Most baller house in your area...aerial or street view shots

There are others like it, some with much more elaborate/beautiful landscaping, but this was the best photo available.

In reality:


I take it that the definition of "baller"
is more money than taste.

Originally Posted by mm84321

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He also has quite an extensive art collection, including Kooning, Pollock, Warhol, and Picasso.


But the $$$ he paid for some of that Damien Hirst crap???? I don't get it.
Not to get into art theory or anything like that.

This is the architectural 'masterpiece' you can get for a cool $14 million in Vancouver

lol wtf is that horrifying butterfly doing there?

Originally Posted by mordecai

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lol wtf is that horrifying butterfly doing there?

Looking for another place to do flies other than that cramped "gym"

Originally Posted by Sartorial1

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Assuming it is structurally sound and nice on the inside, I'd rather live here than the other places. I don't think I could live with myself if I lived in a house >3000 square feet or so. Plus, charleston is awesome!

Made in California, I must ask, why do you speak in purple?

I live in Charlotte but have a house in the mountains of Asheville that I spend a good amount of time at so mine goes to the Biltmore Estate.
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Made in California, I must ask, why do you speak in purple?
I scroll up to the indigo text then start reading. It's easy to see where I left off or if something I said was quoted. No one else colors their text so I might as well.

You do know that you can just click this button: and it takes you to the first new post, right?

1458 Lakeshore Road East, Oakville (the estate is on the south side of Lakeshore directly across from the entrance to Caulder Drive).

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Best house in SF has no good photographs. It is the Russell house done by Erich Mendelsohn in the fifties. Just an amazing place. I guess where I grew up the most baller is the Larry Ellison estate, but not my style.

I found a picture of the house from the 50's, before the shrubs grew up around it, here.

L.A. is so full of amazing houses I wouldn't know where to begin. The Huntington mansion is incredible just for the gardens, if it were still a private residence and not a museum.

David Geffen bought Jack Warner's old estate in in 1990 for $47M, which at the time was the highest price ever paid for a private residence, and promptly spent $50M remodeling it. And he doesn't even live there - he uses it for entertaining. He lives on a house that comprises 5 adjacent lots on the beach in Malibu. I haven't seen these houses but I suspect they're not tacky - though I could be wrong.

I've been inside of Robert Evans famous Beverly Hills house, which is surprisingly tasteful and reserved. His bedroom was kind of gross, with a mink bedspread, but the grounds are lovely.

I also went to an event at Dustin Hoffman's house in the Palisades. It didn't look like anything special from the street but the lot was immense - the pool house was far bigger than the house I live in.

If money was no object I'd want of the the older Point Dume estates in Malibu, with a relatively modest one story house on an acre of ocean front property, then a second "city" house in the Hollywood Hills.