Very Very Good Porch Enclosure…Colonial Revival Sytle

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Forgive We Not The Ugly Home Depot Doors Galore!!!

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Forgive We Not The Ugly Home Depot Doors Galore!!!
A Quick Rant On Ugly Home Depot Doors Throughout Various East Coast Cities
Baltimore MD – New York City – Philadelphia – Washington DC
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The New Idea for Old: Industrial Hide-away Grills Need Only A Polish…

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Especially when nontraditional residences and commercial buildings alike have an industrial or ruined feeling, the application of appropriate materials in reference to decorative and security grills, wrought iron, casted or even modern forms of metals, can be a much easier task.  Given the lower, more utilitarian design, form, and style of these buildings, the application [...]

One Fry, One Coke, and One Aperture Grilled with a Wrought Iron Window Treatment and/or Security Door…and that’s for here, not to go…

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One Fry, One Coke, and One Aperture Grilled with a Wrought Iron Window Treatment and/or Security Door…and that’s for here, not to go…
The Modern Application of Wrought Iron Grills for Apertures Including Doors (Security Doors) , Windows (bars), or Even Alone the Glazed Openings Among Them!?.

We feel as though the application of security doors and [...]

We Hope the Gyro Engine Won’t Take Flight from Columbia Heights, the Gyro Motor Company, 774 Girard Street, NW, Washington DC

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We Hope the Gyro Engine Won’t Take Flight from Columbia Heights
The Gyro Motor Company, 774 Girard Street, NW, Washington DC
From the public thoroughfare of Girard Street, NW, the building set back from the street at No. 774 has the appearance of just another not-so-old normative, faceless appearance (photo of this facade not included).  But don’t [...]

Nasty Office Building Windows On Sherman Avenue, NW

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Nasty Office Building Windows On Sherman Avenue, NW, DC
Now that they have central air, they never have to open a window again…and, if they want to, its not gonna happen…

Sherman Avenue is probably one of the slummiest streets in NW Washington, D.C., yet there are gradual improvements all the time.  Renovated not long ago, the [...]

Please Help: Florida Avenue Art Gallery Needs Sophistication, Home Depot Horrors at 1704 V Street, NW, Washington, DC

Romansque Horror

Please Help: Florida Avenue Art Gallery Needs Sophistication, Home Depot Horrors at 1704 V Street, NW, Washington, DC
One of our favorite residential streets in the Federal City comprises the myriad of environs that constitute the built environment in almost all parts of Boundary Street–or, as modernly known, Florida Avenue (and this can be said of both the NW and NE [...]

Niblo’s Garden Opens Columbia Heights Venue, Contemporary Architecture, Kenyon Street, NW, Columbia Heights, Washington, DC

Columbia Heights Garden_niblos

Niblo’s Garden Opens Columbia Heights Venue, Contemporary Architecture, Kenyon Street, NW, Columbia Heights, Washington, DC
When happening upon the Harriet Tubman Elementary School in 3100 block of 13th Street, NW, one is often so horrified and dumbfounded by the terrible mid twenieth century edifice that anything else before destination is a confused blur.  However, if you find yourself without [...]

We Deplore Home Depot Doors: JELD-WEN White Pre-Hung Right Hand Inswing Premium 2 Lite Entry Door with Brickmold

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We want to make it very clear that this “HOME DEPOT DOOR” is truly horrible.
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