Comments on: Watch Chapman’s “Daulton House” Go Up http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/07/05/watch-chapmans-daulton-house-go-up/ Decatur Georgia News, Events, Atlanta News Mon, 15 Sep 2014 16:55:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: Robert http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/07/05/watch-chapmans-daulton-house-go-up/#comment-47694 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:28:39 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-47694 it’s nice to see quality craftsmanship still occurring, especially so nearby

]]> By: Rain http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/07/05/watch-chapmans-daulton-house-go-up/#comment-46299 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:40:35 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-46299 After viewing every image on Clay’s website (a wonderful zen-like experience) I will never look at a brick the same way again. Wow.

]]> By: DECATURKJ http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/07/05/watch-chapmans-daulton-house-go-up/#comment-46192 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:30:44 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-46192 We saw the plans for this home, and they are gorgeous. I can’t wait to see the project come together.

]]> By: nelliebelle1197 http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/07/05/watch-chapmans-daulton-house-go-up/#comment-46126 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:38:23 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-46126 Look how you stated your concern though. Very much that in a way that two people on the commission not agreeing with you means historic districts are inherently bad. And you are propagating the myth that historic districts take away your property rights, which is just plainly wrong. There is a simple solution- don’t buy a house in an historic district or sell yours if it happened after you moved in. That’s joy of the relative ease and affluence of America- if your values are not in line with your community, you are free to leave. If you don’t want to leave then you have to deal with community whose majority have different standards. I have to deal with that in Oakhurst- I hate most of the houses being built over here now. They are senselessly big and cheaply constructed. I walk a lot and it’s easy to see that shabby is already setting in on some of them. But I deal with it because I like my house; I have been in it for nearly 15 years and almost own it outright.

It also goes back to a lot of points I have made in the past about taste. This is obviously way on the side of your taste, obviously not on the side of the taste of the other people. So it looks like they voted with their taste, not with the rule of the HPC, right (hopefully not the rules of the HPC)? If the objections were things like the house is too tall and will throw the line of the street off or something legitimate, then that’s one thing. But MAK has a lot of architectural styles ( and it kinda cracks me up that these two think that anything over here is true craftsman or that style is predominant- MAK is a mix of everything from little post WWII housing boom slap ups to turn of the century four square, so to stick a style on it is shows true cluelessness, frankly).

Maybe the issue is not HPC but particular members who should not be on the commission…..

]]> By: Susan http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/07/05/watch-chapmans-daulton-house-go-up/#comment-46115 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:41:57 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-46115 Take a look at the notes of the HPC meeting if you don’t belive me and how the neighbors and some members of the HPC opposed it because the didn’t think it fits in and didn’t like the Tutor design. It is the December 15, 2009 HPC meeting.

It is pretty outrageous!

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