Being of modest income and a renter with high(er) falutin' tastes means I'm often daydreaming about what sort of abode I'd call "home sweet home" if I happened to pick those correct 5+1 lotto numbers or AT became a media giant on par with Martha or Oprah.
The home my girlfriend and I covet is just nine houses up the street...a beautiful Hollywood golden age, Mediterranean-style home that once belonged to actor Tyrone Power and priced within arm's reach just a decade ago, but now is being offered for $1.3 million. Considering the tiny Catalina home up above is out of our price range, I'm still relegated to dreaming, full steam ahead...
If money truly wasn't an issue, both Emily and I agree we'd love to purchase the
Neutra VDL Reseach Site home nearby the Silver Lake Reservoir (if you're interested, a few of us from ATLA will be attending one of the tours to support the preservation of the LA landmark on June 21st, so we hope to see a few of you there). It's one of those homes that is modest in size, but gigantic in impression, filled with ahead of its time design details that still impress today. That it has a separate work/live area, a view of the reservoir and a small shaded courtyard makes the VDL house a modernist's dream. For now, we'll just keep jogging by and visiting occasionally via the
weekly house tours.
How about you out there? Do you have specific homes or locales you dream of one day calling your very own? Or are you already living in it? Share with us which architectural wonders you'd like to call home.
I love this little house:
http://preview.century21.com/classic/property.jsp?teasers=Trulia-Redirect Lead from Trulia&tr_key=34235266&WT.mc_id=Organic
(Hopefully the link will work.) If I were making just a leetle bit more money it would be affordable, but at the moment it's out of reach. So close and yet so far. Sigh.
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If it were me being able to afford a place, I'd either find a modest vintage MCM home, say on an infill city lot or better yet, find such a lot and build a home based on a vintage floorplan, updated/modified with an Eichler-ish courtyard fronted by a carport w/ a small enclosed storage shed on one side.
The entrance to the house would be much like Eichler's design, a door into the courtyard, sided on one side by panes of frosted glass to showcase the shadows made by architecturely strong plants in silhuette and a covered pathway to the house itself.
The house itself would not be huge, at most perhaps 1500Sq Ft, if that with a Jacuzzi/whirlpool out back, perhaps with a view of some sort.
Just a small oasis, or "Private Idaho" place to come home to after a busy day at work.
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I guess I'm lucky living in one of my dream houses -- a little chicago bungalow (bought before the pricing boom)...
but I think it's so sad that quaint little places like the one pictured in the article are becoming so expensive that everyday people with decent jobs are getting priced out of the market.
Hold fast to your dreams Gregory, the market is just starting to turn!
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Something (anything) affordable in San Francisco. Ha!
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For me it is more about the perfect location if I didn't have to work for a living anymore. I wouldn't want any huge mansion, but something with tons of character in a picturesque town. I'd love to own a home in the medieval town of Rothenberg like this one. http://www.flickr.com/photos/orngcatstudio/2407015374/in/set-72157604495102737/
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I want a modest cottage in Monterey, CA. That would do me just fine. And a home work studio. Or Carmel, just next door. Nothing huge or gandiose.....and a garden.
view JacksonMarie's profile
for practical houses that I could possibly afford some day I would like a small ranch or one of the cute little 30s or 40s houses that my town seems to be full of.
and when I need a little "when I win the lottery" escapism I love looking at houses for sale in england, the classic townhouse in london or the rambly stone village houses.
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Ocean view and I'm golden.
view s and the r's profile
I love a breeze home in the rolling hills of South Pasadena.
*Le sigh*
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I live in San Francisco and I have "My Lottery House" which I'd buy if I won the lottery. It's a killer Victorian atop a corner lot near Buena Vista Park that stretches a whole city block. I can see it out my bedroom window and even my friends refer to it as "Your Lottery House".
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a 1920's craftsman bungalow with unpainted woodwork
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Location: Morro Bay or Pismo
Abode: anything, including our cranky tent-trailer
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