Tuesday, March 29, 2011

The interesting thing about touring this "house" is that you can go pretty much anywhere. We didn't have to pay extra to go to the very attic of this place. Not only that, but when we got to the attic, it wasn't really roped off. Even though people could have climbed around the timbers, no one did. Although, around the corner and behind me, the brick walls had the names of many visitors. The unfortunate part, is that i don't know much about architecture / construction to truly appreciate what i've seen in these pictures. I can pretty much guarantee houses aren't made like this anymore. Also, with the size of this place, perhaps what i'm looking at is sheer genius. Know what i mean? If i remember correctly, the floor is cement. Which is kind of weird for an attic floor, don't you think? there must be a lot of wall support below. Either that, i'm completely mistaken with the type of floor it is. It was kind of dusty even though there were a lot of people traipsing through.

Back in the day, when this functioned as a house; i think the attic would have been the perfect getaway. As you can see in the pictures, it is very bright and almost... magical? No, not magical. Peaceful is more accurate.


In the first picture you can see stairs in the upper left side of the picture. I can't recall if we went up there or not. Actually, i know we didn't. But it's rather interesting to have a hidden room. From what i could tell, i don't think there was furniture in that space. Who knows...


That concludes the pictures of Casa Loma. I'm excited about the next round of pictures i'm uploading. They are from the Kennsington neighborhood (yup, England is not the only place to have a "Kennsington"). It is a rather arty neighborhood. More so than Grand Ave. or Uptown. Stay tuned.

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Bits of the Casa



As we wandered through the Casa, i snapped some random pictures. Well, i suppose they really all were random so far. As i looked down this hall, all i could think about was, "i wonder what it was like to wander down a hall this huge? Or to even have a hall this big in a house!!"



We wandered into one of the bathrooms in the house. I love the sink!! The wall is a bit extravagent, but that's what they had in the day i guess. I just wonder how they were able to put that heavy marble on the wall and keep it up. Maybe it's thin or something...



Check out this crazy shower! From what i understand the metal cage might have had multiple shower heads attached to it at different locations. A rubber curtain was pulled around the cage...? I think it's kind of creepy.