(You have to click on the tiny arrow in the middle of the right side of the photo to see the other photos, which are absurd. The first photo makes the place look great!)
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"This $1.775 million Washington, DC home has an 'Actual theater set piece" built into the living room wall as well as a bathroom made from poured concrete."
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The facade is pretty stupid, but I like the bathroom!
I like the bathroom as well. Easy to clean, it would seem like. Assuming the concrete is appropriately sealed and periodically re-sealed. Just hose everything down!
The old townhouse facade "theater set piece" is indeed whackadoodle.
What? No dungeon?
Hard pass.
My brain can't quite piece the bathroom pictures together to create an understanding of the dimensions and where everything fits.
Agree with Yancy 100% But you had better KEEP liking that bathroom because changing it will be tricky...
The bathroom *looks* cool, but I believe it is lying in wait and has plans to kill. One of the commenters at Instagram says something like, everyone is going to fall into the bathtub and die. Look how everything is white and there's no edge at all to the tub, which is just sunken. It looks quite slippery too, and as concrete, it's going to be very hard.
A poured concrete bathroom is a really bad idea. When we were looking to remodel our kitchen I thought about getting poured concrete counter tops. However, after researching them I decided the downsides were to great. Concrete requires a great deal of upkeep. Its porous and stains easily. In addition, it doesn't handle temperature extremes very well. I'm sure they sealed the concrete, but even so I'm seeing a lot of mold in that bathroom in the future. And maybe some flaking.
Concrete is also very heavy. So much so that if you do decide to use is as a counter top in your kitchen you need to reinforce the cabinets it is going to be placed on to support the extra weight. So, that means they must have had to reinforce the house to support the weight of the bathroom, or at least hopefully they did.
Depending on the neighborhood, $1.775M could be quite a bargain in DC.
As Churchill once said ... "This pudding has no THEME."
I don't have an Instagram account so can't view photos.
But the price seems absurdly low for that square footage in DC.
It's either in a crack-infested 'hood or it's a ploy to start a bidding war.
Poured and sealed concrete might be good for a self-cleaning bathroom. I don’t mind the step down into the shower, it’s the steps down into the bathroom itself that will kill you when you need to take a leak at 3am.
As far as the theatre set piece, it does introduce the feeling of having windows into a townhouse that can’t have that can’t have windows on the sides due to the adjoining buildings.
I also have problems with the staircase and balustrade, it looks like something out of an office building or museum.
The bathroom is jarring. Don't like it - does't fit the rest of the house. Of course, the theatre set doesn't either.
That bathroom. Ugh.
That tenement side needs a fire escape, so they can do West Side Story at home on those cold winter nights. Or pretend to be Mollie Goldberg.
I like the seamless look of the poured concrete. But concrete is porous (like a sponge) and an ideal surface for mold in high humidity environments. I wonder what the washroom looks like after a few showers.
It is odd to see a washroom with no tiles and grout lines. I guess you can use solid surfacing for the shower walls to achieve a similar effect. Maybe that would be nicer?
Ron Winkleheimer said...
Concrete is also very heavy. So much so that if you do decide to use is as a counter top in your kitchen you need to reinforce the cabinets it is going to be placed on to support the extra weight. So, that means they must have had to reinforce the house to support the weight of the bathroom, or at least hopefully they did.
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Years ago, former camera/photography giant Eastman Kodak erected a very large building near Rochester NY as part of a complex called Kodak Park, serving its employees as a gym, cafeteria and general social center.
Inside was a large swimming pool made with concrete. It was never used.
Why? Because the architects forgot to account for the weight of the water.
Filled, the pool would have brought down the building.
So there it sat, usable only for putting together billboard-sized photos.
Cue the Sad Trombones.
Looks amazing.
Ron Winkleheimer said... I thought about getting poured concrete counter tops. However, after researching them I decided the downsides were to great
My brother has a poured concrete countertop and he loves it. I've never heard a complaint.
The tenement facade is a bit odd but I i think I like it.
I like the bathroom subject to other's comments about cleaning and maintenance.
Which photo shows the 'actual theater set'?
Heh.
"I don't have an Instagram account so can't view photos."
You don't need an Instagram account to see the photos. Isn't it displayed right there, with a clickable arrow? I tried in my other browser, where I'm not signed up to Instagram and on my phone which isn't signed up. I can even click through to the site and see things without being signed in.
A home is our stage. That set piece is genius.
A home is a museum, a theater, a restaurant/hotel and at times a war zone.
Concrete bathroom and “movie feature” are out and out eyesores!
Snobbery chic.
Chez Antoinette.
Let them eat rats.
Suppose that concrete bath is relatively radiation proof?
I don't have Instagram but I can always follow Prof's photo links.
When we were in Europe in '19, our hotel rooms had big bathtubs. Big, high-sided, slicker-than-ice bathtubs, with no stable handholds anywhere near. In fact, in Berlin the tub was
between two unfixed pieces of furniture and had a swinging half-door that could not be locked.
Getting in and out were dangerous maneuvers. Crazy.
The bathroom in the DC place looks OK (if potentially dangerous) but the rest of the joint--ugh.
That staircase is horrible.
The bathroom reminds me of the set from the original Planet of the Apes movie. See https://planetoftheapes.fandom.com/wiki/Ape_City_(East_Coast) ("It took the form of clusters of adobe structures, without any uniform shape...").
You can find the house on Redfin. This DC resident doesn't find the price low. At $442 per square foot it is in line with the market and there must be a discount for the set piece and the bathroom. On the plus side, the location is great: 2 blocks to a really good dog park and 3 blocks to Metro.
For those without an account Instagram gives free looks at recent posts then locks out. On some of my devices it locks out completely…
Big Mike said...
Depending on the neighborhood, $1.775M could be quite a bargain in DC."
The fact that homes in DC are so expensive is a measure of how screwed the rest of the country is in.
As for this particular house as noted in an above comment being relatively inexpensive that is due to its weirdness. It takes a certain type of buyer that wants this and that is not the typical buyer.
I think the bathroom is also a set, but this time from Woody Allen's "Sleeper"
We can donate Loudon Co./Arlington Co./Alexandria and Montgomery Co. Md back to England, as well as the district. Never before has there been so many over-compensated grifters. Whether it is direct tax money, or money made at law firms and other "workers".
The walls look like the place is part of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. The bathroom looks like it's made of injection-molded plastic or maybe soap or white chocolate. If the bathtub actually were made of scratchy concrete it would make up for that.
A mix of beautiful woodwork, clean off white walls, and, for contrast, an aged brick fireplace. That's the good. The not-so-good; a poured concrete bath. Much like a "restored" collectable British automobile; beautiful to behold, a potential nightmare to maintain. Also, bonus! A theatrical backdrop for your weekly "Westside Story" vignettes...
The bathroom looks like it could be out of a Star Wars set.
Our betters live a life of luxury and absurdity. I'd bet good money that the owner drives a Tesla.
And $1.75m would buy a mansion in Omaha. Warren Buffett's house isn't assessed for that amount.
The tenement facade is a bit odd but I i think I like it.
I like the bathroom subject to other's comments about cleaning and maintenance.
Instagram only for me it seems.
well, pic shows up on firefox but not Safari
The down side is you'd be living in DC.
I have the same ceiling fan. The rest of the place is gauche.
Why in Hell wouldn’t you make the asking price 1776 (000)?
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