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Do McCastles count? https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8175636,-77.1906328,3a,75y,323.93h,96.11t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sW6mmobGW6iv8O2jdUxbD0g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656  My friend used to live down the street from this lovely display of feudal elegance.
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+ For a bridge and drive through tunnel + For matching windows - For pointless height on the turrets - Lack of moat
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Tacopocalypse posted:My friend used to live down the street from this lovely display of feudal elegance.
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Sep 1, 2016 22:36
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Manslaughter posted:I'm the geometrically aligned boulders in the yard Those are probably only there to deter teenagers from doing 8s in the front yard or trucks from cutting across it, etc. Corner houses in my folks' neighborhood almost all have some kind of rock assemblage to do just that, and if they don't, there are wheel marks all over.
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Sep 1, 2016 22:53
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Good morning!
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Sep 1, 2016 23:42
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The Good Old Days
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Sep 1, 2016 23:43
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The Virgin Mary appeared to me in this... pipe cover? I think it's an old vent pipe for a latrine.
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Sep 1, 2016 23:44
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Modern rental units.
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Sep 1, 2016 23:58
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Unfortunately this style is more common. 
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Sep 1, 2016 23:59
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Manslaughter posted:I'm the geometrically aligned boulders in the yard I'm the huge, featureless front yard, empty in defiance of the craziness across the street. If they hadn't set the house so far back they would have a much better backyard and the front door would only need a short sidewalk to the street. Are front doors that obviously will never serve as the real main entrance a fad that we've passed?
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Sep 2, 2016 02:41
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peanut posted:Modern rental units. Seriously, what is the upper left balcony on the right townhouse for?
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Sep 2, 2016 03:05
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That's for the external unit of an air conditioner (BYO ac)
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Sep 2, 2016 03:31
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peanut posted:That's for the external unit of an air conditioner (BYO ac) Yeah both of them. The conduits going up (well, down) to them are a bit of a dead giveaway.
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Sep 2, 2016 14:28
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A local builder in my hometown had this monstrosity created for himself, which he subsequently lost around the housing crash. I think the current owners had it ripped out, but he originally had an above-ground pool with a deck built-up around it. Please note the width, length, and depth of the house.  https://www.google.com/maps/@39.599...!8i6656!6m1!1e1
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Sep 2, 2016 14:44
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That goddamn entryway
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Sep 2, 2016 14:47
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Once again though, I'm at least a little won over by the driveway tunnel. Why does my brain like that feature so much?
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Every time I look at that house I find something new about it, but so far my favorite thing is that they when they were building the driveway, they decided to spring not just for a driveway that circles the carport, but also ends in a circular turnaround on the other side, but just said 'gently caress it' about connecting the driveway to the street. I assume the ramp was poured before everything else was built, but seriously they couldn't even bother to line up the drive to it? It isn't obvious from the picture upthread, but the whole big section of the building to the right of the tunnel is actually a 3 car garage.
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Sep 2, 2016 15:50
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Something about that house makes me think of a church in a somewhat wealthy suburb.
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Sep 2, 2016 16:03
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I think he wanted nearly as much garage space as housing (a man after my own heart) and did a pretty good job of hiding it from the front- and only the front. It could work with some trees and neighbors hiding the view from the side but it looks ridiculous on that completely open corner lot. It might be better if that pool was more like an attached continuation, adding depth to the main structure. I bet a pool ten feet from a barely-mowed field is a nightmare of flying bugs. Also, SynthOrange posted:That goddamn entryway
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Sep 2, 2016 16:08
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A little tidbit, if you look at the side view there's a stone by the driveway with the builders last name and house number (the name is sprayed over with black paint). The new owners have since commissioned a plaque with the house number that is bolted onto and covers the entire front of the stone. There also used to be some sort of wire sculpture on the top of the mound in front of the house.
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Sep 2, 2016 16:24
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Spring Heeled Jack posted:There also used to be some sort of wire sculpture on the top of the mound in front of the house. Misread as "wire scripture," was hoping for neon or LED light strips formed into a Bible quote. Perhaps something about the love of money, or building houses on sand.
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Slugworth posted:Once again though, I'm at least a little won over by the driveway tunnel. Why does my brain like that feature so much? BBC crime drama directors love that poo poo. If there's an archway you can drive through on location, they'll shoot the protagonists' Ford Focus or Jaguar or whatever driving through it at least once.
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Sep 2, 2016 17:08
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Slugworth posted:Once again though, I'm at least a little won over by the driveway tunnel. Why does my brain like that feature so much? It's a classic architectural element from back in the days when you had a carriage-house in behind the house. Keeps the garage etc. off the facade while still giving you street access. I like it too.
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Another local builder's house, this was the one he made for himself in the subdivision bearing his name: http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Thurmont-MD/pmf,pf_pt/54426419_zpid/14134_rid/39.613399,-77.390389,39.611403,-77.395008_rect/17_zm/ I noticed it for sale last year when I was home shopping, I think it was listed at 550,000 at the time. Not too bad overall, but very gaudy. It is by far the largest house in the subdivision. I got a crash course in lovely construction when my grandparents were building their retirement home in a new neighborhood full of Ryan Homes. Thankfully they designed and built it themselves, but watching the other houses go up over time was great. One of them had, no poo poo, poured out the pad for the driveway wrong so they had to cut 4ft off the end once it had dried.
