tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29410913.post4143719934816500644..comments2023-11-01T01:00:03.806+11:00Comments on Marrickvillia: Fading FedeterraneaMeredith Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00977264379899180896noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29410913.post-51818801330217789652007-04-14T22:00:00.000+10:002007-04-14T22:00:00.000+10:00Great post, Meredith.I spend a lot of time looking...Great post, Meredith.<BR/><BR/>I spend a lot of time looking at the pics on Real Estate sites. A great anthropological resource, (and maybe a narrative resource too) and good to see one of the exhbits preserved digitally before the gut-n-smeg gets em.boyntonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14018259111564295592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29410913.post-37282293741721679352007-04-07T22:21:00.000+10:002007-04-07T22:21:00.000+10:00I'd call that colour Spearmint Milkshake, but only...I'd call that colour Spearmint Milkshake, but only if it were in Perth, because you can't buy that flavour here in the East.Ampersand Duckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12245377686193859488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29410913.post-52503709541780144632007-04-04T11:52:00.000+10:002007-04-04T11:52:00.000+10:00Don't be rude. You're right, but don't be rude -or...Don't be rude. You're right, but don't be rude -or I'll get you a perch with Markus Knowallus. <BR/><BR/>See how you like that!<BR/><BR/>ROBBERT!R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29410913.post-65900021118239513422007-04-04T10:23:00.000+10:002007-04-04T10:23:00.000+10:00Sorry RH, but I am more repulsed by the opulent sa...Sorry RH, but I am more repulsed by the opulent sashaying of wretched excess in Belle-type magazine featured homes<BR/><BR/>This house is for sale now that the Nonna who cooked and cooked there, raised several taxpayers who now have McMansions and have given her a suite of her own in one of them.BwcaBrowniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11500142856655553009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29410913.post-92211004134072028442007-04-01T13:02:00.000+10:002007-04-01T13:02:00.000+10:00Colgate blue? The same colour as your blog -- Mar...Colgate blue? The same colour as your blog -- Marrickvillia blue?<BR/><BR/>I think it looks solid -- I'd be interested if I were looking in the Sydney market. And I'd leave the kitchen absolutely as is. The backyard looks huge, but I guess that's how they've photographed it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29410913.post-34255701848046515922007-04-01T08:17:00.000+10:002007-04-01T08:17:00.000+10:00Gut-n-smeg, heheh.The concrete is looking like a v...Gut-n-smeg, heheh.<BR/>The concrete is looking like a very good idea now that we are running out of water down here.genevievehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02895689949182365454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29410913.post-81631844976189280462007-04-01T01:31:00.000+10:002007-04-01T01:31:00.000+10:00It's a pox, I wouldn't live in it.It makes the rem...It's a pox, I wouldn't live in it.<BR/><BR/>It makes the remand yard at Pentridge look like Como.R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29410913.post-70771435823821548712007-04-01T01:11:00.000+10:002007-04-01T01:11:00.000+10:00It's dreadful. Horrible. Stark, plain, depressing...It's dreadful. Horrible. Stark, plain, depressing. Awnings on the front windows would help, and a front garden instead of concrete. But this is a shocker: The No-Maintenance house. And yes, Mediterranean alright, reflecting Southern European Migrants' obsession with concrete. <BR/>So how much do they expect for this dud; this backyard dunny? For all its homeliness you may as well live in an apa-a-a-rtment.R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29410913.post-37265625162651712832007-03-31T23:30:00.000+10:002007-03-31T23:30:00.000+10:00Lovely. At this minute I'm sitting in my Hackney (...Lovely. At this minute I'm sitting in my Hackney (London) flat preparing for potential buyers to come and look at it. Happily for me, the sun is pouring in from all angles and it looks quite nice. It has a water frontage and I've just been out and thrown all the bread I can find into the canal to attract swans and ducks. When I move back to Australia, I want a nice big open house, just like this one.Pantshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00712642194215828800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29410913.post-88015885183096257792007-03-31T19:12:00.000+10:002007-03-31T19:12:00.000+10:00I like the solitary flying duck on the meals area ...I like the solitary flying duck on the meals area wall, above the window. And everything else as well. <BR/><BR/>I wanted to help out with what the paler than mint blue is called but on investigating I seem to have lost my Wattyl and Dulux colour cards. Probably Arctic Mist or something.lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29410913.post-18567892499003340182007-03-31T18:52:00.000+10:002007-03-31T18:52:00.000+10:00Dorian, ok ok it's Sydney where mortgages are rout...Dorian, ok ok it's Sydney where mortgages are routinely half a million - but yes, outrageous.<BR/><BR/>Jahteh, at least you don't say you haven't had a pea since 1995.Meredith Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00977264379899180896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29410913.post-16103333810081654852007-03-31T18:46:00.000+10:002007-03-31T18:46:00.000+10:00love this! The layout and furnishings are a wonder...love this! The layout and furnishings are a wonderful example of a past (or passing) ideal of how a home should be and what it should contain. Guess this is from a time when people settled, kitted out their houses and spent their lives in the same house, sitting on the same chairs!<BR/><BR/>Love the 'formal' lounge and dining, where all the 'best' treasures were kept. <BR/><BR/>Note the sliding glass door to clearly divide 'formal' dining from kitchen and the hard work going on there--not like these days where it's all open plan and our dinner guests can watch us hard at it. On the other hand, I do love a bit of company while I cook, so I'm not really in favour of host-guest apartheid :)<BR/><BR/>Still, what a lovely eat-in kitchen it is in that house. You do get the sense that that's where the family spent most time; there's such a warmth about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29410913.post-6408324425567194552007-03-31T17:48:00.000+10:002007-03-31T17:48:00.000+10:00A steal at $645,000!!1 Wow.A steal at $645,000!!1 Wow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29410913.post-40371348836043098542007-03-31T17:41:00.000+10:002007-03-31T17:41:00.000+10:00I love going through houses on these websites. I'm...I love going through houses on these websites. I'm always interested in the bathrooms because sooner rather than later I'm going to have to re-do mine. It always sounds funny when I say I haven't had a bath since 1995 but unless I go for a deluxe roman type heated tub with steps, I'll never have another so a bigger shower and no tub.JahTehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02007730071564639411noreply@blogger.com