WOW! Maybe someone should place a copy of today’s OC Register on his doorstep, which would inform him that he needs to price this place at a 2003/2004 ish price.
Posted by cara on 08/19/08 at 05:07 AM
In a cool, dark place on their side.
The top of the room is the warmest place, so unless he’s shuttering the windows, leaving the door closed and the lights off and A/C it down to 65 or so, he’ll need to be drinking those up quickly. Though that does appear to be the plan.
Posted by G in INdiana on 08/19/08 at 05:16 AM
George8, you store wine bottles on their sides. You turn them to make sure the sediment does not get stuck. You have them in a climate controlled “hamper” or wine storage unit (Costco carries them).
Even the few wines we have are not stored upright unless they are opened. All unopened wine is in the wine cabinet located in the cooler basement area of my home (SE Indiana, we need basements for those pesky tornado things that come through here.)
Posted by AZDavidPhx on 08/19/08 at 05:20 AM
The ultimate metrosexual poser pad.
You can tell that this place has been the current seller’s little recreational project for the last couple years.
He probably never missed an episode of Flip This House or Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.
Posted by Larrygg on 08/19/08 at 05:23 AM
The worse speller anywhere? Liting? And then “feels like a Manhattan or San Francisco abode w/CA attitude”, Isn’t San Francisco located in California? This person is a moron.
Posted by AZDavidPhx on 08/19/08 at 05:23 AM
It’s a VIKING BBQ too!
I picture a grill wearing a horned helmet.
Posted by AZDavidPhx on 08/19/08 at 05:25 AM
Southern California housing prices made the local Phoenix NEWS yesterday. The theme of the story being “Think Phoenix prices have dropped? At least not as bad as Southern California”
Posted by AZDavidPhx on 08/19/08 at 05:29 AM
Also -
What is a California attitude?
Posted by beentheredonethat on 08/19/08 at 06:05 AM
Still a WTF price of course. I still have my jaw on the ground re: the intial asking price. So insane. Thanks for the humor this morning!
Posted by abdul rahim on 08/19/08 at 06:09 AM
one of the blogs listed on the sidebar is amusing,though with a focus different from this one’s:
http://thehousingbubbleblog.com/index.html
he pastes in newspaper articles about places cratering from the housing collapse. there is no shortage of those articles. you could paper the walls of a bubble mcmansion with clippings on the housing collapse. good lord.
Posted by alan on 08/19/08 at 06:36 AM
Before the bubble, people knew, or were told, that if they spent x dollars on upgrades, they may only get 50% of x back when they sold, depending on what was done.
During the bubble, people expected to get 2-3x their investment back on each upgrade. People like this will learn a painful lesson.
“senior executive” let me guess, 36 year old single male formerly employed by mortgage company specializing in alt A, liar loans.
Posted by tonye on 08/19/08 at 06:46 AM
I like the bar in the dining room. I guess those dark walls are painted so you can’t see the pink elephants very well?
Posted by idrnkurmlkshk on 08/19/08 at 07:00 AM
LOL!!...LOL! no seriously?! ...I’m crying!!
I think this cat is “A desperate house-p’wner of OC”!
No bachelor (or any man for that sake), should own this atrocity of a condo. What a joke.
Quail Hill never ceases to amaze me. LOL!
...whew, my stomach hurts now from laughing so hard.
Posted by Laura Louzader on 08/19/08 at 07:26 AM
At THIS price, could he have a built in wine cooler? They don’t cost so much.
I mean, he has every other thing he could think of.
The 2003 price is the most anything could cost right now. In the case of this house, you can deduct from the 2003 price the cost of undoing most of the “enhancements” in this place.
Lastly, who on Earth would combine violet with red, as in the bedroom? Nobody in NYC, for a fact.
Posted by LEO on 08/19/08 at 07:28 AM
why put this line in anyway since it’s just impossible? if he wipes that 306k off, maybe just maybe some one would catch the knife. looks like this will be on mls for long long time. clock is ticking, he’s loosing money.
“If this property sells for its ridiculous asking price, and if a 6% commission is paid, the owner stands to make $305,900”
Posted by ice weasel on 08/19/08 at 07:35 AM
Really, what can you say about this? I mean aside from the utterly ridiculous asking price.
This home is going either going to find the right buyer, the person who loves this look and doesn’t mind paying retail+ for it or it won’t. Either way, I suspect it’s going to be with us for a very long time.
