Home

[manny2]

First I love light,and big windows, so this kitchen is a hit. I love the contrast of the white, and the wood. The hood above the stove, and the center island, along with the floors really adds a nice warmth to the white. The stove is a nice interruption as well, and it pairs well with the hardware.

[CrazyKittyLvr2]

I love the windows.  The rest, no so much.  I could never get anything from some of those cabinets or shelves without a ladder, not a step stool, a full blown ladder.

[kindred cats]

I like many different styles, this one included.  Very well done IMHO.

[Nonametoday]

---

@kindred cats wrote:

I like many different styles, this one included.  Very well done IMHO.

---

@kindred cats 

I like that this house has elements of more than one period.  It has contemporary, it has a 1900s-1920s look of the transom windows and attic fans which circulated air through the house when opened and the black-painted wood which was a prairie look in the early 1900s and the pantry from a period even further back, a gone-by item, more recently revived, brown furniture which was used particularly well in many periods and which gives warmth to the the white color walls, which were to keep the house cool when there was no air conditioning while the transoms circulated air.  It has some elements of high rises in NYC during a time when Fifth and Madison Avenues were all the rage for stars and starlets. There is a midcentury chair, wood in the kitchen which looks like a warm walnut and the copper fittings which were used in Europe as well as the Italian white marble from centuries ago.  I think this is a timeless home.  Let me live there in my next life with a butler and a cook who picks up our food items from the nearby green grocers. 

[Oznell]

Ha, ha, @Nonametoday ,  let me share that fantasy of yours!  And your wide-reaching knowledge and commentary are such a pleasure...

[ECBG]

@Oznell 

The only old buildings that are now condos are mostly the old car dealerships which were downtown.  Those locations are on city streets with side walks.

On the French Broad river, the very few old factories are part of the River Arts district and used for multiple artist studios and brewerys.

The location might be Black Mountain, about 20 minutes from me.  Black Mountain has a very small "town" area and their few factories would be in an area that had more natural vegetation.

[Oznell]

Wow, what a fun looking, vibrant spot, @ECBG .   "Black Mountain" rings a bell with me--  I seem to remember that there was a famous, tiny college or art institute called Black Mountain in North Carolina, that in the Forties and onward had a wonderful arts reputation....

[ECBG]

@Oznell 

I believe you ae thinking of Warren Wilson College in a small community just before Black Mountain.

They have always had their students share in working and growing plants and food outside.  

They were "healthy" decades before everyone else.

[Nonametoday]

I visited Berea college a few times when I found their kitchen was staffed with college students and a European chef in charge.  Very nice restaurant.  Very nice atmosphere.  High-end dining.  The food was delicious and students had tuition, room and board paid by work there.  It was a very nice liberal arts school.  Am I the only one who has heard of it?  Apparently WSJ heard of it.

https://www.berea.edu/admissions/no-tuition/

[Oznell]

Very interesting info on the colleges, @ECBG ,  and  @Nonametoday !

I had not previously heard of Warren Wilson College, and had vaguely heard of Berea College.

You all got me curious, and I found, per Wiki, that, indeed, there was an entity called "Black Mountain College",  and it was a force in the arts way beyond its tiny size.

Buckminster Fuller supervising the building of one of his geodesic domes there....

Black Mountain College attracted an incredible list of foremost names in art, music, architecture, choreography, dance,  like Buckminster Fuller, Willem de Kooning, Merce Cunningham, John Cage.

Sadly, it closed in 1957,  but remnants of it have morphed into a museum in Asheville.