Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Philippe, The house shown was renovated about ten years ago, modernising the kitchen and doubling the size of the house. For the most part, American home construction even for homes into the 7 figures are built pretty lightly, maybe some stone or brick ornamentation on the outside but definitely no plans for centuries of existence. I think that it is the price/bling factor. If you build cheaply then you can show off larger rooms with faux wood floors and imitation granite counter tops with giant bathtubs that the hot water heater isn't big enough to fill as an in line heater is too expensive. On the bright side, about three blocks from me, someone demolished two homes and is building their dream of an estate. An architect with some sense used reinforced concrete as the main skeleton with brick as an exterior using stone for the arches and highlights. Even designed a good gutter system to keep the water fron the inside of the walls if it fails so there won't be the long destruction by water over time. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 6/18/06, Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote: > > Such a pity to destroy this heritage. > They should promote renovating a bit more over there. > On the other hand I understand that there is a tradition of building > wooden houses. > Which doesn't seem ideal for building long lasting houses. > > Thanks for showing, > Philippe > (from Belgium, where they seem to be born with a brick in their > stomach :-) > > > Op 18-jun-06, om 16:43 heeft Don Dory het volgende geschreven: > > > America is a funny place. I live in a fairly quiet close in > > neighborhood > > that was built up in the late 1940's and 50's. Rather than deal > > with what > > exists, we tear down and start over with a new dream. So, first up > > is the > > new husband there to record the old house that saw the birth of his > > step > > children get demolished. > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album443/housedemolition > > > > This gentleman is quite happy in his job, he actually has a calling to > > demolish houses and commercial structures as he left his previous > > job to > > create this business. > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album443/demolisherhappy > > > > And finally a somewhat longer view of what was going on. > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album443/housedemolitionhardatit > > > > It took this very talented person less than a day to completely > > pulverise > > this house, and about two days to cart off the debris. Translated > > into the > > Gulf coast, you got a lot of years of demolition to go. > > > > Enjoy the weekend, comments highly desirable, and go out and impact > > some > > silver halide or innocent electrons. > > > > Don > > don.dory@gmail.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >