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Showing posts with label mid century modern design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mid century modern design. Show all posts
Thursday, July 14, 2016
Mid July Midcentury!
Labels:
Central Florida,
Florida,
home for sale,
house for sale,
Keller Williams,
Liz Walton,
mid century modern design,
midcentury modern,
Orlando,
real estate
Location:
Orlando, FL 32803, USA
Friday, April 8, 2016
Terrazzo!!
Yesterday I toured some homes with a feature I had not seen in residential homes:
Terrazzo Flooring!!
Being who I am and doing what I do, that meant coming home and doing all the googling.
I have no idea how i have not seen these before, and then saw two in one day. I see so many houses, all the time. I guess it was just bad luck.
So today I will introduce you to these AMAZING floors.
What is Terrazzo?
"Terrazzo—chips of marble, glass or other aggregates embedded in tinted cement, ground smooth and polished to a silky sheen—may have been yet another of mankind's accidental discoveries. In the 15th century, mosaic artisans in northen Italy swept waste marble chips out onto their terraces, terrazzi, and smoothed the surface simply by walking over it. When workers learned to press the chips into a more permanent clay base, then grind and polish them with heavy stones, terrazzo caught on. Michelangelo used it in St. Peter's Basilica. George Washington strode over it in his cherished Mount Vernon. In the 1950s, Richard Neutra and other modernist architects specified terrazzo in their designs, and by the '60s, it covered floors in developer houses across the Southeast and Southwest. But as installation costs rose, terrazzo once again became a relatively pricey option—approx. $10 or more a square foot—for custom-built houses."
It comes in many colors, depending on the materials used and is all one large smooth cool surface, perfect for homes with pets or children that can destroy hardwoods or tile grout.
http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/32026189/list/make-your-floors-terrific-with-terrazzo
Terrazzo Flooring!!
Being who I am and doing what I do, that meant coming home and doing all the googling.
I have no idea how i have not seen these before, and then saw two in one day. I see so many houses, all the time. I guess it was just bad luck.
So today I will introduce you to these AMAZING floors.
What is Terrazzo?
"Terrazzo—chips of marble, glass or other aggregates embedded in tinted cement, ground smooth and polished to a silky sheen—may have been yet another of mankind's accidental discoveries. In the 15th century, mosaic artisans in northen Italy swept waste marble chips out onto their terraces, terrazzi, and smoothed the surface simply by walking over it. When workers learned to press the chips into a more permanent clay base, then grind and polish them with heavy stones, terrazzo caught on. Michelangelo used it in St. Peter's Basilica. George Washington strode over it in his cherished Mount Vernon. In the 1950s, Richard Neutra and other modernist architects specified terrazzo in their designs, and by the '60s, it covered floors in developer houses across the Southeast and Southwest. But as installation costs rose, terrazzo once again became a relatively pricey option—approx. $10 or more a square foot—for custom-built houses."
It comes in many colors, depending on the materials used and is all one large smooth cool surface, perfect for homes with pets or children that can destroy hardwoods or tile grout.
http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/32026189/list/make-your-floors-terrific-with-terrazzo
Do you have terrazzo floors? Please share some pictures! I would love to see them!
Labels:
architecture,
cement block construction,
Central Florida,
concrete,
flooring,
Florida,
home for sale,
mid century modern design,
Orlando,
real estate,
real estate design,
realtor,
renovation,
terrazzo
Location:
Orlando, FL 32803, USA
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
It is the solar powered water feature that makes this bird house AMAZING!!!!
https://www.etsy.com/listing/175962260/mid-century-modern-hollywood-hills-water?ref=market
https://www.etsy.com/listing/175962260/mid-century-modern-hollywood-hills-water?ref=market
Labels:
architecture,
bird house,
Central Florida,
mid century modern design,
Orlando,
real estate,
solar
Location:
Orlando, FL 32803, USA
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