Re: I might be forced to get a job!
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.adobe.com)
Date: May 29, 2003 03:58AM
AAC,
Yes, the woodwork in my house is impressive, at least downstairs, but it is not oak except for the floors. The walls and ceiling are panelled in redwood, which was a style popularized in Berkeley. And it does have a big front porch supported by four stone pillars, and shingles on the sides of the large gable roof. But no pergola or climbing roses.
There is a book published in 1973 called "A Sidewalk Guide to Santa Cruz Architecture". My house just gets a small one paragraph blurb (and no photo) in the main text, which mentions hundreds of houses and other buildings, but there is a short appendix that has pen-and-ink drawings of the major architectural styles (about 7 or 8 of them), and a drawing of my house is used as the example for the "Shingle Style".
I will email you some pictures next week. I am leaving for a short trip to Albuquerque tomorrow morning and won't be back until Sunday. I do all my posting from work, and don't have the pictures here.
And hey, Virginia has a lot of beautiful old homes too! And they don't cost as much as they do here. (I read a lot of mysteries, and for some reason the authors of mysteries set in places like Virginia and Ohio and the Carolinas seem to like to drop comments about the price of a house, intending to casually indicate someone's income level or something, and all it does is set me off on a tailspin about the awful price of housing here, because they seem to think houses in the $250K range are upscale. And here you couldn't buy a dilapidated one-bedroom house with a leaky roof for that price.)