What Do You Think of the House in this Article?
Mark Bischak, Architect
6 years ago
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Comments (16)Not only have I never seen Buddleia reseeding around waste places/roadsides in this area, I can't even get it to survive in my garden, so I don't see invasiveness as an issue locally. I am highly dubious about the proposition that non-native plants supply no nourishment to native insect/animal species. Clearly chickadees and lots of other birds/animals have adapted to using these plants. There was an article in the Sunday New York Times last week from a garden writer emphasizing this (and recommending that people plant a wide variety of native and non-native plants to nourish the local wildlife)*. *this writer's recommendations probably should be taken with a grain of salt, seeing as how his article was primarily about gardening with climate change (he seems to think that a single colder than normal winter is good evidence of climate change, which actually is documented not by single seasonal variation but changes occurring over many years). Here is a link that might be useful: gardening for climate change This post was edited by eric_oh on Sat, May 10, 14 at 11:14...See MoreHouse Beautiful...what do you think?
Comments (24)Red - You're too kind - a very humble 'Thank You' on my end! Sometimes I just sit flipping through all of my fandecks and chips just playing w/ color combinations. I love color and just putting colors together. When I was younger and did decorative painting and murals for extra income for my parents a local artist stopped by to see my stuff. She told my mom that I had an interesting eye for color and picked up on certain aspects of it. I was soooooo excited when my mom told me as this artist (I forget her name all of these yrs. later) had an exhibit one time at either MOMMA (?) or MMA. I floated around the house for days!!!!! I so wish I could find time to paint again! chijim - when I read your post I couldn't figure out why you were a fan of Stephen Drucker's Personally Owned Vehicle. You see when I was in the USMC a POV is what we called someone's personally owned vehicle. I knew that couldn't be what you meant so I thought about it for awhile - then I got it. Made me laugh at myself here at work today - thanks! Anyway - I just found last night that I was really drawn to the colors that they use and I really seemed to like their features - especially that color and fabric section. Sort of made me feel that while I couldn't afford the stuff in the mag that at least they were trying to help me achieve a similar look on a budget which I totally appreciate. Oh and the fact that they seem to list the colors so readily from the articles. I do miss getting a monthly mag so I think that I will subscribe. Thanks for your input!...See MoreHouse plan...what do you think?
Comments (19)(((LL))) I was going to tell you to get to those taxes, but then I remembered that I have 3 invoices I need to send out and I don't feel like doing them right now, so I guess I'll keep my mouth shut on that. lol I like your new kitchen plan, except that it seems like a long way to the fridge. Before doing anything though, I'd go about a normal cooking session and see how many times you go from fridge to sink. It may be that you don't do that as often as fridge to stove top. Do you have a low counter with open under it for a wheelchair, or someone in a regular chair? Since your dh likes to cook too, that might be a consideration. I've been looking at duplex plans lately, trying to find one that has accessibility, and they are hard to find. My mil is walking slower and slower every day and pain in her side makes it harder to stand. I thought it would be easy to find plans with a wheel-in shower and counter in kitchen and bath that allowed a wheelchair to roll under, and there just aren't any....See MoreArticle about home renovations
Comments (51)I don't think people live in the present anymore. Or privately. So many seem to live very public lives for show. This is one area where I disagree with Wagner's premise. She writes about the "more sinister change that occurred during the housing bubble leading up to the Great Recession: Average Americans began thinking of their homes as monetary objects to be bought, sold, invested in — consumed — rather than places to be experienced, places in which our complex lives as human beings unfold." I think the more sinister change is that view of the house as a monetary object in conjunction with the equally new concept of experiencing one's home for very public consumption and documenting every single moment of that experiencing. And then there are those who through blogs at first, then Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest, etc. have monetized the concept of home as monetary object and as a place to be experienced (often with clickable links so you too can get the look). But I think a lot of people buy McMansions and that neo-Eclectic style of house regardless of their appearance, they don't care enough to think about whether it's ugly or not...and it looks like everything else in the neighborhood. I think many also don't know enough to think about whether it's ugly or not. There's no visual or historic training any more, consciously or unconsciously. Similar to what you wrote on the What Do You Think of the House in this Article? thread in the Building a Home forum, about Federal/Greek Revival and later Colonial Revival, "Architects and builders understood proportion and scale at that time--innately, it seems". And I agree with what others have written above, about so many houses, and the kitchens in the Kitchen forum, being built by checklist, with no understanding or sense that that house, or room, as a whole needs to be considered. I was looking through the book "Bunny Williams' Point of View" the other day (inspired by the recent BW thread), and was struck by the passage about the drawing lessons she began at age 15: "By the end of the summer, I had learned how to see. I began to see relationships between forms, to pay attention to proportions, and to view a whole as the sum of its part. To this day, I never look at a room, a piece of furniture, or a garden without mentally making a note of the relationship among the components." Thanks for posting the article, saypoint. And also writersblock; I've read that Airbnb aesthetic piece before and it's still current almost two years on. And I disagree with the comment that "It’s not like you’re at a Holiday Inn that’s the exact same everywhere" -- it's very much like that, and the similarities around the globe, the Airspace/Kinfolk aesthetic, are all the more striking because the consistency isn't mandated by any corporate HQ and yet there it is....See MoreMark Bischak, Architect
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