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Art Collectors' Bungalow by Rene Desjardins

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This 1960's bungalow was transformed by Rene Desjardins to meet the needs of a young couple: children, an extensive art collections, and heavy entertaining. You'll see art displayed throughout the home and a gallery-like simplicity and quality of light. Not at all what comes to mind upon hearing "bungalow"...

 
 

Most surfaces in the house are white, allowing the display of art to take front stage. The architect was careful to limit the material palette used throughout the house, also to create a good backdrop for the owners' collection.

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We see hall space being used for gallery space more than a few times in the house. It's a great treatment of long hallways in apartments, too.

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What beautiful spaces...
...shame about the Coyote tho.

posted by bepsf on September 23rd 2008 at 11:40am
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I dunno, but kids and dead-wolf-stapled-to-the-wall as art just screams nightmare to me (pun intended)

And I'm sorry, but a bungalow this ain't. That would be like me calling my 1926 log cabin a sleek ranch. The two just don't line up in the mind.

posted by tallguylehigh on September 23rd 2008 at 11:42am
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I love art just as the next unemployed photographer in here but... I do not wish to live inside a gallery.

posted by La loca on September 23rd 2008 at 11:49am
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they had me until the dead wolf stapled to the wall. mother of god. that's going to give me nightmares.

posted by bettyboop on September 23rd 2008 at 11:50am
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Nothing makes a home feel like an office quite like the dining table and chair set does.

I also hope that stumbling across the carcas inthe wild or a hunting permit were involved in procuring the wolf.

posted by Seaside on September 23rd 2008 at 11:51am
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What a sad, stark home. The hallway is nice in a dramatic way but the kitchen looks like an office furniture catalog.

Too bad these kids can't have a normal family dog.

posted by VLM on September 23rd 2008 at 1:15pm
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You know, I can *almost* handle a pelt on the wall. A bearskin rug, possibly. Trophy deer head? Perhaps. But I cannot abide by an entire animal stapled haphazardly to the wall. At least they clearly have enough money to pay for therapy for the kids. Okay, that was a little mean.

posted by complicatedshoes on September 23rd 2008 at 1:44pm
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bungalow? out here, bungalows are about 2000 sq. ft. In this space (I refuse to call it a bungalow), the hallway alone must be 700 sq. ft! The place doesn't look lived in. It looks empty, soulless, despite the art on the walls. It's a shame; it's a space with so much light and air and could be so lively.

posted by wc_canuck on September 23rd 2008 at 2:00pm
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oh that wolf "art" is killin me

posted by jln3681 on September 23rd 2008 at 4:15pm
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Who is the artist on the piece with the wolf and of the women by the staircase at the end of the hall. I like both pieces.

posted by rogerlodge on September 23rd 2008 at 7:56pm
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Ick.
Bad, bad energy with the barbaric canine art... what deliberate cruelty, indifference and callousness.

"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." ~ Immanual Kant

posted by ilovebc on September 23rd 2008 at 10:12pm
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Wow. I can remember being so terrified of my pianosaurus (a goofy-looking green plastic dino with a piano strapped to its side) as a child that I made my parents take it out of my room and hide it in the basement. If my parents had hung animal carcasses in the house I think I would have needed medication and a child psychologist on call at all times.

posted by PhillyLass on September 24th 2008 at 5:43am
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so...
antlers, hide rugs, leather "club chairs"= good
entire animal= bad
thats the consensus here?

i really like the architecture.. but it does seem more like an office than a home. maybe its the conference room table & chairs. i hate those.

posted by antimatt on September 24th 2008 at 6:02am
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That's just wrong!
http://girlwhimsy.blogspot.com

posted by dykelly625 on September 10th 2009 at 7:40pm
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