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Architechs in action?

edwardh1 | Posted in Construction Techniques on September 25, 2005 08:50am

Nice double french door, one hiding the toilet. How to put on a window shade?

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  1. gman | Sep 25, 2005 08:55pm | #1

    But it looks fabulous from the street!

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    basswood | Sep 25, 2005 09:42pm | #2

    There used to be an outhouse in Ward, CO with a big picture window in front of the loo with a nice view. Funny little town Ward is.

    1. BillBrennen | Oct 01, 2005 09:54am | #9

      Basswood,I used to live down the road from Ward, Colorado. The town requires every front yard to include at least two non-functioning motor vehicles. Amazing place, indeed.Bill

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        maddog3 | Oct 01, 2005 05:37pm | #10

        ...yeah, but then the garage space is opened up the the turkey fryer.."

  3. stinger | Sep 25, 2005 10:01pm | #3

    Are you sure there is an architect involved?  If there is, I cannot believe he or she planned this toilet location adjacent french doors.

    1. edwardh1 | Sep 26, 2005 12:36am | #4

      House is massive 3 story brick with washer dryer areas on 2 and 3 floor and 3 heat pumps- assumption Arch is involved. Most are in that nrighborhood.

  4. plantlust | Sep 26, 2005 12:58am | #5

    Isn't there some kind of mirror reflecting film you can put on the glass.
    I was thinking along the lines of the 2way mirror stuff in police movies.

    Just make certain that the reflecting part is facing outside <g>.

    You know when you were about 1yo you decided you didn't want babyfood anymore. You said, 'NONONO' to jarred applesauce.

    Well, what DID I want?

    Leberwurst on ryebread.

    HA, even as a baby I was a gourmet!

    1. Ken | Oct 02, 2005 10:34pm | #16

      There's a Thai restaurant in NYC (SOHO, I think) with one way glass from the bathrooms looking out into the dining room.It was weird.

      1. Bruce | Oct 03, 2005 03:53pm | #18

        Used to be a bar in Butler Square in Mineapolis with the same thing, but is was the wall where the urinals hung.  The other side was a hallway from the outside into the Square...got a lot of traffic.

        So you'd be standing there offloading recycled beer, and people who knew the deal with the mirrored hallway would be walking by waving at you.

        A little unnerving.

  5. Frankie | Sep 26, 2005 02:32am | #6

    Shade could be a panel of decorative plastic which is screwed to the door stiles and rails using spacers to separate it from the door - as though it is floating.

    Knoll has a series of these as do a few Italian manufacturers. Some - quite a few - are very nice. We have used them in locations where a screen or shade was required which did not need to be retracted or needed to be secure since the door was operable.

    This link should get you started or at least give the arch some ideas:

    http://www.knoll.com/products/textile_category.jsp?cat_id=92

    Hope this helps.

    Frankie

    There he goes—one of God's own prototypes—a high powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live and too rare to die.

    —Hunter S. Thompson
    from Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas

  6. IdahoDon | Sep 26, 2005 03:26am | #7

    Frosting the glass is simple and looks good.  Most glass shops can probably do this for you, or careful work with a sand blaster and carbide grit works well.  Just be sure to tape anything you don't want to get frosted and check the tape often since it wants to peel up allowing grit to get were grit shouldn't get.

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    draftguy | Sep 27, 2005 07:59pm | #8

    poop with a view (why do anything?)

  8. Bruce | Oct 01, 2005 06:30pm | #11

    Pair of Venetian blinds with hold-downs at the bottom.

    1. edwardh1 | Oct 02, 2005 04:16pm | #12

      you guys are all missing it-
      lots of way to probably hide the toilet but this house has 6 of these tall double 'french" doors on its front with glass. seems a blind, wouldmake that door look differentmaybe parking the boat on the font lawn will cure it???? but its a neo traditional tony area

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        maddog3 | Oct 02, 2005 04:59pm | #13

        .....Hey,.... leave the Italians out of it"

      2. rez | Oct 02, 2005 05:16pm | #14

        landscaping time.

        be a bush hiding a bush

        u r not a feckless dastard 

         

  9. piko | Oct 02, 2005 05:28pm | #15

    Now there's sense - how many gardeners out there (especially women) would find a can accessible from o/s handy?

    ciao for niao

    To those who know - this may be obvious. To those who don't - I hope I've helped.

     

  10. timkline | Oct 03, 2005 01:57am | #17

    Client:     Can you do this  ?

    Builder:   Yes, but it's not a question of can, it's a question of why  ?   And, finally a question of will I do it  ?

    Why aren't these questions asked more often  ?

     

    carpenter in transition

  11. sungod | Oct 03, 2005 05:47pm | #19

    The famous Architect Frank Ghery has this corrigate metal building in Venice, Cal. The master bath has open ceiling above the living room.  Use the kings throne and everyone in the living room can hear whats discharging.

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