1930s houses, Bristol.
Suburban family houses of the inter-war Modernist style, at Stoke Bishop, Bristol. It's quite surprising when you realise that these houses are now getting on for 80 years old. They still look essentially modern. Inevitably the designer's intentions have been compromised over the years. You can't really blame the owners. Keeping a house in good repair is an expensive business and which of us can afford the extra expense of renewing everything to its original appearance?
Even so, one can't help deploring the result. The correct replacement of flat roofs is a specialised job. Two of the householders here have chosen the cheaper, less specialised option of conventional tiles, somehow laid flat. This has given the silly "pie-crust" effect at the edges. All the bay windows must originally have had curved glass at the corners. All have been renewed in uPVC and the corners have been "segmented".
Memo to the lady in the first house ...that retro-repro fake lamp affair outside the front door ought to go dear.
1930s houses, Bristol.
Suburban family houses of the inter-war Modernist style, at Stoke Bishop, Bristol. It's quite surprising when you realise that these houses are now getting on for 80 years old. They still look essentially modern. Inevitably the designer's intentions have been compromised over the years. You can't really blame the owners. Keeping a house in good repair is an expensive business and which of us can afford the extra expense of renewing everything to its original appearance?
Even so, one can't help deploring the result. The correct replacement of flat roofs is a specialised job. Two of the householders here have chosen the cheaper, less specialised option of conventional tiles, somehow laid flat. This has given the silly "pie-crust" effect at the edges. All the bay windows must originally have had curved glass at the corners. All have been renewed in uPVC and the corners have been "segmented".
Memo to the lady in the first house ...that retro-repro fake lamp affair outside the front door ought to go dear.