Frank Lloyd Wright home for $750K

[George K]

About 3 miles west of Racine, about 90 min north of Chicago.

The listing:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1425-Valley-View-Dr-Mount-Pleasant-WI-53405/52242737_zpid/?utm_source=zillowgonewild&utm_medium=zillowgonewild&utm_campaign=zillowgonewild

[jon-nyc]

Before even opening the thread i thought “Frank Lloyd Wright house that needs $3.5MM in repairs for only 750k”

[Mik]

My thoughts as well. $725K would just be the beginning, and I suspect it is on some historic register so you would be very limited as to how you could go about fixing what is needed. As much as I admire the stye, in that size of house there's a sameness to the rooms that would eventually get to me. Also, his gathering areas strike me as somewhat cold and distant.

Design-wise, though, there are some spectacular areas in it

[George K]

There are several FLW homes in my town (one of which was owned by a surgeon with whom I worked). Every time I was in one, my thoughts were, "Nice to look at. Difficult to live in. Fabulously expensive to maintain." The surgeon I mentioned had a "We finally fixed the leaky roof" party one year.

I mean, this is nice to look at, but could you really live in this space?

I'm surprised the realtor put these photos in.

Gonna need some "migrants" from Martha's Vineyard to clean this up...

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Not sure I like this idea of "open concept."

[Mik]

Yeah, that first room you posted was one that made me think of cold and distant. There's no intimacy.

[jon-nyc]

The aesthetic is fine with me. It’s the 6- and 7-figure repair bills that would keep me away.

[89th]

My photoshop eye caught that the night photos are fake. Photoshopped of the previous image. Weird.

[LuFins Dad]

Ok, I am going to say it. I effin hate FLW designs. Can’t stand them. They look like James Bond Villain Lairs. Horrible. Do you know how many times I have been dragged to Fallingwater? 16. Sixteen agonizing trips totaling 35 hours of my life gone.

[Friday]

@LuFins-Dad

Why did you go there so much if you hated it?

[Mik]

@LuFins-Dad said in Frank Lloyd Wright home for $750K:

Ok, I am going to say it. I effin hate FLW designs. Can’t stand them. They look like James Bond Villain Lairs. Horrible. Do you know how many times I have been dragged to Fallingwater? 16. Sixteen agonizing trips totaling 35 hours of my life gone.

Gee. And I was going to ask you if you wanted to join us.

[LuFins Dad]

@Friday said in Frank Lloyd Wright home for $750K:

@LuFins-Dad

Why did you go there so much if you hated it?

Scouts
School trip
Mom
Aunt
Scouts again
2nd Aunt
School trip again
Sister’s new MIL
Mom again
Girlfriend’s mom
Other sister’s MIL
Sister’s friend
College Girlfriend
Drunk trip with college friends when the ski weekend was a bust since it was too warm (don’t plan and reserve cabins 3 months in advance)
Mom again
And an outside visit to point it out to Lucas. Didn’t count it since we didn’t go inside.

[LuFins Dad]

The weird thing? I actually like his pre-1900 stuff.

[Friday]

@LuFins-Dad

You are too nice. Other than my mom, I would have just paid for the cab fare for my relatives to go.

[Doctor Phibes]

I don't understand the appeal of these houses, either. They're self-conscious, and a bit up-themselves, and don't look like homes at all.

[mark]

Bunch of wussies who don't know awesome when they see it.

If I ever won a big lottery payout, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

[mark]

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[LuFins Dad]

@mark said in Frank Lloyd Wright home for $750K:

Bunch of wussies who don't know awesome when they see it.

If I ever won a big lottery payout, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

FLW set architecture back 200 years.

[Doctor Phibes]

@mark said in Frank Lloyd Wright home for $750K:

Bunch of wussies who don't know awesome when they see it.

Awesome:

Shite:

[Horace]

Where’s IT when you need him

[Doctor Phibes]

@Horace said in Frank Lloyd Wright home for $750K:

Where’s IT when you need him

He's probably trying to gouge his own eyes out.