Nice! That house in my area would be $1.75MM and, unless you are a plastic surgeon, sure wouldn't be paid off.

Very similar to our old house:
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Sold it and bought a slightly smaller home :eek:
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^THAT is a beautiful home!

Thorsen House by architect brothers Greene and Greene, Berkeley, CA.

I'd heard a story that it's owned by a Cal fraternity and that you could just knock on the door and ask for a tour. So the next time I was in the area I did just that. They've always got some pledge who's been instructed in the history and the architecture of the place, and a couple of them were more than happy to show me around.

(A much friendlier atmosphere than the USC docent-led tours of the Gamble House in Pasadena!!!)

Ps. Thorsen House is in the Berkeley neighborhood designed by Olmstead!!

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It was of paramount importance to the Greene's that you be able to see and understand how the house fit together, and so exposed joinery abounds.

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The "prow" of the "ship"
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Thorsen had some kind of sailing/shipping background.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greene_and_Greene

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mi casa. Getting warm here in AZ. Pool comes in handy

This place in nearby Hillsborough, CA is know as the "Flintstone House". It was built in 1976 and was the subject of a complaint filed by neighbors stating that it was a public nuisance.

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That great to know, next time I am up there, I sure will knock on the door and ask. I know about some of those very dry docents when we toured the Gamble House many time. Funny how I felt the same way but never spoke to anyone about it.

I had my welder / fab guy make those two of those, very similar, metal strapping. It was a pain in the ass. Then I had to make it rust to match others.

I know you are pretty detailed. Noticed the routed edges of the big timber joints? Back in 1900, routers weren't available to produce perfectly rounded edges, so the dummy that I was, I hand rounded some of the ones we install to match the hand cut originals. I am not sure what they used back then, but I bought my new trusty file and went to work rounding my lumber details. I purposely make some area imperfect. It was fun.

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Any of you architect bugs heard of one named Ernst Egli? Evidently, he designed Evren & Ruki's home way back in the day for Ruki's grandpa, Ragdip Devres. Ragdip was the head civil engineer of Turkey under Attaturk.

Located on the European side of the Bosphorous...

http://www.cornucopia.net/guide/listings/sights/ragip-devres-villa/

Nice...

Was puzzled, you misspelled Ragip and Ataturk.... otherwise.

I'd heard of Ragip Devres...

Yep, I'm a terrible speller...

Indoor beach :cool: and the decor :cool:

https://search.savills.com/property-detail/gbesrsehs150073

Wow, Cap'n, apparently not all Brits share your eye for subtly and conformance with tradition...

Still, I gotta agree, that is one interesting house. WOW!

Sounds like you did great work, Jeff - would love to have seen it.
And I cannot imagine the metalworking skills necessary to duplicate something like those interlocking straps! Hey, though, I bet Milt could!

A cool MCM I toured on an open house near me. Very original, but very leaky with respect to water, air and heat. So so much glass, all single pane and whose settings were showing their age!

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I was looking at those before I got down here to the last post and saw your comment. Thanks for the compliment but I think those are rather simple. Break it down: you bend over the "hook" using another piece of the same thickness as the wedge and a torch. I'm sure the originals were heated in a forge. But hey, we have acetylene now. Once the U bands with the hooks are formed there's only the 2 wedges to cut out. With a sample of the post on hand it wouldn't be an hour's work to fit that.

Haha - see, I was right!