Comments on: Home sweet home

By: Maili

Maili — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:04:53 +0000

Perfect.

By: Nepal Kathmandu

Nepal Kathmandu — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:38:59 +0000

Great post and beautiful pictures. Thanks for reminding people not to forget what we are known for. Cool

By: Traditional Nepali home at Asian Window

Traditional Nepali home at Asian Window — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:30:54 +0000

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By: R RAI

R RAI — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:44:53 +0000

Over a decade ago I bought a ropani of land from a man in the rural area of the valley, a couple of kilometers from ring road(affordable option for me and thought would be peaceful and less polluted). He lived with his family in a beautiful traditional house(not brightly painted nor with corrugated Zinc roof,otherwise I would not have liked it) in the adjacent area.His eldest son and neighbours had similar beautiful traditional houses.
When I returned to check my land a few years later his beutiful traditional Nepalese house had been replaced by an ugly concrete box. I was not happy but he and his family were happy and proud – he had used the money from me to replace his old house with this ugly box.I left the scene with some sort of mixed feeling!

By: Anish

Anish — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 02:13:01 +0000

I don’t know if the structures in the photos can really be called ” traditional nepali homes “. We might have to do some study about interiors as well as exteriors of the traditional architecture before we can come to such conclusion. I do agree that concrete jungle mushrooming through out Kathmandu has made a beautiful city really ugly.

By: kilochfuller

kilochfuller — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:35:55 +0000

Beautiful architecture but they will be the first to fall when an earthquake strikes. Sorry to be so negative but some of them are three storey high! And Nepal has the highest earthquake risk than anywhere

By: Prad

Prad — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:20:40 +0000

On the brighter side I have sees few Nepalese from Kathmandu who have built there new houses using old nepali architecture. I have lived in continental Europe, especially in France; there was a huge wave of people trying to get their hands on old houses made of stones to renovate them. Some with lots of money even built houses with stones using old French village architecture. And those houses were magnifique. We should do the same with our nepali architecture. It is beautiful.

By: Prerana

Prerana — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:21:31 +0000

One thing that I’ve always loved about the Nepali culture is that we are not afraid of clashing colours. Not only do we paint our houses electric blue or orange, our women dress up in mix-matched prints and colours all the time. And that’s completely fine, it actually lends our streets some vibrancy. Certainly the simplicity of these houses are aesthetically pleasing – it is definitely more friendlier to the eye than the half-finished-rod-jutting grey concrete buildings. However, at the same time we need to incorporate modern amenities with this simplicity. The point, after all, is to be progressive while not compromising with what we already have. It pains me to use this cliche but it seems fitting at this point: simple living high thinking (sadha jiwan uccha bichar).

By: jeeevan

jeeevan — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:19:07 +0000

The pictures were a bit of a let down from what the write up suggested, sure there are much more beautiful houses that these fancy zinc topped gaudy boxes…

By: akash sherung

akash sherung — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:23:56 +0000

nice pictures..and reminds me home far away. There are also a few beautiful tradition houses still left standing around Dilli Bazar & Maitidevi area..How about featuring them in one of your photoshop page..You are a great guy Kunda..intelligently humorous..