Are These Cars a Perfect Match for Their Homes?
Shift gears to the driveway or garage and see if you appreciate these pairings as much as we do then share your own ideal match
Bud Dietrich, AIA
19 February 2022
Houzz Contributor. My name is Bud Dietrich and I am an architect located in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. I am licensed to practice architecture in Illinois, Florida, New Jersey & Wisconsin. Since 1996 I have worked from my home office and provide full architectural services exclusively to the single family residential market. My passion is to transform my clients' houses into their homes. I strive to have the "new" home accommodate my clients' lives without fighting them at every junction. I look to add curb appeal to encourage a beautiful streetscape. And I design any addition to look and feel like it has always been there.
Our projects have won numerous design awards as well as having been featured on television (CBS News Sunday Morning, HGTV, CLTV, etc.), in magazines (Better Homes...
Houzz Contributor. My name is Bud Dietrich and I am an architect located in the Tampa... More
If I hadn’t become an architect, I surely would have become a car designer. These two objects, homes and cars, are by far the most wonderful expressions of aesthetics and function. While a house needs to provide shelter and a car needs to transport us, both can go well beyond these simple, mundane and utilitarian tasks.
That’s why it brings joy to my heart when I see the right car paired with the right house. Like the pairing of the right wine with the right dish, the right car with the right house brings out the best in both.
Here are some examples from the pages of Houzz.
That’s why it brings joy to my heart when I see the right car paired with the right house. Like the pairing of the right wine with the right dish, the right car with the right house brings out the best in both.
Here are some examples from the pages of Houzz.
This house-car pairing is colourful, fun and snappy, not unlike a highway billboard meant to be read at 60 miles per hour on the way to the beach in a classic woody.
A traditional and large home that conveys stability and history needs a car that conveys the same. It helps if the colours are coordinated.
A working farmstead needs a working truck. Did the curves and flowing, shiny lines of the truck come after those of the silo – or before?
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How about a modernist house for a modernist car? Whereas the house is all boxy and severe and built of static materials, the car is all fluid and dynamic, built for speed.
While the classic Jeep belongs at the beach with a surfboard nearby, does it also belong next to a contemporary house? Maybe so, especially if the house has a little bit of zaniness.
Is the BMW, a car for the yuppie in us all, meant for the modernist creations of the West Coast or ...
... for the established and traditional suburbs of the east?
Or is it a car that shines in both, at home in city or suburb, contemporary or classic settings?
Or is it a car that shines in both, at home in city or suburb, contemporary or classic settings?
Maybe the garage door is a mouse hole that the car peeks out of before it goes about its day.
Or maybe the garage door is a viewing frame to acknowledge that some cars are meant for a museum.
Got a classic car? Then your garage should have a built-in bench so you can spend countless hours just gazing at and studying all of that marvellous sheet metal.
Nothing beats relaxing with your favorite book in your favorite room while in your favorite seat.
If you have the right car, don’t hide it behind a faux carriage door. Let it out to breathe — all of those horses are yearning for the open road. Let the neighbours see that beautiful sheet metal sculpted to evoke power and speed.
A classic New England house with a classic car in front. Did the door colour inspire the colour of the rims or vice versa?
Read more:
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Tell us:
What is your ideal pairing of house and car? Is it classic or contemporary, zany or staid? Is it the minivan and the garage for two-plus cars or something more fun?
Read more:
A Car Lover’s Man Cave Kicks Into High-Luxury GearHouzz Tour: An Indoor Drive-In Theatre
Tell us:
What is your ideal pairing of house and car? Is it classic or contemporary, zany or staid? Is it the minivan and the garage for two-plus cars or something more fun?
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