Tasteful Friends - 1906 home, beautiful, but its in Detroit (at least one of the nicer parts)

I imagine that is the Markle dream house.

R1- The turret would the only thing she would need to see. Sold!

It's porte cochère, dear.

The stairway in photo 24...

...fetish unlocked.

R3 shit, I knew it was something like that. Thanks for the correction

You Markle loons never give up...

[quote] but its in Detroit (at least one of the nicer parts)

Haha, nicer parts...

All that dark wood, bad faux painting, and rococo woodwork...

and in Detroit

The rococo rooms need a LOT of work. They could be grand but its difficult to tell if there is truely refined stucco work, from the shitty photos. It looks like it may sadly be very bad pastiche. But maybe not. The wood rooms seem to have good woodwork, carving, and panelling.

Gorgeous. If only the water were drinkable and the streets were unshootable and you have the security staff to defend it.

I love the wood and the carvings and the old world mastery of the place.

I'll give you tree fiddy for it.

I had a conference in Detroit and managed to go on a house tour. Many are gorgeous but it’s a ghost town.

It’s a time capsule. Paneling for the gents and rococo for the ladies. Thus is the kind of house where the ladies withdraw and the men are served port. An elderly couple would be the targeted buyers. I’d like to see what those budget remodelers on hgtv would do to it.

I don't know, everything about it is so over the top. Louis XIV, Victorian and Tudor seem to be at war here

Hate the main house, love the carriage house.

I do not like it. Some of the woodwork is impressive, but it is too much. Too big and too much work.

It's overwhelming. I'd feel like a small dog who has the run of the house going from room to room wondering what I'm suppose to do in this space

There's a shiny city west of here

Where dreams are booming into gear

It's no humm-drumm 9 to 5 town

It's a growing, going, bright, alive town

Golden sparks light up the skies there like a thousand 4th of Julys there

How I want to stake a claim in, roll up my sleeves and make a name in

DETROIT

You can hear it humming

See it coming

Feel it everywhere you go

It's tomorrow morning

The future dawning with a bright and shining glow

It's the land where golden chariots are molded out of dreams

DETROIT

DETROIT

DETROIT

DETROIT

It's DETROIT

There are R7.

[quote]I had a conference in Detroit and managed to go on a house tour. Many are gorgeous but it’s a ghost town.

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R7 Detroit has been absolutely horrendous in recent years, and large swathes of it likely still are. However it is starting to recover from its long dark night of the soul, and this house is in Indian Village which is amongst the ten safest areas there. Still not great though I'll grant, and the climate is pretty awful as far as I know.

The house itself though.... I'd be all over it in a different location

The staircase is absolutely astounding, and I love that so many original fixtures remain and the whole thing hasn't been painted over in white semi-gloss, but those painted ceilings are a mess. There's so much fading and flaking that the paint looks like water damage in some rooms.

Like r14, I love the carriage house more than the main home.