I took these pictures last December for an architecture project where we were asked by a member of Preservation Napa Valley to figure out some clever ways to restore these barns to make them usable for the new owner of the property. The owner wanted to build some fairly large homes and was originally going to tear down these barns, unless we could convince him other wise. Along with out professor, our group took a little field trip up to Napa to view the site. The site has 2 barns--actually they were winery's--and one of the barns had this very strange addition in the back that was once an apartment. Since I'm in the spirit of fall and Halloween, I wanted to share some of my pictures from the creepy abandoned addition....
In the picture above you can see the addition peeking out from the back of the barn.
This is a better picture after we had climbed up the hill a little to find the front door, which was in the back?
You can kind of see the door in this picture on the left side of the picture, just a simple wooden door.
Taken from the inside in the "foyer". I can't imagine this door kept any heat in!
Above is the kitchen, that window looks out to the back of the house, or I guess since the door is in the back, that makes this the front? Walking in here was like a 1920s time warp, it looked like the last time anyone lived here was maybe in the 40s and for some reason dropped everything and left one day. The picture is kind of dark, but you can kind of see the cute wood burning stove on the left.
This is the other side of the kitchen, that window looks out to the front (you could see this window in the first picture of the red barn). This room was definitely creepy, and yes that is a doctor's bag on the coffee table, close-up below...
I wish I would have opened the bag to see what was inside, but then again I might have had an allergy attack from the half inch layer of dust on top...
Someone left their cup of tea in the cabinet!
Ahh the parlor....and what a parlor it is! Is it weird that part of me wanted to take that table and re-stain it? And those things hanging from the ceiling are old tin ceiling tiles, more detailed pictures below.
Same room as the tables, not sure what happened with the wallpaper only covering half the room. The mattress looks comfortable though...
The picture above and the ones below were taken in the room that was built as a second floor to the barn, but the only entrance to it was from the apartment/addition. In the background you can see the hallway that goes to the front door and the entrances to the "parlor" and kitchen. You can faintly see that, yes, the entire hallway, walls and ceilings were covered in the old tin decorative tiles.
It looked like someone had been using this room as "temporary" storage that ended up being permanent. To be honest, I didn't even know that this corner looked like this. The room was so dark, I could only see what it actually looked like after I had taken a picture with a flash and looked at it on my camera.
Would it be worth it to reupholster? just kidding...
Cool drawings? I don't know the artist who drew these, but they were randomly around the house. Creepy.
More detailed look at the old decorative tiles. There were a few piles leaning against the walls, I should have taken one!
Hope you enjoyed my creepy house tour!
If you're wondering what happened to the project, the project was put on hold for a while--I'm pretty sure nothing has been built yet, and nothing has been torn down--and we ended up working on another restoration project in St. Helena, I posted this project back in May, but you can take a look at it again here.
*source: my own photos
This was another project that I did in my CADD 2 class. This is also a 3D rendering of a living room drawn on VectorWorks 2008. I did this in October so I was inspired by fall colors. My favorite part of the room is the arrangement of artwork around the convex mirror. I got this idea from an article in the late Domino magazine. Oh, I also loved the coffee table so I modeled that too.
