Bite my shiny metal house
Oh please oh please oh please someone buy this house and paint it silver and put your TV antenna on top please please please
How can you resist?
Found By: Sigrid
Loveliest response, by Quark: Benderdome House – The Houston Benderdome:
I so want to live in the Bender house. For real.
Was it made in Mexico?
I believe so, and of the finest materials: 30% iron, 40% titanium, 40% lead, 40% zinc, 40% dolomite and a .05% nickel
It’s current owners are Sims, apparently, check out that pool!
That’s what I was gonna say!
I can’t take it….
…the pool photo is the “featured” photo….
…yeah featured part of your video game graphics design portfolio.
Seriously, does this house even have a pool? I tried to find the address on google maps but it points to a shopping district. And I can’t see any white houses anywhere
Hey sexy mama. Wanna … kill all humans?
My Futurama sims will so love this!
(It’s for sims, right?)
It would make a GREAT sim house. I think I might try to make it tonight …
I love the Bender nod! He only needs a closet, though, but he could keep his enslaved humans here. Watch out for Sims relaxing in the hot tub!
This is a computer-generated image, rather than a photo, but it’s just bizzare enough to be a lovely listing anyway! I find it amazing that this house is being built on spec. In this real estate climate, that takes some nads.
“Oooh, I’m livin’ in a box
Livin’ in a cardboard box…”
I would buy it if it were real.
Best… Design advice… Ever.
Two days in a row a LL house has triggered “I want that!” for me. If you’ve ever wondered who buys these homes look no further I guess…(hangs head in shame at obvious lack of taste)
Roballen – I saw that house and thought, “It’s here in Houston, I just know it.” And voila – Houston. Our real estate climate is a lot healthier than most of the US, so it’s less surprising. That said, the location is in a townhouse jungle, so I think the price is a bit optimistic (though it’s a highly convenient, no driving on freeways central city location).
My reaction to the images was “OMG, it’s in Second Life!”
I wouldn’t buy it because it apparently is a garage with human living quarters on top (IMHO having a garage door as the primary street facing feature is one of the few crimes worthy of capital punishment) and the windows tossed along the side like coffee grounds spilling in a garbage can are just ugly.
I agree with you about garage doors (although perhaps would settle for life without parole). It’s the “Here’s the garage! The front door is around here somewhere!” aesthetic.
Nothing says, “hey! I have a CAR! Bet you wish YOU had one!” like a street-facing front-and-center car hole.
What’s really freakish about it is that it’s in an incredible walkable location – literally a block from a whole bunch of restaurants, multiple Starbucks, a big grocery store, a bunch of shops… it’s one of those rare places in Houston where you could avoid driving almost entirely.
I’d get a canopy screen paint on a couple of eyes and install it in the balcony, along with an astronomy telescope dome on the roof.
It’s in River Oaks, so the price is probably right in line with the local market. Millionaires Ahoy.
I wouldn’t want to live there– either that house or that part of town. The major streets (e.g. Westheimer) are soooo narrow and crowded, makes me claustrophobic. My company has a location about a mile from there and I always feel like I’m squeezing between curbs and busses when I drive over there. Give me freeway traffic any day. Guess I’m a suburban girl at heart.
It could be worse – you could have an attic garage. There are a pair of houses on one of the roads out of Edinburgh that are built on the side of a hill. The houses are built into the hill so the garage is in the attic, and the rest of the house below
Yeah, it’s not the best example of modern design, but I like it far better than if it was a “tuscan style” garage with house accessory. Especially if it had those tacky gas house lamps.
So… I’ve never heard of a “cocktail pool” before. Is that a Texas thing? It’s too hot to want a hot tub, so you have a pool the size of a kiddie pool so you can lounge around in a bikini and drink?
Maybe it’s what you use when you need to make an entire 55-gallon drum of cocktail weenies?
A cocktail pool? Does that mean it will make cocktails for you?
Maybe it’s for that person who really, really, really…really…really…loves to drink cocktails. And stabs their olives on a real-life rapier.
Nearly $800K for THAT? No offense to anyone already residing there, but I’m glad I don’t live in Houston.
“Stained concrete floors” is listed as a positive feature. I know, I know, but it just reminds me that as I get older these trends seem dumber and dumber.
I read ‘stained concrete floors’ and thought ‘I hope they plan to clean those up before the sale’. Or maybe that’s just in the car hole. Nothing conveys the warmth of a well loved home like stained concrete.
But I love the front – I would totally live in a Bender house! He’s winking at me!
Houston is really cheap as big cities go. Considering we’re similar in size to Chicago, it’s a real bargain. That price is not typical of what normal sane people pay. (I paid a third of that, this year, for a really charming bungalow in a historic neighborhood 10 minutes from downtown on a postcard-perfect street.)
Do a google image search for [stained concrete floors]. It’s not what you’re thinking at all. Done right, it looks like highly polished marble.
I was going to say something about how nice stained concrete can be, but hell, I LIKE this house. My taste is suspect.
I did as you commanded and looked up some images. Very nice, but I would recommend to the “luxury housing trends” professionals to maybe come up with a nicer sounding name…
agreed! In many cases you’ll find them referred to as “acid etched tinted concrete,” but that’s not much of an improvement. They’re lovely, some of them are bona fide works of art in their own right, and they tend to be VERY expensive – you’d think they could up with something thqt doesn’t sound like someone changed their oil in the living room every three months!
That is so very…very…very…Houston.
It’s truly a futuristic home – the year built date is listed as 2010.
The side looks like some kind of dominoes.
To me, it says ‘Pierce Film Lid’.
I’d buy it just to put giant eyeballs in that window.
Benderdome House – The Houston Benderdome
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/1249/benderdome.jpg
*hugs Quark SO HARD*
It looks like the toy oven I had as a child where I would bake snack cakes with a light bulb.
Tin can, rather garage door opener included.
Those side windows make me think of a submarine.
“We all live in a white submarine, a white (scary) submarine…”
Does anyone else want to connect the dots on the side of the house and see what they make?
Looking at some of the other pictures, not only do you get a house made in the effigy of Futurama’s lovable Bender but you get a free Second Life account! Awesome!
This made my freaking week — I laughed so hard! Thank you. I love Bender.
OMG, that looks like binary code Bender from Bender’s Big Score. The awesomeness…can’t handle the awesomeness1001010010100010101001
This post got featured on local real estate blog “Swamplot” (www.swamplot.com), where a commenter pointed out that while the rendering shows green space around it, in reality it will be wedged in between lots of other townhouses…