November 8, 20195 yr I was in Tokyo last week and made a point to swing by Renzo Piano's glass block clad Maison Hermès: Edited November 8, 20195 yr by Ram23 formatting
November 9, 20195 yr https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/3337-W-Erie-Ave_Lorain_OH_44053_M36706-28489?view=qv Awkward to put the front door in the middle of a wall of glass block...
November 9, 20195 yr 1 hour ago, buckeye1 said: https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/3337-W-Erie-Ave_Lorain_OH_44053_M36706-28489?view=qv Awkward to put the front door in the middle of a wall of glass block... To whomever built, designed or renovated this.... Edited November 9, 20195 yr by MyTwoSense
November 9, 20195 yr ^ Going OT here but, looking at the interior shots, the overall layout of that place is a disaster. I’ve never seen 4K+ sq feet be made to look so small. Way too many bedrooms in that space. My hovercraft is full of eels
November 10, 20195 yr 2 hours ago, jmecklenborg said: Even the detached garage is ugly. This person must be in sales. Or a friend of yours...... Please tell me you know this person or have a story about this person! LOL
November 10, 20195 yr 17 hours ago, roman totale XVII said: ^ Going OT here but, looking at the interior shots, the overall layout of that place is a disaster. I’ve never seen 4K+ sq feet be made to look so small. Way too many bedrooms in that space. Yeah but it being built in 1946 might explain that-much smaller bedroom sizes then. If they cleared up the circulation/reduced the number of bedrooms, I would kind of like it. i have to admit i don't mind the front of the house and the interior entry. The garage does look plain as hell though. Edited November 10, 20195 yr by Toddguy
November 10, 20195 yr On 9/15/2015 at 11:17 PM, jmecklenborg said: GAH! This horrible home is located about a 1/2 mile from where I spent a few of my formative years, on the site of a former wasp-infested school bus junk yard that I discovered in the woods at the tender age of 10 or 11. This dump looks like a circa-1981 Howard Johnson, but was built around 2005. No doubt by some former pro athlete or a "successful" small business owner. Four and a half years after this thing got listed, it's still on the market... https://www.zillow.com/homes/7601-sheed-road,-white-oak-oh_rb/34303548_zpid/ They're now into the 6-figure asking range, nearly halving their initial asking price of $1.6m. “To an Ohio resident - wherever he lives - some other part of his state seems unreal.”
November 10, 20195 yr 3 hours ago, BigDipper 80 said: Four and a half years after this thing got listed, it's still on the market... https://www.zillow.com/homes/7601-sheed-road,-white-oak-oh_rb/34303548_zpid/ They're now into the 6-figure asking range, nearly halving their initial asking price of $1.6m. Wow. And meanwhile, that area of town has seen general housing prices increase significantly. Looking through those photos again, I was even more appalled by how awkward the whole place is. Seemingly every room is awkwardly shaped and several seem to have no obvious use.
November 10, 20195 yr 3 hours ago, jmecklenborg said: Wow. And meanwhile, that area of town has seen general housing prices increase significantly. Looking through those photos again, I was even more appalled by how awkward the whole place is. Seemingly every room is awkwardly shaped and several seem to have no obvious use. That house is horrible and the glass block is about the least of the problems! Yikes what a mess.
December 10, 20195 yr Found this Houston beauty on Zillow: Edited December 10, 20195 yr by BigDipper 80 “To an Ohio resident - wherever he lives - some other part of his state seems unreal.”
December 10, 20195 yr ^ I get that you don’t always want huge windows in a place with brutal sunshine and heat, but the window size, shape and placement on that house are just plain odd. My hovercraft is full of eels
December 23, 20195 yr On 12/10/2019 at 10:17 AM, roman totale XVII said: ^ I get that you don’t always want huge windows in a place with brutal sunshine and heat, but the window size, shape and placement on that house are just plain odd. I fixed that for you.
December 23, 20195 yr That last house posted is just an atrocity looks wise. It reminds me of some of those awful new upper middle class homes built in Eastern Europe-just terrible looking. What the heck is that in the far left window on the second floor?-it just looks bizarre and random. All of the windows are just awful together. And all of that pavement and then that tiny patch of bare lawn and no landscaping save a single shrub makes the house look even more ugly and brutal.. Damn all of that pavement must sizzle with heat in the summer. Edited December 23, 20195 yr by Toddguy
December 23, 20195 yr 3 minutes ago, Toddguy said: That last house posted is just an atrocity looks wise. It reminds me of some of those awful new upper middle class homes built in Eastern Europe-just terrible looking. ...or a number of Cleveland's westside suburbs.
December 23, 20195 yr 3 minutes ago, MyTwoSense said: ...or a number of Cleveland's westside suburbs. I doubt you can show me anything that awful. That house is just so terrible on so many levels I can barely stand to look at the pic. And yes the glass block is terrible too but there are so. many. other. things. wrong! with that house. It literally hurts my eyes to look at it. Edited December 23, 20195 yr by Toddguy
December 24, 20195 yr 2 hours ago, jmecklenborg said: They're doing a great job hiding one garbage can but not the other. I didnt catch the one on the right until you mentioned it. I also do not understand wha they have six styles of windows, one appears to be stained glass, in one house. Also the placement of the downspouts appear to be in the wrong place. Looks like water would run into the entrance or garage. The front elevation doesn't look level or slopping away from the house to the street. I wonder what the foundation is like.
