Ripped off. That's what you get for $1.5 million this week.
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What do you get for $1.5 million? Ripped off, apparently.
If I could, would have been interested in the Indianapolis house. That is, until the renovation obliterated every shred of fine wood. I'm not one for heavy Victorian but I can see how a lighter hand with whitewashing (that is very white indeed) could have found a happy balance. Well, too late for that now. Thankfully, the kitchen looks friendly and livable.
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Ok. I will cop to being charmed by the Indiana house while so many find it's reinterpretation something of an affront. I love period homes, but find the often warren-like rooms and heavy wood throughout both overwhelming and a little hard to envision decorating outside of a frank traditional asthetic, which feels too formal now.
I like what they've done overall for its effort to contemporize the spaces without going too modern. The kitchen, for example, has a very comfortable, casual but elegant feel. One could cook and eat there without feeliing like you're in a showroom which many new kitchens can feel like... too pretty, fussy or mininal, modern to stand up to real use.
That said, it woud have been nice if they had made a choice to keep some selective wood elements in the home, even if nominal, as a nod to the specific history of a home built by a lumber family and surely filled with finely crafted wood features. Because this is a big home at 9097 square ft, I'm sure they were trying to unify though paint and also perhaps avoid costly wood restoration... understandable in the context of the signficant amount of work they were putting into this huge reno project.
Funny enough, I don't understand why they didn't repour or resurface the concrete yard areas. The backyard has cracks though the slab and shows its age compared to the nicely refinished landscaped home exterior and garage. And one wonders about the large building next door...apartments, an old school?
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The Indiana house confirms something I've long suspected from weekends on Zillow: we have a serious interior design crisis here in the Midwest.
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The bookshelves in the modernized Victorian look more suitable for storing paint cans.
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How about homes the other 99% can afford, hmm?
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Love the library filled with a grand total of about 20 books, eloquently centered and stacked horizontally! Just screams, “I read! Really, I do!”
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Fully priced in Durango. Taxes look low now, but with the massive influx of Californians to Colorado, that will change soon, and in a big way.
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The lackluster CO offering perfectly exemplifies what a terrible RE market exists here. Unless you've perused listings for anywhere on the Front Range, you are in for a significant shock. If you plan to move to CO and want to buy a house, be prepared for crappy, dated, poorly designed, sub-par finished homes. What passes for a kitchen here is ... well, insufficient. Many don't have adequate storage, they are those mystifyingly stupid split level jobs. Its a testament to the draw of the state that so many truly ugly houses are sold year-round.
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So glad all of the brand names are listed so that I can duplicate them in my studio apartment. I trust the owners of this luxury residence realize that there is little if any parking available in their neighborhood for their guests and yes, sadly. the homeless problem is very much present in that area.
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$40k in property taxes in Indianapolis?!?! How is that possible? Or reasonable?
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@Steve
I'm sure that that beats the taxes on a lot of NYC residences. OTOH, the price per square foot is a bargain compared to Durango and Portland . . .
But it's 2.7% of the asking price, which means it is probably more like 3-4% of it's assessed value - every year.
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@Steve Indiana has generally low property taxes, but they are likely subject to higher county or city taxes. You also have to remember that Indianapolis' metro is around 2.5 million people, and while it's not NYC it's still a pretty large city with higher associated costs.
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@Steve I don't think this is correct. Marion County caps the property tax at 1 percent, so that would be $10k and some change. And there isn't $30k of city tax.
Did they photoshop the homeless people out of that park in Portland? I've never seen it without a full population.
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House in Indianapolis is the victim of a paint crime. Why would you paint every surface white? Not a fan of dark woodwork but this is way to far the other way. Also, furnishings look like they’d give you splinters.
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the stripping of the Victorian of all Victorianess is reminiscent of the house remodel in Beatlejuice... just let it be what it is.
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@pam
Yes, it's awful. It's been HGTV-ed.
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I love the industrial vibe that all three properties share. Good choices!
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