Hidden Mickey In the Sawn Balusters At Port Orleans Riverside
As part of building our #NewOldFarmhouse out in Downers Grove ( I posted about the sewer and water main installation here on the blog earlier this month ), we're thinking about including a big, deep front porch that provides a lot of appeal from the street and gives us something we loved in our old place at 274 a place to gather and spend time in the mornings. As part of that new porch design, we've been look at something called Sawn Balusters. Those are the parts that connect the top and bottom of the front railings. Sawn is different than what they called "turned". Turned balusters are either square or cylindrical and are exactly that: turned on a lathe or cut from a piece of wood. Sawn balusters are common from the earlier part of the 20th century and are flat, not turned. They can be of various thickness. We've worked with our builder to come up with a custom pattern for them (more on that in a different post), but they can take the form of anythin