Comments on: Neighborhood Guessing Game: The Well-Paneled Room

By: Joni Webb

Joni Webb — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:10:38 +0000

I ‘m late but I SWEAR I didn’t cheat - I have to say Old Braeswood - for sure, no doubt - 40s - the front is old english with the original windows and staircase - the back room was probably added in the 60s along iwth the pool. master bath is much newer. If it’s Old Braeswood, I SWEAR I didn’t cheat!!!! I’m so sure I’m right about this one. Finally. haha - I’m probably totally wrong.

By: missjanel

missjanel — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:30:29 +0000

I’m just playing along at home. Gosh that was tough. I would have never “truly” guessed the correct age or neighborhood.

By: marmer

marmer — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:47:36 +0000

Oh, sorry, I didn’t say where! Afton Oaks. And Pat did mention the tree. My bad.

By: marmer

marmer — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:42:17 +0000

This one is really tricky. I’m guessing a second-owner, very heavily modified MCM. I’m not even convinced that the second floor is original. Something about that stairway and the fireplace together just doesn’t seem right. There may have been a pop-up second story added. I’m not convinced about the house being pre-40’s vintage, though no one has mentioned the giant live-oak tree visible outside the dining room, and I’m not convinced about the pool not being original. Someone could have installed antique door hardware as part of trying to force this house into a “traditional” look. Master bedroom is also too big for a pre-40s house. I say second owner because a first owner probably wouldn’t remuddle the house this way, and would be rather old by now and unwilling to go through that much construction. Whoever owns it now is pretty frugal — the projection TV is quite obsolete now, and doesn’t fit in the room at all.

By: Buildergeek

Buildergeek — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:20:57 +0000

Okay, I’m coming back in on this one. Looking at the mishmash of remodels, the “what the heck is that kitchen doing with that bedroom” and the close (but not too close) neighbors, I’m going to have to say that this is in an area that gets a little hot, then cools down, then gets hot again, then cools down again. It’s never really the hot area but it’s a nice place to live with fairly solid property values.

I’m going for the communities in and around Braeswood Place on this one. Fits the timing and the upgrade quality. So I say it’s Ayrshire, Braes Heights, Braes Manor, Braes Oaks, Braes Terrace, Emerald Forest or Southern Oaks.

Or it could be in Conroe.

By: karen

karen — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:53:55 +0000

This is a real stumper. One time I looked at a home on Lexington, between Greenbriar and Kirby, and these pictures remind me of that remuddled place.

Here are rooms with high ceilings and coved moldings - 1920’s? A bathroom door with hardware from the 20s or 30s. An enclosed porch. A master bed/bath addition. An updated galley kitchen. A greatroom addition, or enclosed garage?

It seems like a house from the 40s to me. Don’t have a clue as to where. Southgate/Rice Village area? That’s the only neighborhood I’m familiar with full of homes from this era. Could also be Southmore/Riverside, but I think the updates indicate a more active real estate market than those neighborhoods have seen until recently.

By: Bobby Hadley

Bobby Hadley — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:49:18 +0000

From the looks of the dated lattice-style windows, the kitschy kumbaya wood and stone elements in the living room, and the quintessential tacky golden ceiling fan and circular bulb lighting, we can definitely place this house as a late 1960s or possibly early ’70s suburban construction. The pool, which as others have pointed out is a later addition, betrays that while the lot is large enough to house a pool in the backyard, it is not quite big enough to house a pool and a guest residence or adequate privacy landscaping. Ergo, River Oaks is out of the question. Possibly Briar Forest, Bunker Hill or one of the other villages.

By: K

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:13:12 +0000

This looks like a lot of the late-1960s era houses I grew up around: the horrible wood paneling, the once-popular sunken living areas, the stone fireplace, the open air staircase, the not-updated-since-the-80s kitchen, etc. So I’m definitely going with west Memorial area (between Beltway 8 and Eldridge), specifically Yorkshire or Frostwood.

By: Pat Ennis

Pat Ennis — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:43:21 +0000

As touched on by HoustonAreaGuy, the bathroom looks OLD. A separate deadbolt and beadboard says 40’s or 50’s to me. Plus it looks like it been painted over at least 10 times. The latticed wall in the sun room says 70’s. The The kitchen screams early 80’s. The pool could be 80’s too. The bedroom looks 90’s. It’s clearly a big, older house. It looks like a house that’s had only one owner, but it’s someone who chose to partially renovate everytime oil prices spiked up. A large oak tree in the yard and azeleas outside the window make me think River Oaks, but the too close neighbor says Avalon Sqaure.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:07:54 +0000

Definitely looks 60’s suburban with some updates to it. So the question is, where were the burbs in the 60’s or 70’s?
I say Briar Forest (Memorial/Dairy Ashford area)

By: John Martin

John Martin — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:06:33 +0000

Out in the boonies somewhere,and it had to be boonies that were built in the 1970s or early 80s: Northhampton (Spring)?

By: margo

margo — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:41:32 +0000

goodness gracious! Is the living room sunken? There is a whole lot going on here! The rock looks late 60’s. No clue where the random railing came from that leads to a book case?? Clearly at least 2 different sets of stairs as the railings are different. Im going way out on a limb here and heading north.. Oak Ridge North, that is!