So, it seems that the Powers that Be on this campus thought that it would be a good idea to block Blogspot. So, here, I can post all day, but I cannot see anyone else's blogs.
*sigh*
And it's too bad because I wonder who else posted about our outing to the Home-a-Rama event in Virginia Beach today.
We went to this event called 'Home-a-Rama' today in Virginia Beach. There were seven homes--HUGE, EXPENSIVE homes that were furnished and decorated down to every detail, although no one lived there. But I bet everyone who passed through those houses wished they lived there! There were themed homes: one was called the "Wedding House" and another was called the "Virginia Beach House". The former had kind of an Art Deco theme on the interior (but it was Gerogian on the exterior, said the guide Travis W. talked to) and 3 floors and it was actually the setting of a real wedding only a day before we showed up. And everything was white and black. The master bedroom looked like a gaudy Vegas Honeymoon suite. It wasn't my favorite home, but it was certainly one of the most interesting. The latter home was sea-themed; there was an aquarium in the dining room, mermaids on the walls and fish painted on the glass shower doors. The countertops were made of some sort of stone with specks of blue and sea-green and brown, and one of the bedrooms had a sand-colored carpet and sky-blue walls (think: beach). This was one of the most pleasent homes in the show, but a lot of it was blocked off, so I didn't get to experience the whole thing.
*sigh*
And it's too bad because I wonder who else posted about our outing to the Home-a-Rama event in Virginia Beach today.
We went to this event called 'Home-a-Rama' today in Virginia Beach. There were seven homes--HUGE, EXPENSIVE homes that were furnished and decorated down to every detail, although no one lived there. But I bet everyone who passed through those houses wished they lived there! There were themed homes: one was called the "Wedding House" and another was called the "Virginia Beach House". The former had kind of an Art Deco theme on the interior (but it was Gerogian on the exterior, said the guide Travis W. talked to) and 3 floors and it was actually the setting of a real wedding only a day before we showed up. And everything was white and black. The master bedroom looked like a gaudy Vegas Honeymoon suite. It wasn't my favorite home, but it was certainly one of the most interesting. The latter home was sea-themed; there was an aquarium in the dining room, mermaids on the walls and fish painted on the glass shower doors. The countertops were made of some sort of stone with specks of blue and sea-green and brown, and one of the bedrooms had a sand-colored carpet and sky-blue walls (think: beach). This was one of the most pleasent homes in the show, but a lot of it was blocked off, so I didn't get to experience the whole thing.
Another home that was kind of a big deal was the "Mothership". It boasted a grand staircase in the front and a million bookshelves, patios, a really cool and expensive-looking home theater ROOM. (That's right, not a mere wooden shelf, but a whole ROOM!...complete with several plush seats and a movie theatre set up). The neatest thing about this house, though, was that it was constructed with styrofoam and steel walls filled with concrete. I learned that these walls interlocked, and were filled with concrete story by story. The man who was showing of this type of contruction was pleasantly shocked when we caught a reference the product literature made to Cradle to Cradle. He gave "props" to Hampton University because we'd actually read the book and knew the significane of its contents and sustainability in general. According to him, the majority of students from other architecture programs in VA that visited the show had never read the Cradle to Cradle or cared about what it was about.
Nice, right? Much thanks to Prof Shannon Chance for making us look good out in public :-)
....What else happened...OH! We saw that house number seven was missing a drainage system on the roofs; the "overhangs" were made with the roof shingles that covered the rest of the roof, and they were uneven at that. It was declared that Prof Peronnet would be pretty unhappy about that...
Nice, right? Much thanks to Prof Shannon Chance for making us look good out in public :-)
....What else happened...OH! We saw that house number seven was missing a drainage system on the roofs; the "overhangs" were made with the roof shingles that covered the rest of the roof, and they were uneven at that. It was declared that Prof Peronnet would be pretty unhappy about that...
