I found this photo while searching for new ideas for a residential entry - for a project much more boring than the photo-but cracked up about the rail on the right of the photo- the fake balcony.
Honestly it's totally terrible, but *overall* less offensive to me than that house on the "this is why we can't have nice things" thread from a couple years ago. That railing is hilariously bad, though. Good lord, who would do that?!
I kind of like it. Ballsy, works from below, check poop's link. Boldly violates every principle of function. And the rest of the details suck, like the weird cornice blocks on the left side opening and the light switch that interrupts the molding.
Twice - TWICE! - the molding is interrupted by the electrical cover plates, just in this one picture! Thank goodness the molding is just applied directly to the drywall, though, so it's just two cuts per cover plate. It would have been *really* hard to make that detail work if the molding was actually paneling.
Also, it's a bold bit of whimsy to put the upper newel post on the stair tread, rather then the floor level at the stair's destination. I'm thinking this crafty designer had parallel universes and destabilization in mind when s/he made that move.
I like it it. It has the essence of good architecture, overdressed in bad taste. I'd hire the designer - at least they are trying to invent something clever out of ordinary suburban junk.
the manner in which the bannister arcs into the wall and, therefore, prohibits access to the mezzanine and the doors beyond indicates that the designer was most certainly looking at the works of Marcel Duchamp, who often created works similar in mystery, ambiguity and intrigue. what lies beyond? so, rather than a hamfisted clusterfuck of a design, this project becomes a surreal experience of the suburban lifting it from a mundane builder mcmansion to a true work of art.
can you identify the style of this home?
LOL
late century mc mansion - hvac supply with style.
https://youtu.be/9bZkp7q19f0
I love the supply/return grilles.
New style called "American Style"….if it’s fake it’s real.
I can make some approaches :p
charles Rennie Mackintosh 1909- first idea of a mezzanine floor in a public space
Adolf loos and his rumplan - 1930
Wallas Harris-1933 .. Radio city music hall foyer
picture missing of the staircase- from my history book :p
.... so how old is yours?
thinking that it's a usual client ..40? 50 years
skinny people, head towards the right
i'm guessing 1997, typical client with bad developer/architect./builder company like kb homes or whoever does that.
that handrail termination is brilliant
I'd be willing to bet that an architect was involved in that...
The issue isn’t if it could have been done better, but rather if it should have been done at all…who’s coming to dinner?
There may be hundreds of these w/in 5 miles of me. Lots of money, but not quite enough
"New money"
Post 9-11 American HGTV ism
Mediterranean carriage style mcmansion... basically anything in the Naples FL area
Early Nimby or Myopic Modern
Budget Scarface with a touch of M.C. Escher.
Turd Style......and that is not a stinky fart.
gruen, do you have another view of this space? That can't be real. Cannot.
I didn't think Robert Venturi was with us anymore?
American exceptionalism
Suburban Neopalatial.
fucking retarded - ism
"have it your way" ism
Ooooolaaaaaaaffff....stop. Don't use "retarded' in that way, it's rude.
Fucking fucked-up-ism would be better.
my bad, its Friday and i am up to here with client and building department shennanigans!!..............that design is so Shenannigan
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I had to look through my job folders since it's been a while since I finished this project!
I found this photo while searching for new ideas for a residential entry - for a project much more boring than the photo-but cracked up about the rail on the right of the photo- the fake balcony.
It's some builder called greenview homes out of Lincolnshire, IL. I haven't done private residences in about 10 years!
It is some kind of Georgian colonial thing. Not perfect but there have been worst.
Honestly it's totally terrible, but *overall* less offensive to me than that house on the "this is why we can't have nice things" thread from a couple years ago. That railing is hilariously bad, though. Good lord, who would do that?!
I kind of like it. Ballsy, works from below, check poop's link. Boldly violates every principle of function. And the rest of the details suck, like the weird cornice blocks on the left side opening and the light switch that interrupts the molding.
Twice - TWICE! - the molding is interrupted by the electrical cover plates, just in this one picture! Thank goodness the molding is just applied directly to the drywall, though, so it's just two cuts per cover plate. It would have been *really* hard to make that detail work if the molding was actually paneling.
Also, it's a bold bit of whimsy to put the upper newel post on the stair tread, rather then the floor level at the stair's destination. I'm thinking this crafty designer had parallel universes and destabilization in mind when s/he made that move.
I like it it. It has the essence of good architecture, overdressed in bad taste. I'd hire the designer - at least they are trying to invent something clever out of ordinary suburban junk.
the manner in which the bannister arcs into the wall and, therefore, prohibits access to the mezzanine and the doors beyond indicates that the designer was most certainly looking at the works of Marcel Duchamp, who often created works similar in mystery, ambiguity and intrigue. what lies beyond? so, rather than a hamfisted clusterfuck of a design, this project becomes a surreal experience of the suburban lifting it from a mundane builder mcmansion to a true work of art.
Here is a solution by Siemasko + Verbridge that still allows light into the back hallway.
^^I like the triangular wood "shelf" at the interface of round stair to square balcony- somewhere for kids to play!
The curved rail is a decidedly better version.
Looks like this lol:
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