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As some of you know the sign currently on our front corner was constructed to be a temporary sign. It has been with us a few years now and is starting to show weather damage. We will likely need to replace it in a year or two with a more permanent sign. Roger Dornbush, who was instrumental in designing and constructing our landscaping has been ruminating on some ideas and has made some mock-up pictures of some of his ideas. Now is a good time to start dreaming and talking about it.

Here are a couple of pictures that Roger has created through the amazing technology of digital photography:

Here is Rogers Sign Idea #1: Notice the "L" get's an interesting shaping.

Here is Roger's sign idea #2. Notice the top of the sign is relatively flat.

More details from Roger on his idea:

Questions that I imagine will come on the heals of this:

1. What would this cost? Roger doesn't know, but depending on what we finally did it would be a few thousand dollars if we designed it ourselves and built it in the kind of way we did the landscaping.
2. Do we have money for this budgeted? No. Right now this is only in the dreaming phase. Dreaming is cheap.  Council hasn't received any proposals and hasn't talked about this at all. We knew when we put up our current sign that it was temporary and we've had it up a few years already. Eventually it will need to be replaced and we should replace it with a permanent sign that will stand up to the weather. Temporary signs aren't cheap either. Our present one cost around $1,000 and was done with mostly volunteer labor (we had to pay for the decal). First let's see if we can come up with some ideas of what we want to do, then we'll figure out what it would cost, then we'll think about trying to find the money, then we'll start talking seriously about construction. Yes, this may take a while.

Additional Ideas already received by Roger: (This is brainstorming remember, anything goes...)

1. How about landscaping the front corner area around the sign with boulders?
2. How about adding water. Have a water fall behind the raised letters splashing down into a pool with the stones to add more of the "living" sense to the sign. Make it dynamic. Having some sort of a waterfall on our corner would really create a landmark and draw attention!

What about your ideas? Use the "comments" function below.

Comments:

From Nina [24.10.111.199] - 8/16/05 11:12 PM