December 24, 20195 yr 4 hours ago, MyTwoSense said: I didnt catch the one on the right until you mentioned it. I also do not understand wha they have six styles of windows, one appears to be stained glass, in one house. Also the placement of the downspouts appear to be in the wrong place. Looks like water would run into the entrance or garage. The front elevation doesn't look level or slopping away from the house to the street. I wonder what the foundation is like. And that big power pole out back is a really nice touch. When I was a kid, my babysitter's sister had a gigantic electric tower in her front yard. The house is a landmark on the west side of Cincinnati. Back in the 80s the house still had the old farm sink in the kitchen and might have still had a coal furnace. This high tension line was thrown up in the early 1940s to power the war-related industries...imagine owning this thing back then and the crew shows up and a week later this thing is standing in your front yard!
December 24, 20195 yr 9 hours ago, jmecklenborg said: And that big power pole out back is a really nice touch. When I was a kid, my babysitter's sister had a gigantic electric tower in her front yard. The house is a landmark on the west side of Cincinnati. Back in the 80s the house still had the old farm sink in the kitchen and might have still had a coal furnace. This high tension line was thrown up in the early 1940s to power the war-related industries...imagine owning this thing back then and the crew shows up and a week later this thing is standing in your front yard! I drive by that house a few times a week - it's one of my favorite houses in Cincinnati. I've worked on properties that had high tension power lines like these on them and power companies won't let you put anything within 40' of them. Not even things like fences, sidewalks, gravel parking lots, planters, etc. Yet somehow this entire house remains directly below one - almost close enough you could reach out and touch the tower from the bedroom windows.
December 24, 20195 yr ^I only recall going to the house once. It was primitive in there...like it barely had electricity despite the lines running directly overhead.
January 5, 20205 yr What's interesting is that if you follow the high tension power lines, you can see that developers took advantage of the newly cleared land to build several new apartment complexes. However only the parking lots were build directly under the power lines, and the apartments themselves were built off to either side. In a few places, subdivisions were built so that a street was directly under the power lines with houses off to either side. I don't see any other examples like the one you posted, where an old home got a tower plopped down right on their property.
October 1, 20204 yr This could probably be cross-posted in the Weird Real Estate Listings thread... https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5887-Batsford-Dr-Dayton-OH-45459/35048126_zpid/? Edited October 1, 20204 yr by BigDipper 80 “To an Ohio resident - wherever he lives - some other part of his state seems unreal.”
October 1, 20204 yr On 9/23/2020 at 8:55 PM, taestell said: I feel like those Pepsi machines would have Jeff Gordon on them in 1997.
October 1, 20204 yr 3 hours ago, BigDipper 80 said: This could probably be cross-posted in the Weird Real Estate Listings Is this a former Mike Tyson residence?
October 1, 20204 yr 5 hours ago, BigDipper 80 said: This could probably be cross-posted in the Weird Real Estate Listings thread... https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5887-Batsford-Dr-Dayton-OH-45459/35048126_zpid/? And now, YOU TOO can live in a crappy mall's food court!
November 15, 20204 yr There was an unsuccessful attempt to breach my house's glass block defenses this week: I bought a few replacement blocks here: It took $30 in materials and no more than an hour to repair it myself: The first replacement block: 24 hours later, the test kick:
November 16, 20204 yr ^^the reason so many city dwellers use glass block on their basement windows.... Those old windows are too easy to kick in and gain access without setting off alarms.
December 14, 20213 yr 15 hours ago, roman totale XVII said: This is a new one… I'm more concerned about those 3 windows above the patio doors.
December 15, 20213 yr On 12/13/2021 at 5:08 PM, roman totale XVII said: This is a new one… Can I be honest here...
January 27, 20223 yr 5 hours ago, surfohio said: Okay now, this person is all in, and truly living the glass block lifestyle. What are they trying to hide? 🤣
June 16, 20222 yr Not sure I’ve ever seen a home have glass block for every single ‘window’ My hovercraft is full of eels
June 2, 20232 yr So this just came up in my Facebook thread. Not the worst use of glass lock I’ve ever seen. https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2023/06/this-tremont-condo-is-unlike-anything-youve-seen-before-house-of-the-week.html?fbclid=IwAR2ytH2u_jtU_VFk6q9adx_jVac4lzCRi5NHdJGGRBzXyNpXrjxuSS35V1k&mibextid=Zxz2cZ
June 2, 20232 yr Glass block is so unfairly hated on this forum. Sometimes it can actually work and look good and retro. So many haters lol.
January 19, 20241 yr Had exposure to some of the coolest glass block in my childhood...here's the ice rink SUNY Fredonia
January 21, 20241 yr On 1/19/2024 at 2:54 PM, GISguy said: Had exposure to some of the coolest glass block in my childhood...here's the ice rink SUNY Fredonia I wonder if this is a stairwell. Based on the angle of the above photo, that light seems awfully small/short for the area.
January 22, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, MyTwoSense said: I wonder if this is a stairwell. Based on the angle of the above photo, that light seems awfully small/short for the area. Haha it is! I'll see if I can find a pic of them.
April 14, 20241 yr i’ve never seen anything that so makes me wanna cry and yet is pretty cool at the same time — 🙀 https://www.instagram.com/p/CzkTzYjqP4T/?igsh=MTJtNmEwa3gwbnpheQ==
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