Ooh, what I would give to have five minutes alone in this house with my son’s pogo stick…
(Found By: Jennifer R. From the “Oh the Chihulity” series.)
Loveliest comment: Heather’s You’d think a listing for a $29 million house could afford some paragraph breaks …
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Soooo….even though this house is right next to the ocean, they went with an over the top ocean theme? Complete with huge salt water aquarium? Why? I can’t stop asking questions because I’m in shock.
Wow, it’s SO Disney.
You’d think a listing for a $29 million house could afford some paragraph breaks …
All of that glass is going to be a liability when a hurricane makes landfall nearby. There’s a reason that East Coast beach homes tend to have cheap furnishings.
Ha! The crack about the paragraph breaks was my first thought, too!
The long droning paragraph– my pet peeve too! Realtors: give readers a break, no more than three sentences per paragraph! Explore the bulleted list, too!
I have to admit that I actually really like this house. I don’t know how I would feel about living there full time, but I would love to visit for a couple of days.
My son wants this house.
I’m not moving into it without full-time staff, though. No way *I’d* ever be able to keep that floor clean.
I was actually saying the other day that it would be cool to have an aquarium in the floor. Now I have proof that it can be done.
Hey, I don’t like my assigned avatar– doesn’t express the REAL me. Can’t I choose my own, if I have to have one?
You can! Try Gravatar.
I like the house also, and I feel really peculiar about liking the house. I mean, it’s definitely a home on the scale of too-much-is-never-enough but…I love water, and swimming pools.
25 million? 25 million?!? Who in the world built that? King Midas? I mean that’s spendy by Bill Gates standards.
I agree, it’s much too much, but lovely. Probably owned by the Russian mafia or something…
It’s beautiful. I couldn’t keep it clean for 10 seconds with an army of maids following me around, and I don’t think I’d EVER get comfortable living in it, but…just…wow.
Whoa, of course it’s all over the top, but that aquarium in picture #9 is AMAZING. If I’m interpreting correctly, the fish can swim continuously from the bar to the archway to the far wall. Must be a lot of work to keep them fed, though.
It’s listed as built in 2009 and “new”. And the same broker has the (next^9)-door neighbor property, also built 2009, for sale at $30M.
Apparently somebody is building these things ON SPEC …
When it, like other spec homes, remains empty, will we be seeing the same listing here in a few months, covered in graffiti with all the fixtures torn from the walls?
Does anybody else find the terms “sustainable” and “green-certified” rather laughable when looking at so much excess? That’s compounded by the extremely vulnerable location.
Does the kitchen look fake to you?
Yes, but I don’t think it is. The photographer behind this listing (one of my all-time favorites) explained to me how photos end up like that. I can’t find the e-mail (which makes me think I’m imagining it, but ah well, it’s an excuse to link to that listing), but I believe the photographer takes three photos with different exposures, then combines them. Done well, it looks glowy and beautiful. Done badly, it looks like the house was assembled using Photoshop instead of hammers.
A pogo stick, some Bactine and plenty of gauze.
I thought the grounds looked rather posh then realised it looks like the gardens of a hotel. How can that ever feel like home?
Oh the chihulity indeed!
Damn, I saw this and was trying to come up with some clever pun utilizing the name “Chihuly,” then I saw the tag.
You guys are good.
Just looked at the rest of the pictures. So the house is located on a tiny strip of land between the Intracoastal and the Atlantic. Beautiful views, but yeah…once a hurricane comes through there (and it’s bound to happen eventually), that place is toast.
Reading “Oh, the Chihulity” had me rolling on the floor. I’m SO glad I wasn’t drinking anything at the time, or I would have been soaking in it!
I love aquatic themes and all, but if I lived there I’d wake up every day gasping, convinced I was drowning!
I’m sorry, that swimming pool is way too small.
Holy schlaMOLY! GIMME THAT HOUSE I WANTS IT SO BAD!!!1!!
