Ch Ch MD - prettiest dream house I've seen in years
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Anonymous
| $4m for a stucco barn. Awful choice of materials on the exterior. They used the cheapest sh#t they could find. |
Anonymous
Hey, we found the guy who got out of the straight jacket! Nice white ball collection, buddy. Can you get me some sponge candy from Wegmans? It's so delicious, and they have it in bulk. |
Anonymous
I love this house. Feels very homely to me |
Anonymous
Me too! I don’t like the original house, but this one is much closer to “dream house” in my mind. |
Anonymous
+1. I may not agree with all the color choices but they do give the home some depth and personality. I usually love a monochromatic color scheme but that is when it is done with layers of tones and textures which the "dream' home does not have. A monochromatic palette should be very soothing and restful, not stark and severe, IMO. |
Anonymous
Yes, this was a teardown, new foundations and the whole deal. It's been in the works for 2-3 years. While the other Kenwood houses might be better, for $6M or $3.2M I would not want to be stuck in Kenwood. Obviously, others feel differently. |
Anonymous
I F*CKING LOVE SKIRTED ROUND TABLES IN THE DRAPERY FABRIC |
Anonymous
I also love the baskets in shelves above the range in the other house. They say, "not only do I not cook for myself or clean my own home, I have NEVER cooked or cleaned." |
Anonymous
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As many have noted, so much is cheap/builder grade. Subway tile that doesn’t bother to go to the top of the wall. Subway tile generally (I don’t believe for a second that this is “expensive” subway tile, as someone noted, given that they used it in every freaking room, for one). Cheap closet fittings. Flooring suspect. No slate roof.
Hence my bottom-line problem with this house: If you see cheap tile, cheap shelves, cheap floor, cheap roof, etc., you don’t want to know what’s behind the walls. In the utlitiy room. In the HVAC. In the plumbing. In the structural support. In the attic. In the insulation. This type of cheaping out happens in this price range all the time. A builder swoops in, does a tear down, paints everything white and gray and neutral and trendy, and the unsuspecting buyer ends up with massive structural problems. Or mold. Or shoddy windows. Or energy inefficiency. Or all of the above. The builders just move on. Also, I know the whole thing is white and gray, necessitating dark mullions in the windows, but are we done with dark mullions yet? In a few houses they work and add depth. In others, they just look dark and dated. Am I the only one who generally hates this “trend”? |
Anonymous
Same. Would never consider this house in a million years. |
Anonymous
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one thing I will say: American women in general have a very poor taste in clothes and in most other things. I bet most of you would lounge around in your fancy yoga pants on those hideous sofas in floral Calico fabrics, blue and other teal carpets and dusty rose drapery. Yuck.
The decorator that staged this house was brilliant, especially when he put that straight jacket in the basement to scare off all the stepford wives with no style. |
Anonymous
I don't know a single person in Dc who uses dusty rose, teal, or calico. Did someone in this thread suggest that we copy the color scheme of a hospital wing? If you like this cheap attempt at gustavian minimalism, go buy it. The bones are cheap. I didn't realize that acknowledging this revealed our terrible American taste. I'll go put on my yoga pants now. |
Anonymous
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No wall cabinets in the kitchen? Did I miss something?
This is beyond cheap. |
Anonymous
| Let's find out who the sucker will be to pay more than 1.5m in this house. |
Anonymous
Who builds a house in Kenwood with the intent of scaring off Stepford wives? Have you been to Kenwood? Do you have any clue what the prescribed style in Kenwood is? |