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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 3, 2013 - 08:34pm PT
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I am not usually critical or negative. But, whoa, this place is so in the face of everyone driving past to Hellhole Canyon Preserve. Placing a structure into the land and not on top of it would perhaps create a better footprint.
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kennyt
climber
Woodfords,California
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Nice house,looks like he 's even got a flagpole goin!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Pretty generic design, all money, zero imagination!
Figures.....
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mrtropy
Trad climber
Nor Cal
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Sad with the same money the person could build a smaller house much more suited to the surrounding area. Go to St. George Utah and you see huge ugly suburban macmansions everywhere.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 3, 2013 - 09:09pm PT
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Why hiking, exploring and climbing, Warbler. It's way close to mi casa. Cheers to ya. lynne
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Ugly, inefficient, obtrusive, and most likely built like crap.
McMansions suck.
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John M
climber
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Pretty generic design, all money, zero imagination!
It seems like a lot of that going around.
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Looks like it could slide off the back or is that just the photo angle.
Ugh
Susan
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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To each, his own.
That abomination may be the owner's dream castle.
You can't fix stupid, or poor taste.
But he paid for it, so get used to it.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 3, 2013 - 09:54pm PT
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Collected a number of books, magazines and other literature over the years showing the beauty of desert and southwest style architecture. Dan and I were in the process of designing a new, modest look for our own home. Maybe it's just me, but I feel good when I see a home, no matter what the size or even the neighborhood whether it is modest or weathly. When the home or business fits with the earth and its surroundings our eyes and soul are blessed.
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bajaandy
climber
Escondido, CA
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Hey Lynnie, that monstrosity is on the way to my buddies casa. His place is just out of your second shot. He and his family have to drive past that thing every day. And here's the kicker... NO ONE LIVES IN IT!!! Dude that owns it lives back east or some such. Waste of building materials and land if you ask me. Thing that irked me the most was when they left old glory hanging on the pole 'til she rotted away...
Anyway, you're right about rock! Woohoo!
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sharperblue
Mountain climber
oakland, california
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as an Architect, my professional opinion is that this thing should be nuked from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
always amazed and depressed when people have fabulous pieces of land and then completely ignore even the most basic clues of local landscape and climate in what they build. whatevs. it won't last long.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 3, 2013 - 10:11pm PT
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Andy, I s.w.e.a.r. i will get me and Seth to your beautiful rock garden. :DD
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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always amazed and depressed when people have fabulous pieces of land and then completely ignore even the most basic clues of local landscape and climate in what they build. whatevs.
Well, then you'd LOVE living in Appalachia.
Here, people buy tracks of land - 30 or 40 acres - and build their "dream home" on their land (i.e., park a double-wide). And then - for a little extra money - they log their land and end up staring at 40 acres of tree stumps for the next 20 years.
Or they will have 30 or 40 acres of land but they will build their home 10 feet from the road - "because it costs too much money" to run the utilities further than 10 feet.
Q: What does an Appalachian do when their car breaks down?
A: Park their double-wide next to it
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bajaandy
climber
Escondido, CA
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No worries Lynne. I'm always up for doing a little "gardening".
Sharperblue, I teach an architecture class at a local high school and I couldn't agree with you more. Even my neophyte students would recognize the failure to study the land and then design to fit the surroundings.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 3, 2013 - 10:35pm PT
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Sierra Ledge Rat,
I hear what you are saying.
I have a question for the ST audience. And the Question is.......
Can people learn to love the area they live in, learn about the history and topography and THEN learn to fit their dwelling into the land?
We are all such different human beings. I understand that some don't get ugly, or that ugly to one is beauty to another. To some function and not form is everything and visa versa.
Perhaps cities can absorb this more than the rural areas. I wish our rural areas could gracefully fit into their topography.
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bajaandy
climber
Escondido, CA
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Ha ha! Cosmic, you have no idea... Lynne's shot show's the best looking aspect. From the back it is TOTALLY the Bate's Motel. Even more creepy when there is only one light on in one of the rooms...
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 3, 2013 - 11:04pm PT
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Thanks as always, Mr. Cosmic, for making me smile.
It took me until I was in my forties to watch that movie. Yikes!!!
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Count the blessings! A lot of regular Joes got jobs working on that joint.
If you think that is an abomination, you should check some out the joints going up on the San Manual Indian Reservation. Your guy is a piker, compared to the Indians.
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Pennsylenvy
Gym climber
A dingy corner in your refrigerator
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Abomination. Break into it with a razor knife: cut through the siding, struggle through the Tyvec with same razor knife and your in. Why crowbar the door? It may be harder. McDOnald's is to food as this is to housing. I am a wood floor craftman in a dying trade. People believe a fake wood floor is better these days. It is what it is. My floors kick ass and will outlive me. People don't even build for themselves anymore. They build for the market aka most sq.ft. for the buck, or to keep up with the Jone's who are doing just that. Sheeple.....
edit: OK that might be stucco. So to break in, need tinsnips, a hammer from the dollar store and razor knife
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