Leonid Notax
Transoms are handsome.
I've been removing more shingles from the front of the house, this time on the other end of the porch around the parlor door. I saw the bad carpentry patch job above the door and, seeing the ghost outline of the cornice (that angled piece of trim above the door. You can see those dark spots on each side of the top of the patch where the cornice was above the transom.) I realized that there was a transom originally above the door. How cool! I'll probably never know if it was the type that opened or just a decorative one, maybe stained glass. They must've removed it and patched the hole when they put the shingles on. Problem is that it's smaller than the door and not centered, so there might've been a narrower door there originally. I plan to widen the hole and add one to fit the door.
Transoms are handsome.
I've been removing more shingles from the front of the house, this time on the other end of the porch around the parlor door. I saw the bad carpentry patch job above the door and, seeing the ghost outline of the cornice (that angled piece of trim above the door. You can see those dark spots on each side of the top of the patch where the cornice was above the transom.) I realized that there was a transom originally above the door. How cool! I'll probably never know if it was the type that opened or just a decorative one, maybe stained glass. They must've removed it and patched the hole when they put the shingles on. Problem is that it's smaller than the door and not centered, so there might've been a narrower door there originally. I plan to widen the hole and add one to fit the door.