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:
1. If you were to use this idea and could pick any design to go in
place of the cyclist, what would you choose?
2. If one of your neighbors used this idea, what design would most
annoy you? (Answering "a cyclist" or "anything resembling that
monstrosity" is okay!)
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Comments (17)
I would make mine be Harry Potter glasses.
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.
1. A robot and my initials, or just my initials with a cute little mod dingbat.
2. KOKOPELLI! Gag.
1. A silhouette of a man, a woman and a boy.
2. Anything religious.
1: A dog & a tree might be one of my choices.
2: Not much would annoy me.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kitsch. Can you say Kitsch? I knew you could.
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.
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.
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.
That cyclist kind of reminds me of Kokopelli. And, yeah, it's not a good thing.
Is that Lance Armstrong's house?
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.
By the way, my Art Nouveau house numbers would be part of my own fence, not this one!!