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Showing posts with label Water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Water. Show all posts

Friday, March 30, 2012

On the Market: Inside Miami's Utterly Bonkers Manmade Water Fortress

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Friday, March 23, 2012, by Sarah Firshein

Some properties are so outrageous that the souls who run real estate blogs hope and pray that they will eventually come on the market. This is one of them: the low-lying water world that Miami architect Charles Sieger (known for multi-million-dollar residential high-rises) built for himself smack in a land-locked Miami neighborhood. Now that moat-surrounded castle is for sale for the first time since its completion in 2007 with a list price of $10.9M.

As if to reveal the Sieger's deepest personal obsessions, everything about the property is painstakingly symmetrical, from the quite-obviously manmade lake to the diamond-shaped courtyard to the pair of concrete gazebos (accessed by stepping-stone paths) jutting out to either side of the house. The eight-bedroom, eight-bathroom, 10,100-square-foot interiors have a bright, airy, double-height living room, but the ornate wrought-iron rail running around the second story creates a moody, almost Gothic feel (as do many of the furnishings). And if Stonehenge and the Roman Forum were to have an extremely modern baby, it would likely resemble that sculpture garden out back.

If you're thinking that this place would look pretty rad in a hip-hop video: brilliant! The Sieger Residence featured prominently in Birdman's 2010 track "Fire Flame." Here, watch:

Birdman: Fire Flame

· Totes Ma Goats: Architect Charles Siegel Lists Epic Lake Castle [Realtor.com]
· Birdman - Fire Flame [YouTube]
· 25791 SW 167 Ave., Miami [Realtor.com]


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Saturday, March 24, 2012

On the Market: Tudor Mansion In Hillsborough Features the West's Longest Residential Water Slide

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Monday, March 12, 2012, by Sally Kuchar Around these parts Hillsborough is mostly known as "that place over there where houses are really, really, really expensive. Like $50,000,000 expensive." What you probably weren't expecting to find out is that at 185-feet, this home in Hillsborough is supposedly holding the record for the longest residential waterside west of the Mississippi. Built in 1930, the Tudor estate at 3080 Ralston Avenue is approximately 15,200 square feet and currently asking a completely reasonable a starter home-friendly $16,500,000. There's 11 bedrooms, 8 full and 3 half baths in the main house and guest house. While the interiors are kind of stuffy and spooky, the backyard is exactly the opposite. In addition to the resort-style swimming pool, there's also a regulation sized tennis court, full outdoor catering kitchen, pool cabana, and barbecue kitchen. Do invite us to your pool party.
· 1930 Tudor Estate In Hillsborough, CA With One Of The Longest Residential Waterslides [Homes of the Rich]
· Uber-Luxury: Hillsborough Estate Hits the Market [Curbed SF]
· 3080 Ralston Ave [Coldwell Banker]
· A Stuffy Mansion With the West's Longest Home Water Slide [Curbed National] 3080 Ralston Ave, Hillsborough, CA

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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

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Monday, March 28, 2011

TrendWatch: Secret to a Happy Home Revealed, and it Includes Water Views

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Tuesday, February 8, 2011, by Sarah

Although Yahoo amped up its quest for world domination by appropriating all of Zillow's content, listings site Trulia is going for a more metaphysical approach, endeavoring to find what it is, exactly, that makes a happy home. After all, can happiness be quantified? Why yes! Yes it can. Trulia asked 1,200 American couples to rank 11 home features—dual closets, large kitchen island, a man cave, water views, and more—in order of how each would positively improve their relationship. What came out on top? For women, apparently storage space is the be-all, end-all of making the magic happen. And for men—in a brilliant show of obviousness—it's having a master bedroom large enough for a king-size bed. Browse the photogallery above for the close-up shots.

· Zillow and Yahoo Merge; Quest for World Domination Continues [Curbed National]


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Monday, March 14, 2011

Magazine Living: Clean Water Act...

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Monday, January 31, 2011, by Sarah

10_Nov_Molly-Erdman-Boilerplatexx.jpgThe all-American characters of Gary and Elaine have wormed their way into households and hearts aplenty thanks to the ingenuity of Molly Erdman, whose Catalog Living blog points to certain styling curiosities within catalogs. We enlisted Erdman to author a Curbed National column in which she does the same to photos gracing the glossy pages of shelter magazines. Here now, let the games begin.

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Photo: Joshua McHugh/Elle Decor

Martin and Gareth’s guests are always a little surprised by the request to wash their hands in another bathroom prior to washing them in the white bathroom.

· Catalog Living [official site]
· All Magazine Living columns [Curbed National]


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Monday, March 7, 2011

Reality TV: Joan Rivers Adjusts to Life at Melissa's Like a Fish Out of Water

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Wednesday, January 26, 2011, by Sarah

Screen-shot-2011-01-26-at-3.12.29-PM.jpgLast night, Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? premiered on WE and we watched as Rivers the Elder leaves her formal, antiques-filled Manhattan apartment and coiffed Connecticut country house for daughter Melissa's house in Malibu, Calif. She brought along piece after piece of luggage; a nervous peeing dog named Lola; the ashes of her dead husband, uncle and, just maybe, Vincent Price; as well as every piece of jewelry she ever designed for QVC.

Joan arrives in California to a cast that includes a delightful surfer grandson as well as Mel's secret live-in boyfriend, gay live-in friend, best live-in friend, live-in assistant and hot live-in Swedish nanny. There's absurdity for sure—particularly during the scene where Joan puts suntan lotion on the nanny's topless back—but even more phenomenal, for our purposes, was watching Joan acclimate to her daughter's relaxed Malibu digs, with its small guest room and an even smaller bathroom where she can't use the toilet and close the door at the same time. At some glorious point this season, Joan will sell all of Mel's furniture without her permission. Consider the video clip below a teaser.

VIDEO: MELISSA'S MALIBU HOUSE SHOCKS JOAN

— Elana Frankel

· Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? [official site]


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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Magazine Living: In Hot Water...

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Monday, January 10, 2011, by Sarah

10_Nov_Molly-Erdman-Boilerplatexx.jpgThe all-American characters of Gary and Elaine have wormed their way into households and hearts aplenty thanks to the ingenuity of Molly Erdman, whose Catalog Living blog points to certain styling curiosities within catalogs. We enlisted Erdman to author a Curbed National column in which she does the same to photos gracing the glossy pages of shelter magazines. Here now, let the games begin.

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Photo: Miguel Flores-Vianna/Elle Decor

“Martin! The bath salt urn is nearly empty!”

· Catalog Living [official site]
· All Magazine Living columns [Curbed National]


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