And while I love odd, quirky, interesting, cutting edge design, this is just butt ugly. Oh, and totally and completely out of context in Irvine. Just my personal opinion.
Posted by NewToOC on 08/19/08 at 07:45 AM
Funny are we sure the senior executive is a guy? I have trouble seeing ANY man pick out those colors. Generally speaking gay men also have much better taste than that. Maybe its the work of a really terrible stager?
I thought the whole point of Irvine is to rid one of attitude. Keep the lawns nice, houses painted with approved colors, no streets turned into high volume parking lots.
Maybe if he transplanted this thing to NoHo he could get his cool “1 million dollars”.
I am thinking of Irvine because I have little kids to worry about. If I was single again, don’t think Irvine would be at the top of the list.
Posted by LC on 08/19/08 at 07:47 AM
Spray gun. Now.
Posted by MikeInCanada on 08/19/08 at 07:52 AM
Wine goes on the side as to keep the cork moist which helps to keep air out -which would spoil the wine.
The fact that there is no wine cellar shows that this is just a poser
Posted by Ranger Rick on 08/19/08 at 08:24 AM
You know what this place needs? Two teams involved in a paint ball competetion…hahahaha
Yes, because we all know that you’re a poser if you don’t have a faux wine “cellar” (above ground, I might add) in Irvine, CA.
Jeebus. This place is getting weird.
Chuck
Posted by mike in irvine on 08/19/08 at 08:43 AM
What is a California attitude?
-drive a bmw to display ones negative net worth?
-buy a condo in irvine for a million bucks?
Posted by TheNumbersNeverLie on 08/19/08 at 08:45 AM
“I challenged everyone to come up with a rationale for the price. I still can’t come up with one”. No, but I decided to come up with a rationale for why this guy is the idiot of the century. How should I do that? Simple, copy and paste the top 9 stories from Yahoo Finance today. It reads like this…
1. Stocks fall on inflation data; Financial worries.
2. Wholesale Prices Surge at Fastest Pace Since 1981.
3. AP - Housing Starts Fall by Most in 17 Years.
4. Reuters - Oil Fluctuates Around $113 as Storm Threat Eases.
5. AP - Home Depot’s 2Q Profit Drops 24 Percent.
6. AP Staples Warns on 2Q Earnings, Shares Lower.
7. AP Target Quarterly Profit Drops.
8. Reuters - Carlyle Chairman Gerstner to Retire.
9. Reuters - Fed’s Fisher: Fed Must be Ready to Act on Inflation
G - “Collecting” wine is so…pretentious. Personally, I pick mine up nice and fresh at BevMo and it’s gone within a week. Or try the Wine Exchange in Tustin.
Posted by buster on 08/19/08 at 08:56 AM
The price listed is because he doesn’t want to sell. He knows prices are plunging and may end up underwater, even though he put lots of money down. So he took out an insurance policy by making the place simply hideous. That way, when the lender drops by with the foreclosure notice, the owner will ask him in for a shot of Absinthe, he’ll see the disaster inside, and advise the bank to just “let the guy keep this place.“ Basically, it’s too damn ugly to foreclose on!
Posted by Hormiguero on 08/19/08 at 09:19 AM
It is funny how hard this idea dies - that “upgrades” to a house are a good investment. Extra bathrooms and bigger kitchens help a little, but that’s about it.
Humans have an incredibly strong need to feel like they can control a situation. We have a hard time accepting the fact that a neighborhood can go from being an over $400/sqft to under $300/sqft location in just a year, and that all of the extra additions and appliances in the world won’t change that.
Posted by Anonymous on 08/19/08 at 09:20 AM
“The last time I profiled this property, I challenged everyone to come up with a rationale for the price. I still can’t come up with one”
Relo package? Some of them do guarantee a certain price for the home sale agreed upon at the time the relo offer is accepted, regardless of what it eventually sells for ...
Posted by Anonymous on 08/19/08 at 09:25 AM
Philip K. Dick put it best I think ...
“You would have to kill me and prop me up in the seat of my car with a smile painted on my face to get me to go near Hollywood.“
Posted by Beinformed on 08/19/08 at 09:37 AM
This is a must read, in it Quinn sums everything up for you. With this info you can get a clear perspective on just exactly what is happening to our economy.
http://www.nolanchart.com/article4498.html
Posted by Schadendude on 08/19/08 at 09:41 AM
I wonder how many coked-out loan processors got slammed in this place after winning “Processor of the Month” at Tri-Cor financial. haha
I love the old-wood double doors revealing the guy’s “work bench.“ You an almost see the whitestripped smile through a dark goatee saying “welcome to my love palace!“
LOL
Some of this cat’s style is pretty rockin’ though. Much preferred to the standard off-white with earth-tone accents we usually see.
