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Good Deal or Not? Weekly Wed. House Porn “Character Laden Spanish Villa” edition
This house is located at 2441 California Street, NW:
The listing says:
“OUTSTANDING RENOVATION OF THIS CHARACTER LADEN SPANISH VILLA IN THE HEART OF PRESTIGIOUS KALORAMA. TRUE VAULTED CEILINGS, DESIGNER FINISHES THRUOUT, OVERSIZED PICTURE WINDOWS, GOURMET KITCHEN, & STUNNING BATHS. SEPARATE CARRIAGE HOUS W/2-CAR GARAGE & BEAUTIFUL STUDIO APARTMENT – SPECIALLY PRICED FOR TODAY’S MARKET”
You can see a virtual tour here.
This 4 bed/4.5 bath is going for $3,195,000.
Category: Kalorama, Real Estate
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Can I buy that carriage house and share the outdoor space?
Beautiful kitchen. If I had $3 million to spend on a home I would certainly consider this.
Where are the pics of the pool?!
Eh, there’s a few to many remnants of the 80s for me to think $3.2M is a good deal…This place needs some work. And some personality.
We must recall a different 80s. Some of the furniture and fabrics are outdated but guess what, the owner is taking them with him.
My thoughts, too. Throw up a little paint and furnish to your tastes, this place would be very nice.
I think it is pretty cool and unique house for this area. I agree that I would be interested if a number of things that are unlikely to happen to me ever happened and I could even fathom purchasing a house that costs $3 million.
Why is there a pool house but no pool?
I like it. I could decorate it like the Walsh house. The only question is pre or post Hong Kong.
Pre, I don’t trust Jim and Cindy enough to think they’d come back with anything decent.
Pre-Hong Kong and pre-Steve throwing a party just as the house goes into escrow.
Plus, post-Hong Kong, there was that tacky pinball machine right in the foyer, which isn’t a good luck unless you’re living in a frat house.
this place just reeks of poverty
For 3.2 million couldn’t you buy a 1 million house in your desired swanky location then tear it down and build something really interesting for the extra 2 million?
Yes. But this is Embassy Row – housing stock is limited and you’re competing with the unlimited purse of a government buying the house for one of their top officials. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s who the seller is, considering the furnishing appear spartan and transitory. The house is laid out so that’s lot of different people can live in it – hence the separate “pool house”, the carriage house, etc.
A small, poor country will probably swoop this up and put some of their embassy management in it.
I don’t think poor countries have that kind of money. That’s why they put their embassies in places further afield, like the Central African Republic buying an $800,000 rowhouse in Adams Morgan.
http://www.popville.com/2011/08/central-african-republics-new-embassy-opens-in-adams-morgan/
LOL, I always wondered what that building was. The flag looks out of place.
Ok, maybe not a hyper impoverished country like the CAR, but the vast majority of governments – even in the 3rd world – could afford to buy this place. Look at the Swaziland and Eritrea embassies – really nice places in Dupont on NH Ave, but they’re poor as dirt.