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This morning there was a flyer under our doormat presenting the price obtained for this expanded tract house as a record at $2.8m, but a month ago this house that I wrote about in May went for $3m.
This is what the house looked like in April 2011, before the 2015 expansion and the professional yard treatment. A 2-storey rear section has been added (and the photos don't show the house next door, which had already been updated). They're left with a tiny backyard that consists of a strip of gravel with three trees marooned in it and the rest flagstones with a hot tub, a fire pit, and an outdoor shower (probably in compensation for there being one fewer bathrooms than bedrooms rather than one more) taking up the rest of the space, and the main use of the storage sheds is probably for stowing the garden furniture when it rains. Inside, the living areas are open plan, of course, but the kitchen equipment and the second fridge in the laundry room take up so much space, and structural requirements led to so much use of hallways, that it looks pinched to me. The dining nook is a disaster, more like an office cubicle with blank walls on three sides, and I suspect it will become a computer station, but it's positioned for maximum noise and background chaos, so if a family lives here, I doubt it will be a good home office. Then again, if a family lives here, the kids will have to play on the front lawn. Also while some things are tucked into the sloping roof with a garret effect to maximize habitable space, several rooms have those stark high-off-the-ground windows that I first encountered as "hurricane architecture" but also see in Eichlers. Those weird me out; I always find myself considering whether a normal adult person could get up to and through them in case of a fire or earthquake.
Still, it may have been bought by 4 newly hired tech workers as a shared crash pad.
( White lilies of the Nile. )
This is what the house looked like in April 2011, before the 2015 expansion and the professional yard treatment. A 2-storey rear section has been added (and the photos don't show the house next door, which had already been updated). They're left with a tiny backyard that consists of a strip of gravel with three trees marooned in it and the rest flagstones with a hot tub, a fire pit, and an outdoor shower (probably in compensation for there being one fewer bathrooms than bedrooms rather than one more) taking up the rest of the space, and the main use of the storage sheds is probably for stowing the garden furniture when it rains. Inside, the living areas are open plan, of course, but the kitchen equipment and the second fridge in the laundry room take up so much space, and structural requirements led to so much use of hallways, that it looks pinched to me. The dining nook is a disaster, more like an office cubicle with blank walls on three sides, and I suspect it will become a computer station, but it's positioned for maximum noise and background chaos, so if a family lives here, I doubt it will be a good home office. Then again, if a family lives here, the kids will have to play on the front lawn. Also while some things are tucked into the sloping roof with a garret effect to maximize habitable space, several rooms have those stark high-off-the-ground windows that I first encountered as "hurricane architecture" but also see in Eichlers. Those weird me out; I always find myself considering whether a normal adult person could get up to and through them in case of a fire or earthquake.
Still, it may have been bought by 4 newly hired tech workers as a shared crash pad.
( White lilies of the Nile. )