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04-26-2009, 11:42 PM | #1 |
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April 27, 2009: Fairy-tale Homes
Long ago and far away, after the War-to-End-All-Wars and before Mexico retook possession, Los Angeles was a magic place.
Tinseltown, Hollywood, Movie Stars, Big Bucks and Irrational Exuberance. Some of the people with the money also had imagination... or some of the people with imagination figured out how to get some of that money by building houses the people with money wanted. Either way, some fairy-tale homes were built a few of which still exist. I love these places but creating one today would be soooo expensive. Even away from the stratospheric CA real estate (land) costs. The battle with zoning boards, banks and inspectors, to not build a ticky tacky box, would be expensive and exhausting. You'd have to be rich enough to have other people do that battle while you lived somewhere else. But it sure would be cool. link
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04-27-2009, 01:15 AM | #2 |
We have to go back, Kate!
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Beautiful interior! That fireplace is lovely.
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04-27-2009, 04:41 AM | #3 |
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Gee, I hope Brianna likes it.
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04-27-2009, 04:57 AM | #4 |
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That pretty particulate/monoxide/carbon generating fireplace.. California Air Resources Board - CLEAN UP ON ISLE FOUR!
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04-27-2009, 07:18 AM | #5 |
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I looooooove it! When can I move in?
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04-27-2009, 09:16 AM | #6 |
Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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I love it. I want to sleep in that little alcove, or whatever it's called.
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04-27-2009, 09:17 AM | #7 |
putting the "g" in flight
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I want it! Especially the bed. Just look at all those soft comfy pillows. Makes me sleepy.
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04-27-2009, 10:48 AM | #8 |
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I've always envied craftsmen who could make something that looks like it's 400 years old and falling apart when they finish.
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04-27-2009, 01:16 PM | #9 |
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Even better than the church camp at Martha's Vineyard! I love it also and would move there in a second - providing, of course, that a large Pizza Hut box could fit through those whimsical doors, too.
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04-27-2009, 08:27 PM | #10 |
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The falling apart bit is easy. The looks like it's falling apart is the tricky bit.
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04-28-2009, 10:26 AM | #11 |
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Bilbo called. He said get the hell out of his house.
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04-28-2009, 01:07 PM | #12 |
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I couldn't sleep in that bed. How am I supposed to dangle my leg out over the edge?
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04-28-2009, 01:59 PM | #13 |
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Is that a bed?
I thought it was a window seat. For wantonly reclining after my imps have ridden Diz into the forest (on Diz) and brought back the mellowest of all the mushrooms for me And look what I found as perfect furniture for a hobbit hole. From here (teak root furniture)
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04-29-2009, 02:10 AM | #14 |
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What are you nuts? Don't you know they will drag you under the bed, suck out your juices and turn you into dust bunnies.
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04-29-2009, 02:23 AM | #15 |
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ok...that triple post wasn't my fault!
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