Busy, busy, busy.
It's been a busy few days. Saturday we helped celebrate my cousin's child's graduation from Crete. He is a stud track athlete. Look for him to win some Gold at the state track meet, Josh Wohl.
Secondly, we had a great Mother's Day celebration in Crete on Sunday. I also had my first article come out for the Ultimate Home Delivery. Here it is along with some photos.
Sweet in its simplicity.
That is the way that Megan Darlington of Darling Designs described the craftsman style house and, in particular, the trim for the Ultimate Delivery Home by Manzitto Bros., located in Village Gardens.
“I do like the updated craftsman,” Megan said. “It is just clean lined. This updated craftsman style is readily moveinable for the homeowner. Whatever style they have they can move into it but they can also transition it into pretty contemporary.”
Megan is working closely on the trim with 84 Lumber’s Jayson Becker. According to Jayson, the trim is the millwork including the interior doors, the moldings around the doors and windows, the baseboard on the floor, but also the handrails, fireplace mantle and the door hardware. Staying in the craftsman style, the trim will be very basic and flat.
Trim work in the housing industry has undergone some major changes in the past 10 years, according to Jayson, and those changes will find their way into the UHD home. In terms of type of wood, from Jayson’s perspective, everyone was using oak in the past but that has changed. “It wouldn’t have mattered if it was, in today’s terms, in a $175,000 house or a $750,000 house. It was colonial style, flat panel oak. Maple didn’t start getting hot until after we opened our location and we are coming up on our seventh year. Now the popular wood is poplar or some kind of paint grade -- be it a pre-primed product or an engineered product.
“If you took 10 constructed houses within the last 10 years, going back to 1998, I would say that 8½ out of 10 would be stained and the other 1½ out of 10 would be painted. Now I wouldn’t be surprised if it was 50-50 or maybe 6 out of 10 would be painted. It’s a trend.”
Megan agreed that painting the trim is a current trend that has returned from the past. Many of the older homes downtown or on Sheridan Boulevard include both painted and stained trim. She said that painted trim was more expensive and because of that it was a status symbol for the homeowner. Most homeowners are currently opting for the painted look, and that is what the UHD home will have as well. “It’s cleaner looking,” Megan said. “It’s brighter and lighter. The thing that I like about it as a designer is that it really makes everything pop. It makes the wall color really pop.”
Manzitto Bros. allowing them some creative freedom is very welcomed in the housing market, according to Jayson. “One thing that I really appreciate about Manzitto as a builder, compared to other builders that I have worked with now or in the past, is that Manzitto relies a tremendous amount on a person like Megan,” Jayson said. “They allow Megan the freedom and the flexibility to make selections that are different than if they were just making them themselves.”
“They don’t just have a cookie cutter and say this is the trim that we are going to go with,” Megan said. Another of her selections -- the doorknobs and hinges -- will be oil-rubbed bronze. “Ten years ago we never heard of the term oil-rubbed bronze or stain nickel,” Jayson said. “We heard brass or antique brass. That was it. Those companies have stepped up to the plate and made Megan’s job more fun.”
The 1930s style front door too will be in the craftsman style and will offer a nice curb appeal to the house with its sharp look. “It’s a fiberglass door that once it is stained that there is no way that people can’t tell that it isn’t real wood,” Jayson said. “Wood doors really don’t belong in this market. In Nebraska with our fluctuations in temperature and the extreme colds and extreme heat and all of the elements that will cause a wood door, over time, to distress and fall apart. This fiberglass door is meant to handle that type of stress.”
It’s a style that will be very welcoming to those living in or visiting the Velvet Pillar home.
Thirdly, I meet with some other instructors and the leader of the class that I'm going to teach this summer. It's called JGen 300. Even though it's taught under the Journalism and Mass Communications structure, it's only for non-journalism students. Most of the time it is engineering students. Anyway, we were planning for it and I got some really good ideas to use in class. I've been working on that today as well.
Fourthy, I've been writing for a marketing company in Minnesota. That has been fun. I've done a couple of press releases and some pitches for a guy named Nick Thomley. I wrote one today about how he is going door to door for vote for their state house.
Fifthy, I got a run in today in getting ready for my race early in June. I ran the route to 48th and back in 16:55. I felt really good running it though so I know that I'm getting in better shape. The 10K shouldn't be a problem any more.