Posted by uni on 08/19/08 at 09:59 AM
How much would “Kron Street Castle” be worth today?
Posted by Genius on 08/19/08 at 10:29 AM
I don’t believe Indiana has a Tustin, much less a wine exchange. Collecting isn’t pretentious, but people who think it makes them look refined are retarded. I tried to build up a collection, but I don’t think any bottle has survived more than a week at my place. It gets expensive… maybe I should have tried a drug addiction instead.
Posted by Old Hippie on 08/19/08 at 10:32 AM
Hey! thats no Groovie Little Hippie Pad! No lava lamp, no psychedelic posters, no spool table, no street pickup couch with indian bedspread, no wine bottle bong! Hippies are VERY financially astute, actually; LOvE is All yoU NeEd.
This place has all the trappings of some tight ass financial straight who thought this crap would make him happy, probably a money launderer for the Mafia.
Please don’t slander us old hippies!
Posted by Ambiepants on 08/19/08 at 12:11 PM
WHAT? No mirror above the bed?!? Well forget it, then.
You can buy a freestanding wine “cellar” at prices ranging from $500 to about $5000. The price goes up as a function of both capacity (# of bottles) and attractiveness. Or you can convert a closet into a built in cellar for a couple of grand. If you’re a serious collector, you will want to store upwards of 500 to 1000 bottles.
Wine cellars have special cooling units that refrigerate the air without lowering the humidity. Cold dry air will dry out the cork, allowing air into the bottle. Cold moist air will allow the wine to age while keeping it sealed. You also want to keep it dark, as light will also hurt the wine over time.
I have a relatively small cellar, and I keep about 150 bottles on hand, ranging from 0 to 12 years in age. About 80% of what I buy is drunk immediately. The other 20% are wines blended for extended ageing, where the extra cellar time allows for the wine to develop more character and complexity.
I’m certainly no wine snob, but when you do head to head tastings of young wines against wines that have had proper ageing, the results are quite noticable.
“The best things come to those who wait.“
Posted by Dave in Alamitos Beach on 08/19/08 at 01:42 PM
If I was Manhattan or San Francisco I’d be pretty pissed off about this. Well, actually, I guess it does sort of look like San Francisco in about…1849. Now it looks more like Reno or maybe even Winnemucca.
And does anyone besides me hate the tray on the bed with a flower vase full of water? It’s so impractical that it screams desperation.
Posted by Chris on 08/19/08 at 02:35 PM
Hey, I resent that Bimmer statement. I happen to drive a Bimmer and am currently in the process defaulting on my credit card bills since everyone is doing it on their homes as well
Posted by Chris on 08/19/08 at 02:38 PM
I’d list it for 2M, jack up on my fire insurance, and wait for the Santa Ana wind to blow on my cigarette….ooops, solly, didn’t mean to burn down my house….the damn SA wind made me do it
Posted by WaitingGame on 08/19/08 at 02:39 PM
LOL!!! Did you all see the pictures of the naked guy above the computer area!! I probably would I have to spend another 200K to get rid of the bordello smell!! Yuck!
Posted by LC on 08/19/08 at 05:51 PM
Breakfast in bed, if you can imagine. But it makes me want to puke.
Posted by LC on 08/19/08 at 06:00 PM
Hollywood is a bad neighborhood north of downtown Los Angeles. No wonder.
Posted by Emma Anne on 08/19/08 at 06:04 PM
I was thinking maybe New Orleans of the same vintage.
It does have nice views though.
Posted by LC on 08/19/08 at 06:09 PM
A 2 bedroom condo…a master, and one bedroom for the french maid downstairs?
Posted by sf2oo2 on 08/19/08 at 08:09 PM
Well, there’s obviously way too much furniture. Take that away (please) and you’re left with a bunch of claustrophobic spaces, swimming in an overcooked stew of mismatched materials, colors, and textures. With a OMFG pricetag.
So, yeah—it’s *just like* San Francisco.
Posted by WebcamCoeds RunFree on 08/19/08 at 08:10 PM
“Join today, and follow every minute in the lives of our spunky little teasers ....“
Think of this place as a business op. Quest ought to be able hook up a T1 line right quick. Now where should those little cameras go????
All the ho’s mentioned sound good. But, yes WeHo should fit the best.
