Right, because nothing shouts “Prosperity!” like living in something that looks like high-class junk and refusing to interact with your neighbors or much of anyone else.
Unfortunately it’s this kind of snooty, head-in-the-sand attitude that wrecked the TMO, with nonsense like this being put forth as what people should strive for, with the net result being bankruptcies and families breaking up. Sal On Sep 23, 2016, at 9:58 AM, j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: The campus pond was man-made, and the dam was leaking. But, yeah, they drained it primarily for woowoo reasons. And, yeah, the Nader house is all prospery and stuff, but to me, a prosperous person shouldn't have to walk in inclement weather to go between the house and garage, whether it's in Iowa, Florida, or anywhere else. As for the sterile rectilinearity, that seems to be the hardcore TMer preference, but I don't think SV requires squared angles and minimal curves. Our architect has done plenty of houses in that style, but our house has way more curves than any of her other designs. I also think the design of our house really benefited from it being a huge addition to our original house, because it necessitated a fair amount of asymmetry, which makes it visually more interesting. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <awoelfleba...@yahoo.com <mailto:awoelfleba...@yahoo.com>> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <salsunshineiniowa@...> wrote : Pool in the front? Groan. Not to mention that it at least used to be that water was frowned on at all, supposedly that was why the ponds at MUM were filled in and the whole landscape changed around. Water is now in? Great, but why does it seem like most of these “principles” more than anything seem designed to make people uncomfortable, both the people who feel they have to live them, as well as anyone else in the neighborhood. Bet you Nader’s kids won’t want to have anything to do with a pool where anyone passing by can have a look, for as long as they want. I can’t imagine anything worse from a kid’s POV. I suppose they could plant hedges but that’s probably bad juju too. Sal Water was considered bad? They filled in that pond on the MIU campus? Terrible. That pond was home to so many amphibians and the nicest pair of water rats. I loved that pond. It was always so nice to walk home at night over the little path that bisected that pond and listen to the frogs and hear the water rustling with the swimming of those little mammals. What a crock - remove this little natural environment based on some cockimamy principle of "architects-who-make-shit-up". That Nader house is pretty typical of upscale Floridian houses where you get this combo of ersatz Greco-Roman style coupled with a Western idea of what prosperity is supposed to look like. That house is not attractive other than the palm trees and its soft yellow color. It appears very inorganic and sterile. They could have made it much more interesting by varying the roofline and enclosing the front to make a stunning inside courtyard - among many other things. Curved windows without those silly shutters (which probably aren't functional) would be much better and notice the window sizes are so small and very uniform in size. Still, I'm sure it's very sumptuous inside. On Sep 23, 2016, at 7:45 AM, j_alexander_stanley@... <mailto:j_alexander_stanley@...> [FairfieldLife] <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>> wrote: http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/business/real-estate/north-end-home-with-vedic-principles-wins-board-ap/nsYD3/ <http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/business/real-estate/north-end-home-with-vedic-principles-wins-board-ap/nsYD3/> I can see how the Vedic principles are making a layout that is weird by local standards. The pool is in the water corner, which puts it right in the front yard. But, pulling the house forward and putting the pool in the back yard, on the west side of the house, would apparently be very bad juju. When we were adding on to our original house and rectifying it to MMY-SV standards, we had to expand the existing north pond eastward to create more water surface area in the correct sector. Fortunately, all that fill dirt was put to good use making the new east pond. The old driveway used to go down a deep gully, over a culvert, and back up; now it goes straight across the top of a dam, and the dam needed to be wide enough that Petra didn't feel unsafe.
