Comments on: Neighborhood Guessing Game: Parquet

By: joni webb

joni webb — Sat, 31 May 2008 01:13:21 +0000

EEK!!! I missed this this week - and I haven’t peeked or cheated but I am SO sure I won this!!!! I know who built this - I can tell - this is a classic Kickerillo house from the 60s - west Memorial - past Gessner!! the parquet floor - the rounded brick fireplace - I am right, 0k - the best part is I get to check it right now!!! I know I won, even though the answer’s already been announced - do I still count as a winner? Will someone please commit me?

By: K

Thu, 29 May 2008 22:51:08 +0000

The house reinforces just how much I hate the color blue, especially when it comes to home decor.

I don’t think it’s Nassau Bay, but I don’t think it’s Energy Corridor either (even though it looks exactly like the interior of every house in my neighborhood when I was a kid). I’m going to venture a Meyerland guess once again.

By: karen

karen — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:54:53 +0000

Jeff, this is definitely NOT in the energy corridor! I’m sticking with Nassau Bay - I know it’s a total WAG, but all that blue tells me they were inspired by the sparkling blue waters of Clear Lake. I definitely detect a nautical theme in the decor.

I can’t explain why a house so obviously near NASA is not vacuumed with more attention to directionality and linear patterning. That is just sad.

By: margo

margo — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:38:07 +0000

I cant sleep .. I keep thinking of the ex-inlaws. They have my china cabinet! Damn you swamplot!

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:17:36 +0000

I see 70’s, with some 80’s updates, perhaps, and sale by estate of original or very long-time owner. My guess is Shepherd Park Plaza, or maybe even Lazybrook or Timbergrove, but it looks like there’s a second story so I’m going with the first one.

Although I know a house or two in Braeswood with that kind of family room, come to think of it…

By: Tex

Tex — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:50:24 +0000

Absolutely shiteteous! If only the would put up some wallpaper borders…And please, remember to get your carpet tracks running in the same direction please!

By: Miz Brooke Smith

Miz Brooke Smith — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:05:35 +0000

Marilyn Estates/Barclay Square South or other Outer Meyerland subdivision. Everyone else has noted the telling details.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:23:49 +0000

OMG, this is complete cheddar. All thats missing here is a disco ball, an overweight swinger with a thick mustache and gold chain, and some Bee Gees pumping out of the 8 track set upon the shag carpet. Attention Swamplot: John Holmes called and wants his house back.
I guess around Briar Forest somewhere…out west close to the energy corridor.

By: movocelot

movocelot — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:06:56 +0000

Love the vacuumed wall-to-wall; I feel like stretching out and doing some yoga.
I say: Champions area, maybe Huntwick.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:10:52 +0000

My guess is the Westbury area.

By: karen

karen — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:33:22 +0000

Oh, and this has got to be a one-owner home. So this may be a sale out of an estate, or a downsizing, which is why the furniture is gone.

By: karen

karen — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:31:12 +0000

I don’t see 60’s and 70’s, I see mid 50’s to early 60’s in that paneling and the parquet. I think the fluorescents are part of an update to the bathroom. And the original builder of this ranch kept the design pretty pedestrian, with no fancy midcentury features.

Hey, there are 3 large baths in this house! And the views of the yard outside with no neighbors looming overhead say laaaaand. I think this house is a large ranch in a roomy neighborhood. There isn’t a lot of upgrade pressure and perhaps this house is being sold as a potential tear-down, but it seems too clean somehow.

I don’t guess our game is limited to the Houston school district, so really, this house could be in any one of a dozen subdivisions. Where are the mid 50’s 5/3.5 ranches on large lots hanging out? Some in Meyerland, for sure, some in the near west neighborhoods, plenty in the outer burbs on all sides of the city.

Here’s a wild-assed guess - Nassau Bay!