Would you live in a house that's a perfect circle?
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Anonymous
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I really wish there was a floor plan posted with this. Trying to picture what the layout would be. Looks like maybe a center staircase, with the rooms on the perimeter. Could be charming, or like living in a traffic circle. Not sure which.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/14017-Gadsen-Ct-Upper-Marlboro-MD-20774/37363205_zpid/?mmlb=g,0 |
Anonymous
| not for me! |
Anonymous
| The main level didn't bother me so much (and I can imagine how much fun DS would have had when he was little running loops!) but the photos of the bedrooms made me very uncomfortable. I want bedroom furniture to fit flush against walls. |
Anonymous
This is some pretty bad staging. This is a house that would benefit from a professional to stage it with furniture that fits the space. |
Anonymous
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No, don't do this.
I used to work in residential real estate, and knew a guy who tried to* build a round house. It is stupid. Forget furniture -- laying out plumbing and HVAC, and trying to locate major appliances, is a huge headache for no good reason. Staircases, closets, you name it. You wind up making a million bad compromises just to make it work. And why? There are some beautiful houses that incorporate rounded elements -- a curving wall here, a round staircase, a circular foyer. There are ways to add that softness without making the entire house round. But for engineering and architectural reasons, you want plenty of square corners in your home. Trust me. *I say "tried to" because he ran out of money midway through, realized he was in over his head, and wound up putting it on the market with just the frame and exterior walls in place. It didn't even have windows. It kicked around for a couple years and then I believe got auctioned off. I forgot about so I don't know what happened to it. I toured it twice. It was a giant problem. |
Anonymous
| NO way! |
Anonymous
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I grew up in a rural town on the Eastern SHore and there was a circle house in a development outside of town, built in the 80s. People would drive out just to see it.
We knew the people who built it (not well) and I was in it a couple of times but barely remember. I think to get around the issue of wiring and appliances flush against walls maybe there were some walls built in? I don't remember, it's been so long ago. But I do remember it did't feel so exotic inside. |
Anonymous
| It's very disorienting and can drive people mad over time |
Anonymous
| I think the green level is at the top. |
Anonymous
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I'd take this geodesic dome house in a heartbeat!
https://www.curbed.com/article/montauk-dome-home-hamptons-listings.html |
Anonymous
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Floor plan is terrible. They would need a well of light in the center to create a central courtyard with plants, and have better room structure and luminosity.
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Anonymous
There is no staging. That is a shitty agent leaving the sellers' ugly crap in the house with no effort at all to make it look appealing. |
Anonymous
| Looks like a lighthouse that lost its top. |
Anonymous
| Nope I like squares. |
Anonymous
Most geodesic dome homes are not this nice. This one benefitted from being owned by a skilled tradesman who really crafted something special himself. You could never hire out this work. But most of them are poorly designed and built, with lots of roof leakage issues and poor airflow. |