Comments on: Neighborhood Guessing Game: White Elephant

By: Joni Webb

Joni Webb — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:56:41 +0000

oops - make that the breakfast room table. sorry. my bad.

By: Joni Webb

Joni Webb — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:55:32 +0000

i just have to add this comment: I wonder what store on Harwin they went to and got all those faux plants and flower arrangments. Anyone care to count the number of them in this condo? I’m getting an allergy attack just looking at those dust collectors. The arrangements on the dining room table alone are enough to make you reach for a sudafed.

By: Bobby Hadley

Bobby Hadley — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:33:45 +0000

faux greco-roman portrait bust. tack. tack. tack. four leaf towers because of the pink glass? Some older high-rise in the galleria or river oaks area? definitely inside the loop?

By: CK

CK — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:10:50 +0000

I think I saw this place in Big Trouble in Little China.

By: Babz

Babz — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:16:49 +0000

I’m in stitches over the brilliant comments! You guys ROCK! I am new to SwampLot.
My beau and I are looking for a new forever home and SwampLot has helped inspire and inform our search. Thank you SwampLot!

Regarding this guessing game, could it be the Spires? It’s the view that makes me wonder if it is. Regarding the decor, I am speechless and am grateful that I don’t have elephant tusks or bits of anything belonging to an elephant living on items in my current home.

By: toadfroggy

toadfroggy — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:17:34 +0000

OK, I’m a newcomer to this game, but I thought this one would be easy to track down. However, after checking every zip code I could think of, I’ll just give it up since any of my guesses would just be repeats of someone else’s. I do want to say though, that browsing through the highrises in HAR is a whole other trip from single-family. There is some interesting viewing in there (ie, check out the Hitchcockian kitchen in MLS #4399420). Thanks for pointing the way to the adventure.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:39:07 +0000

Hermann towers facing EAST? No comment on the decor, I don’t have all day…but I hope they’re Republican.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:08:20 +0000

Once again, I have to ask, how on earth does one locate these decorating monstrosities? HAR must have an “eye-poppingly hideous” checkbox! Anyway, plenty of inner-loop highrises might have no others on the horizon if you’re facing the right way. I’m going to guess 14 or 15 Greenway. Although the buildings are 30 stories, someone might have put together 2 adjacent floors. I can’t think of another highrise with balconies that large.

Ethnic-theme-wise, who knows? I’ve spotted African prints, a Chinese water-bearer, Roman busts, 30s deco by way of the 80s… I have to go take a Dramamine now.

By: markd

markd — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:41:48 +0000

The decor had me thinking S-land or MO City, but no high-rise living out thataway.

Judging by the patio railings, view, and 80s-ness decor I have to guess the Timber Top high-rise. Out in Champion Forest, overlooking Raveneaux CC.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:38:53 +0000

I am gonna have to go with the St Clair Condos near the Post Oak YMCA.

By: GoogleMaster

GoogleMaster — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:34:55 +0000

I forgot to point out that I think you can see the bayou out the window, with trees on either side.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:04:42 +0000

The pink/purple glass is really throwing me off. I thought it was the Four Leaf Towers, but God help me if people really decorate that way in that building with that much money. Unfortunately, I’ve been in enough open houses to know that people really do decorate that way. My guess is a small mid-rise apartment complex on Augusta south of San Felipe, but north of Westheimer.