Hideous.

All I can think of is the fabulous time I would have roller skating around it.

Kleptocrat, diplomat, someone will buy it and what’s the difference anyway. Just the little flags on the cars.

Is it normal for a home meant an ambassador residence to just go on the market like this? Wouldn't there be a specific plan for who would own it before it is built?

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Anonymous wrote:What is the weird windowless room in picture 49? Home conference center?

The safe room?

The description says there is a secure safe room

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t even tell what this is:

Garage.

I think it’s the basement.

It's a drive-in basement garage for a collection of cars. Those things on the back wall are electric chargers for e-vehicles.

Plus, the yellow and black striping on the pillar is so you can easily see the pillar when backing out. This garage can easily hold 15-20 cars.

An ambassador's residence is making a lot more sense. They can pull the security detail into the garage without exposing the Ambassador.

This is actually less gaudy than I expected. The only quip is these marble-like floors in what looks like the great room. There are climates that support tile/hard surface flooring choices but DC is not one of them.

Anonymous wrote:This is a future embassy residence. Period.

The two men running the LLC have ethnic names. This could be the case.

This is a future embassy residence. Period.

I think this house could be great for the kind of rich person who always travels in a group of 20 or so people and can staff the house with at least 5 full time employees.

Downton Abbey - Forest Hills


Actually I do wonder why a person like that would want a house in D.C.
Maybe this is what a pied a terre looks like for that person. Just to use when they're here to buy our feckless politicians.

just add laser gun

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The previous home was lovely, mainly on one floor as the house across the street. The other massive estate/house/mansion is now the ambassador of kuwait’s Residence.

This place was nonstop construction for more than a year. I walked by it all the time and there were at least 2 or 3 trucks outside all day. It certainly was a local job creator!

I love the house across the street. It reminds me of the mid-century modern house I grew up in.

I love the former mid-century house as well. I would have liked to have seen an architect like Robert Gurney update it and transform it. Instead, we got a McMansion.

Yes. The old house was one of my favorites. It’s been so depressing watching them tear that down and build this atrocity.

Anonymous wrote:The presence of the little wooden pail with a characteristic ladle, in the sauna, certainly supports either a Russian owner, or trying to appeal to a Russian buyer. Does any other culture routinely use those in the sauna?

Putin’s vacation house?

The dome kind of looks like the Death Star.

I think pp is right that the weird room is the garage. I think it has faux painted marble flooring and those thighs on the wall are Tesla chargers. This has to be for the middle eastern market.

Wow - the dome is a bad replica of the Pantheon. Crazy place.