Architecture Wednesday: Curvy Colorful Home

Extraordinarily rare opportunity to own a modern masterpiece, designed and built by the architect Don Chapell as his personal residence and regarded as one of Florida's most architecturally significant homes. Chapell created a secure compound with wraparound wings that surround a landscaped courtyard; the primary living space opens to the courtyard and also to the private lap pool, perfect for morning coffee or gathering with friends, that sits along the serene Pansy Bayou.

Spanning more than 6,800 interior square feet, the design of the home is inside and out is both whimsical and refined, showcasing the eclectic palette and materials of postmodernism, with an interplay of light and shadow that transforms each space, hour by hour.

The scale and layout offer luxury accommodation, with six bedrooms including two owners' suites, six full and two half bathrooms, abundant storage and even a safe room. The central living space offers breathtaking views of the native landscape and the open bayou with soaring 17-foot ceilings and two walls of floor-to-ceiling windows that maximize sightlines and the home's shimmering natural light.

Spanning the central living space, a catwalk bridges the second stories of the adjacent living wings. The primary owners' suite encompasses a bedroom with private balcony with long-range water views, a large wardrobe, sprawling spa bath with separate water closet, extra-long vanity, and a separate shower room with soaker tub; floor-to-ceiling windows in the shower open to a private bayou-facing balcony.

Adjacent is a light-filled, oversized en suite office with gently curving walls, volume ceiling, sitting area and a private, secure entrance that can be accessed from the courtyard. A separate wing features a cozy nursery connected to a second owners' suite, an additional bedroom, fanciful full bath and inspiring lounge and game room. Just beyond that is an oversized guest or staff quarters with sitting area and a small kitchenette, a full bath, and its own direct access from the entry courtyard.

Postmodern hallmarks include original poured terrazzo floors with imported Murano glass accents, multihued surfaces—I generally loathed mixed colors on kitchen cabinetry, especially this mixed, but it works in this house; Chapell offers every artistic feature as a showcase of the museum quality of the home.

Functional amenities include garage space for three vehicles, a dedicated laundry room and separate storage room with outdoor access. It was recently sold for over the $10M asking price to someone who likes curves and colors and stripes and big houses and Florida.

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Ain't That America II ...

Well, what a week or so it's been in America; Pam Bondi is bought and paid for; DOGE is corrupt; the CDC has given up on the Norovirus, too; books are being banned; Black history, AKA American History, is being erased; The Felon proves again that he's an angry little racist; Leon bought the presidency and made billions for himself; The Felon denied FEMA aid to hurricane victims; Linda McMahon proved you can be an uneducated tool and still run the Department of Education ...

And then Warren Buffet has an idea, and it will take We The People to get it done ...

In 2013, Florida AG Pam Bondi announced a fraud investigation into The Felon University. A few days later, The Felon Foundation gave $25,000 to a Bondi re-election group. Bondi then announced she would not investigate The Felon University. It is illegal for tax-exempt charities to engage in political activity and The Felon paid a $2,500 fine. A Bondi advisor said Bondi had solicited the contribution. If done as a quid pro quo that would be illegal.

The Felon and his daughter-wife Ivanka Felon then donated $500 each to Bondi’s campaign. In 2014, The Felon and his daughter-wife Ivanka Felon donated $125K to the Florida GOP, which helped with Bondi’s campaign. The Felon rented out Mar-Illegal to Bondi at a $135K discount for a fundraiser where he was a “special guest.”

Bondi spoke at the Republican National Convention in support of The Felon and now she works as his personal AG.

An unsigned agreement between DOGE and the Department of Labor provides significant insight into the working protocols between DOGE and federal agencies. Notably, the agreement calls for the Department of Labor to reimburse the DOGE up to $1.3 million for work done by four DOGE affiliates.

The agreement is backdated to start on January 20, the day The Felon was inaugurated, and ends on July 4, 2026—a timeline consistent with the executive order that created DOGE.

