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5/29/2015

 
Thrasher Works recently had the opportunity to put our design chops to the test for a local development: The Villas, a small group of custom built homes located on the hill overlooking the historic Belmont Hotel and skyline of downtown Dallas.   

I was brought in to assist in the tweaking of a design which had been presented to the design review board.  It is a three story, 2-unit condo set on two lots.  Unfortunately, while all the usual components of a contemporary design were present, the facade couldn't mask the fact that it was an awkwardly proportioned box which was out of scale to the neighborhood and severely lacking in a coherent facade organization.

After a few attempts to save the design, we all came to the same conclusion: one must start from scratch.  Of course, I won't show you where we started from, but what do you think of how it turned out?
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Mustard House

5/14/2015

 
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I spent the weekend trying to design a backyard shop/office for myself and Bart.  I came away feeling very uninspired and defeated.  I guess I just wasn't feeling it.  But let's face it, Bart won't be happy until every last corner of that yard is used for shop space. 

So, I switched gears.  I still had a creative bug to kill and graphic design wasn't doing it.  Hence, the Mustard House.  I'm really trying to wrap my head around the tiny-house movement and have realized: it's a process.  This is the first step.   While I'm still tweaking the plans, it's shaped to have an open living/dining/kitchen area with two bedrooms in the back.  So far it's coming in around 1,200 square feet.  

I'd like to whittle this down to 900 square feet...I guess you lose a bedroom? What do you think? Could you live in 900 square feet?  What would be on your must-have list?
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The Folly

5/3/2015

 
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For those of you who have been with us for awhile, you may remember my obsession with follies back in 2013.  For the rest of you, I apologize.  I'm not savvy enough nor do I possess the time it would take to convert all my old blog entries into the new website format (which I just had to have and failed to realize the blog would not transfer with it.  Read the fine print, people.)

Anyway, the topic of the follies have come up often over the last few months.  Randomly.  This inspired me to put them back on the drawing board and at least play with the imagery.  

Here's a brief history...
Each of these concepts was geared around the back yard studio idea.  We even had a client that wanted to develop one for his own backyard to operate as a shop & motorcycle garage.  It never came to be because we couldn't get the construction budget right--still a point of contention between Bart and I as I think it could be easily scaled back and built out of wood framing.  Which brings me to today.
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I want to build the plainest, most simple of the follies as a backyard cabana.   Or perhaps city park hangout.  Or better yet, seating within a beer garden or truck yard setting with live music playing, cold beer, and twinkling garden lights.  Can't you picture that?  Speak up.  I think we can make this happen!

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