[TK421]

 

[JohnnyAppleseed]

OK TK, what's it gonna be.....I know your leaning a direction.......spill man! lol

 

[TheEighthPlague]

TK ... a house like that in our area would only cost you a gajillion dollars. Why don't you just pony up the cash and move?

Some of the predominant features of the houses you've posted are a gambrel roof usually with dormers, a widows walk, balconies, and lots of ornamental details like complex cornices etc. All costly in the modern world. Are you not concerned with resale value? People may shy away from buying a haunted house when it comes time to sell. Especially when they hear the urban legend of the woman who was crushed to death by her halloweeen obsessed husband.

 

[Muffy]

TK421 Thank you so much for these great photos of all of our dream homes! Can't wait to see what you will do with yours when you start this project!

 

[chop shop]

Good stuff. Lots of old Victorians in my neighborhood. The "house" (movie) house is up the street. "The People under the stairs" home is here. Harry and the Hendersons ( not scarry but still a monster)shot next door to my dads house. 976-Evil , Mask..Lots of stuff. Its kinda groovy. Great pics, I saved a few thanks for posting.

 

[TK421]

Good stuff. Lots of old Victorians in my neighborhood. The "house" (movie) house is up the street. "The People under the stairs" home is here. Harry and the Hendersons ( not scarry but still a monster)shot next door to my dads house. 976-Evil , Mask..Lots of stuff. Its kinda groovy. Great pics, I saved a few thanks for posting.

If you could snap some pics and post them, that would be fantastic! I'm looking for all the architectural examples I can find before I start designing the remodel.

 

[TK421]

If I had an unlimited budget, I would go for the phantom manor or the house from Practcal Magic.

 

[maleficent]

I was just looking up images of the Practical Magic house. I sooo want that house.

 

[TK421]

I need to work with the basic structure of my house. I can take out the porch and porch roof and add a nice tower between the two existing dormers. I can make the tower tall, and I will be putting on a nice mansard roof with dormers.

I don't think I'll be able to find the perfect photo of what I want to do with my house, but I'm hoping to collect as many pics as possible and then do some choice picking and draft something that will work.

So far, I really like this tower style and think it could work with everything else.

 

[Spats]

I posted this in another thread, but I'll post it here as well. Hopefully it will have a few useful tidbits...

"For the serious haunted house devotee;

The Mud House Mansion and the house in the link called "Classic Haunted house" have a particular style name. The style is Second Empire, or French Second Empire.

It's the style to type when looking for the Addams Family Mansion, or the Home of Norman Bates. With or without a tower, they feature those hipped roofs set with the eyebrowed dormer windows.
Whenever we see the shape of a house with that hipped roofline and a tower, we tend to automatically think "haunted" for a reason.

The Munsters? Queen Anne style house, not quite the same. Often high steep roofline with scrollwork and wrapping porches, also likely to have a tower as not.

Oddly enough the original "Psycho" featured a wooden Second Empire, but the remake had a brick Queen Anne.

Most every classic creepy house in Hollywood was a Second Empire, with Queen Annes and Italianate houses (the Sentinal featured an Italianate apartment building) tying for second. Google these three styles in the Image section - lots of inspirational stuff.

Behind them come the Greek Revival houses of the Plantation Era South, with their porch-to-roof pillars and wrought iron balconies shrouded in hanging moss(Haunted Mansion at Disneyland, anyone?) Georgian tudor houses of the 1500-1700s, the sort that Lovecraft was so enamored with, with their gambrel roofs and leaded windows (the Amityville house was a revival variant of this style) and the stone gothic revivals, such as the Mansion from Dark Shadows, The Haunting of Hill House and the Haunted Mansion at Disneyworld.

The architectural styles of the damned.

Know them, and call yourself ghoul proper."

 

[TK421]

Spats, thank you for the architecture breakdown.

My home is currently a Cape Cod style home, but I want to transform it into a Second Empire.

I do like the Queen Anne style, and there are some great examples in Seattle, but I really want to hit that "haunted house" style.

 

[Guest]

Okay, I'm no expert on house styles, but I like this one the best. But the reason I like it so much is because the yard looks so unkept. IMO, that's what makes a house look more haunted.
And is the last pic in post #29 a facade someone built?

 

[TK421]

Yes, that is a permanent facade someone was building. Looks pretty good, but lacks some of the details that I want to include in my remodel.

 

[chop shop]

If you could snap some pics and post them, that would be fantastic! I'm looking for all the architectural examples I can find before I start designing the remodel.

Yeah, I'll see what I can do. Alot of them look very similar ( to whats being posted)....wild paint jobs too.

 

[Gym Whourlfeld]

Yes It Is..

An October Haunted Attraction. Located in Arkansas, been open a few years now. The rest of the building may actually be a metal building?

My haunted house is the Ravens Grin Inn in Mount Carroll, Ill.
It's Italianate with a cupola, fancy eaves woodwork(brackets) covered with tremendous living vines that obscure the house until the middle of October, then the leaves leave and the vines resemble veins and arteries!
The perfect location= surrounded by parking lots on three sides, a cliff and river on the north side with woods and privacy. The city graveyard is my westerly neighbor on the next hill, 6,400 graves there, looking down on the town.
The house now has numerous special features I have built into it over these last 23 years ..but I didnot build the fabulous wine cellar below the basement level of the house, 32 by 16 with a 12 ft. high stone arch ceiling!
The house also came complete with a haunted history. Numerous eldely citizens here warned me it was a haunted house..and this proved very true.
See : hauntedravensgrin.com for pictures.

 

[Yubney]

Looks like you kind of beat the gutters up there bros?

For me the best thing that says "haunted" are the high dormers suggesting a haunted attic, and definately the fence thingies on the roof edges.

 

[Giles]

If you really like the Practical Magic house, the plans can be purchased online. It is actually a really nice layout, but I would think it more Queen Anne than Second Empire, but I'm no expert.

 

[natascha]

O.K I just need to say I love the way you set up the buckys on the roof with one pulling up the other, I believe I am going to do the next year, I have some extra bluckys and that would bring attention to the FCG in the upstairs window.

 

[TK421]

Looks like you kind of beat the gutters up there bros?

For me the best thing that says "haunted" are the high dormers suggesting a haunted attic, and definately the fence thingies on the roof edges.

When I'm done with the siding, I'm going to put back the small lip roof under the bump out and I'll replace the gutter with a new section so it isn't all bent up.

 

[ZombieRaider]

Yes, that is a permanent facade someone was building. Looks pretty good, but lacks some of the details that I want to include in my remodel.

That's Raycliff Manor and that was in the middle of the transformation....By the end they had the entry door in the middle where it's suppose to be.....I saw the finished project and something about the windows up in the roof (not the tower roof but the ones in the main roof) just doesn't look right....I don't know if it's because they are too small or because there is only 2 and not 4....Like I said I can't put my finger on it but something just doesn't look right....As a whole it still looks really good though.....

On your project, I think that's going to add ALOT to your current house and should actually increase the value because it will make it look bigger than it is....ZR