In this Episode Larissa and Kris chat with Tracie from @mychicagobungalow (Instagram) about the best steps and tips to research your old house!

Originally from Wenatchee (When-At-Chee), Washington, Tracie grew up with a deep appreciation for the old, vintage, antique, and historic. In her family, DIY home projects were a way of life. She moved to Chicago in 2012.In 2016, Tracie and her partner purchased their first single family home: a Chicago bungalow in the Belmont Cragin (Craig-in) neighborhood.Tracie won a Driehaus (Dree-house) Award from the Chicago Bungalow Association in December 2017 for her historically sympathetic DIY entryway renovation project. This was soon followed by the creation of @mychicagobungalow on Instagram, and mychicagobungalow.com, where she share house projects and connects with other bungalow and historic home owners from Chicago and around the world.In May 2019, she earned two Bachelor degrees in Design from The University of Illinois at Chicago. Her undergraduate thesis project focused on building a collaborative community database for the Chicago bungalow community. Today, Tracie is working to expand her thesis work into a physical environment for education, and continues obsessively researching the history and materials of her bungalow.

***Check out mychicagobungalow.com for more detailed information on researching your old house!

On this episode Larissa and Kris talk preservation terminology - Are you really "restoring" your old house? We also learn about Caitlin Mee and her new preservation consulting business!

Caitlin is originally from Northern California, specifically the San Francisco bay area and Sacramento. She has a bachelors in History from California State University in Sacramento. She struggled to make the switch in her major from psychology to history because she was afraid She'd be working at a job not utilizing her degree and she didn't want to teach high school history. Caitlin made the switch and hasn't regretted it since! Graduate school took her to Georgia and she fell in love with the South. Caitlin has a super "extra" passion for historic preservation and architectural history. If she had to define herself as an architectural style she would be a Craftsman Bungalow; emphasis on craftsmanship, irregular, woodsy, and solid! When shes not dating old buildings for fun and work, you can find her in the climbing gym or at the crag.

Caitlin Mee @thepreservationpeach via Instagram

Melissa Mortier @deserve2preserve via Instagram

***For help with your old house or old building contact their new consulting business! @revive_preservation on Instagram!

Kris and Larissa chat with Elizabeth Finkelstein, the creator of Circa Old Houses and the Instagram feed @cheapoldhouses.

They talk old houses, running a business, cheap old houses and how to utilize the website Circa Old Houses, if you are buying or selling an old house.

https://circaoldhouses.com/

https://circaoldhouses.com/shop/

https://www.instagram.com/cheapoldhouses/

For old house inspiration follow @oldhouselove on Instagram!For our old house restoration projects, follow our personal Instagram accounts at @oldhousemuse and @oldhouseguru

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Larissa and Kris chat with Robert Khederian about architecural styles across the U.S.Robert is an architecture-obsessed real estate agent at Stribling & Associates in New York City. After graduating from Williams College with a degree in art history, Robert cut his teeth in the media world, working most recently for Curbed where he penned the historic-house themed column "Period Dramas." The column explores questions Robert has always had about old houses--from why Gilded Age mansions fell out of favor to why floorboards tend to be wider in 18th and 19th-century houses than in modern residences. Robert also runs the popular Instagram account @notenoughangers, which concerns itself almost entirely with historic residential architecture and real estate. He loves connecting with other old-house lovers on Instagram, so please DM him and say hi!Books mentioned: A Field Guide to American Housesby Virginia McAlester

For old house inspiration follow @oldhouselove on Instagram!For our old house restoration projects, follow our personal Instagram accounts at @oldhousemuse and @oldhouseguru

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Larissa and Kris chat with Robert Khederian about architecural styles across the U.S.

Robert is an architecture-obsessed real estate agent at Stribling & Associates in New York City. After graduating from Williams College with a degree in art history, Robert cut his teeth in the media world, working most recently for Curbed where he penned the historic-house themed column "Period Dramas." The column explores questions Robert has always had about old houses--from why Gilded Age mansions fell out of favor to why floorboards tend to be wider in 18th and 19th-century houses than in modern residences. 

 

Robert also runs the popular Instagram account @notenoughangers, which concerns itself almost entirely with historic residential architecture and real estate. He loves connecting with other old-house lovers on Instagram, so please DM him and say hi!

 

Books mentioned: A Field Guide to American Housesby Virginia McAlester

 

For old house inspiration follow @oldhouselove on Instagram!For our old house restoration projects, follow our personal Instagram accounts at @oldhousemuse and @oldhouseguru

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Larissa and Kris talk about Kris's experience with being a home inspector for over 20 years. How to hire a good home inspector for your old house.

For old house inspiration follow @oldhouselove on Instagram!For our old house restoration projects, follow our personal Instagram accounts at @oldhousemuse and @oldhouseguru

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Larissa and Kris talk about Kris's experience with being a home inspector for over 20 years. How to hire a good home inspector for your old house.

For old house inspiration follow @oldhouselove on Instagram!

For our old house restoration projects, follow our personal Instagram accounts at @oldhousemuse and @oldhouseguru

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Larissa and Kris interview Shari and Carrie, creators and admins of Instagram's @archi_ologie.

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Larissa and Kris continue talking about the process they used for painting their 1909 late victorian home.

 

Primer used: Porter 515 bonding primer

 

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Kris and Larissa discuss the steps they took to paint their original wood siding on their 1909 Victorian home.

 

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