Comments on: Good Deal or Not? Weekly Wed. House Porn “wine room and pre wired media” edition

By: Kasey

Kasey — Thu, 31 May 2012 12:54:33 +0000

I live close by and walk by this house on the way to work. It looks like a whole different place! It was a mess before. I wish I could afford it…it’s an amazing place! The street looks so much better…now if the other neighbors could take note and do some updating. Overall, great buy!

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 31 May 2012 12:36:33 +0000

Amazing — when I walked past this house about 8 months ago, It was a burned out shell all the way through to the back – looked like a serious house fire that they were just starting to fix up. The roof was open and uncovered, all the windows were blown out.

That’s probably why it sold for $1.1M last year and is now on the market for almost $3MM. Looks like a seriously motivated renovator.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 31 May 2012 01:58:17 +0000

Beautiful renovation. I wish I could afford it!

By: rowsdower

rowsdower — Wed, 30 May 2012 19:44:14 +0000

Actually, according to the dictionary, it is in fact a verb.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/architect

By: qst

qst — Wed, 30 May 2012 19:08:39 +0000

Agreed, they McMansionized the inside of what was probably a great house.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 May 2012 18:59:03 +0000

architecture being specific to a structure or building and design being general aesthetic ideas for anything imaginable (i.e., clothing, cars, interiors, etc)

By: annonny

annonny — Wed, 30 May 2012 18:51:50 +0000

But at least then you’d be in a decent public school system (not that McMansion owners send their kids to public schools, but that’s besides the point).

By: soozles

soozles — Wed, 30 May 2012 18:43:08 +0000

I think this house is severely lacking in inspiration. Yucko open floor plan on the first floor, blah on the kitchen, and how the hell do you get into that bathtub without slipping and breaking a bone? Mostly it screams “I’m a big, expensive house that has no soul.”

By: smilla

smilla — Wed, 30 May 2012 18:28:22 +0000

Ah, thanks! I didn’t realize the toilet and bidet were inside that enclosure. I assumed they were on the other side of it! Didn’t look at the photos very closely.

Good point about the windows!

By: Anon X

Anon X — Wed, 30 May 2012 18:23:16 +0000

I love the house, but I wish it had some of the original grandness in tact. It looks like the inside of any of a number of tastefully done houses.

I dont feel like the potential of this house was anywhere close to fully realized. I like the wine cellar and I like some of the finishes in the kitchen and bathrooms, but those can be put in any house.

This house deserves to have a grand inside to match the outside, and it just doesnt.

For 2.8 Mil you can and should get a much more unique and beautiful house.