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Kamis, 02 Desember 2010

Demolition Heartbreaker in Virginia Highlands

I've blogged about it before ("Why waste a great garage on a stupid car?") It's been for sale on and off for a while. It's not everybody's favorite.

I loved the porch roof, the bodacious pink trim, awesome garage/workshop and unequaled location. It's much more than meets the eye.


Here is a closer look.
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The owner said folks had offered to buy the porch roof and build him another.
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Well, they are rehabbing the house, they tore off the porch, it's now in pieces at the bottom of the dumpster.

I asked the demo guys. They said, "I wish you'd told us, I'd have sold it to you for $20."

I want to cry.

Sabtu, 16 Oktober 2010

How to Enter a Pink Castle

It strives to delight and lift our spirits, not to intimidate. May I show you in via my 30-second video?

There is no trouble finding the rose door. It's the clearest of the pinks and reds from the tile, faded walls, and gravel. Isn't the color of the door perfect? Can you imagine another color?
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There is another door, the service door done as a window. See the steps in the corner?
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The foyer bumps out. It's plain and human sized, more comfortable than I expected. Little hedges and lanterns guide us to a perfect landing. We might have to make a dash during a rain.
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No athletic step climbing is required. It's perfectly sized for families. Ladies in heels might need some gravel practice: I notice some "interesting" lady strides as we crunch toward the door. The left window lights the ladies room, the right lights the men's.
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Time to go into the surprisingly cozy foyer.


Mind if I quote "Pattern 130. ENTRANCE ROOM?"
When hosts and guests are saying goodbye, the lack of a clearly marked "goodbye" point can easily lead to endless "Well, we really must be going now,?' and then further conversations lingering on, over and over again."
It's been 6 days and I'm not over it, not over my visit to the Pink Castle. I wrote about the angel & urns and about the garage.

Senin, 12 April 2010

Entrance Pictures from "Buckhead in Bloom" April 11, 2010

Rachel and I did "Buckhead in Bloom 2010" hosted by and benefiting the Atlanta Preservation Center. I took almost 70 amateur pictures. I'm going to post a few at a time.


Here are entrances from the 6 homes on the tour. You can make all these bigger if you click them, and you should see them bigger.

The Philip Shutze house with stars and pineapple.
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The playhouse with goose, fern, lamp, and sconce.
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The Clement Ford house, well, one of the garden passageways with gravel, sticks stones and porcelain.
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Azelea house featuring your dorky host for scale.
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Unknown architect's house with fancy fan and sidelights.
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Neel Reid house.
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Thanks so much to Atlanta Architect and Atlanta Preservation Center trustee Rodolfo Castro for inviting me and other bloggers. From left to right: me, my daughter Rachel, Rodolfo, and his wife, Kim.
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Thanks so much to the Atlanta Preservation Center for putting this on. Here are the ticket folks in their shady office.
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Other Atlanta bloggers were there too. I saw Helen Young from Whitehaven blog. She'd seen Holly from Things that Inspire, and Blayne Beacham from This Photographer's Life (In Search of a Style), and James from Limestone & Boxwoods.

And thanks so much to my old work friend (he's not old, I'm am) Steven Bennett for saying hello.

More later and thanks,
Terry