06-11-2005, 07:08 AM | #1 (permalink) | |
Beware the Mad Irish
Location: Wish I was on the N17...
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Home Shows - aka Homearama
Mal's thread on architecture spurred a thought about the annual tradition in these parts that's called Homearama. It's a home show where local custom home builders get to show off their wares. Typically there are 10 to 15 home builders that will build 5000 to 7000 square foot upscale homes that range in price anywhere from $1,000,000 to over $2,800,000 (this years top list price). And let me tell you ... in Cincinnati $2.8 mil buys one hell of a lot of house. The Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer, for example, bought a home in the most exclusive part of the city and he could only spend $1.5mil.
The show runs for two weeks and for $10 you can tour each of these palaces and check out all manner of design style inside and out. Anything from landscaping to painting to paver stones to kitchens to media rooms to saunas and wine room and fully equiped work out facilties. The homes are extravantly decorated and lavishly furnished. An estimated 100,000 people will visit the show and I will be one of them. Is this common in your area? Would you go to such a show? Homearama Overview Here are some sketches of this year's entries: Quote:
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06-11-2005, 10:03 AM | #2 (permalink) |
hoarding all the big girl panties since 2005
Location: North side
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Neat! Asheville doesn't have anything like that, but basically if you go two seconds out of your way when you're driving around, you can see all sorts of nice houses (from the outside). And anyone can drive through Biltmore Forest (Tom Cruise and Andy McDowel both have houses there). Sounds fun!
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06-11-2005, 10:09 AM | #3 (permalink) |
Observant Ruminant
Location: Rich Wannabe Hippie Town
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On the California coast, they don't need to have shows like that. Everything sells. All the developer needs to do is put an ad in a few papers, and people show up. Sometimes there even have to be lotteries for the privilege of buying the house.
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06-11-2005, 04:32 PM | #5 (permalink) |
wouldn't mind being a ninja.
Location: Maine, the Other White State.
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We don't have anything of that sort near here in Southern Maine... but that's because there are lots of those type of houses selling every day. $2.6 million is an average price for that type of house - many waterfront properties here go for $5 million or more. And the properties aren't even that large. You can pay $2 million for what is essentially a beach cottage in a cramped neighborhood in some of the wealthier towns.
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06-12-2005, 03:31 AM | #6 (permalink) |
Likes Hats
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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It sounds like a great kind of event, I'd definitely go. I know my mother would LOVE it! The only thing similar I can think of is that some of the catalogue-house makers have little villages where they show off their most popular models fully furnitured so you can get a feel of how it would be to live in them, but it's more middle-class range than top of the line luxury. There's just not a big enough market for that in Sweden I think.
On a side note: do you get a lot of snow in Cincinatti? The houses all have so steep roofs! |
06-12-2005, 04:00 AM | #7 (permalink) |
Beware the Mad Irish
Location: Wish I was on the N17...
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Sage -- I was in Asheville a few weeks ago for a quick Saturday trip and I was amazed at how beautiful that area is. It was my first pass through that part of N.C. and I'm definitely heading back there for a weekender or maybe longer. I went to the Biltmore for lunch but they wouldn't let us in just to go to the restaurant. Lovely area...
MooseMan -- yeah I figued that along the coasts there wouldn't be much of a comparison. 6000 Sq. Ft monsters that are lavishly detailed like these aren't all that common around here thus the exhorbitant price. You can buy a 3500 Sq Ft home with a walk-out basement (so add a few hundred feet to the base) for anywhere from $300K to $450K depending on the neighborhood. Pip -- I suspect we don't get as much snow as you get in Sweeden but we do get a fair amount on occasion. Every once in a while we'll get dumped on like last December when the "white death" dropped about 25 inches on us. Those events are rare though and we'll usually get the garden variety of 2 to 6 inches every once in while over the typical winter. Not too bad by snow standards really but it doesn't stop me from complaining about it The pitch of the roof lines on these houses is common around here. In some of the older suburbs maybe not so much but in a lot of the newer construction the roof lines offer a more dramatic effect.
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06-12-2005, 07:29 AM | #8 (permalink) | |
Kick Ass Kunoichi
Location: Oregon
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06-12-2005, 06:16 PM | #10 (permalink) | |
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Location: Taking a mulligan
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How about Squirrel Island? I've got some relatives who own there. Ever heard of it? How are the values there? |
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