Comments on: Neighborhood Guessing Game: Master Beds

By: BJ

BJ — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:49:42 +0000

Warning! Warning! This mid 80’s Missouri City starter home will self-destruct in just under 6 seconds, as indicated by the count-down clock in the kitchen!!! Quick, grab anything you can sell on ebay and wheel it out on one of the rattan roller chairs hiding amidst the tropical forest in the breakfast nook. Focus! What to grab with so little time?! The enormous lobster resting on the pool table, the samurai swords perched on the game room wall, or perhaps the yellow boom box from the tic-tac-toe bathroom? KaBooooooom….

By: Porchman

Porchman — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:17:47 +0000

Ah, a house with a checkered past. I’m feeling modern-colonial hybrid in the Clear Lake area.
When we moved into our current house, we had that bathroom’s wall color in our dining room. It made me angry to even look at it. I finally found peace in priming.

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:43:24 +0000

Katy maybe…

By: groovehouse

groovehouse — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:15:29 +0000

Wow. I haven’t seen a Nagel in YEARS!!

I’m going to guess the Galleria area.

Off The Wall in the Galleria used to sell these things by the dozens (back in the 80’s)

By: CiCi

CiCi — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:52:26 +0000

We had so much fun last week, I’ve just got to play. I’ll say it’s one of the older townhouses off of Newcastle, close to Bellaire Blvd.

By: patsy

patsy — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:38:42 +0000

This is a townhouse off Wilcrest, between Briar Forest and Memorial. Over by the Lakeside Country Club. One of my girlfriends owned one in the 80s, but the interior was decorated with Waterford Crystal and mexican tile (a different kind of sad decor).

By: miss_msry

miss_msry — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:37:17 +0000

Bacliff.

By: MStark

MStark — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0000

We looked at so many houses with exactly the same floor plan, everything starts to blur together. But for lack of time to think of anything more precise - I’ll give it the Kirkwood/Briar Forest hood.

By: LT

LT — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:53:24 +0000

Flake - I think the lady of the house still lives there - notice the curling iron (with the built-in wire stand) on the bathroom counter (I bet she has or had some awesome mall bangs at one point).

That first photo made me nostalgic for Duran Duran….c’mon, everybody sing now, “Her name is rio and she dances on the sand……”

By: Miz Brooke Smith

Miz Brooke Smith — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:42:28 +0000

Ah, good friend marmer, potty-phones are not native to the vernacular architecture of the humble and lovable Brooke Smith subdivision. But I have seen them in the Celestial Suite of the former Astro Village Hotel, , yea verily in every bathroom, yea verily in colors matching the tubs and commodes.

Perhaps the residents of this week’s 1980’s Po-Mo time capsule had aspirations to the 1960’s grandeur of Judge Hofheinz’s interior decorating.

By: marmer

marmer — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:29:21 +0000

I can’t believe that Miz Brooke is the only one who’s commented on the potti-phone. Boy, if I had one of those, I’d run answer it every time a solicitor or survey called just so I could flush during the call!

By: Mike Nomad

Mike Nomad — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:26:08 +0000

Julian Kaye just called, and he wants his Weasel Dust back. Seriously, I’ll pick the area boxed by Pinemont > Ella > W. 34th > T.C. Jester. I think the area is named Oak Forrest Park Park.