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Who on earth would live in such a blue, blue house? Clearly:
Or maybe:
It’s the only possible explanation.
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Could it be Blue Man Group’s house?
The seller’s are feeling a little blue today?
House by Gainsborough?
You forgot Bear in the Big Blue House.
I am impressed that you put Zhann (sp?) from Farscape in there!
oh gag.
Great example of too much $$ and not enough taste. Also, more than a little OCD with the collectibles– spoons, ivory figurines, flags, glassware, blue delft, OH MY!! HID.E.O.SO!
Unfortunately, it reminds me of my sister’s house.
Nobody actually *lives* in that house, right? It’s just for show, and then the visitors have afternoon tea on one of the many, many wrought-iron tables on the flagstone terrace. Right?
They like blue plates. They really like blue plates.
They really, really like blue plates.
They really, really, REALLY like blue plates.
How come the floor tiles aren’t blue?
That would be over the top.
No, it would be along the bottom.
Did you see the photo of the “Hall full bath with double sinks”? The photo… is of a toilet & bidet… I don’t want to wash my hands in either one tyvm!
That was my favorite pic/caption!!!! LOL
The caption on the Great Room photo threw me for a loop:
“GREAT ROOM WITH 12 FOOR CEILING”
My brain’s first attempt at correcting the typo was “FLOOR”. Funny, it didn’t look that tall. I wouldn’t want to be the one replacing light bulbs, either.
Nice picture of Tobias from Arrested Development! LOL! He’s tacky enough to live there, for sure. I hate a bunch of trinkety collectible crap – who the heck wants to dust it?
I think hanging out with Pa’u Zhota Zhaan could probably do Violet Beauregard a world of good–but even an annoying brat like Violet doesn’t deserve to live in that house.
OH MAN… I just clicked thru all of the photos. I doesn’t get any better. The best part of that house is the outside. It’s FULL OF JUNK. Even if they think their possessions are valuable, they sure don’t look it. Trying too hard. Agent should have asked them to thin that out a bit. $7 million dollars!? It’s going to take a whole heck of a lot more money to make it look as nice on the inside as it does on the outside. This house would have shown better completely emptied with a stager’s touch.
Scary thought: Maybe the agent DID ask them to thin it out, and they ALREADY HAD!!
ahhhhhhhhh! :0 that would mean there is a storage unit out there…
Maybe that fellow who took too much medication lives there …
http://bagofbirds.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/20080219_102_350x263.jpg
It’s smurfin’ blue either way!
Or Paul Giammati: http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/020206/13544__bigfat_l.jpg
I think I’ve found the buyers …
http://www.smurf.com/smurf.php/www/home/en
Looking through all the photos, it appears the owners never met a chandelier they did not like.
You’d think their agent would sit them down for the staging talk.
I’m sorry, but a 7 MILLION $$$ house with circa 1970 appliances? They must be out of their friggin’ minds. (I know, I know, anyone willing to pay that amount is going to rip out much of the interior anyway, but I would be embarassed to put my house on the market in such a state…)
Also, this house is in the Spring Valley area of DC which is notoriously famous for having been used as a missle dumping ground in the 40s. Good luck getting any insurance company to underwrite this property. There are blocks of this neighborhood that are vacant because of the problems. Notice the Saftey Orange sign in one of the picutures in the front.
Some Diplomat has more money than sense. I spy a recruit for the Real Housewives of DC.
Wait, what? That’s fascinating, but I can’t see the sign. Which photo is it in?
Are the plates included? Because otherwise, that look just doesn’t work for me. It just wouldn’t work as well without the plates.
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The smurfs must be on vacation…
I think I just blue myself. 5 stars for the reference.
There has got to be a better way to say that.
Well, no one’s going to top that.
Maybe this is where the aliens in the Avatar movie live.
My thought is that they’re colorblind and blue is the only color they can see–I’ve read about people like that. Hell, if I could only see one color, I’d wallpaper my house in it.
To quote Dr. Jane Kaminsky:
“Do you have a problem with people of color?”
OK enough obscure Sci-Fi references.
I actually love blue willow style china, but that’s a bit much even for me!