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Sep 2, 2016 19:09
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Now that the McMansion blog has drawn it to my attention, I am really irritated by people making these big stupid entry towers. I am even sympathic to the idea of a big stupid tower, but if you're going to do that then at least do something with it like turn it into a crazy library with one of those rolling ladders or, I don't know, basically anything besides leaving it as a giant echo chasm that wastes space in your house.
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Sep 2, 2016 19:22
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Why do mcmansions have more bathrooms than bedrooms? Does each bedroom have a private bath plus one or two shared for company?
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Sep 2, 2016 20:13
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Who wants to poo poo the same place as the plebs?
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Sep 2, 2016 20:14
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Alereon posted:Why do mcmansions have more bathrooms than bedrooms? Does each bedroom have a private bath plus one or two shared for company? Exactly.
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How do you even incorporate a tower into your house and NOT have a method of getting to the top of it for a really cool view? Like if all it is is a big cylinder with a ladder to a little platform you can sit on and look around, that's enough to justify the massive suck on your HVAC system it creates. How do you not do even that little bit?
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Spring Heeled Jack posted:Another local builder's house, this was the one he made for himself in the subdivision bearing his name: This has got to be the whitest house that I've ever seen, even accounting for trying to sell it.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:This has got to be the whitest house that I've ever seen, even accounting for trying to sell it. You can find the color palette they used for that house by doing a google image search for "beige".
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Alereon posted:Why do mcmansions have more bathrooms than bedrooms? Does each bedroom have a private bath plus one or two shared for company? This is a great feature in my opinion, having lived in an awful modern ultra-cheap faux-luxury condo which had 2br 2.5ba. Both en-suite and a half downstairs. For the thread: The toilet was placed such that you couldn't open all of the cabinets in the bathroom.
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n0tqu1tesane posted:You can find the color palette they used for that house by doing a google image search for "beige". My mom has been big on comparing house listings recently, she's thinking about moving, so I showed it to her. She made it to the fourth picture (the foyer) before going "oh god gross I'm done" and walking away.
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I could see the bike lock through the wall making sense in a lovely student rental, subletting individual non-lockable bedrooms to different people. But this ... there's a deadbolt and no knob, what the gently caress? OTOH, I guess they can't go for the more elegant solution of a hasp and padlock (which would provide a sort of handle to open/close the door) for fear of the housemates locking them in. Though I guess since the deadbolt obviously works and they're just worried that they don't have the only key, the key serves as the doorknob. But a keyed exterior doorknob is the same price as (or cheaper than) the bike lock and would probably fit in the deadbolt hole. 
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Spring Heeled Jack posted:A local builder in my hometown had this monstrosity created for himself, which he subsequently lost around the housing crash. You can compare the aerial view between Bing and Google maps to get a before & after. It is a bit disturbing to me that someone bought that house and said to themselves "You know what the problem with this house is? It doesn't have a big enough pool!". Ashcans posted:Every time I look at that house I find something new about it, but so far my favorite thing is that they when they were building the driveway, they decided to spring not just for a driveway that circles the carport, but also ends in a circular turnaround on the other side, but just said 'gently caress it' about connecting the driveway to the street. I assume the ramp was poured before everything else was built, but seriously they couldn't even bother to line up the drive to it? It's a shared driveway with two other parcels, lining straight up to it may not have been an available option.
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Delivery McGee posted:I could see the bike lock through the wall making sense in a lovely student rental, subletting individual non-lockable bedrooms to different people. But this ... there's a deadbolt and no knob, what the gently caress? OTOH, I guess they can't go for the more elegant solution of a hasp and padlock (which would provide a sort of handle to open/close the door) for fear of the housemates locking them in. Though I guess since the deadbolt obviously works and they're just worried that they don't have the only key, the key serves as the doorknob. Why would you have a knob on the outside of the door  (Unless of course your door is shittily fitted and balanced and you have to use actual force to open it.)
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Zhentar posted:You can compare the aerial view between Bing and Google maps to get a before & after. It is a bit disturbing to me that someone bought that house and said to themselves "You know what the problem with this house is? It doesn't have a big enough pool!". Zhentar posted:It's a shared driveway with two other parcels, lining straight up to it may not have been an available option. Huh. Is that what the big unmowed area is? Undeveloped plots?
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You'd think that after buying a gigantic eyesore monstrosity that it would at least come with its own driveway. Somehow that just makes this even funnier.
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Hi construction thread! I went in my back yard today for the first time in 2 weeks and noticed this, no idea how long it's been that way:  Bonus vintage 1946ish galvanized supply line for my house:  (In less crappy construction, maybe more McMansion news, the final count was 85 yards of concrete poured at my dads house for his driveway and patio.)
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