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I don't know if they are still doing this, but it's $15 all-you-can-play games plus you can drink.

http://www.1820bar.com/

This coming weekend at the MFA

http://www.mfah.org/main.asp?target=films&...=1&par3=772

I think that the thread on lottaliving previously mentioned is - http://www.lottaliving.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2972

A lot will really depend on who is making the reproduction. We have a knock-off Arco lamp and I absolutely regret buying it because after just two years you can clearly see the poor quality. Then again, we bought Bertoia wire chair knock-offs that I have no regrets about and look good still.

Wondering if anyone here has had any work done on Heywood Wakefield furniture? We just came into a dining set but it needs refinishing. A quick google search didn't turn up anyone who specializes in just Heywood Wakefield (there are some people in Orange, CA and Maryland that just work on Heywood Wakefield), so I assume we will have to take it to a more generalized person. Would like to be able to get a few more matching pieces from the set, and are concerned about getting the Wheat stain correct so that future pieces will match reasonably.

Does anyone have a recommendation and, even better, before and after pics of their Heywood Wakefield refinishing jobs?

At some point folks are going to have to wake up and fix one major area of town as a livable area and then branch out. The Woodlands is a great concept, perhaps we need something a little like that close to the loop.

This argument is pretty confounding to me. If people want to live in the Woodlands they can move there or the many, many other areas around town that have more or less attempted to replicate its "vision" of suburbia.

What you are talking about has nothing to do with fixing an area, it sounds like you want to make fundamental changes more in line of levelling and starting over. To me at least, that isn't what I think of as "fixing" an area - that is just tearing things down and building something new. Believe it or not Westbury is appealing to many young couples (like myself who just bought our first home there recently) because it IS Westbury and it is specifically NOT the Woodlands.

Do MCM doors typically have glass inlays? Good job on the color!

Speaking of the color, we are fans, what paint did you end up using? Is it from the Sherman Williams line or something else?

We have been flip flopping on whether we want to deal with maintaining VCT. Armstrong makes an upgraded version of the VCT that costs about 3 times as much requires no yearly (or biannual) buffing like the VCT. If you don't have/rent your own machine the estimate to get that done ends up being the same or slightly more than the VCT installed. So in theory, getting the better grade VCT product would pay for itself in 2-3 years versus the maintenance on regular VCT. Having said that we may just scrap the whole thing and go for cork.

This house has been undergoing an extremely slow rennovation/restoration. It's located in Riverside Terrace on MacGregor Way overlooking the Bayou.

From the aborted 2nd story I figured that any renovations had been abandoned. The house next to it is being sold for lot value and it's a pretty cool place too. The living room view onto the bayou there is amazing.

I'm looking for a vintage conical fireplace.

Does anyone have one of these for sale or know of a place to find one?

I have attached a picture as an example...

Metro Retro had a yellow one on ebay less than a month ago. I was watching it but ended up going for more than I wanted to spend. I want to say it ended up like $650-700. I always seen them in houses on HAR but no realtor has every responded to my email offering to buy it separate from the house. There is a thread about them on lottaliving too.

These were the first two houses that my wife and I looked at when we moved here from California. I can't remember which one, but one of the two had a really bad mold problem, and the other one had been vandalized while sitting vacant which made us a little nervous. If we were thicker skinned I think that we would have probably bought one of these. Glad to see someone finally did.

This one appears to be available again.

flipper

I don't know how to get the link from har but the post-flip of this house is listed today. Unfortunately not a lot of mod concern put into the work that was done, and the original green tile in the bathroom is gone.

We just moved to Houston from LA in August, and will be taking our first roadtrip to Austin for SXSW in a couple of weeks, and for Easter weekend will be going to Dallas.

Any recommendations for great mcm shopping or buildings/sites/museums/general tourist-y stuff to do in either place? Also, would really appreciate any suggestions of quaint small town squares with good antique shops to stop at for lunch on the drive to either (like Orange, CA if you are familiar). The middle of Texas has to be full of places like that I imagine.

I did a little looking for shopping spots and in Austin found Austin Modern and Room Service Vintage, and in Dallas Lulu's, so if those places are not worth a visit let me know. Thanks.

For people who aren't as bold and willing to get a little dirty, I was hoping this thread to have a little more discussion about specific companies rather than DIY. I found a thread about foundation that was extremely helpful. Are there any companies/procedures that are notoriously excessive/unneccessary and should be avoided, any stories in general about dealing with drainage companies? It seems like there are just a ton of people out there, and truthfully don't know who to call first.

http://www.metroretrofurniture.com/cgi-bin/

i think this is what you're talking about.

We accidentally stumbled across their warehouse a few months ago. You are driving down a totally non-descript street in Pasadena and out of nowhere is a building with a de stilj motif on the side of it and a parking lot full of random office chairs out front. Inside is absolutely the most amazing thing you'll ever see. The kid in a candy store metaphor does this place no justice. It's floor to ceiling of just awesome pieces, none of which we can really afford. My wife and I still are unable to figure out how they have accumulated such a quantity of stuff being located in Pasadena. I don't think that they are really "open" to the public but we just pulled up and asked nicely if we could just take a walk around and they were friendly. There is that other thread about the best mod sites in Houston, and in a weird kind of museum-warehouse-shopping way it would actually rank as one of the best things I've seen here.