Posted by Troy on 08/20/08 at 11:32 AM
I’m pretty sure the owner has to be a guy.
But, as a gay guy myself, I can very confidently state that the owner of this condo is NOT gay. And if he is gay, he needs to turn in his card to headquarters immediately because he is being put on suspension for this atrocity.
When gay interior design goes horribly wrong, it almost always spins itself towards frilly, old lady knick-knacks and French Country kitchens with pastel walls. But that species of gay man is rare in SoCal and can usually be found in small Midwest cities like Dayton or Wichita. This guy went the French Whorehouse direction instead, and he didn’t even do it very well.
He certainly can not be gay. He just has really bad taste.
Posted by Genius on 08/19/08 at 10:34 AM
I think he means WeHo.
And for the record, all of Hollywood is the ghetto (it’s fun though) except maybe the hills.
Posted by no_vaseline on 08/19/08 at 04:16 AM
First.
I don’t hate the interior. It’s like the ultimate bacholor pad. It needs a poker table and a kegerator to be complete.
At half the price.
Posted by George8 on 08/19/08 at 04:52 AM
Good points.
1800 sf in 3 floors with lots of stairs to climb.
I’m speechless after viewing the photos and the asking price.
Posted by cara on 08/19/08 at 04:53 AM
Those wine bottles better all be empty, because that is not proper storage!!!
Posted by finsup on 08/19/08 at 04:57 AM
My. God.
He even has one of those cheesy wall fountains over the outside gas grill (among other things….)
Posted by George8 on 08/19/08 at 05:02 AM
How do you properly store wine bottles, besides not standing up? and why?
Posted by maureen on 08/19/08 at 05:05 AM
WOW! Maybe someone should place a copy of today’s OC Register on his doorstep, which would inform him that he needs to price this place at a 2003/2004 ish price.
Posted by cara on 08/19/08 at 05:07 AM
In a cool, dark place on their side.
The top of the room is the warmest place, so unless he’s shuttering the windows, leaving the door closed and the lights off and A/C it down to 65 or so, he’ll need to be drinking those up quickly. Though that does appear to be the plan.
Posted by G in INdiana on 08/19/08 at 05:16 AM
George8, you store wine bottles on their sides. You turn them to make sure the sediment does not get stuck. You have them in a climate controlled “hamper” or wine storage unit (Costco carries them).
Even the few wines we have are not stored upright unless they are opened. All unopened wine is in the wine cabinet located in the cooler basement area of my home (SE Indiana, we need basements for those pesky tornado things that come through here.)
Posted by AZDavidPhx on 08/19/08 at 05:20 AM
The ultimate metrosexual poser pad.
You can tell that this place has been the current seller’s little recreational project for the last couple years.
He probably never missed an episode of Flip This House or Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.
Posted by Larrygg on 08/19/08 at 05:23 AM
The worse speller anywhere? Liting? And then “feels like a Manhattan or San Francisco abode w/CA attitude”, Isn’t San Francisco located in California? This person is a moron.
Posted by AZDavidPhx on 08/19/08 at 05:23 AM
It’s a VIKING BBQ too!
I picture a grill wearing a horned helmet.
Posted by AZDavidPhx on 08/19/08 at 05:25 AM
Southern California housing prices made the local Phoenix NEWS yesterday. The theme of the story being “Think Phoenix prices have dropped? At least not as bad as Southern California”
Posted by AZDavidPhx on 08/19/08 at 05:29 AM
Also -
What is a California attitude?
Posted by beentheredonethat on 08/19/08 at 06:05 AM
Still a WTF price of course. I still have my jaw on the ground re: the intial asking price. So insane. Thanks for the humor this morning!
Posted by abdul rahim on 08/19/08 at 06:09 AM
one of the blogs listed on the sidebar is amusing,though with a focus different from this one’s:
http://thehousingbubbleblog.com/index.html
he pastes in newspaper articles about places cratering from the housing collapse. there is no shortage of those articles. you could paper the walls of a bubble mcmansion with clippings on the housing collapse. good lord.
Posted by alan on 08/19/08 at 06:36 AM
Before the bubble, people knew, or were told, that if they spent x dollars on upgrades, they may only get 50% of x back when they sold, depending on what was done.
During the bubble, people expected to get 2-3x their investment back on each upgrade. People like this will learn a painful lesson.
“senior executive” let me guess, 36 year old single male formerly employed by mortgage company specializing in alt A, liar loans.
