I guess I’ll toss in my 2 cents. Our home is a 1958 split level design. Our neighborhood was built 1958-62. Of course all the homes began as modern ranches and splits. Over the next half century, many, no, MOST, of the residents have worked overtime to “de-date” their homes. In Virginia, that means trying to make something 1958 look 1658, by putting up fake shutters around all your glass, a brass eagle knocker on your door, a faux-horse tie pole (with mail box on top) near the door, using colors popular in 17th century Williamsburg, and, load up the interior with plaid wing-backed and lion-pawed things. Instead, why not buy a legitimate period home if that’s your fetish? Would you weld 1959 Cadillac fins on to a 1909 Rolls Royce? Of course not! Would you repaint a Van Gogh to match your sofa? Look, it’s like this: there’s only a relatively short period of time when people are “embarrassed” by their “out of fashion” car/home/whatever. Before that, it was modern. After that, it is seen as anything from quaint to historically important, but the bottom line is MOST of the life of any object is MOST APPRECIATED when kept and cared for as what it was ORIGINALLY. World wide. Human wide. On top of that, the aesthetic of architecture has always concluded the the interior and exterior of a building should reflect one another – in a cohesive idea. It’s not complicated. See beyond your nose. Keep things in their era. Love them for what they were and still are.

Okay, I’ll step off the soapbox… but I think I’ll post this little rant on my own O.C.D. web site as well.

Ronn.