I’ll admit it… I am usually not a big fan of can lighting. But I take exception in this case. This is an old coffee can… opened on both ends and then spray painted blue. It is screwed to the wood… surrounding a galvanized exterior light socket. The astute amongst you will have noted that [...]
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Hippie modernist lighting
Posted in architecture, tagged budget modern, budget modernism, do it yourself lighting, hippie architecture, make magazine, todd stoutenborough, todd stoutenborough architect on February 21, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Love what you build.
Posted in architecture, tagged 1930's architecture, bungalow details, cool sidewalk, crazy sidewalk, curving sidewalk on February 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I am a big fan of special architectural details. This sidewalk is a perfect example. It takes just a bit more work… but it is so much more fun in the end. Don’t just do something like it has always been done… make it something special. Every aspect of building can be made [...]
patina and restoration…
Posted in architecture, city planning, tagged architectural preservation, beatnik houses, historic preservation, modernism, old houses, patina, preserving history, remodeling, restoration on February 19, 2012 | 2 Comments »
There is a quality of patina… that is impossible to describe. The effects of weather, of chairs sliding on the floor, of cracks in the concrete, edges worn by use, stains from the wine bottle, and the worn area on a threshold from thousands of visitors footsteps. I love this quality. It is often difficult [...]
Boat wheelhouse for sale
Posted in architecture, tagged boat house, house boat, storybook house, storybook style on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I saw this on the side of the road for sale… in Moss Landing, CA. It is the wheelhouse from an old fishing boat. Now it is haunting me… it wants me to buy it and make it into something fun. I could stick it into the roof of something perhaps… or build it [...]
“storybook modern” or”quack international style”
Posted in architecture, tagged california modernism, international style, modern home, modernism, modernist home, storybook house, storybook modern on February 14, 2012 | 2 Comments »
This is a napkin drawing idea I have for a steep “tv dinner tray” type hillside home… a simple white modernist box on powdercoated orange steel stilts… with huge powdercoated steel webbed feet on the bottom of each stilt, orange painted deck out front and two round blue glass windows. It could be called birdHaus, [...]
long shingles…
Posted in architecture, tagged cambria cottage, long shingles, shingle house, storybook style on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I like the look of this old storybook house in Cambria CA… mostly because of the really long green stained shingles. It sure would be fun to restore.
more spanish colonial revival details in Carmel
Posted in architecture, carmel by the sea, tagged nice balcony, spanish colonial revival architecture, spanish details, spanish tile, terra cotta details, tile roof on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a few more spanish colonial revival details from downtown Carmel by the Sea. Notice the haphazardness of the roof tiles in the first shot… coupled with the same roof tiles being used under the eave as arched details… also notice that the bricks are set at an angle under the eaves… for a tad [...]
spanish tile staircase in Carmel by the Sea
Posted in architecture, tagged carmel by the sea, spanish colonial revival architecture, spanish style staircase, tile staircase on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A nicely done spanish colonial revival staircase in the Las Tiendas Building on Ocean Ave. in Carmel by the Sea, CA. looks to be a 1920 era building.
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