Norman and Contempo leanings are but the start of the stylin’ mashup incorporated into a large waterfront property in the Village of Panther Creek in The Woodlands. On and off the market since the summer of 2010, when its initial asking price was $3.2 million, the 1990 custom estate popped back up last month as a re-relisting seeking $2.5 million. Earlier this month, the ask dropped to $1.95 million. That’s a price point a previous relisting sought for nearly a year, ending in May 2012 at $1.85 million.
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Like an embassy, the front entry provides a stately impression (above) before opening into an austere, stone-and-column interior . . .
A Greco-Roman spa-like stairwell, much of it enclosed by a surround-sound glass pod, comes with a burbling urn fountain:
The 2-story, open plan living and dining area has a more futuristic bent and displays the first hints that color blocking will pop the finishes and furnishings around the 10,302-sq.-ft. home:
Moderne makes an appearance in the kitchen:
A well-windowed breakfast room that bows into the yard near the pool (above) foreshadows the full-blown Atomic Age of the family room, pictured below:
Elsewhere downstairs (and far from any beach), a giant clam shell emerges in the sunken floor-meets-recessed-ceiling details of the game room:
Meanwhile, the first floor’s few frills master bedroom trends toward the monastic . . .
Not so the master bathroom, however, where pointillism goes mosaic:
Upstairs, a rotunda with demilune transoms gives the Belle Epoch a nod:
Which came first? The cube-obsessed (but not cubist) rug in one of the 5 (or 6) secondary bedrooms (above) or the bathroom tile (below)?
Here’s a similar motif, though in a more Deconstructivist rendition, also found upstairs:
There’s also a cheery, retro pink space for media, games, or perhaps (given the mirrors) dance rehearsals:
A metal roof brings a little Texas Hill Country to the blend:
The waterfront 35,588-sq.-ft. lot has its own pier on Lake Woodlands.
- 18 West Isle Pl. [HAR]
Just because you spend $100,000 on each bathroom doesn’t make it nice.
Money: it can’t buy class.
Bigger is not better. I’ll take my old 1600 sf Victorian in Brookesmith over that any day.
Ridiculous.
And hilarious.
I think this was built with the presumption that Texas would legalize gambling.
These “look at me, I’ve made it” houses are insane. “Look at me, I have a fireplace in the master bedroom! What, you don’t see it? It’s over there, across the acre of carpet sitting in the corner!”
My eyes. My freaking eyes.
I think I need to go back to the West U “tin can” house to shrink my pupils.
Un-cha-un-cha-un-cha. I SAID, I REALLY LIKE THIS CLUB!
Its just missing a few black halogen floor lamps. THEN it would be perfect!
I’m really disappointed by the vacuum cleaner lines in the carpet. If you are going to feature those lines so prominantly, at least put some thought in it and come up with decent designs – kinda like they do with the lawnmowers in the outfield of baseball stadiums. Maybe a Texan’s logo, or the flag of Texas, or the UT Longhorn?
Is “vacuuming in patterns” a marketable skill?
Do they have model trains running around their ceilings?
As Brandy Grandville would say:
“Money doesn’t give you class, it just gives you more money”.
I don’t even know where to begin…