bkshopr_IHB
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So many nice pictures posted have been lost in cyberspace. This thread is only for posting pictures of homes that have enduring appeal and stood the test of time.
I started admiring homes when I was a kid riding on a bus. I have also seen and learned that money does not always buy good taste. Good aesthetic does not mean a high price tag and unfortunately this is how the laymen learned their ?good? architectural styles.
Good architecture is for people to admire but not to envy. Homes should have distinct identity but also harmonize and form a village and not fight for individual attention and glory.
Neighborhoods should motivate visitors to park their car and walk around to totally experience the ambiance. Only by walking one fully registers the qualities that tickle all our senses.
As we take trips to by gone era neighborhoods such as OC?s Floral Park, LA?s San Marino or even a case study house hanging off the cliff of Hollywood, St Francis Wood in the Bay Area, Capitol Hills in Seattle, and Litchfield, Connecticut we stop to take pictures of homes and neighborhoods that inspired us.
This is the place where we should post our photos for future references.
This is only a suggested list and we should expand them to include other counties and states.
Architecture of San Marino
Architecture of Floral Park
Architecture of Capitol Hills, Seattle
Here is a gauge for what is good enough to post here. Houses featured in TV shows or movies (not horror, parody, and reality TV) are often selected for their aesthetic merits.
The Father of the Brides house and Mad Men's Draper house are two examples of the Colonial Revival.
I started admiring homes when I was a kid riding on a bus. I have also seen and learned that money does not always buy good taste. Good aesthetic does not mean a high price tag and unfortunately this is how the laymen learned their ?good? architectural styles.
Good architecture is for people to admire but not to envy. Homes should have distinct identity but also harmonize and form a village and not fight for individual attention and glory.
Neighborhoods should motivate visitors to park their car and walk around to totally experience the ambiance. Only by walking one fully registers the qualities that tickle all our senses.
As we take trips to by gone era neighborhoods such as OC?s Floral Park, LA?s San Marino or even a case study house hanging off the cliff of Hollywood, St Francis Wood in the Bay Area, Capitol Hills in Seattle, and Litchfield, Connecticut we stop to take pictures of homes and neighborhoods that inspired us.
This is the place where we should post our photos for future references.
This is only a suggested list and we should expand them to include other counties and states.
Architecture of San Marino
Architecture of Floral Park
Architecture of Capitol Hills, Seattle
Here is a gauge for what is good enough to post here. Houses featured in TV shows or movies (not horror, parody, and reality TV) are often selected for their aesthetic merits.
The Father of the Brides house and Mad Men's Draper house are two examples of the Colonial Revival.
