Wednesday, July 24, 2013

the shutters of leisure mountain road

there's a road in north asheville/weaverville with the craziest cutest funkiest shutters i've ever seen assembled in one place.


leisure mountain road
the road is called leisure mountain road.

without further ado, behold the shutters:

we have circles:

circles

we have diamond paddles:

diamond paddle

we have traditional paddles:

paddle

we have leaves:

leaves

we have star trek arrows:

arrow

we have stars:

stars

we have primary shapes:

primary shapes

we have slightly unusual shapes:

shapes

we have tulips:

tulips

we have white diamonds:

diamonds

we have red diamonds:

diamonds (2)

last but not least, my personal favorite, we have pine tree moons:

pine tree moon

about 3/4 of the houses on the street are currently participating in this ongoing shutterfest.

i bet when they were first built in the 70's they ALL had fun shutters.

way to keep it funky, leisure mountain road!

8 comments:

  1. shudderboy6:15 PM

    wonderful!

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  2. thank you shudderboy! they delight me also!

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  3. totally dig. i would carve the old school branded osu logo in mine. how about you?

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  4. nice kid D. i would probably go dog paw or profile silhouette of a labrador! i guess that would hurt the resale value. but it would thrill me!

    i can find very few vintage cut out window shutters online, which makes me think these are more rare than i thought and something the particular builder was very into.

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  5. Anonymous10:33 PM

    I love this. you always observe the most unique and quirky examples of human nature! xo

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  6. shudderboy4:10 PM

    if it wasn't shudders, think about what this obsession might have been. there's more to this than just a bunch of nice shudders. some real beauties in there.

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  7. Shudder5:30 PM

    I love the bright red ones

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