not happy

[daedong]

Higgy,
you drive in a big bloody circle all the time in Canberra its like politics you go around and around and around I hate most cities in oz because of there nrrow steets, My city base Adelaide isn't like the rest. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[higgy]

Bob,

I am a fan of Frank in a major way. I would love to see some elevations of you house some time.

We have several lloyde Wright houes near here and I have been to falling water. I also love his glass and lamp designs.

The Architects, The Artisans, And The Styles Of The Prairie School Of Architecture has some on Walter.

Praire School

 

[higgy]

See I told you that most don't like Canbarra.

Thanks Vin!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Bob_Skurka]

Higgy . . .go to the Photo Gallery and I have posted some tractor pictures, parts of the house are visible in some of the pictures. The original home plans were destroyed in a fire, we were able to view some original pen & ink drawings that were at Northwestern University and combined those with some descriptions we found in books. The house is supposed to be stucco, but we used brick & cedar for the exterior, something I now regret doing. The exterior dimensions of the house, window placements, etc are pretty close to original, at least as close as would could get them. The upstairs interior was modified from the original 6 bedrooms to 3 bedrooms plus a laundry room. The new wall placements all fit between the original window openings so from the exterior it looks the way it should. On the main level, the maid's quarters and original kitchen were replaced with a large dinette and an expanded kitchen; the new rooms fit within the confines of the original rooms. The dining room and sunken living room are probably within inches of being accurate. We replaced the basement with a family room, an additonal bathroom, an excercise room, but all without changing the outward appearance of the house. We have 3 fireplaces instead of the original 2, but we ran the extra fireplace inside a chimney that maintains an accurate appearance to the original placement.

The HUGE alteration we made was the addition of the 3.5 car garage that was offset from the front door which replaced the original 1 carriage and 2 horse stable that originally ran perpandicular to the main body of the house. The garage runs off the house at 30 & 60 degree angles, which is in keeping with many of F.L.W. design tenets.

For the interior wood we had to go off some of the pen & ink drawings and just did the best we could. My wife doesn't like oak, so we used cherry and poplar. All the poplar was milled to our specs and wraps around the walls in patterns that are in keeping with the prairie period homes by W.B.G. & F.L.W. The foyer is also somewhat altered to accomodate the garage, which allowed us to make it open from the roof all the way down to the basement floor. The foyer walls were painted by a muralist and are painted with a backdrop of dogwood and bamboo; again this was done only after looking at numerous murals in original era prairie style homes. Other main rooms are texture painted with up to 6 layers and colors of paint to achive the rich hues and color variations used during the period. Major light fixtures are reproduction fixtures using brass and gold/cream irredescent glass. I had some fixtures made to my specs because I could not find lights close enough to original designs. For flooring, we used a lot of porcelan tile, with inlays in several areas; plus a couple rooms of marble, as well as wood flooring.

We tried, as best we could to recreate something that was destroyed before it was ever built. We made cost concessions where we neeeded to. We altered interior rooms upstairs to increase closet space and to add bathrooms (we have 4 versus the original 2!?! bathrooms). Our house is not a faithful reproduction, but it is a modern rebuilding using the original lines and some original room sizes.

 

[higgy]

Thanks

 

[HammerFour]

I don't think ICQ will cause any problems on your computer, but I do agree he should have asked before installing it.

 

[SPIKER]

BOB:

you always have some GOOD and FUNNY posts! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

good groupping daddy hahahaha /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Mark M

BWT house sounds very nice! should have built it on the hill in my back yard for me! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Mark M