Come on Tasteful Friends. Live like a Russian Oligarch in Texas.

All that money and not one bit of taste...

Is that a faux Norman Castle? 🏰

Bonus: Apparently Southlake has excellent schools. Except, perhaps, if you have a problem with overt racism.

Burn it down

It's bad, of course, but except for the home theater, it isn't bad enough to be fun.

'Game of Thrones' meet The Clampetts.

All those empty bookshelves that will never shelve books.

The home theater is fabulous. It would be the perfect space for my one man show of Camelot. I play all the parts and accompany myself on a sulcimer.

^ dulcimer

We havf bitter buildings in Russia,

some with many fine whores too!

My favorite part is the automatic garage door over the swimming pool. WTF?

It appears to be owned by Shane Langston.

I shall do a bit more research.

All it needs is Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to fly over it.

He's a personal injury attorney.

R13 Excellent work. I wanted to know and was too lazy to Nancy Drew it myself. I appreciate your sleuthing.

His daughter was hit by a flying umbrella at Disneyland. So sad! She may never lead cheers again! I smell a lawsuit. Must have more knights in armor for the movie room!

She was not in enough pain as to be unable to pile on the makeup for her sympathy shoot. They probably hired a glam squad.

Mrs. Langston is a lawyer, too.

🎼 When you wish upon a star … 🎼

His sister is dead.

It is not a ril Russian oligarch palace

Where is the armed Militsiya?

Where are the drunk, hopeless peasants?

Where are the hackers who post on DL during the night?

We admire the Langston family very much and have a great deal in common with them.

It’s hard to believe it’s not in Florida.

I liked the grotto though.

That bitch daughter sure tarted up in that photo with the neck brace on.

I love that there are no books in the library. Dust magnets.

It's cohesive.

Yes, PP, the automatic garage door in the 'grotto' LOL. So ugly!

What on earth is it's purpose? To keep out pigeons? To imprison unwitting guests? Surely a grating or portcullis would have been more visually appealing.

I'll now make my usual TF remark - as a European, 5 million would buy you a nice, well renovated, 4/5 bedroom villa in the West end of my city. What the hell is this palace made of that it only costs 5m, plywood and Styrofoam? Is it built next to a sinkhole?

I'd install fifteen old homeless lesbians and see what happens.

I'm sure the grotto could be converted for an hydroponic grow. The garage door would release some of the skunk.

There's this incredibly tacky restaurant called Casa Bonita in Denver and they have a ton of alcoves that look exactly like the one in this house, minus the random garage door.

Southlake is the most generic/basic/ugly “wealthy” town I have ever seen. It is a basic bitch middle America Applebee’s delight of a town.

[quote]She was not in enough pain as to be unable to pile on the makeup for her sympathy shoot.

It was her performance makeup, as the article said.

It looks as though the owner bought everything from Toscano Designs.

I would like to see it with the owners furniture not the staged crap in the photos, with all the dark woodwork I guess white was the only color that worked.

This house is a personal injury.

Broke? or getting divorced?

They're moving up to a $10million dollar shithole - an Italianate Adobe Ranch.

"Totally fit for royalty" erm.. NOT! When USA is trying hard to look like Middle Aged EuropeI have to say that it's VERY ridiculous. Really ridiculous.

There is a long and rich History behind European castles unlike American copycats. Ridiculous.

^ Plus, America don't have royalty.

Built in 2010...; hahaha seriously!

They sure spent a lot of money to make it look cheap and tacky.

Even the most ordinary castle in Europe is twice the age of America.

As we say in these threads... location, location, location. $5mil would buy a nice 3 bedroom, 1900sf rancher in Palo Alto.

They appear to have a daughter Abby who is either dying or who recently died of leukemia. They are Democrats--at least the wife is. She has a Facebook picture of RBG that says "My inspiration." They masked and put up posts urging people to vote

They may have bad taste but they're not bad people.

R41 Thank you for the balanced input. Can we still make fun of the neck brace glamour shot or is that the daughter who died?

It's not my taste - and there's a lot that is distasteful - but it's not a complete horror show. It could be redone OK.

Why is it straight men always literally want to be the king of their castle?

Do they have any idea how this looks to other people? Oh - that's right, it's TEXAS.

I would have sworn it was owned by an NBA player.

They are both from Mississippi.

So we can’t blame Texas for this one.

Having looked at tons of McMansion listings, my initial impression of the exterior shots was... well its not THAT bad -- the roof-lines aren't ridiculous, house is enormous but overall proportions aren't offensive, the stonework is decent, no stucco, bonus points for actually figuring out how to hide the garage... Then I saw the first interior shot. Boy-O-Boyardee!

Check out the white wall outlet behind the huge white urn in photo 8!!

“Tasteful” is not a word used anywhere in the vicinity of Russian oligarchs.

The inside is hideous. The outside would be so much less offensive it was old, and built with red brick rather than that orange brick.

Is the wife the second wife? By the looks of it, it was designed by him.

Inspired, no doubt, by visits to "Medieval Times". I seem to recall a huge one in the Market Center area of Dallas. It looks like a maintenance nightmare. I wonder if the ambulance chasing business has slowed down and made it difficult to keep up the place. The decor seems a bit "specific" for them to have a quick sale.

Wow, it is like Super Size Me! McMansion. Tacky Dallas people and their tastes.

I would never have lived in that monstrosity.

“This not come froms Holy Russia it come from unholy Texas like George Bush. Oh, you keep a good hate on Tranny and Boris get goat, 3 sack grain, and slut with only three disease.”

We've seen much worse on here. I actually like the outside. The inside isnt as garish as I thought it'd be,but several rooms do need to be redone. I just dont understand a small family needing such a huge house.

Because Texas.

Casa Bonita is real? @R27 South Park does it again

LA ISLA… BONITA!

Yeah, r56, I'd been there twice by the time I finally saw the "South Park" episode. They did a pretty good job portraying it, they only thing they missed was the food poisoning.

Why do tacky new money hicks always put tapestries on the walls?

How do people purposely cross the line into tacky?

What's all this crap about Russia. That looks to me like late 19th century America's take on Victorian architecture. Home like this were built all around the country..

Looks like something a big lotto winner who formerly lived in a trailer park would build, and live in for only a few years until they'd spent every dollar they won in the lottery, and then had to move back to the trailer park.

The typical lottery win scenario for people who have no self control when they have some money.

You know your life is totally out of control when you need ten toilets.