What am I doing wrong? Why do I live with popcorn ceilings and Formica counters when I could have a glorious copper tank for filtered water, and some kind of binnacle, and, and, I don’t know, a frikking toaster made out of mahogany and a toilet seat made out of leather or whatever it is these steampunk people are up to? I would move in, but I go nowhere without my Roomba and I think adding 15 pounds of copper to it (so it didn’t feel insecure) would bring it to a halt. Ah well. Besides, I’m a die-hard Jack and Stephen fan; I’ll hold out until I can have my kitchen remodeled in the sailpunk style.
Loveliest comment, by Stuart: It’s official: I am so going to put on jodhpurs, a leather duster and goggles and tell the people who currently live there that I like how they’ve taken care of the place but I really must get back to work and would they kindly move on, thank you very much.
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Remember that game Myst? This reminds me of that.
*gasp*
It’s so beautiful!! I think this is one of the best ones yet–even better than the Unicorn room!
The house is pretty spectacular as is the collection but who the heck has to spend every minute of every day keeping it clean? Now that’s impressive.
So true. They must go through water tower amounts of Murphy’s Oil Soap.
My entire family would think I was barking mad, but I want this. Want it!
I want it too! I love steampunk, but never have enough patience or skill to craft my own.
That is one evil-looking stove. It looks like it wants to leap off the computer screen and eat people. But somehow, I still think it’s pretty awesome.
It might be an Aga stove with the grille from a firebox on top.
What would have been more impressive would have been a full sized model of H.G. Wells’ time machine rather than the scale model.
Some people are so lazy.
Look carefully, this entire home is in fact an upgraded version of H.G. Wells’s time machine. The bottom picture is the engine, the center picture are the controls, and the top picture… is an oven. Hey even a time traveler’s gotta eat.
yes, but when?
Whenever s/he wants! It’s a time machine!
Yeah, I kinda want this. This is in a whole different league than having creepy dolls in the listing photo. This actually looks extremely awesome and the outside of the house is so pretty. Want.
It’s fun to charter an accountant,
And sail the wide accountantcy…
Yes! To the sailing office-house – we’re off to see the world!
…So scribble away and balance the books
And sing an accountancy shanty
To seek, explore, the funds offshore, and skirt the shores of bankruptcy!
The steampunk house! Too cool. I love the style (but not kitschy “Victorian”).
I admit, I want to live here… It’s BEAUTIFUL.
The “frikking toaster made out of mahogany” looks like it might be a Magic Lantern, the precurser to the motion picture projector.
I don’t know how I’ve made it this far in life without a binnacle in my living room.
If you mean the converted knife block, I’m afraid that used to be a laborsaving counter-top butter churn. *sigh*
I was referring to the thing in the third photo above, with the tall smokestack on top.
But a counter-top butter churn sounds AWESOME!
Oh! I see – yes, a magic lantern rig with a vent for its non-cold-light-source makes perfect sense. Here’s a pic of a vintage butter churn.
http://dairyantiques.com/Wood_Butter_Churns_2.html
OMG that’s awesome.
But, but, surely the house doesn’t come furnished??
This is indeed impressive, but I’ll hold out for the sailpunk, too. Aubrey / Maturin FTW!
This is so full of win it is just dizzying. How can the sellers bear to part with what must have been a huge labor of…love?…madness?…obsession?
All of the above.
I love this! Hats off to the homeowners/designers…it’s great to see someone take a passion for something and showcase it with taste.
I love finding fellow Jack and Stephen fans in random places. A glass of wine with you!
Maybe Killick can move in to this place to keep the brass shiny!
I too am a fan of O’brian! I think you can attribute your litterary wit to it!
STEAMPUNK HOUSE…FTW!!! I love everything about this house.. =)
…and btw, a sailpunk house is only going to work if you have a crew of sailors on permanent shore-leave as live-in servants to scrub the floors every morning, polish the brass guns every week, paint the house every few months, and level the stone floors every year.
You’d have your own cricket team, though!
Oh, those are some of my favorite scenes — when they’re all ashore in Post Captain.
I <3 this home/museum. I'm not sure I'd want to live there, but you can't argue with the awesome attention to detail. They have a pretty fascinating blog here http://www.modvic.com/Steampunk.aspx
Binnacle is my vocabulary word of the day. I confess I had to go look it up.
