Rose Doors, LLC

08/23/2021

Air right in NYC. Can you imagine being the owners of the brownstones?

12/25/2020

Every year I turn Lexie into Rudolph.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone!

11/26/2020

Snapped this pic last week right before the rain washed away all the colors. Though this capture is a stark difference from the reality we're experiencing at the moment, I'm grateful to be around and looking forward to the new days ahead. 2021 could not come fast enough.
--ah--

06/08/2020

Only Light Can Drive Out Darkness.
—Martin Luther King Jr.

05/10/2020

To all Mothers. We do not exist without you

02/13/2020

For ALL -- loved and unloved, unconditionally!

02/05/2020

WHAT'S THAT STYLE?
It’s important to recognize the architectural design style of the properties you’re interested in, especially if you are a real estate investor. It helps you to communicate effectively to many professionals throughout the process of any real estate transaction. It boosts your confidence, elevates the experience, and builds trust with your target audience. This is a series of posts “What’s That Style?”

McMANSIONS
OK, let's get it straight. McMansions are not an architectural design style, rather it's a trend, started in the early 1980s when excess was mistaken for the necessity. McMansions are private houses that are not tailored to the family needs, but the grandiosity of individuals whose wealth suddenly turn them into Renaissance men, in their own mind. Whether it's a builder or a buyer, they have a checklist of must-have: cathedral ceilings, great rooms, hot tubs, massive windows, 4-car garage, etc. In truth, McMansions are wannabe Mansions, catering to upper-middle-class who has enough money for a downpayment to show off their economic status, but not enough to have architectural aesthetic or quality in considerations. The goal is to maximize the space with limited resources, an over-sized proportion to the lot, excessive use of gabled roofs or an odd combination of roof styles, a poor mix of architectural design and ornamentation from different periods, abundant use of vinyl and artificial stones, etc. The results became eyesores for many people living in the suburb.

The term McMansion is coined from McDonald's--big, fast, tasteless. McMansion is the big Mac of architecture--massed produced, bland, and unnecessarily large.

01/24/2020

End the week with a start.

01/15/2020

WHAT'S THAT STYLE?
It’s important to recognize the architectural design style of the properties you’re interested in, especially if you are a real estate investor. It helps you to communicate effectively to many professionals throughout the process of any real estate transaction. It boosts your confidence, elevates the experience, and builds trust with your target audience. This is a series of post “What’s That Style?”

TUDOR
If you live in the Northern half of America where the climate is colder and rain and snow are part of the lifestyle, chances are you see this style of house around and you either love it or hate it, there’s no ‘I can live with it’ – If there is, I don’t know any. Love it for the quaint storybook appearance or the romance of an English country manor. Hate it for the bold useless decorative wooden frames that slapped all over the façade of the house, like a fortress in Medieval time. In fact, the Tudor style home is a revival of English domestic architecture in Medieval styles from 1600-1700.
Tudor houses have very distinguishable features: Steeply pitched roofs and often multiple overlapping, front-facing gables, exteriors mostly darker tone bricks heavily accented with even darker elaborative frames. The style exudes pretentiousness and is often built in wealthy suburbs. It reached its highest popularity in the 20s when the stock market was on the top of its game. Then came the Great Depression (1929-1945), and World War 2 immediately after, America turned to focus on new, affordable housing developments that can be built in a short period of time.
This style is still appealing to a lot of people who are into historic homes. The chances of a new-built in this style are slim to none.

01/04/2020

As demand for more residential space in New York City continues to grow, real estate developers are turning to churches.

Following a trend that has occurred in the Big Apple and other parts of the country, churches have become hot properties for developers to acquire and transform into condos.

A historic landmark church in Capitol Hill’s Stanton Park has been converted into six multistory luxury condos, all with unique original details, called The Bell Tower at Stanton Park. See photos.

12/31/2019

The year.
The vision.
2020 is orally and visually symmetrical.
Cheer to the prosperous 2020!!!