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sugarbutch

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Addition/renovation for 200-year-old house. Four generations of the family live in the house: Great-grandparents, grandparents, and children in the main house, parents in the addition.

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Cool, SB. I like a lot of it, in particular the reworking of the older spaces is really beautiful. I also like the exterior shots where it transitions to the older space, and the materials are interesting. I am less enthusiastic about the cavernous main space in the modern wing. I really don't understand the balcony from the master suite to the living room. I guess the idea is to offer a view of the lakefront but it seems extremely impractical given that so many people live in the house.

I also don't understand how this:



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Can be the same house. Must be the perspective. Here it looks like the modern wing is just overly massive - sort of a trick of the lens I am sure in terms of the height but I think it reveals some truth nonetheless.

I also would have done the pool in more traditional materials, though I can see how that would be less pure of a vision. I don't think the pool works for me though.
 

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Disclaimer: the preceding opinion was submitted by a philistine.
 

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Cool, SB. I like a lot of it, in particular the reworking of the older spaces is really beautiful. I also like the exterior shots where it transitions to the older space, and the materials are interesting. I am less enthusiastic about the cavernous main space in the modern wing. I really don't understand the balcony from the master suite to the living room. I guess the idea is to offer a view of the lakefront but it seems extremely impractical given that so many people live in the house.

I also don't understand how this:

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Can be the same house. Must be the perspective. Here it looks like the modern wing is just overly massive - sort of a trick of the lens I am sure in terms of the height but I think it reveals some truth nonetheless.

I also would have done the pool in more traditional materials, though I can see how that would be less pure of a vision. I don't think the pool works for me though.

The site from which I grabbed those pics speculated that the addition is essentially a private suite, so having the bedroom open to the living room (sitting area?) isn't a problem. Made sense to me, although I'm not sure I would have made the same choice.

I think the apparent size of the addition in the second pic is a result of a wide-angle lens and distorted perspective.

I like wood around a pool because it doesn't get as hot as concrete or stone. I don't think I would use a pool enough to justify the expense, but I'm not rich, so who knows?
 

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I think that is all computer generated, so no lens involved, no building involved. I could be wrong, but it looks like a mock up and thus can sort of be anything at all times.
 

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I'm not sure people are getting to good with computers now a days.

If its real its the big square box playing a trick on our eyes, as the sloping roof makes it look larger, do it being closer to the camera.
 

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Looking at this, I wish I lived somewhere, where pools makes sense.

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wow, i like that, a lot.
 

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