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The Lizard (who does not even like chocolate) is now hungry.
Well, I’m still panting the living room — but I’ve spent a lot of time sidetracked reading about bungalows.
um, painting, not panting.
I just bet you are “panting” as well. Painting is hard, jes’ hard!
Biscuit,
Do you get American Bungalow? There was an article a couple of years ago about a guy that turned his plain jane manufactured house into a bungalow facade and made the interior in to something to be proud of. He’s up here somewhere, but I haven’t been able to find him.
I’m looking at American Bungalow now, you mind reader, you!
My little treasure. I got to see the Mackintosh tour at the Glasgow School of Arts and go to the Willow Tea Room. To think you could have bought a Mackintosh chair in the 70’s for $25 sterling! I have a friend who has a Stickley hat rack who was thinking about putting it in a garage sale for $15/US. I almost had a heart attack!
omg, you lucky to see that!
I’m on oldhouses.com now. I’m in total sidetrack!
There are so many bungalows here, Aberdeen, Olympia, Seattle and all points in between. A friend of my husband’s bought an ORIGINAL bungalow in Aberdeen for $135,000. No updates, original finish on the woodwork. Leaden windows over the built-ins on each side of the fireplace in the LR. Original kitchen. What a steal! He works in Olympia, BUT….
Wow! An original bungalow??? And at that price???
There are a lot of bungalows here, too, and fortunately a city gov’t. that recognizes their value. But still, many of them are in horrid shape. Although interestingly enough, many of them are one family owners, meaning the kids (who are now ancient) inherited them from the parents (long dead) who were the original inhabitants. Unfortunately too often, those are the ones now falling down.
Everyone from out of town who’s come to visit me has been just snowed by the place because of all these neat tidy OLD OLD homes that any other city with a lick of sense would have bulldozed over years ago.
The lady I bought this place from lived here 50 years and did extensive renovations in the late 50’s and 60’s. Thus: the paneling and some other very strange, un-bungalowish things.
And mine appears to be a transitional style. It’s described by the apparaiser and inspector as a bungalow/ranch, which I didn’t understand at first and thought might have been because there are additions on here - original core, additions on one side and in the back -
But this house was built in 1940, so it could very well be a transitional style.
That’s one reason I’m pouring through stuff trying to find a pic that matches my place.
Good luck in finding info on your place. Sometimes emailing some of the authors in the back of AB will net you a response from someone who knows something about your area. Some of the people in Dallas might help you find out about your area. There are many, many transitional houses in Dallas and Oak Cliff that might be like yours, especially Oak Cliff since it was basically built for the after WWII GI’s coming home. Many of whom went to work for Bell and LTV when it was Chance-Vought. There is also always the M Streets (brick houses) off 75.
That’s a great suggestion. Tonight, I finally found some pics that kind of look like this place, and it does appear to be a bungalow ranch, although much less ranchy and much more bungalowy. That means, though, that two rooms I assumed were additions are actually original to the structure.
Interesting interesting, at least for me.
That is sooo cool! I helped a friend strip wallpaper off his bedroom in Taylor, TX and we found a signed plank from October 13, 1929…..WOW! The carpenters were working.
I spent part of the afternoon registering voters with the League of Women’s Voters at a local Wal-Mart. Ugh.
Not registering voters, but Wal-Mart.
What a disgusting place.
Not much interest in getting folks to register to vote in North Dallas. Also, not much need for my translation skills. Also, it was pretty hot outside, and I could not wear my new Obama T-shirt. Grump, grump, grump.
Maybe I’m the one who needs some chocolate.
You do, my dear. This is a really easy cake to make. I think the current Wal-Mart shopper is brain dead. They will never realize the problem with not voting. If we can’t get our schools and civic classes back, it’s over.
That’s what I think.
OK, B, what can I do to propel this to the forefront of political discourse? I want civics and PE classes and, yes, segregating special needs students into one school where they can be taken care of with teachers that are competent with teaching and other regular students that take pride in helping the special needs students. It worked in Richardson ISD in the early 90’s before “W” took over TX in the late 90’s. My GOD, these kids did really well and had the whole student body rooting for them! They had a bell choir that performed at the concerts and had regular students fighting over who would participate in “Partners in PE” every year! This was a curriculum that worked and the powers that be when “W” came in tore it apart. When you have one special needs student in a school it is tragic. I saw the gathering work in my daughter’s jr hi and how it was torn apart in HS. It is so tragic!
F*#K the powers that be!
Oh, (rant off!!!)
You can’t do it quickly or easily because the W ideology has become a part of liberal ideology.
Consider mainstraming, for example. I’ve seen ferocious fights on dKos about mainstreaming. And I imagine, were I not in front of a classroom, I would think mainstreaming special needs kids K-12 is a great idea!
Um … NOT!!!!!
Try teaching them at the college level. Try being the first person in their life to even hint at the possibility that a college education might not be appropriate for them. It’s the worst kind of social promotion.
What you *can* do is run for school board, make sure you attend school board meetings, advocate for teachers at the K-12 level who give Fs, advocate for learning centers, advocate for school psychologists who can test for dyslexia and who can differentiate, eg, dyslexia from true mental retardation (which unfortunately is having to happen in the classroom, thanks to W), etc.
Just gotta clap of thunder. You all watch out for this!
That thing is huge! I saw a satellite image very late last night, and it was pretty far from Puerto Rico — but its talons (or whatever you call those fingers that spin off from it) were hitting Puerto Rico!
It’s a monster!!
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