Houston, Texas real estate development, home buying, landscape, and design

25 Comments

1. 1
   From kjb434:

   Just WOW!! LOL!!

   November 9, 2009 at 10:45 am
2. 2
   From Nord:

   If there’s a trap door on the bottom of that bad boy, it’ll be a snap to clean out the ashes. Assuming the fireplace ever gets used.

   November 9, 2009 at 11:00 am
3. 3
   From wilf:

   It’s almost as if the house is telling the world, “Eff you!”

   November 9, 2009 at 11:04 am
4. 4
   From RWB:

   That is brilliant, but I wouldn’t want to walk under it.

   November 9, 2009 at 11:17 am
5. 5
   From VH:

   This should win the “Phallic Feature of the Year” award.

   November 9, 2009 at 11:20 am
6. 6
   From Greg Kolanowski:

   Amazing that it could make it from someone’s brain, to design on paper, to completion and no one said “well that just looks silly!”

   November 9, 2009 at 11:29 am
7. 7
   From WCSJR:

   Not as amazing as one would think. I feel quite certain this is Cultured Stone or Thin Stone on structurally cantilevered framing. Not all that hard to do if you are a builder or engineer and know what you are doing. As a builder, I do agree it looks rather weird but to each their own.

   November 9, 2009 at 11:38 am
8. 8
   From kjb434:

   What I find weird is that the builder actually built a chimney. Most new homes with fireplaces just have a vent out the back instead of a full chimney these days.

   November 9, 2009 at 11:40 am
9. 9
   From Ross:

   That’s just so…wrong.

   November 9, 2009 at 11:41 am
10. 10
    From John:

    What is the townhouse development called? The Villas at Byrd Flippe?

    November 9, 2009 at 11:41 am
11. 11
    From Matt Mystery:

    You have to wonder if they intended to have a balcony over the driveway which the fireplace would have “stood on” and which the living room would have opened on to and then they simply ran out of money. That is the only explanation I have for what has to be the number one architectural disaster ever. It is, well, just tacky.

    November 9, 2009 at 11:52 am
12. 12
    From Porchman:

    “Ashland Oaks”, indeed, does have a unique architectural interest. The column underneath the chimney was added later in the building process. I’m not sure if this was a COH mandate.

    A shingled soffit on one of the adjacent townhouses fell off and crashed onto the unit’s driveway. It apeared that it been attached with just a few wood screws.

    November 9, 2009 at 12:34 pm
13. 13
    From cheryl_c2:

    I have to agree with wilf, it really looks like the house is giving everyone the finger.

    November 9, 2009 at 12:39 pm
14. 14
    From Carol:

    Can we get this to show up on the Daily Demolition list soon?

    November 9, 2009 at 12:41 pm
15. 15
    From Hellsing:

    Good grief….let’s hope it will indeed be 20-something years until our next major hurricane.

    November 9, 2009 at 12:43 pm
16. 16
    From T. Ferguson:

    That. is. ugly.

    November 9, 2009 at 1:52 pm
17. 17
    From brooke:

    haha, this needs to go on lovelylisting.com too!
    I’d be afraid to park my car under it.

    November 9, 2009 at 3:30 pm
18. 18
    From Jeromy Murphy:

    What you don’t see are the adjoining townhomes without the stone veneer fireplaces and without the structurally suspect center post at the garage door. My guess is that neither an engineer nor a builder-that -knows-what-they-are-doing designed this.

    November 9, 2009 at 3:52 pm
19. 19
    From at:

    Makes me want to take a comical picture under it with my arms over my head as if to hold it up.

    I think the family that buys it should all do that for their Holicay card… and with obnixious holiday sweaters on.

    November 9, 2009 at 5:17 pm
20. 20
    From Miz Brooke Smith:

    Up Yours Estates.

    November 9, 2009 at 6:41 pm
21. 21
    From Claire de Lune:

    Ah yes … the architechtural anomaly known as the Floating Fireplace. Can’t wait for some enterprising real estate agent to try to sell this place, and the creative way they will describe it.

    November 9, 2009 at 7:51 pm
22. 22
    From David:

    Can they cut the bottom 3 feet off, add some beefy brackets, ditch the faux stone and sell this place.
    I once road my bike past this when it was being built and almost fell over laughing while I remember crying inside that it got this far!

    Good taste is hard to come by when money was flowing from the banks so freely.

    November 9, 2009 at 9:25 pm
23. 23
    From Bob:

    FAIL

    November 9, 2009 at 10:10 pm
24. 24
    From matt:

    I guess people do by anything. Better there with the rest of em.

    November 11, 2009 at 10:55 am
25. 25
    From Jason DANCY:

    EZ access for Santa.

    November 17, 2009 at 1:41 am