by "Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
Published 03/08/2017 at 20:38
by "Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
Published 03/08/2017 at 20:38
Tags: Houses
STARS: 1
It’s been a while since I’ve been to a house with this many individual rooms. Including nine bathrooms. NINE. But it does have a 5-car garage, so it gets my seal of approval*.
(*Meaningless seal of approval may not meet code in your municipality)
"The Lurktastic Opponaught" (oppolurker)
03/08/2017 at 20:44, STARS: 0
I feel bad for someone who has to be that close to a bathroom at all times.
"TFSIVTEC drivesavolvo" (drivesaswedishcarmadeinbelgium-)
03/08/2017 at 20:46, STARS: 1
You can shit all over the place
"Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)" (bman76-4)
03/08/2017 at 20:47, STARS: 2
“Greatest rambling contractor mistake house 2017"
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
03/08/2017 at 20:48, STARS: 0
We all have needs.
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
03/08/2017 at 20:49, STARS: 0
I’m not following
"OPPOsaurus WRX" (opposaurus)
03/08/2017 at 20:55, STARS: 1
when you want a big house but dont want to pay for a capable architect. I’d put money down that the wife went on pinterest and pulled up her top 10 favorite houses and circled her favorite part of each one and said put this all into one house. While the house is impressively large, the designer did not give one damn about proportions.It looks like someone sat on those gambrels
sorry its been a rough day
"Land_Yacht_225" (nadenator)
03/08/2017 at 20:55, STARS: 0
So...many...gambrel...roof...arches....
Why! Why did you need that many angles! God almighty, is it not enough just to haphazardly throw together mismatched pitch on gables and eaves, but they needed a certain Dutch flair now too, eh?
"OPPOsaurus WRX" (opposaurus)
03/08/2017 at 20:55, STARS: 0
when you gutta go, you gutta go
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
03/08/2017 at 20:59, STARS: 0
Today that’s been me.
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
03/08/2017 at 20:59, STARS: 0
It could be worse
"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
03/08/2017 at 21:00, STARS: 2
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
03/08/2017 at 21:01, STARS: 0
Symmetry isn’t really “in” these days. Remember, no one would be designing houses here this way if people weren’t buying them. Transplants LOVE this stuff.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
03/08/2017 at 21:03, STARS: 3
Holy hell that is ugly! Just because you put a bunch of gambrel roofs on a place, does not make it “charming” or, “County chic” or whatever the hell HGTV would call this.
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
03/08/2017 at 21:04, STARS: 0
The only cheeks I want to see are — never mind.
"OPPOsaurus WRX" (opposaurus)
03/08/2017 at 21:06, STARS: 0
no, doesn’t have to be symmetrical, its the roof pitches that are killing me. it looks like they had a hieght limit so they squeezed down the house
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
03/08/2017 at 21:06, STARS: 0
If you only knew .... but I shall spare you my friend.
"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion)
03/08/2017 at 21:06, STARS: 0
It looks like someone stretched out a semi-normal house side to side.
"fintail" (fintail)
03/08/2017 at 21:07, STARS: 0
Lazy revival architecture. The shingle thing is a big deal in western WA.
"fintail" (fintail)
03/08/2017 at 21:08, STARS: 0
I swear I have seen this design in Medina or Hunts Point, but I don’t think this one is there. The eyebrow dormers disturb me, somehow.
Being sold to an offshore speculator of fortunes unknown, or a lucky techie?
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
03/08/2017 at 21:08, STARS: 0
I think the one “square” break for some reason is the one I can’t stop looking at, right of the entry. Everything else is vaguly roundish... Why?
"fintail" (fintail)
03/08/2017 at 21:09, STARS: 0
That one amuses me. Late 70s style with dull modern exterior coating and windows. Would look better with angled parallel cedar siding.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
03/08/2017 at 21:09, STARS: 0
That makes sense, you guys have all the cedar trees.
"Land_Yacht_225" (nadenator)
03/08/2017 at 21:10, STARS: 3
Ooh, I like that! Very mid-century. 10/10 would live in.
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
03/08/2017 at 21:11, STARS: 0
You’re very warm, but neither of those two places. Didn’t meet the the buyers, but I would assume 1) they’re not from WA, and 2) they don’t really need nine bathrooms.