I have to agree, if you REALLY want to sell the house and move, why not pack that stuff up and stage the house a bit?
It’s not china it’s called delft, every fricking thing you see there is delft…
I’ve seen houses that look like this… all accept the cupboards… It’s a Dutch thing… or Dutch heritage anyways…
I like blue and white decor, but not when it slaps you in the face! How did they get that frig the exact blue?
Maybe it belongs to Mystique, Beast and Nightcrawler from the X-Men? Or Eiffel 65 perhaps.
I have a blue house with a blue window.
And a blue Corvette.
From the description that it can be used as an embassy, the Latin art throughout and several things that say Nicaragua, my guess is this now is being used as an ambassador’s home.
No Dr. Manhattan?
The house belonged to the late Dr. Francisco Aguirre who founded the newspaper Diario Las Americas. He died a little over a year ago so this is probably part of settling the estate. You can read about him here; it is a fascinating article.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/31/AR2008123102069.html
That is an extremely expensive and exclusive neighborhood but not gated.
From the article: the onetime home of Filipina screen star Isabel Rosario “Dimples” Cooper, Douglas MacArthur’s mistress
Wow! Muchas gracias, Sue! Me gusta mucho. (I hope I got that right, I have not used that language on a regular basis for over 35 years).
My dad was part of the Army intelligence in South and Central America in the late 1950s to the 1970s. I wonder if he knew of Dr. Aguirre.
That house does remind me of some of the overdone houses I saw while living in South and Central America by those who were the newly rich. Actually, it also reminded me of my step-mother’s style when she got older as she tried to put every single family photo on the wall!
Sadly, we collect plates. But not just the Delft kind (even though my husband is Dutch). Looking up at the walls above my kitchen cabinets, there are at least fifteen inches between each plate. Plus three are plates done by my kids at one of the “paint your won pottery places” at the local mall, and another is a ceramic fish my daughter did in school.
Thank you so much for that link, Sue T. That was a worthwhile, and interesting read. What a fascinatingly diverse experience that man’s life was! Influencing national policy to driving a taxi, to establishing a newspaper.
He lived a life with a great deal of scope.
Plus, it would seem, a tremendous love of blue.
Smurf?
Picasso’s old digs?
http://www.dotcalmvillage.net/nowwhatzinesep02/legacysep.html
Ah! This real estate listing was created during Picasso’s Blue Period. It’s been well-maintained over the years.
Who puts rocking chairs at their kitchen table?
People who like to wear bibs.
What about Mystique from X-men? She would feel at home their too! Waay too much blue!
This blue me away.
The term “understated elegance” was obviously unknown to the owner.
I’ll have a blue Christmas without you…..
obviously, whoever has played the game Earthbound would know that it’s the Happy Happy cult!
I bow down to you because of the Arrested Development reference.
The Danbury Mint had a big sale.
http://www.danburymint.com/collectibles/?source=WG03&cm_mmc=google-_-collectibles-_-home-_-the_danbury_mint
Ugh. It’s a beautiful house, but too bad about the decorating. It looks like the homeowners have some beautiful antiques, but they have way too many and no idea of how to create a cohesive look.
No one else thinks photo #1 is where Chairs go when they are old and blue?
Though I’m loving the Violet Beauregarde pic! She’s even round like the plates!
If I could afford it, I’d keep part of the decor and turn it into a B&B! Those themed bedrooms are perfect, if overdone.
I really like blue-and-white; my grandmother’s china pattern was Blue Danube, and it has warm, fuzzy, Grandma-and-hot-chocolate associations for me. Blue Danube is now my china pattern, too, and I have a plate rack on my kitchen wall with some of the Danube china in it.
That said, those plated walls are making me nauseous.
A plate rack. “A” as in ONE!!
Another prime suspect for the resident: Madame Blueberry from Veggie Tales. She sings, “I’m so blue oo ooo, blue oo ooo blue ooo ooo ooooooo, I’m so blue I don’t know what to do!!”
XD
I actually like all the blue, it’s the overuse of plates that i find odd.
My mother’s guest bathroom looks EXACTLY like this – if not more hideous… there isn’t an inch of wall space to be found in the entire room!