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Always liked the feel of openness with lots of glass, but modern architecture is cold feeling with all the non-organic straight lines and stainless steel
IMHO
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Always liked the feel of openness with lots of glass, but modern architecture is cold feeling with all the non-organic straight lines and stainless steel
IMHO
I'm with you. I like modern architecture because it is usually designed in such a way that there's a lot of natural light inside, and there's also a lot of clever ideas in modern architecture (ie, cantilevered rooms) that I like, but overall it just seems too sterile, feeling more like a doctor's office than a home. Which is why I love older homes - they've been lived in, and generally have a lot of character, except when someone decides to 'renovate' because all those old doors and windows and floors and walls are apparently no longer good enough, despite lasting longer than anything you'd find at home depot...
That would be bad ass. I like the untreated cedar. I don't mind the modern, the steal and such doesn't make it feel less "home-ie" to me.
Yeah. I like the simple feel of it. Obviously with my passel of kids I need a functional upstairs, but this style suits me fine. My wife liked it too which was a huge plus.
Parts Collector and Former Houndstooth interior junkie.
Modernism is about ideas and how we live - space and light and volume and proportion and line, among other things. It doesn't have to be cold and slick, it can be raw and warm. That's all about the surfaces and materials and how you treat them.
We don't drive our great-grandfather's Model T, why do we want to live in the equivalent house?
LateFan - Got your PM, thank you. Note the modern farmhouse interpretations is what I am after. We are renting as we are transitioning older kids (15 & 18) through highschool and want to move in a year or two to somewhere with more land. Something flexible with updated features (Cat5, water cachement , etc ...) which is why building might be the right example.
Parts Collector and Former Houndstooth interior junkie.
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