Comments on: Neighborhood Guessing Game: Vinyl Retreat

By: susan

susan — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:43:32 +0000

Obviously cool, young hipsters live here. And, they know fine rugs. Bellaire.

By: IS

IS — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:43:22 +0000

Love the doggie looking in the doggie door. Spring Valley

By: Jessica1

Jessica1 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:09:25 +0000

To answer Miz B’s question, I would LOVE to sit in those fabulous velour love seats. And I also LOVE the kitchen pine, combined with the old range (but they should have tile counters). And does anyone really decorate a room in a house this small for a grandbaby? I don’t think the owners are grandparents. Darn, I wish we could reveal the neighbors in this week’s guessing game!

By: wilf

wilf — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:22:39 +0000

I know I used this guess before, but I’ll go with the Linkwood Park area one more time. Too tired for snark today. Nice house. Maybe it’s an OK house but nicely appointed.

By: anonymouse

anonymouse — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:38:18 +0000

Nah, Marmer. You can see the edge of the front door in the 2nd pic of this contest. The 3rd and 4th pics are taken with the photographer’s back to the entry.

All that expansive backyard makes me think this house might be near the “pasture land” we’ve got in SW Houston. Otherwise known as the high-tension power line easement.

By: marmer

marmer — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:19:03 +0000

I just noticed… is the dining room table and chairs in the entry foyer? Professor Grandpa must want to eat the moment he gets home from his afternoon seminar.

By: finness

finness — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:37:41 +0000

Old Beatnik! This is why I keep my vinyl behind cabinet doors.

I like the place. It is open, sunny, probably has a nice yard. These are grandparents. Grandpa did all the cabinetry himself and may have built the speakers, too. Classical or jazz lovers probably and they have a lot of creative friends.

Idylwood.

By: Miz Brooke Smith

Miz Brooke Smith — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:35:37 +0000

Wow. What an intriguingly mixed-up place. The older furnishings shout 1950’s — would any readers really want to sit in those gold velour loveseats, even to enjoy the hi-fi? You’d sink down to the springs and never get out. The house, from the layout, casement windows, kitchen pine, sconce lamps, old-fashioned thermostat, and greeny bathroom, says ca. 1959, but the updated recessed lighting, glossy paint, glass doors, lavatory upgrades and nicer rug bespeaks thoughtful if somewhat random updating. The narrow-bricked house next door on one side says any of the late 50’s-early ’60’s neighborhoods in town, though that barn-red house on the other side somehow says north to me. Big lot, lots of room…

I would venture that the old beatniks Grandma and Grandpa bought this place when they were young in years as well as at heart, and other readers’ appraisals of visiting kids & grandbaby are spot on. The shampoo in the shower is Garnier Fructis, not Head & Shoulders or Suave. The house…the house…could be anywhere in the swath ranging clockwise from I-10 and Wirt up to between 290 and 45. I would say off the northern parts of Bingle, what the hey.

By: Susan Vann

Susan Vann — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:12:26 +0000

The colors are spendid. Whoever lives there has taste. Look at the “art deco” painting on the dinning room wall. Very intersting. Bet it wasn’t purchased. Probably a relative. Great possibilities, this house. Wish I had it.

By: movocelot

movocelot — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:02:42 +0000

Ha! so true! We can’t seem to look at the Home without trying to figure out the Homeowner!

By: sanchO

sanchO — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:57:32 +0000

this has changed to the “resident guessing game”..

the man is balding with blue eyes.. and she’s a free-spirited brunette!

By: Mike V

Mike V — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:47:54 +0000

Originally I thought Afton Oaks, but the dining area view with the work shed in the backyard and no obvious view of any other homes in the background makes me think it is down the road on the other side of the train tracks in Lynn Park.