We’ve arrived at the final stop on our Fantasy Open House Tour. This traditional home was built in 1910 and is notable for being the home of two former Terrace Park mayors, Charles Bruhl (1916-19) and Ray Allison (1957-59).
The current owners hired an architect to build an attached garage with a master suite above it and a large family room behind it. We had the pleasure of meeting the architect himself, as well as the homeowner on our tour, and enjoyed talking to them about the project.
The amount of work and attention to detail they put into this home was amazing. A team of craftsmen was hired to replicate the trim and crown moldings in the new rooms to match the old, and the results were beautiful.
Come on in and look around. At the end of the post you’ll have a chance to vote for your favorite home that we toured this week!
The staircase is split, leading down on the other side into the new mudroom:
To the left of the entry hall is a paneled living room:
Dining room:
The back of the house used to be right here where there is now an opening to the family room addition:
The back of the family room had built-in bookshelves and a computer desk. Behind the loveseat you can see the stairs leading to the basement:
A screened porch was built off the deck. Notice how the pattern in the home’s windows was repeated here:
This back hallway is new and runs between the house and the new garage edition:
Upstairs, a bedroom with an original Rookwood fireplace (very cool!):
A charming little nursery at the end of the hall:
The master bedroom suite is part of the new addition above the garage:
Notice how the trims, moldings, and windows match those in the older parts of the house.
Another woman on the tour complained loudly that they had painted the molding and trim pale blue in the bedroom, but I thought it was pretty. I wouldn’t want it throughout the house, but I thought it suited the Master Bedroom. What do you think?
I hope you enjoyed this Fantasy Open House week as much as I did! On Monday I’ll have a guessing game for you taken from another house we toured in Terrace Park that left me a little…well…puzzled. We’ll see if the remodel makes more sense to you than it did to me!
It’s time to vote for your favorite house! (Click here if you missed any.) Was it:
#1: (Click on photos to see those posts again)
#2:
#3:
#4:
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Oh I adore this house! Love the sweet couch in the master bedroom and that screen porch off the deck is fabulous. And the little girl has the same initials as me. Maybe they’ll let me move in
Those windows are absolutely beautiful! And that screened porch of the deck? Sweet! Love how open the family room is. Beautiful home!
Hey Julia,
I love all the houses on the tour.
But I really like this one because of the screened in porch that they added off the house. You know I love screend in back porches (used as sleeping porches), and I was just thinking about how to have one if your house doesn’t have one. (Huh?!) Well, you know what I mean LOL
I think I smell another project brewing…
xo xo
Good Morning Julia, Thankyou for such a wonderful tour of all 4 houses this week, my favorite was #4, there’s something about that house I just love. I really like the way the owners matched the new with the old. In the master suite I would have liked to have seen white trim instead of the baby blue trim.Have a Wonderful Weekend. We’re having our Canadian Thanksgiving on Monday.
This is a really lovely house. I like how they’ve blended the old and the new, and love that huge foyer, and master. But, I still think #2 is more my style.
Only four!! I thought this could just go on and on and on…..
I loved all the tours. There was just something so happy and liveable with #1, so that was my choice!
Thanks for all the tours…they were wonderful>
I still had to stick with #2, but #4 was a very close second runner up! Fantastic tour, thanks for showing.
beautiful house. i can’t get enough of those windows!
Linda–
There were 6 homes on the tour. I showed you the yellow one in the original post about the home tour, but I didn’t have enough photos of it to devote an entire post to it (we weren’t allowed upstairs at that house, and a lot of the photos were too dark). The 6th house was a last-minute replacement for one that had gotten damaged by a falling tree that week when winds from Ike blew through. I’ll show it on Monday as part of a guessing game. -Julia
They’re all so beautiful, and I loved taking a peek at them, thank you. #4 got my vote. Updated but with a true commitment to the specialness of the original home & details.
What a wonderful peek inside some lovely homes! Our houses are quite different down here in Australia – with lots of influences from around the world, the older homes can be magnificent but they are in the minority.
I don’t seem to be able to vote, but my pick would certainly be #2!
I love, love, love house number 4. Everything about it seems like it was designed and decorated specifically to my tastes. I really love all the white paneled molding and the color choices throughout. Thanks for the fun tours!
I really liked #4 because of the openiness , the windows, the add on. tall ceilings. i would paint the trim white, but hey it is there house. mishelle
#2, and this was fun btw
Hello Julia – I have awarded you … come on over for a glass of champers to celebrate … I sense maybe your sit is too ‘professional’ and focused to particpate in this bit of fun – but I still wanted you to know how much I love your blog – cheers le
Hi Julia, I have enjoyed your tour of homes! I love the first fireplace and woodwork in this house! But the Second house of the tour was my favorite! All of them were delightful, though! ~Rhonda
The houses were all beautiful, but #4….I felt as though I could move right in. I think they did an excellent job, blending the old and the new. Especially love all those gorgeous windows.
Number four, number four…be still my heart. Those windows…that screened porch! Thank you for such a fun tour.
Smiles ~ Ramona
Beautiful homes!!! I love different things about all of them. This last house, though, has most features that I really like. I would LOVE to have the nursery. So pretty! Thanks so much for a wonderful week of homes!
I LOVE the windows in #4. And the decorating is fabulous. Love it.
Wow! Each house had something I adored! So hard to choose! I can only narrow it down—either #2 or #4.
Love love love these tours!
I think the inside of this one is my favorite but I do like the outside of #1. They all had their own unique charm. Thanks for the tour
I voted for this one because it was so representative of an old farmhouse re-done. However, I loved them all. I really am partial to old homes and love to see them restored and preserved.
Oh Julia….another lovely tour! My vote was for #2. I love the old fixtures and simple interior.
I’m racking my tiny pea brain for your Oct. 24 house tour. {Gulp!} I may actually go on a house tour next weekend just to have something.
another great tour!
k-
Hi Julia
It was fun to catch up and take the tour with you inside all these wonderful homes. I loved # 4 as it had such a nice kitchen and backyard deck, but each house had it’s own charm.
Thanks! Pat in NY
I think this one is my favorite! Beautifully decorated, and I love all of the windows. Thanks for taking us on the tours.
I LOVED this tour!
love that porch at the rear – is that what you called it … a screended deck or gazebo here maybe – divine – le
I love this one, great decor.
Hi Julia
My favorite is #3, but all of them are gorgeous!
Great tour
rue
can’t say which is my favorite yet, but have to say how much i enjoyed this tour of #4. (i haven’t peeked at the others yet)
our first home was a stucco american foursquare very similar to #4, but built in 1924. i love the split staircase, wallpaper in the nursery, the detail of the windows, and of course, the screened porch. it looks like a small getaway in your own backyard!
we always dreamed of adding on back then. the addition is fabulous & blends into the original house quite well.
i was hoping the outside patio was the hottub. i was wrong. i liked the light blue trim in the newer bedroom. i just didnt care for the layout of the house.
i pick house one. it had a nice kitchen to grow plants. the mother in law quarters was very cool. and i just felt like a free bird looking at the pics. it would be the one that i could call home. and feel bad if i put it on the market. though it was a close tie with house 2. i liked the porch better on that one.
Isn’t the Internet wonderful! My great grandfather, Charles W. Bruhl, lived in house #4 and my Grandfather, Guy Startsman, and his wife, Regina Bruhl, lived there and my father, Guy Startsman, Jr. was born there. But, I’ve never seen the inside of the house. But now I have – thanks to you and the Internet.
Thanks much.
Terry Startsman
New Bern, NC