Real Estate porn! What is your present fave house/apartment/residence?

I have walked by this house and drooled.

What a dump of a cardboard box that house is!

a link with more pictures from the auction...

http://www.kansas.com/2012/12/13/2602628/castle-inn-riverside-to-be-auctioned.html

Ahaan! nice one. You know what i would love to stay in one of the luxury sky chalets somewhere at the wilderness of Apls!

Good thread idea, somehow I missed it. I've seen some neato houses (etc) in the SF Chronicle in among the baddies. Will post some later.

Then of course there are actual architectural sites - don't get me going. Irving Gill apartments, for example. Well, I'll be back.

Ok, here's one I like a lot, except for some recent surface type interior choices.

http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/walkthrough/articleGallery/Laurel-Heights-home-designed-by-Julia-Morgan-4612823/photo-4801187.php




Favorite? an impossibility for me, re houses. I like lots of genres and dislike many within those too.

I am contentwith my house and do not feel like another one. But when money did not play any role why not this?

Osso I liked the house you choose, but the wallpaper in some of the rooms would drive me completely nuts-

http://www.svenskfast.se/Templates/ObjectViewPremium.aspx?objectid=418IJ5BIOFDPF03J

That house is quite lovely Saab.

I actually liked those weird wallpapers in Osso's posted home. Also love the roof deck. But what I really love is this bedroom:

That's what I meant by surface interior choices. Wallpaper: wrong house for it.

Julia Morgan was a well loved, well, still is, early century architect in California.

http://www.google.com/#fp=f893b46a557620ec&gs_ssp=eJzj4tTP1TcwsrCoTAEADCMCjg&q=julia+morgan+architect

I think I've liked - well, at least in part - everything I ever saw by her, in photo or just standing in front of some place, but it's possible I would like some more than others. I'd have to look at Hearst Castle again to be sure I don't hate it.. I've been there, sort of forget the details except for the indoor swimming pool. I do know I love that land it's on, totally gorgeous area.

I like that Swedish house, Saab.

I'm figuring the wallpaper was chosen in a kind of defiance. I understand doing that. I put plaid wall paper in my first california bungalow, circa 1906 according to the real estate blurb. What was I thinking?!?! Not too long afterwards I took it off.

I like defiance-induced interior decorating.

I checked Hearst Castle. Ah, one of her's I've little sympathy for, though as a purposely overdone extravanza I've got to say it works. Much has been added to the complex since I was there, but I remember the overcookedness. Still, I liked parts of it. The indoor pool, the indoor pool...

Speaking as I was of overdone on purpose (hard to believe the same woman designed all this) -



Wiki on the development of Hearst Castle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearst_Castle

The land I was referring to that at the time I saw the place was extensive..



Still, I grumble, I prefer similar land at Point Reyes National Seashore, which has no damned faux castle on it.

Imagen to end up in this hotel room in Gothenburg.
I would think I had ended up in a whorehouse around 1890

It was interesting to read about her - thanks for the link

to edit, that pool photo was on http://blog.aaronmphotography.com

And your 'whorehouse decor - not quite' room reminded me of the photographer Bellocq.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._J._Bellocq

we had this book of his photographs, but when x and I split, that one was his since he bought it - we both liked photography.

For something entirely different, I'm looking around Italy. I did that once for real, but I could never have made that kind of move and still afford to go back and forth to the US. But that was a long time ago, and whatever websites I looked at I've now forgotten about. I was looking at waaaaaaay lower prices. But to get started on my fantasy life, here's one that is sort of my type of place -
in the Monteriggioni area of Tuscany, not very far from Siena.

Only a million Euros, needs some effort put into it. Oh, and heating. Well, hey.

More photos in the link info..



http://property-italy.immobiliare.it/42578605-country_houses-for-sale-Monteriggioni.html