Architect friends from Content Design Group visited the Serenbe Plat House during a home tour and were kind enough to share the photos they shot of the house with us.
The Serenbe house is a highly modified version of our 0242 Plat House design, and not to forget our new 3 Bedroom Plat House plan set as well. Check out the photos as they did a great job of capturing many of the details of the house. See the photos by clicking through to the rest of the post.
The front porch that everybody has been calling for has arrived. We are in the process of readying the Lagom House Design Prints, and the catalog page, and as promised the version sold through our own site will include a front porch.
The front porch is much the same as front porches present in many of our other designs. I like the standardizing of these architectural elements across our range of offerings. The repeated construction of like details is what offers builders predictability and familiarity when they are building multiple houses.
The Design Prints will depict the Lagom House layout for the south side of the street. We will eventually expand this to include Design Prints of each of the configurations. But for now this will represent the range.
Tomorrow, after 17 hours of traveling and no sleep on an overnight flight, (how do other people get on the plane and zonk out until landing?), we will reach our home for the following 9 days. That afternoon, we have been invited to the new office celebration of architect Marisa Feuerstein who does wonderful work of the sort I'm always trying to sneak into our Modern house blog. Since Marisa studied at Harvard for a semester, and worked in Toronto for a year, there will be no language barrier to contend with in our sleep-deprived state.I've often gone on here on the blog about the "ReModern Movement", my own play on words from the title given to the original Modern Movement. Its been meant to identify the more recent resurgence in popularity of modern style homes. It has not become much easier to get a modern home lately, but activity in the housing market has at least recognized that yes, there is demand there, and there are people wanting and waiting for a modern house. Putting a name to it - ReModern Movement - just makes it easier to package the idea when you have to explain it to other people.
So we have a movement! Well I came across this little video today, from a music festival, and used by Derek Sivers during his TED Talk to explain the dynamic of creating a movement. Lets watch:
So the shirtless wiggling guy, willing to make a fool of himself. That's me, and other pioneers in marketing of modern home designs in a climate where every builder & self proclaimed expert on houses will tell you nobody wants a house like that.
And the first follower? Thats you. And the other people who have gotten plans, and built houses, and exposed all their friends and families to a new idea of what a home can be like. Its eye-opening to them. They think you might be a little bit crazy too. But pretty soon your house is in a magazine, or newspaper, or on a tv show, and your friends are trying to get enough courage together to jump up and join the early adopters.
So keep dancing. Welcome the new adopters as equals, and welcome their friends. We are nearly a crowd, I'm telling you!
However, if presented with these sensuous, sculptural, tactilely attractive switchplates, I think I'd indulge in the typical 2-year-old's favorite activity of delightedly switching the lights on and off and on and off and on and off.
Michael Glynn, an architect who works out of New York City, and Morley Boyd, a preservationist in Westport, began to do what Gina and I did in Pound Ridge -- drive up and down the roads looking for modern houses. I received an email from Glynn yesterday that I think was originally a press release. I'm going to quote it at length:
