Plat House 3 officially launched

Our newest plan set, a three bedroom version of our popular Plat House design, is complete, Prints ready, catalog page posted, and flowing through the internet tubes.

Without further delay we give you the link to the catalog page:

0971 Plat House 3

Three Bedroom Plat House coming to a Modern House Plan Catalog near you

Many people have asked for it, many have wished for it, almost everybody has suggested it. And today its here, the Plat House they have all been waiting for - one with three bedrooms.

The three bedroom Plat House 3 still comes in at a svelte 1,650 sqft making it the smallest three bedroom house in our catalog. It gives up very little in its transition from a two bedroom cabin. From the outside it looks much the same, with the length extended on the bedroom side of the house. A third bedroom equal in size to the second bedroom completes the pair with the bathroom now between them. A catalog page is forthcoming which will show this all clearly. In the meantime the Construction Prints are already done and available. If you do wish to order before the catalog page is posted contact us.

The Talk of the Town

We're happy to tell you that Modern House Notes is in this week's Talk of the Town column.

We'd be even happier if we could say it was the Talk of the Town column in The New Yorker magazine, but it's not -- it's the Talk of the Town column in the Bedford-Pound Ridge Record Review, our hometown paper.

Our friend Bonni Brodnick writes the column and was nice enough to include us this week. The Record Review is paper-only but Bonni puts the column on her blog, which is here.

Thanks, Bonni! - ta

Down the hatch

When we renovated our little old Modern prior to moving in 10 years ago, we had to put on a very small but necessary addition. In doing so, the rickety old stairs that led to the dank and creepy basement had to be eliminated. Since all the house's mechanicals were still down there we needed a way to access them. What we have is a low-tech wooden hatch that is about 24 inches square (not quite big enough to extricate the hot water heater that only lasted 4 years. . .), and a sturdy built in ladder with 7 treads to bring you down into the not-quite-as-creepy-as-it-used-to-be space.

While appalling to imagine spending any more than 3 minutes down there for any other reason, we do keep our wine there as the conditions are favorable for our extremely modest collection. I was impressed and amused to see on Blue Ant Studio how those with, uh, more resources than we keep their vintages. (see Spiral Cellars.)

What I'd really love is to make the underworld of our house into a space where the emerging drummer in the family can bang away to his heart's content – but that would require a lot more than just a fancy hatch! – GF

Spa and therapy bathtub interior design

These health bathtub design design. Natural bathroom with Spa and therapy bathtub interior design. This elegant and comfortable bathtub suitable for relaxing. source architechome.com

Architectural style matchboxes

Seen on DieLine.com (all about packaging design and manufacture...) "With illustrations of different architectural styles – Renaissance, international and gothic – together the match boxes create a small city block. The boxes are sold in the Swedish Museum of Architecture in Stockholm."
Designed by Happy Forsman & Bodenfors.

Needs a Modern design to round out the group, don't you think? – GF

Arsitektur Romanticism

Artinya :

Gaya arsitektur yang dipengaruhi oleh rasa dari manusianya dan dipengaruhi oleh gaya arsitektur lama.

Cirinya :

· Merangkul hal-hal eksotik

· Melepaskan diri ke modus asli dari imajinasi

Tokohnya :

· Lucien Kroll

· Hans Hollein