Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Open Housing January 6 of 7


617 N Camden Drive 
Not shown, you are living on your neighbors. 

No tour would be complete without that house. You know the one. The one so ugly you don’t even know how to react. This home is the epitome of best-laid plans gone wrong. 
You better take the picture at night, in the day that yard is very tiny and unfinished. 

 I don't get it. In the Valley we get McMansions of 4,000 sqft on a 5,000 sqft lot. But in Beverly Hills, they are not contented with just that so we end up with...McMansion Super sized! This 11,000 sqft McMansion on steroids decimates a 13,000 sqft lot in the Beverly Hills flats. 



To make matters worse, it feels like they forgot stuff. Very important stuff. Like how to finish the yard or add a garage for goodness sake. If you want ten million bucks for this McMansion, do you expect people to park on the street? There is a basement, which may have seemed like a good idea at the time but turned out very cold and full of entertaining rooms that only manage to appear depressing. In lieu of thought, they added stonework. Lots of stonework. Nothing worked, not even the acres of lit stone and parquet floors. Stay away. 

Lit stone looks cool, but cannot compensate. 

What has been seen cannot be unseen. 


All photos credit to respective owners. 

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