Post #33788 by Luckydesigns on Sun, May 11, 2003 10:38 PM

I thought this was pretty cool. There is a whole neighborhood in Newport that was designed in an 'a-frame' polynesian style. Usually the houses have lava rock on the walls or the fences. The whole group of houses have a very 60's feel to them.

Unfortunately, there is some real estate lady that is going through buying up the old houses and 'updating' them to re-sell at a huge profit. She is getting rid of the lava rock and using stucco where she can.

Anyway, here are the pictures:

This first place is not actually in the neighborhood that I'm talking about. It is a rental duplex down by the beach that a friend of mine lives at. The upstairs features a lava rock fireplace and high ceilings with exposed beams. When I told my friend about the architecture she was just kinda like, 'tiki? I never noticed it."

Below are the houses in the neighborhood. Even though there is a lot of it on other streets too, this one street is the best example of the polynesian architecture. For me, I think that owning one of these houses would be the ultimate tiki collectable.

The house below is on the Balboa peninsula. I would love to live in a house that looks like a boat. Plus, it's pretty big, and it's right on the water.


You gotta hand it to someone that has cannons in their front yard.

This is the side that faces the bay. Crazy boat rigging. Looks like you could sail that house right off the beach into the water.

I know of more places around Newport that feature tikis in their front yard. I'll photograph them soon and post 'em.

Spike
http://www.kikatiki.com

[ Edited by: Luckydesigns on 2003-05-11 23:17 ]