" You know I'm not a big fan of painting over masonry surfaces that are back the side here on the coach house. But really -- the best thing to do it we had traces of old paint that think that you see up there as well as patches that didn't quite match the old brick that we couldn't get enough bricks so the best thing to do is due to masonry paint which will allow that the surface to breed and you know it can't be renewed quite easily in a few years -- it has to be. The best thing to do it masonry goes to leave it alone and on the side of the house we have the old golden Chicago brick. We did a nice patch here where they used to be a door into the house this is the garage and we wanted to have a secure we got another -- here remove the window and most of this golden brick could've been cleaned but you know why go to the expense the main thing is it's in good condition -- didn't need to repoint. That's so the windows that we're here we put a brand new windows homicide for our bedroom that -- and then up on the on the front of the house we've you know spent a little bit more time and and thinking in terms of a color scheme we chose to go witness. Sandstone color. Kind of -- box. Because it is of course reminiscent of a masonry. Backed. And we've patched the old brick has invested we could. That green which is kind of -- hunter green report screen I think is a very very good combination use with Bob that's one of my favorite color combinations that. The white vinyl windows kind of set everything up it's kind of -- Chris luck. And this of course looks very nicely done in in the green as well. Now the landscape is pretty limited when you're just talking about an area that's. Basically ten feet by about 25. And remember you're not getting a lot of sun here because. You've got the two buildings so close together -- building over here is a tall one so what we did was we minimize the amount of actual plantings. That was gonna take place and we chose red bud tree which is right now just about eight feet high and getting ready to bloom pretty soon. But the red blood can stand the cold cold Chicago winners and will grow to be about thirty feet high which will be beautiful featured have in this little urban yard. The rest of the area has been done very simply with very inexpensive materials these -- just cement pavers they they probably cost about twelve dollars apiece and then of course we've laid them in -- path so that they both relates to the back entrance to the two flat as well as to the little coach house. The other material which I like a lot is this river starts with this crunchy underfoot again it has that that tiny color which. Blends in well with the earth tones of the house and it's absolutely no maintenance Rainwater will percolate. Easily through here and the idea is that you can bring out a couple of chairs and a table in nice weather and have a lunch out here and put him back away when you're done or you can facility area with flowering. You know annuals and stuff. And we brought the pavers Golan pull over to this corner and you know created a new kind of grand entrance for the little coach house. It's always fun to look at the album when you're getting close to finishing a project like this and look at what it."

" Once was like. This -- was really something else they hadn't been lifted in ten years didn't really had an. Terrible -- steps that were rotting away the front doors were double wooden doors that were padlock and in bad shape and of course the main problem house what had was that someone had painted -- brown enamel in the years ago so that you had hunks of brown paint is peeling -- Remember -- forget it."

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" Why. Demolition I was getting us. I surprise that we've got to the whole thing down. On the left with a bare brick walls. "

" That's for his -- Well it goes. So did you do a lot new and old Victorian house like this -- like craftsmen and we've been very lucky here in Chicago everyone from the the iron workers to dictators not to mention the carpenters and you can take some liberties with a Victorian -- have done this color -- but we've also kind of gotten rid of the old feeling at a Victorian doors and put in a very contemporary glass door set up."