My Week in Photos

One of the more interesting things about my job is the magnificent houses I get to work in . . . and it's self-perpetuating.  The more large beautiful houses I work in, the more owners of other large, beautiful houses hear about me and hire me.   

This is one of the prize homes I've done.  It's okay for me to put the photo on my blog because it's an historic home that's been turned into a museum/tour.  No one lives there any longer.

more photos after the jump:

There's a reason I get hired for various difficult jobs - I'm good at figuring out how to access and clean windows that have difficult placement.  Here's one example: 

What is that?  It's a skylight and it's on the roof of a very large home.  That isn't the difficult part -

This is:

That's looking up at the skylight from inside - over three stories of open space and a staircase.  I'm not going to tell you how I get to it or Sugar will worry.

Here's a couple shots of the view from that roof:

The last set is an abandoned house.  I've been washing the windows on the house across the street from this one for four years, and in the entire time there has been no progress on this house that was abandoned mid-construction.  No signs or listings or even any explanation, but it looks like it would've been beautiful if it were ever finished.

I wonder what this week's going to bring.  Maybe I'll take some more photos.

- rick, working

Comments

[Cele]

I love looking at old houses, glad I don't live in their large, drafty confines. But yet I still look and imagine. Architecture is beautiful a beautiful art. But sometimes I wonder what people were thinking. Why design a house, pour money into it's construction, stop half way and walk away? Why? Why? Why?

[a rose is a rose]

if it was abandoned four years ago, it's not the current recession that did it. i wonder too why? i'm lucky i live in an area with tons of OLD historic homes (not european old of course). we have underground railroad homes and churches, and mark twain's home (and harriet's too). we have the homes on oak bluffs mass (martha's vineyard). if you've NOT seen them rick, please look them up. gingerbread houses. REAL ONES.
more pictures rick! (not just of homes either)

[Cherise]

I love the skylight... so cool!

[CV Rick]

Cele, I don't know. I've asked the neighbors and they don't know. It's a mystery that deserves a fictionalized answer, don't you think?

Rose, what other kind of photos do you want?

Cherise, it's a cool skylight. Not so easy to clean however.