Architecture Tag

Cindy Barganier Interiors / Posts tagged "Architecture"

Back To Proportion, Balance And Scale

good proportion, balance and scale

 

I good while back I did a series of posts on proportion, scale and balance. Mine started off like this:

Despite out best intentions the traditional buildings that are being constructed today do  not always feel ‘right’. They fail in the small details- the proportion of a window, or a badly –detailed door surround or in a short-sighted choice of material.

Another Historic Treasure

Just days after I posted about the historic Gay House (here) a friend started talking about another amazing old house in Montgomery that hubby and I actually looked at a lifetime ago, the Winter House. The story goes that there is a tunnel that was used to escape Wilson's raiders that leads from the basement to the river.  The old grainy photo is from...

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