Best house in America

[Pray_4_War]

If it’s in Florida it’s not the best house in America

Exactly.........and it's ugly.

[Kwon]

Yes I do. It is very European, sharing one's house with their family. Luckily, there is plenty of room for everyone. Quite frankly, it is a bit of a love/hate situation. There are times when I want to throw them out and live here by myself with my dog, even though it is a ridiculous amount of space for one. Currently, there are four generations of family (5 adults and a baby) somehow managing to avoid killing one another. It's my house, so if it gets to be too much I can ask them to leave. They can well afford their own place. But for reason's I cannot totally comprehend, they prefer living here, (and no, they aren't getting a free ride). When everything is going well, I am grateful for the company.

Milton

Love the house on Primrose Drive, do you really have an AK-47?

The whole family there with you? AND 5 adults at that!

What if you wanted to invite someone for hanky panky, wouldn't they all hear?

[titusisback]

Looks like Bellagio in Vegas

[Primemuscle]

Milton

Love the house on Primrose Drive, do you really have an AK-47?

The whole family there with you? AND 5 adults at that!

What if you wanted to invite someone for hanky panky, wouldn't they all hear?

I go by Jay.

Not the whole family. My son and his family of live in Germany. A little while back when they visited, they rented an airbnb house nearby.
 
I've been celibate for many years.

[Henda]

Water features are nice, but that is it.  Too gilded and tacky for my tastes.  I would rather have a house like this in the southern provence of France with a vineyard.

(of course I already live 1/3rd of a mile from the beach, so it is just me wanting a different scene.)

That glass is hideous, ruins what would otherwise be a beautiful stone built property

[Kwon]

That glass is hideous, ruins what would otherwise be a beautiful stone built property

I must agree with Henda here.


I understand what the architect was thinking and trying here with his combination of two time-periods, but i don't appreciate combining two so different styles like that.


I prefer the old, rustic style and i agree w Henda that they should kept it stone.

[Humble Narcissist]

I prefer a house that's modest in size and fairly easy to maintain. Instead of a housekeeper, you'd need to have a window washer under contract.

The Glass House, or Johnson house, is a historic house museum on Ponus Ridge Road in New Canaan, Connecticut built in 1948–49.

Yeah, but if I lived in a glass house I couldn't throw stones.  I like throwing stones.  My favorite house is Dana Linn Bailey's in Montana.

[Kwon]

Yeah, but if I lived in a glass house I couldn't throw stones.  I like throwing stones.  My favorite house is Dana Linn Bailey's in Montana.

Does that glasshouse have an elevator down to the real part of the house?

I can accept if that glassed in area is just the foyer.

[sync pulse]

That house is part of a compound.  There are work shops and outbuildings on the premises.  All photos are composed not to show. 

That cylinder contains the toilet and shower.  Phillip Johnson slept in that glass box.

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[ThisisOverload]

its interesting that everyone wants to live  someplace other than where they really live.

That's human nature, we always want what we don't have.  Once you get something you wanted, you quickly adapt to it and want something else.

This happens to me a lot, but there are things i have today that i wouldn't change.

I live in a medium sized house at the end of a dead end road, it's very quiet and i have a lot of open space around my yard due to a drainage easement.  It's like living on 4-5 acres when it's a 1/2 acre lot.  Not sure i'll ever move from here anytime soon.

[Grape Ape]

Water features are nice, but that is it.  Too gilded and tacky for my tastes.  I would rather have a house like this in the southern provence of France with a vineyard.

(of course I already live 1/3rd of a mile from the beach, so it is just me wanting a different scene.)

That's a really cool find.  Super unique use of the glass.

[sync pulse]

its interesting that everyone wants to live  someplace other than where they really live.

That's human nature, we always want what we don't have.  Once you get something you wanted, you quickly adapt to it and want something else.

[Kwon]

That's human nature, we always want what we don't have.  Once you get something you wanted, you quickly adapt to it and want something else.