{"id":258,"date":"2018-03-11T10:19:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T10:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninakozin.com\/brajkovici\/?p=258"},"modified":"2018-03-11T20:44:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T20:44:16","slug":"restoring-the-stone-walls-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ninakozin.com\/brajkovici\/restoring-the-stone-walls-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoring the stone walls, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

I do have to confess, I am a junkie. I’m addicted to excellence, quality and beauty, that arise from a complex situation in which\u00a0people apply their knowledge and passion to solve a riddle. Add a pinch of synergy and the potion becomes magical!<\/p>\n

Last time I shared with you the story about\u00a0a segment of a load bearing wall that was removed and rebuilt, this time, there is more magic wall tricks in store for you.<\/p>\n

Want to make the doors and windows higher? If you’re an architect, I’m quite\u00a0sure you’re familiar with the command ‘stretch’: you select the end points of the lines on a drawing and extend them to the desired length. So that’s exactly what I have done\u00a0on the south fa\u00e7ade to make the windows and doors suitable for people higher than me \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

How does ‘stretch’ translate into real life on a stone wall? Piece of cake. You just remove the stone frames around the openings, raise the aperture, rebuild the structure above the hole in the wall and voil\u00e0, you have extended\u00a0your view onto the world.<\/p>\n

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Step 1: remove the stone\u00a0frames of the doors<\/p>\n

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Step 2: get the\u00a0new, higher stones for the sides of the frame<\/p>\n

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Step 3: transport the heavy stones with the crane<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Step 4: build the frames in<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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What\u00a0about the windows?<\/p>\n

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Step 1: remove the existing\u00a0frame of the window<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Step 2: use the stone acquired from the door frames and cut them to the desired height\u00a0(we recycle as much as we can)<\/p>\n

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Step 3: transport the stone frames manually<\/p>\n

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Step 4:\u00a0build a wooden construction for the arch<\/p>\n

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Step 5: build in the stone frames and\u00a0insert the temporary wooden construction<\/p>\n

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Step 6: support and align\u00a0the wooden construction<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Step 7: build an arch above the window<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0 \u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Step 8: repeat for the other window.<\/p>\n

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We did find one intriguing detail under all the layers of paint we removed from the stone frames and I\u00a0can’t resist the temptation to share it with you.<\/p>\n

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It is an art work containing a star and the name of a personage who sculpted the Balkan region more than any other force in the 20th century. Can you recognise\u00a0the name?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I do have to confess, I am a junkie. I’m addicted to excellence, quality and beauty, that arise from a complex situation in which\u00a0people apply their knowledge and passion to solve a riddle. Add a pinch of synergy and the potion becomes magical! Last time I shared with you the story about\u00a0a segment of a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninakozin.com\/brajkovici\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninakozin.com\/brajkovici\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninakozin.com\/brajkovici\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninakozin.com\/brajkovici\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninakozin.com\/brajkovici\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/ninakozin.com\/brajkovici\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"http:\/\/ninakozin.com\/brajkovici\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninakozin.com\/brajkovici\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninakozin.com\/brajkovici\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninakozin.com\/brajkovici\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}