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Homes of the Future

Posted on March 14, 2011

The "Jetsons" cartoon series of the 1960's was a fanciful glimpse of American home life in the 21st Century. George, Jane, Judy, Elroy and Astro lived in slick automated house that looked as futuristic outside as it was high-tech inside. Here in the twenty-first century it would seem logical that house design should be evolving towards a space-age look, but traditionally styled homes that model themselves after eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth-century designs are more popular than ever. Is the architectural design clock ticking backwards or are these classic exteriors simply attractive skins hiding twenty-first century muscles and bones?

A Brief History

American house design has weathered four centuries of rapidly changing architectural styles and tastes. The early homes built by European settlers were simple and unadorned, reflecting the familiar forms of their homelands, but as prosperity grew they began to take on decoration copied from the great buildings of Europe. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, home style followed the fashion of the day - Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Neoclassical, Tudor, Italian Renaissance. These classic homes are often easily dated by tracing the architectural style to the time period when it was popular. Read more...

Extreme Home Makeover

Posted on January 2, 2011

My husband and I have the most gorgeous front yard ever. It is perfectly landscaped and manicured, and I finally feel like the external beauty of my home and living space reflects my personal internal beauty. I am constantly getting compliments from neighbors and friends, and I even have people I don't know asking me to be a front yard landscaping consultant for them! But it wasn't always this way. It really wasn't.

For years I struggled with the fact that my front yard, and surrounding areas looked shabby and boring. And in some cases, it even just flat out looked terrible. But what could I do? I didn't have any front yard landscaping ideas, and I certainly didn't know anything about gardening. Well everything changed on day when I overheard my neighbor on the telephone. She was complaining to her girlfriend about how my property is an "eye sore" and how she wishes we would either clean up or move out!

I hated hearing it, because it hurt my feelings deeply, but I know it was true. And as a result I had a major epiphany, and decided to not only take this on as a personal project, but to find strategies to make this happen in the most affordable ways! What I learned over the next few years not only turned my drab boring front yard into a landscaping masterpiece, a piece of art, but it changed my life entirely as well. Read more...

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