If you’re feeling a little tipsy as you tour this 1998 custom home on Lampasas St. in St. George Place (the Galleria-area neighborhood formerly know as Lamar Terrace) you might catch the kind of views of it that are featured in its listing, lending a bit of a Fun House vibe to the stately corner property.
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The asking price is $1.095 million; the property was listed earlier this month. The views start begin their artful skew in the piano-scaled 2-story foyer, the effect amplified by the hallway’s diagonal cut across the oak flooring’s grain:
Arches and overhead accents in the open dining room slightly bring an interesting twist to the scene:
The home’s 3,803-sq.-ft. floor plan has the master suite downstairs; it’s entered through this study. The bay window faces south, toward the street:
A 3-sided fireplace provides a midrise divider between the adjacent rooms:
Ornate ironwork jazzes up the switchback staircase and upper hallway serving . . .
3 secondary bedrooms and their bathrooms:
There’s also a game room upstairs, at the front of the home.
An automated canopy can cover the back yard’s slate-tiled patio as needed:
There’s an extra parking area next to the double driveway:
It all lies behind the wrought-iron fencing and gate on cross-street Yorktown, 2 blocks south of The School at St. George Place.
The home last sold in 2008, for $665K.
- 5366 Lampasas St. [HAR]
What’s with that camera? Instant pointillism? Photos by Roy Lichtenstein?
Maybe just me but I got vertigo just scrolling through those pictures.
Used to be we tried to get 20/20 renderings to look real – now we want photos to look like they’re CG.
Weird and off-putting.
Something is very off putting about those photos. What’s going on? I don’t know enough about photography to know whats doing that. Some odd lens?
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I don’t mean the HDR, which is normally annoying, but this has something else as well.
1.) Get a wide lens
2.) Shoot with a 7 stop bracket
3.) Comp exposures and tone in 8 bit
4.) Crank up to 32 floating point because you read somewhere that was good
5.) Boost your shadows as far as the dial will take you
6.) Compress, no, demolish your highlights
7.) Huff on nails and polish on thy hairy chest…. You’re now a big time real estate photographer.
And, Toby….
8.) Remove the 4 cardboard wardrobe boxes from the master bedroom before shooting pics.
Photos like these are why amateur golfers can’t drive 200+ yards.
Someone discovered the Photoshop filter ‘Unsharp Mask’. It’s generally good for making blurry photos a little more acceptable, increasing contrast between neighboring pixels to create the illusion of sharp, defined edges. In these photos however it has been used on what were probably perfectly good photos in an attempt to make them ‘pop’. To make matters worse, they went crazy with the free transform tool, pulling the corners out all willy-nilly to achieve that fun-house, vertigo effect that home buyers love so much.
Ps: Toby? Is that you? xo, B-Nut.
the HDR is strong in this one.