Dwell should feature homes like this...
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Your house looks great. Very clean lines, and great color choices. I agree, they should feature your home. Who would have thought a random split level outside of St. Louis could be that sweet.
Fabulous! I have some questions: the living room wall--did you do a texture on it to make it look so suede-ish? If so, what was it? Any advice on it?
And the blue in the bathroom: what was that color?
Really really good work. We can't all have Eichlers or better to work with. I know if I were driving through your neighborhood, I'd know I'd found a kindred spirit...there are a few of us in our 70s tract home neighborhood out here too, I can tell.
(followup) I just found info on the soft suede finish technique. For other folks' benefit I'll provide a first link:
http://www3.sherwin.com/do_it_yourself/painting_techniques/faux_painting_process/softsuede/
Sounds a bit messy, from other websites I've found on it, but definitely worth doing. I'm so glad you posted it.
flyleft,
You found it. Sherwin Williams Soft Suede: grey Actually the process is easier than you may think. You roll it on first using a foam roller and before it dries you apply a second coat using a 4 paint brush doing large X patterns. It's easier if there are two people to do the process: one to roll on and the other to apply the second coat with the brush.
The color in the bathroom is also Sherwin Williams: Aqua Tint
Dwell = Budget = Nope!
Dwell does specialize in showing the latest in stuffy, unaffordable modern.
I like what you've done to your house.
My wife and I recently built a modern house on an infill lot near San Francisco. Prior to building, we contacted dwell several times to see if they wanted to cover our house since we had a huge focus on getting modern appeal on a real shoestring of a budget. They were simply not interested in custom modern construction using creative processes to satisfy a tight budget. They wanted to focus on the modern pre-fab movement, which in my opinion, has been hugely disappointing since these prefab homes are not affordable. But, I get the feeling that many of the Dwell readers would like to see more of a focus on the affordable aspects. It seems they did several years ago, but lately have only focused on expesive modern.
Oh-well.
Excellent work on your house! Yeah, it is too bad that Dwell doesn't have an interest unless the price per sq foot is at least $250. It might just be me, but it also seems that the magzine is focusing more and more on general design articles (museums, famous architects, furniture, etc.) with maybe only one or two articles devoted to taking a look at private homes, be they expensive or budget.
I would absolutely love to see a print magazine similar to Dwell, but primarily devoted to the budget modernist, and each month or quarter have it be chock full of case studies of custom projects done on a budget, with details (cost breakdowns especially) on the architects used, the materials, the process, timelines, etc.
You better watch out strain somebody might take your idea for a magazine and run with it. You can bet that I'll be the first one to subscribe.
Hey Strain, sign me up as the first subscriber (and contributor) to your magazine! We are building an eco-modern home in Cincinnati on a very tight budget. We are doing most of the work ourselves and were able to get some breaks on materials (and some materials donated) because we are using the house (our primary residence) as an educational model for local students and professionals to teach them about green design techniques. You can see our progress so far at www.nutterresidence.blogspot.com (link below) So far, we're estimating the final product to be in the $100/sf range with much of the savings coming in our sweat equity and simple design.
We could have acomplished the design for much less, but it's passive solar with a suspended concrete floor over a basement which is an ICF foundation - which all added considerably to the initial costs. We also have a rainwater catchment system for toilet water, washing machine, and outdoor uses, which will add about $5000 to the total cost. To get some of these "non-traditional" techniques approved, we also had to pay fees for zoning and health dept variances which wouldn't have been an issue with traditional construction. I keep thinking to myself that if we were building a normal house, we could have built it for a song . . .
The current pictures on our blog show the finished suspended concrete floor and ICF foundation. The interior style will be something we call modern-industrial with lots of concrete, metal, exposed trusses, etc.
BTW, STLmodern, great job on your house. We just sold our house - from the same mold as yours. However ours was a tri-level instead of bi-level, but there are many homes like yours in the same neighborhood. We had left the joists and ductwork exposed in the basement and painted everything black and used low-voltage cable lighting. Everyone we know told us that room would make our house difficult to sell - but as it turns out that's the very room that closed the deal. The buyer (who is European) loved it. Go figure! I love your choice of artwork. It was great to hear that you did most of it yourself - as I plan to do the same for our new house. Keep us posted on the HGTV thing! I'd love to see it. Thanks.[url href="http://www.nutterresidence.blogspot.com"]Nutter Residence Blog[/url]
STL - have you thought about sending info on your project to ReadyMade magazine? Maybe you've had it up to here with media after the tv program.
I could not be happier about Dwell's success, but the sense that their trajectory has left an opportunity in the market place for an affordable modern magazine may be true. There is only one way to find out!
a nuts and bolts how to magazine would have a very loyal audience. Dwell is solid ads and its few articles are very un informative.... slick pix, architects home, price not disclosed, argggg.
i found a pdf document on updating split level homes. some creative stuff to add some value as there are millions of em in da burbs!
[url href=http://www.split-level.com/]http://www.split-level.com/[/url]
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