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Good House of the Week: Douglas County, Nebraska
🕑 Added 2017-08-18 16:43:01 +0000 UTC Folks, it's extremely rare to see a well done imitation of the Prairie style, especially done by a builder, but even I have to admit this 1994 house is stunning. The interiors are immaculately dressed with Frank Lloyd Wright furnishings, and as a bonus, the house is actually located in the Prairie!The materials of this house are extremely high-quality, and it gets the prairie look pretty much right. The only qualm I might have is the small narrow windows on the second floor, but even criticizing them verges on nitpickiness. I love the richness and accuracy of the brick (usually prairie imitations mess up the materials, using the wrong size bricks and fake stucco) and the detail of the landscaping, including the planters at the end of the path. The Prairie style featured strong horizontal motion, wide, overhanging eaves and low pitched rooflines to seemingly blend in with the strata of the prairie landscape, and this house very successfully fulfills those aspects of the style.
I can't stop ogling the interiors, especially the dining room and the den. The builder and owners really should be praised for their meticulous attention to detail.
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That house is indeed a rare find, likely one of the finest in the Omaha exurbs. Why this style is not more common in the Great Plains (at least for those that can afford to build them) is truly perplexing.
Tara Summers
They really nailed the style for the most part, even if it sometimes strays dangerously into overcrowding (bathroom, kitchen) when colliding with contemporary habits and desires. In those cases, it looks like the room would feel at home in BioShock 1, under water, inhabited by self-mae libertarian mutants. However, that is what you get when you combine modern habits, like a shower-toilet-tub-two-sink bathroom and original materials. Other parts, especially the dining room, are breathtaking, and the exterior is really well done, too. I also love the living room because of it's giant ornament, not despite. All in all, the builder and contractor really did research and captured the style; obviously there wasn't only accuracy and determination, but also a lot of money and good craftsmanship involved.
