Thread: I'm Loving The Look! I'm Excited!

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Over my new/old front stoop and posts I am so much closer to having completed and installed!
I have had wooden stuff there before but in 20 years , even though it was pressure-treated it rotted.
My new little deck and ornamental posts are steel, but not just any old steel but rather very old-looking steel!
I was given metal that was very rusty, pitted, so now when it's my new front steps it will look 140 years old to match the real age of the house!
This metal was left in a damp basement for 15 years to get this way, I painted the backsides of it with flat black spray paint to keep it from rusting away from the inside out.
The deck are steel bars 1/2 inch thick by 1 1/2 inches wide.
The two posts along the north side holding the railing look alot like old cemetary metal items.
The skull blending into the lead post might make someone scream, when they notice it.
Of course the railing is actually a copper pipe running into the house so I can use it as a speaking tube, sounds eminating from the skull's mouth, just like the rich people's old mansions or the steamboats used to use.

Hey Gym- sounds really awesome, do you have pictures? That is so cool that you live in a 140 year old house!! I'm in a 1955 ranch, so as far as halloween goes, boring!!

Your ranch is "Boring"?
Just think:"Poltergeist"as in the movie, the first one........
Then there is that 1968? movie where the lonely old widow burys the bodys in her flower beds around her beautiful house. A very well done movie, very creepy and I can't recall the title for even a million bucks this morning.....
My Greatgrandfather was a part-time bartender in my house for 7-8 years, 100 yrs. ago.
Maybe he's on the job as one of my "special helpers" here?
Everyone said this "wouldn't work" when I was trying to buy this house, but they didn't know this house , or my ambition to make it work.

Gym, I wouldn't be surprised if your great grandfather is one of your helpers! That is so great that he worked there!!
Yeah, I guess I should remember that scarey can be made any where, even 50's ranch houses!!

I hear. Then if I'm in a certain mood I might go into some details concerning the look, style or draw of the house , then end it by saying:"I built this whole thing out of a 1950's camping trailer that was white and turquiose."
"When the moon is just right and the influence is heavy in the air from the hog lot, some people hallucinate the rest!" (all based off the camping trailer, remember)
Many years ago I received a letter from some people asking questions about the house. I responded with a story based upon the "Turquiose camping trailer". I showed this responce letter of mine to several people first. they admonished me to Not send such a letter because the people getting it might not understand my humor (and attempted humor)
I ended the letter saying something like "I'm a friendly person, a whole lot friendlier than my Uncle Eddy Gein."
Those people that got my goofy letter framed it , it is on display in their real estate office in Chicago!
They thought it was funny as h ell!
(Maybe this shows why I run a haunted house and those advice-givers don't?)
Many nocturnal visitors do return by the light of day to look again at the house, which I find peculairly funny in some respects.
"Maybe a big part of his house is just a hallucination?"

Hey Gym, great idea for the porch, can't wait to see the pics!

I would put the steel over a cement porch base and that way the metal could just continue to rust and look like it could give way at any moment (nice scare factor) and yet have no possibility of caving in. That would freak 'em out but good!
LOL

Sounds awesome! I'd love to see some pictures, though!

How creative Gym. I love the idea of building in the outside wiring for speakers.

No, I'm beyound "speakers".
I have a speaking tube, a piece of thin-walled copper pipe that I speak into from inside the house and my voice comes out outside in the post on the little porch, through a steel skull's mouth.
I am rebuilding something I have had for almost 20 years.
The previous skull was made from Bondo the new one will be steel, hammered, welded, I will be working on that today, even though it is supposed to rain all day.
As goofy as this sounds, when I got this house the wiring was all shot and I even actually considered not having electricity in the house, reverting back to the 1870's when this place was built. I knew it would be alot more scary! (All those extra shadows dancing on every wall.)
If one was independantly wealthy I guess you could make a haunted house as real and scary was you wanted to, so what if only 150 people a year showed up?
A place can be too scary to have enough customers. As it is this house scares away enough potential patrons every year.
It is a "Haunted", haunted house-old, original definition .

Ha!....That's awsome. I bet the tube's acustics add a little extra creepyness(?spelling). Let me tell you. The basement in my grandparents 50's ranch always freaked me out! One of the scariest places I've been.