Here's Kristin with some more inspiration and a couple of questions for you!
If we owned a house, we'd love to have a front gate that showed off how much we loved something - especially if that something could be depicted simply and tastefully like this metal cyclist adorning the front of a modern new home in a neighborhood off of South 1st Street in Austin. We can't help but admire this person's way of adding a little personality to the outside of their house without being obnoxious. Check out a close-up of the sculpture and answer our two burning questions below the jump...
Just for kicks, we have a couple of questions for you:
I would make mine be Harry Potter glasses.
view pigwidgeon's profile
I think anything more than an abstract pattern of some sort would prove kinda ugly. Like the cyclist.
Love the house in the background though. There's a couple of others in the area by architect MJ Neal that are phenomenal. I had the chance to walk through them when they were being built/just finished. Really, really gorgeous.
view munckee's profile
1. A robot and my initials, or just my initials with a cute little mod dingbat.
2. KOKOPELLI! Gag.
view hambox's profile
1. A silhouette of a man, a woman and a boy.
2. Anything religious.
view Brazilian's profile
1: A dog & a tree might be one of my choices.
2: Not much would annoy me.
view MoJonson's profile
I got the chance to look at this property pre-fence and I have to say the fence really takes a lot away from this house. I like the fence just not in front of this house.
view Ben D.'s profile
Have not seen this house in person but I couln't agree more with Ben D. on this one. It wouldn't be the end of the world if this fence were my neighbor but I'd rather it not.
view dutchess327's profile
Oh goodness, not sure why anyone would choose to highlight this - given the number of really cool fences around Austin. Frankly, I dislike this fence and this house. We saw the home at the same time we viewed ours, total builder spec "modern" - badly designed throughout, including the living room window that people stood and stared in at while they were sitting there (hence the need for that "kokopeli cycler" fence). Goes to show how good architecture, designed for the space makes a big difference.
view potluck's profile
highlighting the ugliest element from a fence. odd post. the geometry of this house is asking for something simpler.
one of you atla bloggers should walk around venice for an afternoon and post the real interesting, beautiful, and unexpected fences there.
view healthyhome's profile
Kitsch. Can you say Kitsch? I knew you could.
view Palmetto's profile
I'm not sure if I understand the need to show off one's personality. This would make more sense in front of a bike store maybe.
view charlenemcbride's profile
My Apt. overlooks a parking lot and it irks me to no end the amount that people (here and in real life) gripe about having to look at something their neighbors have. Get a life.
view whytephoenix's profile
i think i would do some sort of stylized cabbage-shaped flowery thing, maybe. especially if i had those pretty red and green cabbages growing along the fence - i love those! i think that would be pretty acceptable to neighbors, right?
i wouldn't mind seeing this on my block, but i have lived in some quirky neighborhoods so maybe i'm just used to it.
view akostalas's profile
That cyclist kind of reminds me of Kokopelli. And, yeah, it's not a good thing.
view Caitlin in Seattle's profile
Is that Lance Armstrong's house?
view economush's profile
1. My house numbers in the style of French Art Nouveau street signs as exemplified by the Paris Metro.
2. The exaggerated and impossible silhouette of a woman as seen frequently on mudflaps of rusty trucks in need of washing.
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By the way, my Art Nouveau house numbers would be part of my own fence, not this one!!
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