It's been a busy few days. Saturday we helped celebrate my cousin's child's graduation from Crete. He is a stud track athlete. Look for him to win some Gold at the state track meet, Josh Wohl.
Secondly, we had a great Mother's Day celebration in Crete on Sunday. I also had my first article come out for the Ultimate Home Delivery. Here it is along with some photos.
Sweet in its simplicity.
That is the way that Megan Darlington of Darling Designs described the craftsman style house and, in particular, the trim for the Ultimate Delivery Home by Manzitto Bros., located in Village Gardens.
“I do like the updated craftsman,” Megan said. “It is just clean lined. This updated craftsman style is readily moveinable for the homeowner. Whatever style they have they can move into it but they can also transition it into pretty contemporary.”
Megan is working closely on the trim with 84 Lumber’s Jayson Becker. According to Jayson, the trim is the millwork including the interior doors, the moldings around the doors and windows, the baseboard on the floor, but also the handrails, fireplace mantle and the door hardware. Staying in the craftsman style, the trim will be very basic and flat.
Trim work in the housing industry has undergone some major changes in the past 10 years, according to Jayson, and those changes will find their way into the UHD home. In terms of type of wood, from Jayson’s perspective, everyone was using oak in the past but that has changed. “It wouldn’t have mattered if it was, in today’s terms, in a $175,000 house or a $750,000 house. It was colonial style, flat panel oak. Maple didn’t start getting hot until after we opened our location and we are coming up on our seventh year. Now the popular wood is poplar or some kind of paint grade -- be it a pre-primed product or an engineered product.
“If you took 10 constructed houses within the last 10 years, going back to 1998, I would say that 8½ out of 10 would be stained and the other 1½ out of 10 would be painted. Now I wouldn’t be surprised if it was 50-50 or maybe 6 out of 10 would be painted. It’s a trend.”
Megan agreed that painting the trim is a current trend that has returned from the past. Many of the older homes downtown or on Sheridan Boulevard include both painted and stained trim. She said that painted trim was more expensive and because of that it was a status symbol for the homeowner. Most homeowners are currently opting for the painted look, and that is what the UHD home will have as well. “It’s cleaner looking,” Megan said. “It’s brighter and lighter. The thing that I like about it as a designer is that it really makes everything pop. It makes the wall color really pop.”
Manzitto Bros. allowing them some creative freedom is very welcomed in the housing market, according to Jayson. “One thing that I really appreciate about Manzitto as a builder, compared to other builders that I have worked with now or in the past, is that Manzitto relies a tremendous amount on a person like Megan,” Jayson said. “They allow Megan the freedom and the flexibility to make selections that are different than if they were just making them themselves.”
“They don’t just have a cookie cutter and say this is the trim that we are going to go with,” Megan said. Another of her selections -- the doorknobs and hinges -- will be oil-rubbed bronze. “Ten years ago we never heard of the term oil-rubbed bronze or stain nickel,” Jayson said. “We heard brass or antique brass. That was it. Those companies have stepped up to the plate and made Megan’s job more fun.”
The 1930s style front door too will be in the craftsman style and will offer a nice curb appeal to the house with its sharp look. “It’s a fiberglass door that once it is stained that there is no way that people can’t tell that it isn’t real wood,” Jayson said. “Wood doors really don’t belong in this market. In Nebraska with our fluctuations in temperature and the extreme colds and extreme heat and all of the elements that will cause a wood door, over time, to distress and fall apart. This fiberglass door is meant to handle that type of stress.”
It’s a style that will be very welcoming to those living in or visiting the Velvet Pillar home.
Thirdly, I meet with some other instructors and the leader of the class that I'm going to teach this summer. It's called JGen 300. Even though it's taught under the Journalism and Mass Communications structure, it's only for non-journalism students. Most of the time it is engineering students. Anyway, we were planning for it and I got some really good ideas to use in class. I've been working on that today as well.
Fourthy, I've been writing for a marketing company in Minnesota. That has been fun. I've done a couple of press releases and some pitches for a guy named Nick Thomley. I wrote one today about how he is going door to door for vote for their state house.
Fifthy, I got a run in today in getting ready for my race early in June. I ran the route to 48th and back in 16:55. I felt really good running it though so I know that I'm getting in better shape. The 10K shouldn't be a problem any more.
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