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I thought it might be fun to post some listings of "over the top" houses. Places that Liberace might feel comfortable. Please feel free to add your links.
In my area, the median income for a family is about 77K, making this house quite the dream home for most.
I am particularly impressed by the frescoed ceilings. WOW!
I'm not sure Liberace would feel comfortable in the homes I'm about to link to...maybe more like royalty would. I love castles so these homes are pretty neat looking to me...my favorites are the ones located in Texas, New York, and CT. Castles Around the Country: A Roundup of Royal Residences | realtor.com®
The one that is located on that site at 450 Brickyard Rd, Woodstock, CT is awesome. It has moat and everything else castle-like.
I thought it might be fun to post some listings of "over the top" houses. Places that Liberace might feel comfortable. Please feel free to add your links.
In my area, the median income for a family is about 77K, making this house quite the dream home for most.
I am particularly impressed by the frescoed ceilings. WOW!
Dream home? lol seems tacky to me. Doesn't have the "homey" feeling. More like a hotel with dated architecture and poor design choices. (ugly vintage blue kitchen, gold moldings?) WTH hahahahah
Money can't buy taste!
The land however, is pretty awesome. But the house is like a pimple on a pretty face.
This one makes me gag every time I pass it. What we think is a single car garage in a house for over 8 million and NO LANDSCAPING. The house that this one replaced was far, far nicer looking and the yard was beautiful. This gaudy monstrosity is just... bad. Pictures really can't convey how bad it looks, especially surrounded by properties with actual landscaping.
I'm still not sure how they managed to get the interior so gaudy and yet so beige at the same time. That takes talent.
From the ad: Garage Size: 4 Car
My guess is the garage has a single door but multiple spots.
Here is another in the slightly more swanky suburb of Bethesda, yet again illustrating that if you have a lot of money in the DC area, you pattern your house against Versailles (because that is fancy lookin')
Dream home? lol seems tacky to me. Doesn't have the "homey" feeling. More like a hotel with dated architecture and poor design choices. (ugly vintage blue kitchen, gold moldings?) WTH hahahahah
Money can't buy taste!
The land however, is pretty awesome. But the house is like a pimple on a pretty face.
That is sort of the point of this thread-- dream home is tongue in cheek. There have been some great examples on here.
This is for sale in my neighborhood for $3.75 Million, has been on the market 3yrs +. Not as gaudy as the others I've seen on here but this is a neighborhood of $400k homes.
Half of the pictures show decor I'd be OK with. Then something creeps up like the blue laundry room.
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And that blue room and the backsplash at the stove were tiled very poorly. I wonder how bad the rest of the workmanship is.
Our bad on the garage - it's got two (front to back) from that single garage door facing the front and two on the side right next to the front facing garage door. We'd always been too horrified by how bad the whole thing looked to even notice the side doors.
There had been a planned carriage house (in the style of the house) that would have blocked the view of the ugly garage door. It wouldn't be so bad if it didn't look out of proportion to the point of silliness.
I was particularly fond of the blue tile close-up, so one could see how poorly the tile was laid. I'm assuming a lot of little details like the tile were horribly rushed. The house took over 2 years to be built - much of that was due to forced stoppages by the city because of various issues (including "accidentally" building the pool house 2 feet higher than it was supposed to be and soil erosion issues).
The whole thing, along with the nearly $80k in yearly taxes (the taxes showed by Zillow are WAY off) scream "we ran out of money."
This one makes me gag every time I pass it. What we think is a single car garage in a house for over 8 million and NO LANDSCAPING. The house that this one replaced was far, far nicer looking and the yard was beautiful. This gaudy monstrosity is just... bad. Pictures really can't convey how bad it looks, especially surrounded by properties with actual landscaping.
I'm still not sure how they managed to get the interior so gaudy and yet so beige at the same time. That takes talent.
8 million.
wonder what the original looked like
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