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I don't know who designed the houses shown above as "show homes" but Oaktown's first photo shows a house designed by Bobby McAlpine an architect with a nationwide practice known for one of a kind romantic houses inspired by old building traditions from Europe. The one posted first was inspired by English buildings of the post-medieval period with steep roof, and narrow shed dormers. This tradition was brought to America in the 17th century modifying where it was modified to fit the materials available here, substituting wood cladding for stone & half timber; slate for thatch roofing and double-hung windows for casements. Unfortunately, few examples have survived. McAlpine has a rare talent for using old ideas in new ways with good balance and scale like the architects of the early 20th century: McKim, Meade & White; Greene & Greene; Howard Van Doren Shaw and David Adler who respected and studied the buildings of Europe and Asia extensively. And they did it the hard way on foot with a sketch pad. Later builders and developers used many of these same ideas with no such talent or appreciation which is quite evident in the "show homes" posted above. Bobby McAlpine and Susan Sully wrote a book titled, "The Home Within Us: Romantic Houses, Evocative Rooms".

If it's a service, they've been to my house... roofer, plumber, electrician, architect, designers, general contractors, cabinet makers, granite installers, sheet rockers, texture person, window installers, painters, more painters, arborist, landscape architect, glass installer, appliance repair people (fridge, and washing machine), concrete repair people, carpet installers, tile layers (like 10 of them!!) fence installers... sigh. Worst year of my life! Biggest remodel we've ever done... shudder. Now I need a pharmacist, wine salesman and therapist to help me recover... ;)

I always thought there's only one clown..the one that can be barely seen here(I do have a full pic somewhere but I won't post it since others' reaction differs from mine sometimes)..the rest are just girls dressed as Pierrot..:) I arrived to a conclusion folk might be my favorite too, rebecca. well one of. not that I know a lot about music genres. I'm into what they call indie folk lately-as I discovered. I always loved ballads too. Once when my best friend had her birthday party (I was 6, she was 5) I got invited of course..we had all sorts of games and competitions back then at the parties..so at some point, everyone was called to recite a poem. So I really loved "Tam Lin". And that's what I recited, with big emotion(and probably poor diction lol). The grown ups looked at me in a way that was a bit weird..)) I love this poem My3dogs..and yes, some things become, in some strange way, prediction.. (I wrote a poem once about my future house..it was a white small house..walls looked like stucco.. surrounded by a garden..one storey..very strange since I lived then in a big city so no clear idea where I got that image..well I was a teen then..and not Horace too, as you well can imagine..)) but it's strange that life took me to a small white house surrounded by a garden.. The garden has different plants since it's in a different hemisphere and all..lol. I do have some roses though. That house from the poem, it had roses. It was a bit more proud, a bit stubborn. Like a little camel. This one, a real one, is more..a different animal. It's less proud. It's more mischievous though. Then I never lived in a house I imagined many years ago. Maybe if it existed -I'd discover other things about it. I've so much to listen to yet..and to look at.