Here’s a interesting rowhouse in Bloomingdale. There’s a similar one on T Street, NW if memory serves. Truth be told, I think I like the traditional ones a bit better.
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Architecture
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I told you Blagden Ave. in Crestwood was pretty sweet. Check out the two decks to the left and the right as well as the gigantic window in the middle. Awesome.
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I thought this was a pretty unusual house. It was located off upper 14th Street. There were a lot of bungalows on this block and a few like this interspersed. What style would you call this?
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Alright maybe not the best spot but I just like ferns ok?
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I really like the big bay window on the second floor. If memory serves I think this is from the Bloomingdale neighborhood or nearby.
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“Dear PoP,
I noticed that the house with the fake stick-on bricks that has been discussed now has white vinyl siding!”
Wild. This home is located at 783 Irving Street, NW. It was a GDoN feature back in Dec. 2008. Here’s what it looked like then:
Any idea why they’d switch from brick to vinyl?
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This is pretty wild. It looks like a tree house of sorts but there doesn’t seem to be any kid things adorning it. It’s got a couple of proper chairs. If it is a deck for the parents I got mad props for them building it around a tree.
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The door’s pretty cool but I thought it was particularly wild that there was a proper street lamp by the entrance. Wonder how you score one of those. Anyone know if it actually works?
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I’ve always liked this house right in front of the LeDroit Park metal sign. I was first taken with the smiley face on the front door but crossing the street you tell the whole house is pretty amazing.
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This is the sixth installment, by hipchickindc, in a slowly moving saga of a full house renovation aka “The Adventures of Mark and Charles”. Previous posts can be found by clicking: Episode 1 and Episode 2 and Episode 3 and Episode 4 and Episode 5.
One Saturday, while I was out showing property, I got a message from Mark alerting me to the installation of the grand staircase. This was a happy call. It had always disturbed me that the prior owner had stripped the home of the grand curving staircase. The only evidence of its former presence was the semi-circular opening when the top would have been and the scar-like zig zag in the plaster on the west wall. Luckily, the narrow rear stairs from the kitchen had been left intact, which allowed access to the upper floors.A few episodes back, I wrote about going staircase shopping with Mark and Charles. The space was worthy of a custom-designed and fabricated structure. Mark and Charles knew that it would be the focal point of their living area and approached this detail as both a functional and sculptural entity. On the day of installation, large pieces of steel arrived on a truck, waiting to be assembled by a crew of metal workers.
After over a year of planning and construction, Mark and Charles are finally close to the end of their renovation journey. I’ve pulled together a set of photos from the beginning as well as the ones from the day the staircase was installed. I’d like to thank them for allowing me to chronicle the process. I promise I’ll come back with pics once they’ve gotten it furnished.
Here are photos from the beginning.
Recent photos are here.