The pattern in the top image is another latter-day design. Notice how the same pattern can look very different depending on the installation. This one looks like what you’d get if you crossed the arcs in a hidden-circle block and then flattened it out: I don’t know what this style is called, but it seems to be a latter-day design. Some newer walls featured styles I haven’t encountered in any of my research. We also spotted some double-Ys: This is one of the more creative uses I’ve seen for the double-Y pattern. Two styles for the price of one: Pompeian shadow next to hidden circles. (I was less excited about the manufacturer’s spelling.) Pompeian blocks cast interesting shadows on the wall behind them. I was really excited about these Pompeian (sic) blocks. Here’s a wall of tightly stacked snowflake blocks, protected by a ferocious guard dog: Snowflake-pattern breezeblocks, magic light, dramatic shadows, and a Chihuahua in the window - what’s not to love? That brings our total to 139, with about 75 percent of the inventory complete. We found 52 properties with breezeblocks and one with shadow blocks. In an hour and a half, we covered all the east-west streets in an area six blocks wide and maybe a mile long. This time, we were in our own neighborhood. Yeah, it’s all right, if you live the life you please.įor the third day in a row, Ron and I worked on my breezeblock inventory.
Well, it’s all right, ridin’ around in the breeze. It’s also given me an appreciation for the ingenuity of the people around me, who are sculptors, muralists, architects, landscape designers, homesteaders, and creative problem solvers of the highest order. I knew Tucumcari pretty well before I started, but systematically driving every street in town in search of one specific architectural detail has forced me to pay much closer attention to my surroundings. The research for this project has been fascinating. The breezeblocks appear to be a later addition, as they don’t really match the architecture of the house, but I imagine they’d come in handy if you were fumbling with your keys on a stormy day. The top image is from a house down the street. I like this sort of inside-out approach to installing hidden circles, spotted in an alley while we were walking the dogs this afternoon. I don’t know the name of this pattern, but it seems to be the 21st-century answer to hidden circles. We saw this angular riff on the Starlight pattern at the same property. This double square-in-square was perched atop the same unfinished wall as the fan-style block. The owner appeared to be test-driving samples. Here are some samples from today’s explorations: We saw this fan-style block atop an unfinished wall in a newer subdivision. We have nearly four times that number - and I probably missed a few that weren’t visible from the street. I knew we had a lot, but by “a lot,” I was thinking maybe 50. 4,915) has 190 properties that feature either breezeblocks, shadow blocks, or some combination of the two - and at least 100 of them are within a mile of my house. We completed our breezeblock inventory this afternoon.
We’ll see how many of them I finish before the world reopens. I’ve always sort of wondered what I could accomplish if I had a big enough block of time on my hands with relatively few distractions, and the pandemic has pretty well answered that question. I’m designing it on the fly, but I think it will look pretty cool when I’m done with it. To keep my neck and shoulders from completely seizing up on me while I was sanding and oiling the floor, I stopped every hour or so to stretch and spend a few minutes working on the new mural I just sort of randomly decided I needed in my office. We used part of the money we saved on the floor to buy a new wood-slice coffee table with hairpin legs. It was time-consuming, physically demanding work, but I think it turned out well. At my dad’s recommendation, I sanded it by hand and gave it a couple of coats of Danish oil.
#Breeze block styles free#
I finally got a hand free Monday to start working on the living-room floor.
#Breeze block styles how to#
Then the pandemic hit, and I had to figure out how to teach, put out a paper, and coordinate the production of a yearbook, all remotely, while writing the first draft of my latest novel. Instead of spending the better end of $5 a square foot on cork-look luxury vinyl tile, I spent less than $100 on sandpaper and Danish oil.īefore I could start working on the floor, I came down with bronchitis. In February, I pulled up our stained, worn-out wall-to-wall carpet to find a beautiful hardwood floor hiding underneath.
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