http://swamplot.com/inside-the-wabi-sabi-house/2008-06-26/ Houston, Texas real estate development, home buying, landscape, and design Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:46:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://swamplot.com/inside-the-wabi-sabi-house/2008-06-26/#comment-1845 neil Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:26:11 +0000 http://swamplot.com/inside-the-wabi-sabi-house/2008-06-26/#comment-1845 The really high design way to make a mark would be to recognize wabi sabi in the Daily Demolition properties and then really apply the wabi sabi ethic. As good a job as this developer is doing, no designer is clever enough to make something rooted more subtly than time in a place can make it fit (or could when the surfaces were more responsive, unlike most postwar townhomes) - and of wabi sabi, no matter how impressive or unimpressive the result is, you shouldn't be able to say, "it's all just props." Hope we see some rooted ones soon. We'll never be so cut off from space that like New Yorkers we'll have art purchases as our only feasible luxury touches (instead of homes, tools, cars, landscaping), but it's likely that there is a good niche where a vintage house in town, rescued from the wrecking ball for a song and upsold as a local wabi sabi hybrid, could be more prestigious and buzzing than a palatial new place. The really high design way to make a mark would be to recognize wabi sabi in the Daily Demolition properties and then really apply the wabi sabi ethic. As good a job as this developer is doing, no designer is clever enough to make something rooted more subtly than time in a place can make it fit (or could when the surfaces were more responsive, unlike most postwar townhomes) - and of wabi sabi, no matter how impressive or unimpressive the result is, you shouldn’t be able to say, “it’s all just props.” Hope we see some rooted ones soon. We’ll never be so cut off from space that like New Yorkers we’ll have art purchases as our only feasible luxury touches (instead of homes, tools, cars, landscaping), but it’s likely that there is a good niche where a vintage house in town, rescued from the wrecking ball for a song and upsold as a local wabi sabi hybrid, could be more prestigious and buzzing than a palatial new place.

]]> http://swamplot.com/inside-the-wabi-sabi-house/2008-06-26/#comment-1841 Brad Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:40:39 +0000 http://swamplot.com/inside-the-wabi-sabi-house/2008-06-26/#comment-1841 I love this house... except the use of bamboo. I do not remember if it is used on the landscaping, but find it odd in the stairwell. Other than that, I really like it. I love this house… except the use of bamboo. I do not remember if it is used on the landscaping, but find it odd in the stairwell. Other than that, I really like it.

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