Comments on: Neighborhood Guessing Game: Flower Glass

By: Joni Webb

Joni Webb — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:00:42 +0000

you know time has gotten away from me! I mean we are already 9 years into the 2000s, so by age, I meant to say 80s all the ways. I was going by the year 2000, not almost 2010, sorry!!!

By: Joni Webb

Joni Webb — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:56:10 +0000

burbs baby burbs. oy - that bathroom with those stained glass windows. someone is into home renovations - 20 years ago! when it’s in the burbs, it’s hard to tell because it could be anywhere, but you have to age it. that island in the kitchen with the tile says 15 to 20 years ago. low ceilings, no moldings, it’s a tract home with updates for the time - the tile instead of formica. that living room furniture - those leather couches should be banned out of existence!!!! I’m going to say - down 59, either Missouri City or First Colony!!!

By: movocelot

movocelot — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:05:23 +0000

I have a headache, too.
Yep: personality, but so disjointed…

These say 1980s to me:
windows with low sills, drywall returns, tiny little transoms, black appliances, tympanum Levolour shade in Master.

“Things that make me go ‘70s:”
heavy ceiling texture, shiny, built-on-sight cabinets & plywood/applied-molding ‘paneling’, small baseboard , chair rail & crown, white 4×4 ceramic bath surround, bold stained glass (I don’t see how folks can tell it’s plastic… looks like HO has a hobby)

I’m guessing it’s owner-designed in the 80s. What architect would ever ever draw up a tall, pointy, multi-sided bathroom with trapezoidal cabinets, and both angled and rounded windows with varying sill-heights?!
Heavy & shiny textured walls and ceilings may have no longer been generally popular but were HO’s favorite things! Perhaps HO was a drywall contractor.
I’ll posit: The 1960/Cypress area off 249 - pre-Compaq - when subdivision lots were available for self-built homes.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:30:31 +0000

Holy Hobby Lobby Batman, what is up with this Joker?

For some reason I want to say Copperfield area, or general Bear Creek HWY 6 vicinity.

It could be anywhere, anywhere of late 80’s to early 90’s vintage where island kitchens, pretentious bathrooms and an appalling lack of taste reign.

My second tier guess would be somewhere more south, like the Blackhawk area.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:20:31 +0000

The wallpaper! And glass! I am going to say that this is a 1.5 story in Oak Forest…

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:46:37 +0000

I know this one. My friends N & T lived off Briarforest, just inside Highway 6, back in 1981. The house was about 10 years old and had many of these “amenities.” So, that’s my guess.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:25:42 +0000

Holy Mary, Mother of Daffodil, where to start? The popcorn, the flower, the pine cabinets, the headache I have! How about Champions? I am so bad at this game, but love the snarky comments.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:16:10 +0000

Looks more 70’s than 80’s to me. Mission Bend.

By: Miz Brooke Smith

Miz Brooke Smith — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:32:16 +0000

OK, scrolling quickly over the previous guesses without looking…this an early-to-mid-’80’s suburban mugwump in a neighborhood now softened by maturing trees. Those Palladian windows; textured 8′ ceilings; delusions-of-grandeur kitchen cabinets with jazzy black tile accents; faux-country bathroom stylings including, yes, marbuluxe vanity tops (and one breathtakingly large custom daffodil); dramatic vaulted upstairs ceilings, and humdrum doors, windows and fixtures shriek Anywhere, Houston circa 1982. My guess is the newer parts of Missouri City/Sugar Land, off Highway 6 and the powerline easement. Kudos to the current occupants who had good fun with color in the rooms.

By: Howard Hughes

Howard Hughes — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:24:12 +0000

1980s construction with knotty pine ceiling, “antique brass” ceiling fans & door hardware, almond outlet covers, stained wood cabinets, and laminate kitchen counters. The house visible through the living room window gives a hint at the age of the neighborhood. Also, the room sizes are small by contemporary standards, leading me to believe this is an older suburban mcmansion. This house could be in a number of places, but I’m going with one of the 1980s subdivisions off of Dixie Farm Road.

By: CK

CK — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:26:53 +0000

This is definitely late 80’s - early 90’s construction IMHO. Doncha just love all of the knotty pine, cheesy wallpaper, cheesier faux stained glass, gawdy paint schemes, crappy cultured marble sink lavs, the list goes on and on. This could be in so many of a myriad of outlying subdivisions it’s not even funny… Katy, Spring, Woodlands, Pearland, Fort Bend, this list goes on and on too. Let’s go out on a limb here and say….. near Spears Road and Veterens Memorial. There’s crap like this out there too. Actually, this could be a decent looking house with some tasteful updating. I know….. let’s mount some dead animals on a few walls! Of course there’d be pink wallpaper behind the glaring antelope.

By: toadfroggy

toadfroggy — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:17:40 +0000

Oh goody; snark-worthy decor. Too bad I find myself short on snark at the moment. I do have to comment on the twin vanities in the floral bathroom, however. Seriously–WTF?

Maybe it’s those vanities, but something about this place says “Fort Bend County” to me. I’m gonna guess Quail Valley.