Showing posts with label Restoration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Restoration. Show all posts

Friday, December 17, 2010

Contemporary Home Remodeling Ideas at The Parks House by Michael Parks

Contemporary Home Remodeling Ideas at The Parks House by Michael Parks

It takes one year and a half of this contemporary home remodeling ideas which also is his own home located in Laurel Canyon section of Los Angeles Hollywood Hills by new designer Michael Parks. The talented designer is pleased with his dramatic remodeling called The Parks House which houses three innovative bedroom remodeling ideas. It takes so long indeed to develop this dramatic home design as Parks as the owner has no formal education on architectural design education. This reminds me of a movie in 2007 called Ratatouille where Gusteau stated “anyone can cook”, and well we stated “anyone can be interior designer and architect”. The result done at this home remodeling ideas by Parks is a ground breaking modern home design.

Parks story: “After an architect presented us with a set of plans (no similarities to Parks’) that were over three times our budget, I decided to explore the possibility of using my love of architecture and my creative, budgeting and project management skills from TV and film producing to try and do it myself……It all came together in a very LA story. While getting my haircut, a stylist told me that he had a contractor/business partner ‘who was the best.’ The contractor turned out to be his brother, but after meeting him I realized he was our man and I could do the project for under our limited budget.” Parks made a full time job on this house which was in severe condition and what he did is astounding. He has done a lot for sure at this modern home restoration. Keep up the good job!

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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Please take your feet off....

"This is the interior of the Loew's Kings Theater, which opened in 1929, has been ravaged by time, vandals and pigeons. 
The theater, on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, last promoted a film in 1977. But a developer has made a down payment on a $70 million renovation and plans to turn the building back into a functioning entertainment site, this time presenting live performances."
(I hope that the New York Times shows the renovated movie house)

How many places like this 
have you seen completely torn down?
Demolished.
The old movie theaters were so fabulous. Most of the new ones are boring multi-plex's.
They are just ugly rooms that they stuff us into.
The old ones had beautiful draperies, super cushy seats, elegant lobbies, 
gilded gold fixtures, fountains, and they even had 'ushers'.
Does anybody remember  'movie ushers?'
They were the guys who would come around and 
tell us " Please take your feet off the back of the seats."
When we were kids they were the enemy.....
but how I long for the day that we had ushers telling us to 
'take your feet down off the seat in front of you!!"
Because that would mean the theater would be a fine and beautiful place again......

Hopefully the Loew's Kings Theater will be beautiful again someday soon.

When was the last time you witnessed a beautiful building

being torn down rather than being restored to it's glory days?

How did you feel?

go here to see a a restored theater at JULIENNE's blog "Mostly older than me"
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