide.com
author, The Houses That Sears Built

Julie- Great House! What a great project you have in restoring a Sears Carlin. I would be interested to discuss including a photograph of it along with the original catalog shot in the "Craftsman Crash Course" DVD project I'm working on. Please respond to this post if you are interested. Thanks
Jan

the floor plan is exactly like this one,Modern Home No. 264P206, aka "Westly".
We still have all the same exact layout on the second floor, except a little office over the extension on the back, and on the first floor they expanded the living room on the sideand the kitchen on the back. They also covered the stairs that go to the back and made a mudroom. I found the position of the fireplace, covered by sheetrock, by looking at this plan and going on a discovery hunt in my basement. Maybe they made some carlins more like these ones in 1916? Because the floorplan for the one you posted is not at all like my house, but the westly one is.
Thanks,
Julia

Julie-

I think that it is a Westly. Your window and door placements match the Westly and not the Carlin. Ditto for the door placement. Are your porch columns originals or replacements? they do match the Carlin better than the Westly.

Donna

they are original, there's a picture of it in the city's museum, dated back to a few months after built, and it looked almost exactly as it looks now. I was wondering if maybe they gave people the chance to "customize" their houses, hence the Carlin features in the porch, while the rest of the house is a Westly. I am so glad they didn't enclose the porch!

UPDATE: I've been working on the garden, and have cleaned up some of the beds, and added more plants. Now we have a new bed under the Ash in the back, where I have in my plans to add a round pavers patio. I also plan on painting the house (that i wanted to tackle myself, but my husband thinks i'm crazy- so we're waiting so we can pay for a crew to do it, cash). I found a picture of another Westley online, with a wonderful color scheme in greens and earthy colors that i'll use as an inspiration. Then I'll work in the beds next to the house. We also hired a contractor to fix the floor and steps on our front porch, there's a spot inside that is beginning to rot, and needs immediate attention. Besides, there's so many layers of paint on those boards, it would have taken us months to get rid of all of them- so better leave it to a pro. I'll be working on another new bed right next to the driveway, where i want to put a new mailbox (ours is tiny)
I hope to finish all these projects in the course of this year's summer/early fall, and next year's late spring/summer/early fall. I'll post pictures when i make any significant changes