Oh, crap, the real estate photographer is coming and the place is a mess. Quick! Put the dirty dishes in the oven! Shove the clutter under the beds! Windex the bathroom mirror! Tell the elephant to climb up to the entablature and act casual! OK, go!
Found By: Joe
Loveliest comment, by Crocodilly_pontifex: Unlike his African and and Indian cousins, the Suburban elephant is quite good a jumping; that and its trunk make it excellent at le parkour
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Unlike his African and and Indian cousins, the Suburban elephant is quite good a jumping; that and its trunk make it excellent at le parkour
Elephant statue? ROLL TIDE!!!
I’ve often walked by the store in the mall with all the crazy Asian-inspired decor and wondered who the heck would buy a giant elephant, and where would they put it? Now I know!
Thank you! I have now expanded my vocabulary with the word “entablature”! No longer will I have to describe such spots as “The wasted space over the door.”
Glad I could help. Entablature is Latin for “elephant shelf,” strictly speaking, but it works for any large mammal.
I thought it was French for “dust catcher”.
Lord, how DOES one dust the entablature in these lofty houses??
That would be WHY Elephant is up there. They just made him put down the feather duster for the listing.
Huh, I’d have thought they just blew the dust away with their trunks, like a vacuum cleaner in reverse. Just shows what I know about house elephants. Or possibly have bigger versions of the cat dusters on this page http://www.nikibrown.com/designoblog/2009/11/01/funny-strang-japanese-inventions/ (the website seems to be missing the point of the book, in that the inventions have to be pretending to be useful but actually utterly pointless and not something anyone would actually ever use. Anyhow, I have loved the cat dusters ever since getting the book many years ago)
i keep looking for mowgli in the fern by the door
Judging from just the two pictures here, this looks a lot like the set from Arrested Development. Just saying.
I just keep wanting to scream “don’t jump, Jumbo! Don’t jump! We’ll work out the peanut situation! It’ll be okay!”
(And then there’s a team of concerned firemen with a trampoline down below in the foyer just in case my negotiation skills don’t pan out.)
Yeah, same here “Don’t jump! You have so much to live for!”
That much beige in one house would make me contemplate taking the plunge.
I hate those uber-designed houses with the grand entrance that no one uses (especially since there is no coat closet), and then they have a teeny tiny closet for a laundry room. Especially the inaccessible shelves that collect dust.
My sister lived in one where one could almost play basketball in the entry, and the “laundry room” consisted of a closet just big enough for the washer and dryer, and a shelf above. The laundry would flow out into the hallway.
Sorry, grouchy due to it still being November in Seattle.
I believe those inaccessible shelves are called a clean-me shelf, due to their plaintive cry
BRILLIANT.HILARIOUS.
This is a weird listing for me as I live in the next town over. Durham is… well, just Durham. Who knew such opulence existed there?
And here we have yet another kitchen that looks pretty nice, until you start to think what would actually be involved in, say, cooking a meal in such a place. I figure maybe a half a dozen laps easily just to cook some veggies…and with at least three (and probably four) doors converging, there may well be a fair bit of traffic to contend with. Maybe it would help to put up yield signs and force everybody to go around one in direction only, like a rotary.
Shhh! Your not supposed to mention the elephant in the room!
Jump Dumbo, jump! You can FLY…
Elephant has Saturday Night Fever.
I’m thinking it might be a bit dusty up there and that poor elephant has been caught mid sneeze. They made a hasty decision not to show the next picture in the series — ewwww
Sounds like there are some bitter west coast folks who are maybe a tad jealous at how much more (and nicer/newer) house you can get for your money here in the east lol. Too grand of a foyer? Too big of a kitchen? As for the elephant, this area of Durham is very close to RTP (Research Triangle Park) where there are many biotech and research companies that have thousands of international employees, many from India and other areas of southern Asia, most of whom live in Durham or Cary/Morrisville. That elephant is more likely a representation of their heritage than a suburban whitebread couple trying to seem more worldy
I think I know that house! It’s the right layout and I recognize both the elephant and that bicycle in the kitchen. Considering how large the US is, I might be wrong though.
Beautiful design! Love the house!