Paying DOGE an estimated $1.3 million for the services of four employees over that timespan would establish an annualized pay of about $217,000 … more than $20K above the pay scale for career civil servants. Musk has repeatedly claimed that DOGE workers would not be paid.

The fraud is coming from inside DOGE.

All of the full-time employees in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vessel Sanitation Program are now off the job, gutting the agency’s ability to investigate outbreaks and conduct health inspections on cruise ships. The cuts to the program’s inspectors baffled CDC officials since the staff is not paid for by taxpayer dollars but through fees from cruise ships companies.

All this, as the U.S. has been battling a record surge of norovirus, largely driven by a new strain of the virus.

A Florida law that has pushed public schools to remove thousands of books, including literary classics, from their shelves could get even more restrictive as Republican lawmakers move to close a “loophole” they say still allows volumes depicting nudity or sexual conduct to remain on campuses.

New bills backed by GOP legislators would mean school districts could no longer consider a book’s artistic, literary, political or scientific value when deciding whether to keep it. Instead, any book that “describes sexual conduct” could face removal … books like “No David!” by David Shannon, showing cartoonish bare bottoms out of fear they depict the prohibited “sexual conduct” and classics such as Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” and Ernest Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls” also have been pulled.

The asshat behind the bill, wingnut Clay Yarborough says if he took photos of some pages in the targeted books, he would “go to federal prison” for child porn.

Seriously.

An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” following several prominent changes to government websites under the racist regime; also gone are references to “enslaved” people and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

The webpage now leads with commemorative stamps of various civil rights leaders with text including the phrase “Black/White Cooperation.”

Whereas previously, the article started with a description of enslaved peoples’ efforts to free themselves and the organization of the Underground Railroad after the Fugitive Slave Act, the article now starts with two paragraphs that emphasize the “American ideals of liberty and freedom” and do not specifically mention slavery.

It starts with erasing history …

A portrait of The Felon that depicts him raising his fist after that publicity stunt staged attempt on his ear is replacing an image of former President Obama in a prominent spot inside the White House.

Someone’s tiny orange mushroom dick is twisted …

PS Why would anyone hang a picture in their house of the moment after a gunman tried to kill them unless ... oh yeah, staged shooting.

Leon Skum bought the presidency for The Felon for an estimated $300M but what did he get for his money other than a room at Mar-Illegal and rides on Air Force One?

Well, SpaceX—best known for its exploding rockets—landed a $5.92 BILLION contract with the Pentagon for Space Force rocket launches—the largest contract among the three firms who secured deals to send satellites into space.

While Leon Skum and DOGE cut essential services to We The People he gets a taxpayer funded windfall.

After helping to elect The Felon to the presidency in 2024, and after the devastating damage from Hurricane Helene, this week The Felon denied North Carolina’s request for more FEMA relief calling it “unwarranted.”

But his golf weekends are fully taxpayer funded …

This week, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, the former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO who is now charged with making decisions for 100 million American school children, repeatedly referred to AI technology as “A1.”

Yes, the steak sauce.

“Kids are sponges. They just absorb everything. It wasn’t all that long ago that it was, ‘We’re going to have internet in our schools!’ Now let’s see A1 and how that can be helpful.”

For McMahon it proved how inept and incompetent and in desperate need to be reschooled she is, but for Kraft Heinz’s A.1. steak sauce, it was free product placement and the brand jumped on Instagram with a spoofed ad for a McMahon-inspired A.1. bottle:

“For educational purposes only.”

And the post was captioned:

“You heard her. Every school should have access to A.1.”

The Felon only hires the “best” people …

Warren Buffett has a simple fix to end the deficit and it’s good:

"You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election. Fair is fair. How does this sound?

1. No Tenure/No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

2. Congress—past, present & future—participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.

3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 12/31/2025. The American people did not make this contract with Congress. Congress made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their terms, then go home and back to work.

The 26th amendment—granting the right to vote for 18-year-olds—took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple. The people demanded it. That was in 1971 before computers, email, cell phones, etc. Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, 7 took a year or less to become the law of the land...all because of public pressure.”

Sounds good to me …