Showing posts with label real estate I wish I owned. Show all posts
Showing posts with label real estate I wish I owned. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Stunningly beautiful skate park inside a deconsecrated church

Okuda San Miguel's gorgeous, colorful artwork adorns this skate park in Spain, called La Iglesia Skate.
More photos at Design Boom.

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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

How easily it all slips away

Before:

During:

After:

More photos and information from Cincinnati.com.

Thanks to Zach for this one.

Monday, December 30, 2013

Curbed's 35 most horrifying real estate photos of 2013

Here's a sample.

The vomit aparment:

The blood apartment:

The Pepto-Bismol apartment:

And the "I keep my chewed gum on the side of the bathtub" apartment:

Many more horrors here at Curbed (and see if you can spot the Tiger Butter favorite!).

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Finally, an underground lair of your very own!

This is 3970 Spencer Street in Las Vegas, Nevada, a 2BR house currently on sale for $1.7M.

Doesn't look that special, does it? Why so much money?

Maybe it's because of the nuclear bomb proof 2BR house/1BR guest house built underneath it in the 15,200 square foot basement.

More information and photos at Messy Nessy Chic.

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

$21.85M of crazy

Previously featured on a Happy Friday post, this over-tigered penthouse in the Trump International just sold for almost $22M.

It's got four bedrooms and 6.5 bathrooms. Why so many bathrooms? Who needs 2.5 more bathrooms than bedrooms?

More info at Curbed.

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Warning: frequent use of slo-mo

This very annoying video highlights a penthouse apartment in NYC that tempts you with a giant steel anus right up front, then draws you in with a trussed-up angel, a woman in a catsuit, and is that a pink penguin in a dog dish sitting on the stairs?

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Saturday, November 24, 2012

I want to know what the bathrooms look like.

The Giger Bar:

This trippy place is in the HR Giger Museum in Gruyeres, Switzerland.

It's the perfect place to wear these shoes. More photos of the bar at Beautiful/Decay.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Sarah's doll house

Sarah Whitlam, of Chelmsford, Essex, UK, built a miniature castle.
It has a bondage room and a tattoo parlor! Come see!
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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

life in a 1909 caboose

Marcia Soo bought a caboose in 1975 and has been living in it ever since.


(She has a dishwasher? I don't have a dishwasher!)

More photos and the story at Tiny House Blog.

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Monday, July 18, 2011

I don't even want to think how much this costa rica

Victor Cañas designed this beautiful Costa Rican vacation house for a couple and their son.


More stunning photos at Home Designing.

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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

abandoned men's club becomes one man's palace

The three-story Harmony Men's Club was built in 1909 in Alabama, boarded up in the 1960's, and purchased in 1999 by David Hurlbutt for $100,000. After he scraped off all the pigeon crap, he found this:








More photos of this unique space at Yatzer.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

the horsey set

Gay equestrian couples in New York City like their chintz.


And their dogs and plaid.


And they like to put stuff on top of stuff.


Even the cats are like, "GAHHH MY EYES!"


Many more Preppy Handbook-worthy photos here.

Thanks to Curbed

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

2M Pounds gets you this 'subterranean mansion'

Below this third acre of land lies a 4,300 square foot domicile.


Complete with living room and dining room...


And a chute down into the pool from one of the bedrooms.


via Country Life, originally posted on Lovely Listing

Saturday, March 6, 2010

life in a missile silo


This 20+ acre Atlas F missile base in the Adirondacks has been turned into a luxury property with its own airstrip, surface home and underground living area.

living room of surface building

stairs down to the silo part of the property

entertainment room and central stairwell of silo part


More photos here.
Originally posted at Lovely Listing.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Rush Limbaugh's Interior Designer was a Big Fat Idiot

Rush Limbaugh is selling his tacky-ass Fifth Avenue penthouse. Murals much?



More cringe-inducing photos at Gawker.