Sorry for the weird hiccup today. Temporary service interruptions have become de rigeur with our host in the last several months, but this one seems to be over now and we’re back up and running – hopefully for the forseeable future.
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CSS & HTML help needed!
Craftsman Home Registry
Along with the redesign to be implemented within the next few months, I’m thinking about creating a interactive registry of Craftsman homes across the US. People would be able to add their name and address (or simply city, since I’m sure folks won’t want more personal information floating around out there) and upload pictures if they’d like. Does this sound interesting or useful? I think I could integrate it with Google Maps to show locations of homes around the country (general city locations, not actual street addresses), and Flickr so that folks could upload pictures of their homes. Is there a need or want for something like this?
House in Progress: Houseblog Map
Our friends over at House in Progress / Houseblogs have merged Google Maps with a comprehensive (and growing!) list of houseblogs to create a wonderful clickable map showing the locations of the most vocal (or at least fast-typing) home remodelers and do-it-yourselfers in the country – and a few elsewhere. So many of these are great sources of inspiration for owners of Arts & Crafts Movement homes. A quick selection:
Greetings WSJ readers!
Welcome to those of you finding us for the first time in today’s Wall Street Journal print and online editions. We are always looking for new voices and would like very much to hear about your own Arts & Crafts home – please forward photographs and stories to the Editor. Additionally, we’d like to run a series of features on architecturally interesting neighborhoods, like some of those in our photo albums. Please drop us a line if you have suggestions in that area as well.
I hope you find something that interests you here. Feel free to visit our sister site, Urban Cartography, as well.
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We’re on a short break this week – but keep sending your pictures and story ideas!
photo album additions
We have a few new additions to our photo albums, including some photographs sent in by Christopher Campbell in our Westwood Park album. If you can supply a few photographs of interesting historical homes in your area, we’ll set up an album for your neighborhood too! I would really like to feature photos of interesting interiors, remodel / restore projects and interesting external detail; please forward such images to us! OK, I’ll stop harassing you about this now.
Hewn & Hammered wants you!
Hewn & Hammered, in our relentless pursuit of interesting content, would appreciate the following:
- please send us photographs of your home, furnishings, woodworking projects and other crafts for our photo albums; and
- if you are at all interested in contributing a short article or note on almost any subject within the purview of the site – there’s no time commitment at all! – please drop me a line and I will set you up with an author account!
thank you & good morning
Wow, more new people. I’m feeling really special this morning. Mr. Dash likes us, and Typepad made us a featured site today; I’ve noticed a huge upsurge in traffic. Thanks, Anil! But what
would be really great would be if those of us with multiple weblogs could split up our photo albums between sites (and assign multiple levels of permissions for co-authors and editors in group weblogs). Speaking of which, check out the albums; some great pictures of Brian Lee‘s doors over in DOORS.Hello new readers!
Most of the many new readers visiting us today saw our advertisement in this month’s Style 1900 magazine. Welcome – and please, if you have any interest, don’t just be a reader: we are always looking for folks to contribute short articles, links, notes on events and businesses and products, and photographs! Please send us a photo of your own home, furniture and design treasures and anything else you’d like to share with the other readers of Hewn and Hammered. If you would like to contribute, drop me a line and I will set you up with an easy-to-use author account.