Posted by tonye on 08/19/08 at 06:46 AM
I like the bar in the dining room. I guess those dark walls are painted so you can’t see the pink elephants very well?
Posted by idrnkurmlkshk on 08/19/08 at 07:00 AM
LOL!!...LOL! no seriously?! ...I’m crying!!
I think this cat is “A desperate house-p’wner of OC”!
No bachelor (or any man for that sake), should own this atrocity of a condo. What a joke.
Quail Hill never ceases to amaze me. LOL!
...whew, my stomach hurts now from laughing so hard.
Posted by Laura Louzader on 08/19/08 at 07:26 AM
At THIS price, could he have a built in wine cooler? They don’t cost so much.
I mean, he has every other thing he could think of.
The 2003 price is the most anything could cost right now. In the case of this house, you can deduct from the 2003 price the cost of undoing most of the “enhancements” in this place.
Lastly, who on Earth would combine violet with red, as in the bedroom? Nobody in NYC, for a fact.
Posted by LEO on 08/19/08 at 07:28 AM
why put this line in anyway since it’s just impossible? if he wipes that 306k off, maybe just maybe some one would catch the knife. looks like this will be on mls for long long time. clock is ticking, he’s loosing money.
“If this property sells for its ridiculous asking price, and if a 6% commission is paid, the owner stands to make $305,900”
Posted by ice weasel on 08/19/08 at 07:35 AM
Really, what can you say about this? I mean aside from the utterly ridiculous asking price.
This home is going either going to find the right buyer, the person who loves this look and doesn’t mind paying retail+ for it or it won’t. Either way, I suspect it’s going to be with us for a very long time.
And while I love odd, quirky, interesting, cutting edge design, this is just butt ugly. Oh, and totally and completely out of context in Irvine. Just my personal opinion.
Posted by NewToOC on 08/19/08 at 07:45 AM
Funny are we sure the senior executive is a guy? I have trouble seeing ANY man pick out those colors. Generally speaking gay men also have much better taste than that. Maybe its the work of a really terrible stager?
Posted by Walter on 08/19/08 at 07:47 AM
I thought the whole point of Irvine is to rid one of attitude. Keep the lawns nice, houses painted with approved colors, no streets turned into high volume parking lots.
Maybe if he transplanted this thing to NoHo he could get his cool “1 million dollars”.
I am thinking of Irvine because I have little kids to worry about. If I was single again, don’t think Irvine would be at the top of the list.
Posted by LC on 08/19/08 at 07:47 AM
Spray gun. Now.
Posted by MikeInCanada on 08/19/08 at 07:52 AM
Wine goes on the side as to keep the cork moist which helps to keep air out -which would spoil the wine.
The fact that there is no wine cellar shows that this is just a poser
Posted by Ranger Rick on 08/19/08 at 08:24 AM
You know what this place needs? Two teams involved in a paint ball competetion…hahahaha
Posted by Chuck Ponzi on 08/19/08 at 08:43 AM
Yes, because we all know that you’re a poser if you don’t have a faux wine “cellar” (above ground, I might add) in Irvine, CA.
Jeebus. This place is getting weird.
Chuck
Posted by mike in irvine on 08/19/08 at 08:43 AM
What is a California attitude?
-drive a bmw to display ones negative net worth?
-buy a condo in irvine for a million bucks?
Posted by TheNumbersNeverLie on 08/19/08 at 08:45 AM
“I challenged everyone to come up with a rationale for the price. I still can’t come up with one”. No, but I decided to come up with a rationale for why this guy is the idiot of the century. How should I do that? Simple, copy and paste the top 9 stories from Yahoo Finance today. It reads like this…
1. Stocks fall on inflation data; Financial worries.
2. Wholesale Prices Surge at Fastest Pace Since 1981.
3. AP - Housing Starts Fall by Most in 17 Years.
4. Reuters - Oil Fluctuates Around $113 as Storm Threat Eases.
5. AP - Home Depot’s 2Q Profit Drops 24 Percent.
6. AP Staples Warns on 2Q Earnings, Shares Lower.
7. AP Target Quarterly Profit Drops.
8. Reuters - Carlyle Chairman Gerstner to Retire.
9. Reuters - Fed’s Fisher: Fed Must be Ready to Act on Inflation
Posted by Chuck Ponzi on 08/19/08 at 08:47 AM
Yes, SoCal has no identity. But, NoHo?
Do you mean SoHo?
Because, you know, North Hollywood is the ghetto.
