Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Arcola Homes, New and Old

Remember that backwards house I talked about last fall? Here's an updated view of the dark-side bay windows.

Across the street from this sadly ill-placed recycled house, there is a brand new one with a fair-sized window facing south. It even has a good long overhang on that window, to keep it cooler when the summer sun is high.

Even so, it still has a lot of glass facing north. Sigh.

Now here's a new Arcola house with some serious southern exposure! I am truly impressed. Although I have to ask, why so little overhang on the upper level windows?

And why so much house? If I'm not mistaken, there will be a grand total of two people living in it.

I wonder how many people used to live in this one?

Log house at Arcola Museum

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have to say that the log house still looks the most cozy and inviting.

pablo
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arcolaura said...

I agree! One of these days I'll have to see if it's open for viewing. I think I went through the Arcola museum once... a couple of decades ago...

arcolaura said...

Hey anon, are you spamming? Why not post those comments where they would be on topic, here?