The little house on the hill.
Brad Tomecek, 32, and Christopher Herr, 35, are partners in an architectural firm with an unusual client/architect relationship.
The partners in Studio H:T in Boulder are featured on HGTV’s “Dream House” for 13 weeks, beginning next Monday (6:30 p.m., HGTV). The show covers, step- by-step, everything from design to housewarming.
The dream house in question belongs to Herr, built on land bought by his grandparents in the Boulder foothills in 1963, but it was Tomecek who interviewed his partner and Herr’s wife, Tina, when the design phase began in 2000. It was more formal at the beginning than at the end.
Herr and Tomecek met at graduate school at the University of Florida and reunited as an architectural firm in Boulder three years ago. The pair don’t expect to reap great rewards from being on the TV show but, said Tomecek, “our name will probably be floated a little more. It’s nice just getting recognition.”
He wouldn’t get specific about how much the “Box House” project (it looks better than it sounds) cost from start to finish, other than to say, “I think we were a little unrealistic about the budget originally.”
Storm damage
Problems caused by Hurricane Rita reached clear into FSN Rocky Mountain over the weekend.
First, the Rockies-Padres game on Friday was a technological nightmare. The picture kept flashing on and off, announcers Drew Goodman and George Frazier, when they could be heard, sounded as if they were underwater, graphics disappeared.
Then, Colorado State fans with Dish satellite hoping to catch their team against Nevada on Saturday, got a big surprise – bass fishing! Another glitch.
FSNRM spokeswoman Amy Turner said Monday that the network’s technical center in Houston, hit by the hurricane, was malfunctioning. The rest is all technical details.
Around the dial
The late Carl Sagan, who introduced the word “bill-yuns” to our language 25 years ago, is back with the popular PBS space series “Cosmos,” beginning with back-to-back episodes (7 tonight, Science Channel, Comcast digital cable channel 272). Things proven to be wrong have been edited out in the new, digitized version. … The rising racism in European soccer is one of the topics on “Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel” (7 p.m. Wednesday, HBO). … The popular KYGO 98.5-FM morning team of Kelly, Jonathan and Mudflap now available for iPod at kygo.com/home/feature_podcast.html. … Legendary NYC radio voice “Cousin Brucie” begins a talk show on Sirius Stars Channel 103 on Thursday. … Quotable: “Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.” – Gary Larson.
Dick Kreck’s column appears Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. He may be reached at 303-820-1456 or dkreck@denverpost.com.