"fintail" (fintail)
03/08/2017 at 21:12, STARS: 0
Clyde Hill?
This is ground zero for money laundering from a few places, this could be a show house for a fleeing kleptocrat, or just a place to park money before it is sold again in 10 months. Bathrooms could be a bizarre status symbol.
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
03/08/2017 at 21:15, STARS: 0
Clyde Hill is scary. Yarrow Point had a vibe of stealth wealth and older money, but every house in Clyde Hill is of extreme excess and the I have found the people there nine times out of ten to be largely awful and condescending.
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
03/08/2017 at 21:16, STARS: 0
Admittedly one of the nicer homes inside I’ve ever been in. Very well thought out.
"OPPOsaurus WRX" (opposaurus)
03/08/2017 at 21:17, STARS: 1
all the window heights look different on the second floor. the ones to the left look higher than the ones near the entry, the ones in that rectangle thing are higher, and the ones on that end garage are low. Also hows the rain/snow drain from between the house and that garage? it looks like a valley right there.
"LongbowMkII" (longbowmkii)
03/08/2017 at 21:18, STARS: 0
Looks like a prime candidate for mcmansionhell.com
"wafflesnfalafel" (wafflesnfalafel1)
03/08/2017 at 21:18, STARS: 2
yeah - it looks like they took 5 bungalows and smushed them all together... Not the house I would build if I had a billion dollars...
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
03/08/2017 at 21:19, STARS: 0
I’ve no idea. But I’ll be back soon so maybe I’ll check out that gutter corner if it’s raining.
"fintail" (fintail)
03/08/2017 at 21:21, STARS: 0
The funny thing about Clyde Hill is much of it was little postwar bungalows for a long time, amusing to see what they sold for when new and how little they were worth even 30 years ago. Some people won a lottery (and it won’t be repeated). Now those 1200 sq ft houses on 6000 sq ft lots are coming to an end, all replaced by 5000 sq ft cardboard ‘n plywood mcmansions on the same lots, and Stepfordian higher end SUVs everywhere.
Ah yeah Yarrow Point, slipped my mind. It is pretty mellow, wider streets and often people out walking. Definitelt older money, and overall less pretentious houses. I cruise through that area when I take my old car out, as traffic is light and the car fits in.
"benjrblant" (benjblant)
03/08/2017 at 21:23, STARS: 1
Do you read mcmansionhell? Cause this is prime material.
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
03/08/2017 at 21:25, STARS: 1
I have. I enjoy it, but I admit I don’t follow it too well because I have no architectural background whatsoever. And outside of a bookshelf or two, I don’t build anything. For me this is all amusement.
"Frenchlicker" (frenchlicker)
03/08/2017 at 21:28, STARS: 1
They want to take their morning poop in a different place each day and then Saturday and Sunday also has an afternoon poop at home. It works out perfectly.
"jvirgs drives a Subaru" (jvirgs)
03/08/2017 at 21:43, STARS: 1
Seal of approval.
I’ll show myself out.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
03/08/2017 at 21:44, STARS: 0
Those poor, defenseless bungalows!!!
"dogisbadob" (dogisbadob)
03/08/2017 at 21:53, STARS: 1
it looks like a strip mall or one of those landscaping nursery places where you get stone from
"OPPOsaurus WRX" (opposaurus)
03/08/2017 at 21:55, STARS: 0
yea definitely could be a potential shitshow. I dont want you to be offended by my criticism, its a pretty sick house, after, working for a fancy pants architect, the details stick out to me pretty hard when they are off.
"FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com" (alphaass)
03/08/2017 at 22:09, STARS: 0
That’s going to be a lot of chandeliers. Good thing you are a crustacean and therefore have many arms.
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
03/08/2017 at 22:11, STARS: 1
I’m not offended, I don’t design, or work with, anything you see in the photos (minus my Tacoma I suppose).
Unrelated story: years ago I met a project manager on site (who was also the architect), and he went on a rant on how the locals were calling the townhomes he was building “ugly” to his face. “That’s fucking rude. How would they feel if I, a total stranger, stormed in their office, slammed my fists on their desk, and told them THEIR work sucked? That whatever THEY did for a living was awful and ugly?!?!?” I’ve never fogotten that.
