Uglification

Another dream, this time I'm yanking down cement block walls with chain, tow hitch, and pick-up, exhuming beautiful clapboard buried beneath villainous swirls of French Lace stucco--and without permission. I'm a restoration terrorist.




My alter ego would be sure to make this sign disappear.

Sold on the basis of energy efficiency, most of these vinyl vanguards are no more efficient than period wood windows. Some claim to damper sound. Of course, wood windows can be double paned, glazing can be replaced, weathstripping can be installed. Awful hard to modify these off-the-rack sliders though. Yet another product from makeover land, with built in obsolescence and inferior aesthetics.




Preservation credo aside, even with the faux muntins, who prefers this flat, dimension-less, vinyl checkerboard to....oh, wait did I fail to mention that I salvaged the original windows from this debacle. Sure, check out the photo of the leaded glass transoms. Can you dig it? I hereby sentence the homeowners to an art history class, or to an afternoon at the Gamble House, or just a stiff talking to.




What'd Lewis Carroll write:."..ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision".
Only the nonsense this time, isn't Carroll's verse, it's replacement windows.