Another Griffin find!

Wow, look at this one!  http://dwellarizona.com/blog/100-years-arizona

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://dwellarizona.com/idx/mls-4673711-



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Touring a Griffin

So, in my last post I shared an aerial of an address found in an article about a Fred Griffin home.  Since that post, I have been so fortunate to have toured the home.  The first Griffin home I have been in, except ours.  However, once we arrived at the address, I realized it was not the aerial I have on this blog.  I just checked Google maps again and this time it is showing me a different address?   http://goo.gl/maps/SKVA6

We actually drove by the home in the prior post and it looks like it could be a Griffin as well.

The gracious homeowners who showed us around are lucky enough to have the original plans to their home!  It seems the property may have, at one time, been part of the adjacent parcel - similar architecture, and there was originally a bridge over the arroyo connecting the properties.

A few similarities were the trees hiding the front door, a built-in planter inside the front door, the metal details in the same pattern as ours, great storage.

Huge glass windows, planters and louvers

Cool louvers

Amazing original sink and fixture.  The owner said the entire house was painted white (even tiling!) when they purchased.

Beautiful curved wall and block pattern

What a view!

There's that metal pattern again :)

Same metal pattern as we have, although I believe he had this gate fabricated to match the existing metal work.

Same metal pattern as we have

This used to be planter

Griffin House for Mr & Mrs. Ralph Peterson

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Another Fred Griffin find

AZ Republic circa 1955 Sun Living section

Sent to me by our friends over at http://www.modernphoenix.net/

I have a new weekend side job working for this fabulous company

I am beyond thrilled, they have such great ethics, a stellar product and are genuinely good people.  I travel around the valley and do dog food demos, which is super easy for me since there is nothing I love more than talking about dogs :)  We have fed our pets this food for quite a while and they do really well on it.

Gutted.  Such a tremendous loss.  No words over here, I am in mourning.

ASU Reunion

Fun get-together with my art school friends from ASU: Thuong, Tony, Ingrid, Matt and we cannot forget little Ruby and Thuong's friend Vera.  So good to reconnect, wonder why we let so much time pass between reunions....