{"id":487,"date":"2015-02-12T03:21:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T03:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=487"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:27:01","slug":"no-helmet-needed-in-this-custom-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":"No Helmet Needed In This Custom House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"A Custom Home\" href=\"http:\/\/acustomhouse.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Custom Home<\/a> did a great job renovating an abandoned motorcycle repair shop on Burnet Road in Midtown into a design studio. The decor was varied and certainly had the feel of a new space that is vying for a strong identity in Austin&#8217;s home furnishings market. There were a number of things I liked, particularly in their lighting fixture selections. The owners were eager, vibrant and ready to serve. They&#8217;ve got a tough road ahead as that&#8217;s a tough industry to crack, but I wish them the best of luck.<\/p>\n<p>Southern charm meets reinvented shabby chic. That&#8217;s my take.<\/p>\n<p>Pluses&#8230;. Very agreeable pricing.<\/p>\n<p>Minuses&#8230; \u00a0I&#8217;ve seen a number of those things before (clear chairs).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Custom Home did a great job renovating an abandoned motorcycle repair shop on Burnet Road in Midtown into a design studio. The decor was varied and certainly had the feel of a new space that is vying for a strong identity in Austin&#8217;s home furnishings market. There were a number of things I liked, particularly in their lighting fixture selections. The owners were eager, vibrant and ready to serve. They&#8217;ve got a tough road ahead as that&#8217;s a tough industry to crack, but I wish them the best of luck. Southern charm meets reinvented shabby chic. That&#8217;s my take. Pluses&#8230;. Very agreeable pricing. Minuses&#8230; \u00a0I&#8217;ve seen a number of those things before (clear chairs). &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,138],"tags":[139,140,141],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-furnishings","tag-a-custom-home","tag-austin-furniture-stores","tag-interior-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3086,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/3086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}