Picspam: Houses in the street where I live

[dieastra]

Anyone here interested in architecture? Please have a look through the pictures I took today while testing my new camera. All those nice houses are in the street where I live. Each similar in style, yet each individual and different. And so many nice details. In comparison how boring that one modern house is looking! No nice details at all

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[aletheiafelinea]

You should have seen those houses back in Eastern Germany times... They hadn't been renovated in decades, there were holes in the roofs and in the facade
I can imagine... I'm always sad when passing by some house that clearly used to be beautiful and could be again. Decaying architecture can have some particular sort of ugly charm, but not when people live in it...

I guess wrought iron is also a thing that is dying out and not many people are still able to do?
As far as I know, it became a niche job, but it still exists, though more in the art-like than industrial way. I read sometimes a blog of one Polish-moved-to-Holland dude, who decided to become a blacksmith in recent years, and he mentions about it now and then. "Today I've learned how to make iron roses. My first try is even not quite crappy." Apparently it's quite a community, like miniaturists or doll-makers. Some work in historical re-enacting business (armoury and weapons, and "blacksmith's workshop" stalls on cons), and some run small businesses offering custom made railings for gardens and, yes, balconies. I think I could find one or few such companies in my area, if I really wanted. I live not so far from tourist-crazy sites, in which look of your house (where visitors may or may not choose to eat or hire a room) matters a lot, so custom made wooden and iron elements, deliberately aiming at "old" atmosphere, are popular. Elsewhere people more often want just solid and cheap, I guess, so the wrought iron rarely happens except on the old buildings.