5.13.2012

latest unhealthy design fixation: house numbers

Whilst street-gawking at R.M. Schindler's Buck House last week, we admired the abstractified house numbers he (presumably) made for the garage apartment:


Note how he "found" the circle motif in each of the numbers (5 9 5 8) and kept the circle the same for each number. Cool! That led to the realization: We can do something similar for our house!

We've decided on getting our house numbers from Modern House Numbers in the SoCal (surprise, surprise...) style:


Note that we (6909) have a built-in circle motif, except that the standard zero is pretty big. What if we could do this:
That is, change the big zero to a zero the size of the circle on the 6 and 9? Pretty cool! As an accidental bonus, there's a slight rhythm with the down-up, down-up order of the circles. Sweet!

Modern House Numbers is a mom-and-pop shop that does some custom work, so perhaps we could get them to work up a zero the size of the circles on the 6s and 9s. If not, perhaps we can buy a 6 (or a 9) and hack off the offending protrusion. Where there's an unhealthy fixation, there's a way...

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  1. The search for house numbers. I remember it well. Second only to water heaters. And maybe mailboxes. (Have you gotten to mailboxes yet?) I definitely like your SoCals. Where are they going to go? That was another big decision. (So many!)

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    1. Haven't gotten to where yet. Thinking of one of the de Stijl walls toward the front (the one that comes off of the front parking area.

      Mailbox... Had a slight panic attack this past weekend thinking about where (o where) a mailbox would go...

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