Tasteful Friends: Why?

Post-modern castle ruin... same ol', same ol'

Actually, I find it fun and creative without being totally lame. It looks very livable and the views are to die for

Looks like a project from "Grand Designs".

It’s quirky in a beetle juice kind of way.

Why do they need seating for two dozen, plus an amphitheater? Cult?

It's funny... I really like it on the inside (except bowling alley as dining room) but outside it's just ridiculous and ugly.

The interior doesn't look bad, but that long dining table for a king's feast is too extravagant with a narrow hall. Some rooms are tight such as the one couch squeezed between two walls. The castle designed exterior looks depressing. The surrounding scenery is awesome.

I'd pass on the house.

Yes, I see the impracticality, but I don’t hate it. I wouldn’t want to own it, but there’s something appealing about it. There’s all this open space, but many small ones.

We inherited a house that was designed by a nutty architect in the early 80s. It has the same kind of thing: there are soaring ceilings with skylights but cozy nooks, too. It’s very interesting. People “aaah” and congregate in the open space and retreat to the smaller ones to convene or recuperate. The windows aren’t as much of a problem in the cold of winter (Northeast peninsula) as you might think. Maybe it’s construction or the southern exposure.

Thanks for sharing this, OP. It was fun to see. Anyway,

I like the inside except for the dining room for a small boys' school.

And who builds an amphitheater?

[quote] People “aaah” and congregate in the open space and retreat to the smaller ones to convene or recuperate.

That's what I was thinking. The interiors look very comfortable.

The outside is a bit silly, but the inside is wonderful.

And the views are great. I wonder how easy it is to get up there in the icy winter.

There’s too many odd darkly lit corners, ill- fitting angles and unused space. It’d be great for a sex party, though!

I guess you cannot argue about taste. Personally, I find the exterior result misguided. But I always appreciate when an architect and an individual with deep pockets try something new.

In my neighborhood I cringe seeing that new houses are now all square (flat roof top) boxes with lots of glass and concrete, with alibi wood panels thrown at the façade. I found that interesting when it was new, but now every builder is doing it, and it became old very quickly. So, I appreciate when somebody tries something else.

Designs like this are very good for ventilation as the air is drawn strongly up through the core and out the top. I don't mind the outside to the point of disliking it but I think it could be a different, light but warmer color. The stone wall that turns into a facade of the house - I don't like the stone cladding it looks super cheap and I would rethink that.

[quote]I wonder how easy it is to get up there in the icy winter.

You don't live in that part of the world without four wheel drive. Vermont is Subaru per capita world headquarters. It takes a lot to strand you.

If you're going to do something like that, then you really have to commit.

The wooden balconies look out of place and should have been stone.

If you're going for ruins, it needed to be more ruined.

Does it indicate the inspiration is "ruin"?

Modern monstrosity that needs to be reclaimed by the forest. I hope moose and other wildlife shit in the pretentious amphitheater.

Vermont has a "view" tax. I wonder what they pay?

Seems very suitable for AirB&B (and I wonder if that was their intention when building it).

Late 90s/early 00s iron work brought so many interiors together and this is one of them. The stairs are exquisite.

That’s propane/wood heat - in Vermont. You have to be able to close off rooms and that great hall is not one of them.

Also, there are two open lots for parking - with no garage. There has to be an outbuilding to maintain the exterior, but none is listed.

This smells like a turnkey folly. I’d buy it if I shit money for breakfast.

I quite like it actually. I thought the same of the dining room too... it’s huge and long and impersonal. But are we sure there isn’t a mirror at the end of that picture, doubling the apparent size of the room?

too weird for me

R21 I thought there was a mirror, but the chairs at the heads of the table are different.

Outside: -1/10 Inside: 7/10

I really like that circular room, it has something.

R5 & R6 I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way about the ridiculously narrow "dining room" (and I hesitate to call it that).

Parking is very far from the door; you'll be schlepping all kinds of crap, then find the kitchen.

It's Vermont. You need mudroom, or you'll have footprints and skis all over the house.

The dining room is really claustrophobic. Love the round library.

Sometimes architects forget that the machine for living contains humans.

Grow ivy up the stone.

I sort of like the quirkiness of it but a dinning room that sits 30 and parking spaces for 6 cars just does not compute for me. I can't imagine paying $2.5 million for a house and not having a garage in snowy Vermont and what type of garage could you even built that wouldn't look out of place? No out buildings on 240 acres where would you store stuff, the basement is 400 sq ft.

[quote] Dining Room Dimensions: 37 x 10

Yup, R23, you’re right.

I google mapped the address and the earth view shows the lot before construction was complete. You can see the equipment they used to quarry the rocks from the site, as promised in the realtor details.

R27 Google Satellite view has the house it is way beyond the quarry, just continue to follow the road past the quarry, it is hard to find, at first I didn't think the house was there either, then I found it.

Why did someone varnish the fieldstone?

Why did someone actually build a gamer geek's drawing of a grain silo fortified Medieval=style?

Very post modern. At least they made an effort. Wouldn’t be my thing - I hate post modern. The danger of doing of the Monet architecture.

Imagine those views in fall when the leaves are changing. The house reminds me of Catherine O'Hara's house in Beetlejuice.