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
03/08/2017 at 22:13, STARS: 2
There will be maybe one chandelier. The interior is not at all gaudy and everything is very functional, vs flashy. Even the master bathroom has a simple layout. Most new homes of this size will make the master suite take up half of the goddamn house.
"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
03/08/2017 at 22:14, STARS: 1
I lived in a house with 6 bathrooms, 6 bed rooms all alone with a German shepherd and a los apso dog. Built in 1907 so there were ghosts too. 10/10 would do again. It didn’t have a garage, apparently the house across the street was a carriage house.
"OPPOsaurus WRX" (opposaurus)
03/08/2017 at 22:14, STARS: 0
I think I’ve guessed it. Your the building inspector.
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
03/08/2017 at 22:14, STARS: 0
No lol you’ve guessed that at least three times!!!
"DipodomysDeserti" (dipodomysdeserti)
03/08/2017 at 22:46, STARS: 0
How remote are these homes? What I’m getting at, is how long would it take people to figure out you murdered the owners and are living in them?
"Tazio, Count Fouroff" (tazio0625)
03/08/2017 at 22:51, STARS: 1
Thanks for posting
2 each her/his own...idk about you, but if I pay what that owner must be paying, it’s a darn safe bet the house ain’t looking like that * smh* Can people be cited for violation of architectural good taste?
5 garages good
Needs more garages and less bathrooms tho
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
03/08/2017 at 22:58, STARS: 1
Two days. These might be 1/4 to 3/4 acre lots.
"DipodomysDeserti" (dipodomysdeserti)
03/09/2017 at 00:05, STARS: 1
Shit, that’s not enough time. Regular plebeian houses here in the SW have bigger lots than that.
"Forrest" (forrest)
03/09/2017 at 02:46, STARS: 0
Came here to say that.
"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
03/09/2017 at 05:13, STARS: 0
is the home owner incontinent?
"avalonian" (avalonain19)
03/09/2017 at 08:38, STARS: 0
Idk, if I could live there. You’d spend allll day cleaning, drive my momma crazy!
"haveacarortwoorthree2" (haveacarortwoorthree2)
03/09/2017 at 09:05, STARS: 1
I was trying to figure out what this looked like, but all I kept coming back to was a home for senior citizens. But you hit the nail on the head.
"V12 Jake- Hittin' Switches" (jbv12)
03/09/2017 at 09:51, STARS: 0
If the could have any house currently on the market around here, it’d definitely be this one. North lake is a bit of a swamp, but it’s a very quiet area. http://www.lakeplace.com/listing/northstar/4694281
"Land_Yacht_225" (nadenator)
03/09/2017 at 10:06, STARS: 0
Well, if we’re talking real estate in Minneapolis, there is only one house I would want if I moved back to Burnsville.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1413-Forest-Park-Ln-Burnsville-MN-55337/1611903_zpid/
I would honestly give them whatever they wanted to make them sell because indoor swimming pool.
Locally to me here in Durham? Well, the bigger they are, the harder they fall: https://www.trulia.com/property/3257063599-2421-Vintage-Hill-Dr-Durham-NC-27712 FYI: This house was listed for $2.4 million not 18-months ago.
"Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)" (bman76-4)
03/09/2017 at 10:54, STARS: 1
It just looks very contractor/builder designed. Also,I’m triggered by gambrel roofs.
The phrasing is a reference to the healthcare bill.
"V12 Jake- Hittin' Switches" (jbv12)
03/09/2017 at 11:12, STARS: 0
Damn, that is in sorry shape. If I could have any house in the state it’d be my uncles place on Lake of the Isles. 14,000 sq feet, and perfectly done. It’s not garish and somehow manages to feel cozy.
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
03/09/2017 at 12:22, STARS: 0
Ohhhhh.
"Land_Yacht_225" (nadenator)
03/09/2017 at 14:43, STARS: 0
All I’ve ever wanted is a 6,500 square foot McMansion from a foreclosure auction... That’s my dream, a house to match my cars.
"V12 Jake- Hittin' Switches" (jbv12)
03/09/2017 at 15:39, STARS: 0
That’s hilarious. And accurate. I love houses where you can tell someone tried to make it timeless.