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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Are You Friggin’ Kidding Me!!!!!
Sorry for my language but this is ridiculous! Thanks to a client’s tweet (on Twitter), he alerted me to this Reuter’s article posted yesterday. I can’t believe it!
A lawmaker, Frank Nicastro, in Connecticut wants their state government to rescue a couple local papers who are scheduled to be shutdown because their publisher, Journal Register, is being crushed by millions of dollars of debt.
Those newspapers aren’t the only ones in trouble but the demise of newspapers has been coming for years. It’s not just a 2008 issue. The Internet has put newspapers on the “endangered species” list … that and their exorbitant advertising costs.
The real estate industry has been moving away from newspapers for years! That’s not where buyers search for homes. Buyers use the Internet because it’s easier, there’s far more info on the home, and the photography … well the crappy off-register photos in the paper are just no match for the Internet. It’s just not the way to get a home sold anymore and having the real estate industry pull their advertising dollars out has had a significant impact on newspapers.
I went to Sat-Sun delivery of The Dispatch several years ago. This past year, I even dropped the weekend delivery. I didn’t like wasting trees. Way back in the early 80′s, The Dispatch was an afternoon paper. The news was pretty current with whatever happened earlier in the day, plus, I enjoyed reading after dinner when I had the time. Then they bought out the failed Citizen-Journal, which was a morning paper. Soon after the purchase, The Dispatch changed to a morning paper which I questioned because after all the CJ morning paper had already failed. So not only was the news old by the time it was delivered, but I didn’t have time in the morning to read it before leaving for work. By the evening when I did have time, it was really old news.
Then came the Internet and life hasn’t been the same since.
We DO have a “free press”. It’s called the Internet and all Americans are free to publish … just as I’m doing here. It’s a far more democratic and open system than restricting the news to what few biased editors decide we SHOULD read.
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