News From 724 Center Street

Friday, September 16, 2011

Planning & Zoning Approves the Variance

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Horace and I were in Washington DC touring a post revolutionary war mansion when we got the word that Planning and Zoning had approved our v...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Renderings - The project starts to feel real

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I called Dennie Branson today and like him immediately. I learned that he used to own an Italianate house up the street next to the f...
Friday, August 26, 2011

Suzi's Second Option

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Suzi's second option reduces the number of cabinets by doing more drywall.  The cabinets go to 9'-9" and then a large crown tre...

Suzi's first option

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Suzi's first option takes the cabinets to the ceiling.  It has a 60" Aga range, separate refrigerator & freezer units, a wine ...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

Our First Kitchen Drawings

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Suzi has been on vacation. She told me up front she wouldn't be able to start until she got back, but I was so anxious for the first dra...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

Working with Tim Townsend to modify the design

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The final plan for P&Z Tim instinctively knew that the simple expansion wasn't going to give us enough room for everything Horac...
Saturday, August 20, 2011

A look at an Italianate Design

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American Italianate homes were loosely modeled after the villas of Italy. The design is defined more by the ornamentation than by the stru...
Monday, August 15, 2011

A Kitchen Designer?

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So Tim says upfront I am not an interior designer. He says that you can call a custom cabinet shop and they will help you lay out a kitchen....
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Hiring an Architect

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Horace and I had spent enough time dreaming about a new kitchen that we felt like we could do it ourselves. But we had never done a projec...
Saturday, August 6, 2011

Planning the Expansion

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Owning an old home is great, that is if you like always having a project. And in a home that is over 160 years old there is usually more th...
Friday, August 5, 2011

The Governor's House - Lots of History

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Our Italianate home was built during the civil war. It was a wedding present to John Y. Brown and his wife Rebecca from her father, the then...
Monday, August 1, 2011

The Old Purple House

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We bought this big, old house in 1998 sight unseen. We were moving from Paducah to Henderson. We rented our home in Paducah to a plant manag...
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Melodie
Henderson, Kentucky
Melodie Shrader is an independent legislative consultant with an extensive background in non-profit management, government services and politics. Renovating this old house has been a passion for Melodie and her husband, Horace, since the purchased the home in 1998 sight unseen.
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