Sara, I suspect you would enjoy the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik. The first book is called “His Majesty’s Dragon.”
Intriguing. I normally avoid dragons, but I’ll check that out.
Avoid dragons in books, that is. I don’t have to take any precautions to avoid them in real life.
Temeraire may just make you like dragons.
The books are extremely well written, sweet, suspenseful, sometimes wickedly funny, and capture the naval/military/social culture of the early 1800′s very well. The premise is that dragons (intelligent and able to speak) have been domesticated by the warring powers of nineteenth-century Europe and formed into Aerial Corps in support of infantry and navy. There is a lot of real-life history of the Napoleonic Wars worked in to the fiction (although she takes liberties with it too, of course).
altho i havent read these books, i am familiar with the story. someone has taken the story and written a very well done fanfiction AU story series as a crossover using the characters from both the book and the sci-fi tv show, Stargate Atlantis. now i will have a place to picture this story.
and if that doesnt make me a nerd, i dont know what will.
Ok that’s just freaky. I’m a major Stargate Atlantis fan, but… did I get this right? they crossed it with Temeraire?
*brain explodes*
Poop Poop!
“I love finding fellow Jack and Stephen fans in random places. A glass of wine with you! Maybe Killick can move in to this place to keep the brass shiny!”
Ditto Adelwyn! WAAAAANT. And do you know how much that stove is worth??
It’s official: I am so going to put on jodhpurs, a leather duster and goggles and tell the people who currently live there that I like how they’ve taken care of the place but I really must get back to work and would they kindly move on, thank you very much.
Mayhaps, good gentleman, I may accompany you on said expedition? I shall commence at once to hand manufacture the laid arabaca fibre paper and walnut ink upon which I shall draft our singularly authentic deed claiming ownership of said property!
Verily, do not forget to post-date said deed.
Most assuredly. April 7, 1854, I believe. ‘Twas a good year (or at least it will be once we are happily ensconced in our oak, mahogany, brass, granite and leather appointed mansion. I do hope the property comes with a coal mine however; we’re going to need quite a bit of steam.
FTW!!!
Forget the house. I just want to go to their yard sale when they move out!
wow – this is sweet – I seriously want the stove and the copper water thingy
Oh this is just fantastic! When can I move in?
The first picture-okay, but just an old stove.
Second picture-Want! Have no idea what it is but I must have!
Third picture-As the second!
Also did anyone notice the table in the background of the last picture? I think it’s one of those awesome compasses! Excuse me while I imagine living here and experience pure joy.
Awesome! Especially the PC with full surround sound redecorated as a steampunk electric organ. Linux of course.
What is that next to the stove? Looks like a tank or perhaps a “fertility icon” if you get my meaning.
Roidy
Can I be really obnoxious and point out that this house is not for sale and this is, thusly, not technically a listing?
spoilsport!
Shhhhh.
WANT.
Just a guess: the tall copper thingy with the pedastaled bowl next to the stove? the world’s coolest doggie water bowl, maybe?
oh yeah, and: WANT!!!!11!!!
Caractacus Potts has nothing on this place.
hehehe! a thousand internets to you!
(I’ll be sending them, by the way, in a car that flies…..)
That is the most awesome house EVER. So frikkin COOL. Want
If you are in Boston, don’t miss the Museum of Scientific Instruments at the Harvard University Science Center.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/chsi-collection.html
It’s the real stuff.
How can you call this steampunk when they have a microwave?
Newbies.
I’m packin’ my bags and movin’ in! LOVE IT!!!!
Must have badass Steampunk house now!
Is that the Tardis and one of the Daleks? Ooh my husband has made me into a science fiction geek!
Help! I pulled a few of the levers on the Cappuccino machine, and when I looked outside, time is going backwards!!
Ah, the dangers of awesome…
0.0
WANT.
Good show! yes…. yes, I could work here…. making Clanks and Constructs…. oh yes….. and chasing mimoths out of the gears…..
FINALLY!! A Girl Genius reference!! I was about to start weeping!
That’s actually very nice!
I actually know the owners of this house. It is stunning. They buy and renovate old victorian homes and have one for sale two doors down from my home, They have a very interesting website.
Is this the house from “UP” ? Where’s Dug?