Comments on: Neighborhood Guessing Game: Hard Rock Bar

By: Aimee

Aimee — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:31:57 +0000

The best part of this contest is reading the comments..

I’m going to guess Pasadena.

By: Carol

Carol — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:51:31 +0000

I have to comment on the vase of flowers in the photo with the spiral staircase. It has to be the most out of place item in this house that is utterly filled with things that are out of place. Post the results, Gus!!

By: BJ

BJ — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:24:30 +0000

This Hobby-airport area crown jewel’s multi-dimensional nature means that it could be recycled in other sections of the Swamplot site one day soon:
1. It should instantly be placed in the “Swamplot Price Adjuster” section, because whatever they are asking, it is too much if it is over lot value!
2. Along those same lines, it will likely make it to the “Daily Demolition Report” one day soon.
3. It could certainly use some “style” tips from Joni Webb’s “Small Stylish Already Sold” post!

By: Danielle

Danielle — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:07:06 +0000

Judging from the interior and picture of the neighboring home’s roof in one of the pictures I am going with definitely the burbs. Which one? A bit older but not too old. Some of the amenities are rather interesting - I liked the porn comment - so I am going with a northern suburb. Champions / 1960 area is my guess.

By: Mel Wood

Mel Wood — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:00:27 +0000

The award for this game should have been the “personal lubricant” package that was last week’s prize.

Best NGG ever.

By: Porchman

Porchman — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:29:00 +0000

Hard to believe it’s one house!

By: markd

markd — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:05:09 +0000

Somewhere in the near Southeast side of town.

By: tara

tara — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:51:02 +0000

Finness…
HAHAH thats very funny…no way i found it on har and made her take me. she was not thrilled with me….

By: elnina

elnina — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:06:34 +0000

I think this is modern two story residential building from the 60’s. The house is large, and the owner, maybe in construction/remodeling business converted part of it to office space, maybe with a separate apartment and rented out.
Upstairs area looks definitely more contemporary, with updated windows and new floors, light and bright. But the remodeling is still in progress - the big room has new pergo floors but still old wood paneled walls in different color.
The sliding door from the living room upstairs leads to big terrace, and maybe to the partially enclosed whirlpool.
The other part of the house is more traditional, with lots of paneling and mirrors, brick wall accents, stone fireplace, old fashion wet bar and tile/terrazzo floors. The bathroom is a headache – he can’t decide which direction he wants to go (lol)
Definitely outside the loop but inside the Beltway, probably in semi-residential area.
It could be around Montgomery, Hempstead or Stuebner Airline – just a wild guess.

By: MariaO

MariaO — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:06:07 +0000

Definitely this monstrosity must be on a busy street, in an area that saw some building in the early 60s and then they kept on adding “features” throughout the decades. And it is not in an expensive area, or they would have redone the metal staircase in the entry. And several other things.
I’ll guess the northwest side, perhaps off Hempstead Highway?

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:53:23 +0000

The post asks “where are we?”

Architectural and interior design hell?

It is obviously older, 50’s or early 60’s I think. Looks to be somewhere that you could get a big house for not too much money, since the furniture and decorating indicate someone who is not that affluent, I am going to say one of the towns east like Baytown, Galena Park, something like that. Or like I said earlier, architectural and interior design hell.

By: KimmerTX

KimmerTX — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:00:22 +0000

Whoa! I can’t figure out if this is useful for a family or not.

We have a modern master bedroom w/ a sitting area (see the reflection in the mirror over the bed? it shows what is in another pic.).

The entry looks commercial.

The bar area looks like a basement, window unit A/C and all.

The office area has three workstations and looks like a converted garage, esp w/ the accoustic ceiling tiles.

The brick wall upstairs strikes me as odd; it has a window that seems to look into another room or is completely tinted w/ black out film.

I agree w/ movocelot that this was a commercial bldg. I think it’s been added to so that the owners can live on-site.

I’ll guess Magnolia Park area.