SO: Post your 8-18 million DC area dream home

[Anonymous]

Please, if this is the best DC has to offer, then keep your homes. I prefer something along these lines, an architectural beauty with a pedigree.

http://www.californiamoves.com/property/details/3096323/MLS-22175415/1188-Hillcrest-Pasadena-CA-91106.aspx?utm_campaign=OLDP-Zillow&utm_source=zillow&utm_medium=oldp&utm_content=listing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please, if this is the best DC has to offer, then keep your homes. I prefer something along these lines, an architectural beauty with a pedigree.

http://www.californiamoves.com/property/details/3096323/MLS-22175415/1188-Hillcrest-Pasadena-CA-91106.aspx?utm_campaign=OLDP-Zillow&utm_source=zillow&utm_medium=oldp&utm_content=listing

looks bad on the outside

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please, if this is the best DC has to offer, then keep your homes. I prefer something along these lines, an architectural beauty with a pedigree.

http://www.californiamoves.com/property/details/3096323/MLS-22175415/1188-Hillcrest-Pasadena-CA-91106.aspx?utm_campaign=OLDP-Zillow&utm_source=zillow&utm_medium=oldp&utm_content=listing

That's horrible! If I spent $8m on something to live in, it would never be something that old! I would demand modern amenities, floor plan, ceiling height, at least three levels, etc. Some may prefer a work of art, but for me, a home as to be first and foremost practical and comfortable. Form has to follow the function in a home for me. I understand that others may get a lot of enjoyment out of the artistic aspects of their home to the point that it dominates over other considerations. Not me. A home has to fit the way I want to live first. After that basic requirement is satisfied, it can then be styled and embellished.

[Anonymous]

http://www.redfin.com/VA/Mclean/7972-Georgetown-Pike-22102/home/9264072

http://www.redfin.com/VA/Mc-Lean/1129-Balls-Hill-Rd-22101/home/9390123

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please, if this is the best DC has to offer, then keep your homes. I prefer something along these lines, an architectural beauty with a pedigree.

http://www.californiamoves.com/property/details/3096323/MLS-22175415/1188-Hillcrest-Pasadena-CA-91106.aspx?utm_campaign=OLDP-Zillow&utm_source=zillow&utm_medium=oldp&utm_content=listing

That's horrible! If I spent $8m on something to live in, it would never be something that old! I would demand modern amenities, floor plan, ceiling height, at least three levels, etc. Some may prefer a work of art, but for me, a home as to be first and foremost practical and comfortable. Form has to follow the function in a home for me. I understand that others may get a lot of enjoyment out of the artistic aspects of their home to the point that it dominates over other considerations. Not me. A home has to fit the way I want to live first. After that basic requirement is satisfied, it can then be styled and embellished.

Perhaps more modern is to your taste. Here is a total gut and addition to an old stone cottage, with all the modern amenities -- and a relative bargain priced below the DC options listed above.

http://www.8oakknollterrace.com/

[Anonymous]

It's so stupid to see people discuss and argue about the homes they would never in their lifetime will be able to afford.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's so stupid to see people discuss and argue about the homes they would never in their lifetime will be able to afford.

Speak for yourself about the discussing houses part, not about the affording them. I personally like to see the postings people have offered with their dream homes, whether or not they can ever afford them. It's so aspirational!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's so stupid to see people discuss and argue about the homes they would never in their lifetime will be able to afford.

Speak for yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:in this kind of price range, i would require a property to have real history and character.

Yep. There used to be something listed in way North Arlington on the Potomac that I'm sure needed a ton of work (so it might cost a mere few million to buy, but renovations would have allowed me to breeze right into the $8 mil category), but I think it's been sold.

And much as the concept appealed to me, actually living in a nonwalkable area didn't float my boat.

I'm not seeing anything in Old Town, NW, Bethesda, or Chevy Chase that floats my boat, either.

Could I spend the money on something less expensive here and a pied-a-terre in Manhattan?

This. I would never spend $8+million on a house in this area--I just don't want what that buys you here. However, I could happily spend a cool $2-3 million on a house here and another $3-5 million for something on the Massachusetts or Rhode Island coast.

[Anonymous]

A real home
http://www.redfin.com/VA/Mc-Lean/624-Chain-Bridge-Rd-22101/home/9417110