yes it looks a bit sterile, but it's a super-expensive sterile materials are considered high quality and or exotic
personally i do like the minimalist type stuff
I don't mind minimalist. This just isn't very attractive.
Yeah, the "sterile" or "commercial kitchen" look is appealing to a lot of people. When I worked in the trades years ago we were starting a project to turn a screened porch into an enclosed sun room/breakfast nook thing in a pretty fancy, expensive house. It was off the kitchen and the boss was in there talking to the homeowner - who was a surgeon. The kitchen had all stainless steel appliances and we weren't really scheduled to do much in the kitchen other than re-do the doorway between the two rooms. While the owner was talking to the designer and lead carpenter he pointed out how he was going to have all the appliances replaced. He said something about how he didn't want to eat or have food prepared in a room that looked like a hospital morgue.
It's stunning on the outside; and aside from the room pictured here, with the glass walls that roll away to give you a covered open-air balcony, the interiors are incredibly icky.
I wouldn't go all the way to icky, but certainly some questions left over - like who the hell patterned the marble in the bathroom that way? 'shower with satan' has never been a selling point. And that blue tinted wood bar will be next decades shag carpet on the wall.
It's stunning on the outside; and aside from the room pictured here, with the glass walls that roll away to give you a covered open-air balcony, the interiors are incredibly icky.
yes it looks a bit sterile, but it's a super-expensive sterile
materials are considered high quality and or exotic
It's stunning on the outside; and aside from the room pictured here, with the glass walls that roll away to give you a covered open-air balcony, the interiors are incredibly icky.
I am NOT in the market for a new house, but I drive past this one every week on the way to and from Weezie's daycare. I love so much about it. Except it's location on a busy highway.
I am NOT in the market for a new house, but I drive past this one every week on the way to and from Weezie's daycare. I love so much about it. Except it's location on a busy highway.
I guess if a home were assessed in the mega-millions, and I believe NJ and other states may also figure in the property owners' incomes or other factors when calculating property taxes - so anything is possible - especially given the needs of whatever township it is. I recently read about how a lot more properties on the NJ and LI shores either can't get flood/disaster insurance or have to pay obscenely high prices for it from entities like Lloyd's Of London. A lot of that happened along the NC and SC coasts recently as well - there are apparently a lot of now-uninsured properties all along the East Coast.
That is scary. We've been contemplating quake insurance, but the premiums are ridonculous, huge deductibles, like, 25% of the value of the home. So what's the point?
I remember seeing a property listing prior to the bursting bubble that yes, was $20k/month. Mantoloking. The ocean front homes are multi-million dollar properties, and the township is dealing with some major infrastructure issues, like keeping the barrier island, on which these properties lie, from washing further south. It's highly likely that things have changed with lowered values (after the crash) and reassessments.
I guess if a home were assessed in the mega-millions, and I believe NJ and other states may also figure in the property owners' incomes or other factors when calculating property taxes - so anything is possible - especially given the needs of whatever township it is. I recently read about how a lot more properties on the NJ and LI shores either can't get flood/disaster insurance or have to pay obscenely high prices for it from entities like Lloyd's Of London. A lot of that happened along the NC and SC coasts recently as well - there are apparently a lot of now-uninsured properties all along the East Coast.
Obviously, it would depend on the assessed value of the property but are you sure they pay $20K a month in property tax in Coastal NJ? $240K a year in property tax alone? That would have to be a billion-dollar property.
I remember seeing a property listing prior to the bursting bubble that yes, was $20k/month. Mantoloking. The ocean front homes are multi-million dollar properties, and the township is dealing with some major infrastructure issues, like keeping the barrier island, on which these properties lie, from washing further south. It's highly likely that things have changed with lowered values (after the crash) and reassessments. I'm seeing today that a $9M home's monthly tax burden is just under $4k. So perhaps things have settled down.
