Love

Ooops. Yesterday I fell in love with a vacant warehouse in the North East. It's for sale, built in the 1920s, brick, on the waterfront. 58k sq feet. 5 floors, looks like a caved roof according to google satellite.
But still.... It's on the waterfront of a tiny little town. Population: Tiny. It's pretty. It costs less than our 60s ranchette... Must need a lot of work or is full of squatters.. or rats...

Last night over dinner I tried to talk 3 additional couples into buying it as a group summer house, each couple could have 10k square feet (a floor) to decorate, how much fun is that??
In our group we have: an architect, 2 engineers, a real estate agent, a restaurant owner, two accountants and an artist/restoration specialist. We're potentially a dream team.

Actually we were in love with the idea that over dinner in Texas, using an i-phone we could walk the streets of this tiny town in Vt and check out the possibilities of the building.

Mid Century Modernism is dying, the Industrial Revolution is about to take hold again. I think this go around it won't be so much about martinis in Palm Springs as lobster rolls in Montauk.

Restoring a 50s modern is cool, but rescuing and repurposing industrial warehouse space will be cooler... people will start lamenting all the factories that have been torn down to make way for condos and all the warehouses that were gutted to create soulless loft space.

One of our neatest buys our at Round Top was a bank of bronze door mailboxes. 30 mailboxes in a neat 2.5' x 2.5' cube. An excellent side table or unusual alternative to the very popular apothecary cabinet. I think it would make a wonderful jewelry box for someone who really likes their jewelry.