. . . But seriously, though, you’d think a listing for a $25 million home would have better grammar than that.
i love that house, though i’m not wild about the salt water tanks. ethically i have a thing against them since those who supply the coral and fish do so by using dynamite and poison. the rest of the house is totally cool though.
“Acqua Liana, the Tahitian and Fijian word for ?water flower,? was bestowed with its unique name resulting from the home?s calming and soothing inclusion of many forms of liquid serenity.”
At 29 mil, I guess I’ll have to keep getting my liquid serenity from the bottle of gin in the lowest desk drawer.
how many chandeliers does that house have? it looks like austin powers’ bachelor pad.
At least there are interior pics of this house, next door is $30 M and not one indoor pic!
The houses are lovely, but like previous posters have pointed out, really? in a hurricane zone???
One can only hope and pray that the government refuses to issue Flood Insurance for horribly-located follies like this. You want something this preposterous in that location, you should have to pay for the entire thing, cash money down.
When I see a house like this, and I feel a little pang inside, knowing I will never be financially fiscal enough to own it, (let alone work as the gardener), I make myself feel better by imagining how hard it would be to keep this place clean.
I would have to hire a full-time housekeeper who did nothing but run around behind me with Windex. Of course, I would also be savvy enough to buy stock in Windex!
Love, love, love the aquarium and the view.
That house is completely awesome. The photography is over-HDR’d. The listing text is stupid, though, for its messed-up-ness.
Is HDRing the combining-photo-thingy I was just trying to explain in a comment up there?
Beautiful dream house….but really. Can you imagine the acoustics in that house? and trying to keep all that water crystal clear….that’s a job I would never ever want. I’d rather have the house on Paslay. Now that’s a real house a girl can live in!
I love this house and yet… I find it strangely creepy. Particularly the fact that you can see into the swimming pool. I don’t think I could swim in that, ever. “Honey, please before I go swimming, double check to make sure the serial killer isn’t watching me. Please, I can’t swim if you don’t check.”
Er, does “home automation with biofeedback” mean what I think it means? I do hope not, as the house does look somewhat splendid, in a would-love-to spend-a-weekend there way.
Have you seen “Eureka”? I’m thinking it’s something like that.
Huh, that house looks really, really, familiar. I’ve seen it somewhere in my dark past. Hmmmm, did my sister have a Barbi house like that? Or was it a Ken house like that?
I guess is doesn’t matter.
BTW, get ready for a few interior “alterations” after a time. When the salt water stuff gets to be too much to maintain, I’m bettin’ that the glass floor etc is taken out and a cement truck moved up to the back door. “Ok, Joe, Let ‘er rip!” A trip to Home Depot once the cement truck guys leave. Some $1.49 / sq ft tile, thin set, and grout. Voila! Affordable housing!
I mean really. Ok, yes there are hurricanes in that area. Yes, they are destructive. But think about those lovely ocean breezes! They’ll trash the place in 12 months because of the salt spray.
I’d have gone stucco myself.
Roidy
It’s not just a $29 million house… It’s a $29 million *spec house*.
I feel very, very sorry for whoever thought this was a good idea, in 2009 of all years.
I think the designer of the glass piece actually live in San Antonio, TX. Very impressive work.
I think it’s hilarious that is has 10.5 baths. Really? When a home has 10 bathrooms, that extra half bath is just ostentatious.
sorry I love it lol…I think it’s because I’m a pisces I love the ocean and think this house is absolutely beautiful…but yeah I wouldn’t be able to keep it clean either lmao I have 3 kids who would probably have it demolished before the first hurricane could think of coming through lol…I love them dearly but omg can they break stuff.
Here’s the funny part, it’s on the intercoastal and some of my best friends live just inland from there. The one area in the world where the price difference in homes is the largest. You can easily go from $30mil home to $100thousand homes in less than a mile. I’ve probably driven by this monstrosity when I was out visiting last year, needless to say it’s just one of many there in the area.
Even so, it’s kind of cool, as long as you had to money to keep it clean. Housekeeper? Heck, I’d need a whole staff of ‘em just to clean up the dust tracked in on a daily basis.