Loft Apartment….Downtown Carrollton

We have a loft for rent…this is the upstairs of the original location of our business in downtown Carrollton. We renovated this loft back in 2002 and lived there until 2007. It’s an amazing space that can be residential or commercial. We’ve previously had families in here, but we’ve thought that a group of college students would have a great time in here being so close to the nightlife downtown. A few details about the space… the building was originally built in 1885 as Moore’s Opera House, with the Opera House being the upstairs of the building. We’re thinking it was Can-Can dancers and vaudeville, but i’ve yet to see any documentation of what was performed here. The heart pine floors are original and the ceilings are 14 foot high. The windows are all 9 foot high and make a statement for this space. It was featured on HGTV’s ReZoned back in 2007, with a focus on having a mix of commercial and residential living. You’ve got Camacho’s brick oven pizza downstairs, next door and you’re walking distance to every restaurant and bar downtown.

This loft has three bedrooms and three full baths with two of the bedrooms being large enough to hold two people each. There’s abundant parking in the back of the building or at the parking deck across the street. The wonderful thing about this space though is the great room, which is 24 foot x 42 foot and holds the kitchen, dining and living areas. You’ll love the walk in closests too.

And…we have a sister space right next door to this one with the exact same amount of square footage (2400), but it’s completely open. It would make a great addition for a private club for one of the fraternities or sororities at UWG. It has the same look with one bathroom and a whole lot of space. Combine these two together and start thinking “Real World-Carrollton”. It would truly be an unbelievable college experience.

If you’re interested in the space, just contact Kash Johnson at kash@classicalphoto.com and we’ll provide additional details.

Here’s the open space…the kitchen may look small…but trust me it’s not. The room is just huge.

Another view with the spiral duct and high ceilings.

This bedroom is in the back of the loft.

This one is in the front and faces the new downtown parking deck.

Here’s the master bath that connects to the back bedroom.

Sunday, we packed up the girls and headed to Atlanta for some rain or shine fun.

We decided on Imagine It! The Childrens’ Museum of Atlanta for our rainy day destination. We opted to park in the garage under the American Cancer Society building. Like many of you, we drive an SUV. Parking garages are not made for SUVs, at least not the one we parked in! The garage had these three foot in diameter concrete posts in the middle of the two way driving lanes. The Expedition cleared the garage by about eight inches. But Sophie was quick to tell us how cool it was!  Oh, to see the world through the eyes of a child…

Once we got inside the museun, Sophie really enjoyed going from activity to activity but I think her favorite station was the moon sand since we kept going back there. This moon sand is the coolest stuff. It has a texture of sandy cornstarch and you can mold it and shape it like play dough, but it’s dry. She was quick to tell any child getting into her space that this was her work.

Audrey has been to the museum several times before and was not quite as thrilled about going as she used to be. It’s such a bittersweet feeling watching her grow up. I think she enjoyed watching Sophie but felt like she was too old to actually let us know she was having fun. They both seemed to enjoy painting on the wall…Something I hope Sophie doesn’t try at home! (She has written on the walls MANY times…but not paint.)

After we finished the museum it was not raining (!), so we walked over to Centennial Olympic Park. I’m still amazed that Atlanta has such a cool place to go in the heart of Downtown. We steered clear of the Rings Fountain because past trips of , ‘we’ll just look and not get wet’, have ALWAYS resulted in soaked clothes. Instead we walked down by the Coke shrine and around the other side of the park. By this point it had actually gotten hot, Sophie was ready for a nap and the next rain cloud was fast approaching. We made our way back to the confined parking garage and headed back to Carrollton….in the rain…!

Sherry

Ok…i’ve arrived late to the party. Better late than never eh? This is our first blog post. This is our first blog. Nothing like one more piece of software to learn and master. But i have to say, the designer of the ProPhoto Blogs really knows what he’s doing. This has been a very intuitive process and I’ve been very impressed with all of the support available behind this sweet piece of software. I know that I’m getting started a bit late, but we’re planning on having lots of fun with this. A few friends have sworn to me this will be good for our studio and our clients over the long term. So, here we are….blogging!

We’re knee deep in all kinds of fun activities here at Classical and tomorrow is the last day of school for our oldest…Summer is here! I know Audrey is excited about it and around the studio, we’re looking forward to the Class of 2010 senior season kicking off. We’ll be sharing a bit of what’s new for this season, and some of the day to day work that keeps us busy, busy, busy.

Thanks for checking in!