The (period) house I grew up in PICS

[tycarregydwr]

Just for fun, as we are mostly snow-bound still. I grew up in New York (state) in a house that was probably built between 1825 and 1840, with many additions through the ages. The original part is traditional Federalist style, with Victorian and 20th century additions. When my parents moved in about 30 years ago it was in a state - fairly dilapidated and with much 1970s trauma. They weren't period specialists or anything but over the years have done a mix of restoration and updating. Sadly they just replaced the windows last year but many wonderful features remain, including floors, exciting lime stuff in the basement, crooked chimney, and lime plaster. I took some (well, tons of) pictures when we were there at Christmas, since I have a whole new appreciation for it now that I've caught the period bug (and I realised, having grown up there has probably shaped my interest too!)

In the basement - original house. These are lime-washed eucalyptus logs supporting the house!


The fireplace


The basement stairs, with odd internal septic tank (decommissioned in the 1950s, but the cause of continuing woe with planners.

 

[tycarregydwr]

Oh dear, I can't seem to make the pics small enough to show up whole. I will try again, since I have lots!

 

[tycarregydwr]

Bugger. What a shame. I have so many I wanted to show you I have edited them to make the file size quite small, but they still show up as huge in the post - anyone know how to correct this?

 

[Flyfisher]

Might depend on how you reduced the file size. Given the visible distortion of the image I wonder if whatever you've done has just increased the file compression rather than actually reduce the image size.

I usually reduce images to about 500 pixels in width (with the height being automatically chosen to remain in proportion) while keeping the 'quality' settings on 'high'.

This should reduce the file size because the image is smaller, rather than trying to retain a large image but compressing the data so much that the quality suffers.

Hope that makes sense.

 

[tycarregydwr]

Hmm ok may have to get the other half to help, but more pictures hopefully to follow, in a more comprehensible format.

 

[88v8]

I never post attachments. If you upload them to Photobucket then you will not suffer size limits.

Ivor

 

[Keith Bowman]

Import and use a programme called Shrinkpic. It does the shrinking automatically and gets the size right without hassle. (It was someone on here who suggested it when I had trouble and it works: must be a period programme!)