I listed a unique exec-style home yesterday. The seller happened to have an old newspaper clipping from The Dispatch that was written perhaps in the late 60′s or early 70′s when the newspaper featured the home in its HOMES section. There’s no date on the yellowed article, so we’re not sure when the home was actually featured.
Since the home was totally updated and remodeled in the 90′s, keeping with the original unique design but adding on a 3rd floor, it was interesting to read the newspaper’s take on the design. I enjoyed (was amused) at some of the descriptions used by the Dispatch writer:
- “Enchanting design – more than a mere conversation piece.” (yes, very true!)
- It has a “myriad of nooks, crannies and turns and its elastic use of space, the plan is a child’s delight; an adult’s idea of enchanting excitement”. (I’ve no idea what an ‘elastic use of space’ is … so don’t ask!)
- “At one side, the ceiling soars, the floor falls away and you have a bird’s-eye view into a “well”, which is the lower level living room.” (Perhaps, having a floor ‘fall-away’ is not quite the description I would use …)
- “… the eye finds fascination in angles and spaces.” (OK, I agree with this.)
- ” … to cozily encompass a one-step dropped area rimmed with built-in seating.” (the home has a step-down conversation pit around a wood stove which is a wonderful place.)
I doubt that this Dispatch reporter is still in the business, but I really did enjoy reading her article. I’ll be posting on this home tomorrow or Monday. I’ll have to remember to add some of these phrases … right after I determine what that elastic phrase means … perhaps “versatile”? I do like the “eye finds fascination” as this home is one of those where you want to stand in one spot and do a 360° turn in many of the rooms to totally capture the entire “bird’s-eye view“.
I would LOVE to have this same reporter see the home since its major remodel in the 90′s. It’s even more spectacular now … or as she would say, “even MORE of an enchanting design“.
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