Chuck
Posted by buster on 08/19/08 at 08:51 AM
G - “Collecting” wine is so…pretentious. Personally, I pick mine up nice and fresh at BevMo and it’s gone within a week. Or try the Wine Exchange in Tustin.
Posted by buster on 08/19/08 at 08:56 AM
The price listed is because he doesn’t want to sell. He knows prices are plunging and may end up underwater, even though he put lots of money down. So he took out an insurance policy by making the place simply hideous. That way, when the lender drops by with the foreclosure notice, the owner will ask him in for a shot of Absinthe, he’ll see the disaster inside, and advise the bank to just “let the guy keep this place.“ Basically, it’s too damn ugly to foreclose on!
Posted by Hormiguero on 08/19/08 at 09:19 AM
It is funny how hard this idea dies - that “upgrades” to a house are a good investment. Extra bathrooms and bigger kitchens help a little, but that’s about it.
Humans have an incredibly strong need to feel like they can control a situation. We have a hard time accepting the fact that a neighborhood can go from being an over $400/sqft to under $300/sqft location in just a year, and that all of the extra additions and appliances in the world won’t change that.
Posted by Anonymous on 08/19/08 at 09:20 AM
“The last time I profiled this property, I challenged everyone to come up with a rationale for the price. I still can’t come up with one”
Relo package? Some of them do guarantee a certain price for the home sale agreed upon at the time the relo offer is accepted, regardless of what it eventually sells for ...
Posted by Anonymous on 08/19/08 at 09:25 AM
Philip K. Dick put it best I think ...
“You would have to kill me and prop me up in the seat of my car with a smile painted on my face to get me to go near Hollywood.“
Posted by Beinformed on 08/19/08 at 09:37 AM
This is a must read, in it Quinn sums everything up for you. With this info you can get a clear perspective on just exactly what is happening to our economy.
http://www.nolanchart.com/article4498.html
Posted by Schadendude on 08/19/08 at 09:41 AM
I wonder how many coked-out loan processors got slammed in this place after winning “Processor of the Month” at Tri-Cor financial. haha
I love the old-wood double doors revealing the guy’s “work bench.“ You an almost see the whitestripped smile through a dark goatee saying “welcome to my love palace!“
LOL
Some of this cat’s style is pretty rockin’ though. Much preferred to the standard off-white with earth-tone accents we usually see.
Posted by uni on 08/19/08 at 09:59 AM
How much would “Kron Street Castle” be worth today?
Posted by Genius on 08/19/08 at 10:29 AM
I don’t believe Indiana has a Tustin, much less a wine exchange. Collecting isn’t pretentious, but people who think it makes them look refined are retarded. I tried to build up a collection, but I don’t think any bottle has survived more than a week at my place. It gets expensive… maybe I should have tried a drug addiction instead.
Posted by Old Hippie on 08/19/08 at 10:32 AM
Hey! thats no Groovie Little Hippie Pad! No lava lamp, no psychedelic posters, no spool table, no street pickup couch with indian bedspread, no wine bottle bong! Hippies are VERY financially astute, actually; LOvE is All yoU NeEd.
This place has all the trappings of some tight ass financial straight who thought this crap would make him happy, probably a money launderer for the Mafia.
Please don’t slander us old hippies!
Posted by Ambiepants on 08/19/08 at 12:11 PM
WHAT? No mirror above the bed?!? Well forget it, then.
Posted by Chris Wheeler on 08/19/08 at 12:27 PM
You can buy a freestanding wine “cellar” at prices ranging from $500 to about $5000. The price goes up as a function of both capacity (# of bottles) and attractiveness. Or you can convert a closet into a built in cellar for a couple of grand. If you’re a serious collector, you will want to store upwards of 500 to 1000 bottles.
Wine cellars have special cooling units that refrigerate the air without lowering the humidity. Cold dry air will dry out the cork, allowing air into the bottle. Cold moist air will allow the wine to age while keeping it sealed. You also want to keep it dark, as light will also hurt the wine over time.
I have a relatively small cellar, and I keep about 150 bottles on hand, ranging from 0 to 12 years in age. About 80% of what I buy is drunk immediately. The other 20% are wines blended for extended ageing, where the extra cellar time allows for the wine to develop more character and complexity.
I’m certainly no wine snob, but when you do head to head tastings of young wines against wines that have had proper ageing, the results are quite noticable.
“The best things come to those who wait.“
Posted by Dave in Alamitos Beach on 08/19/08 at 01:42 PM
If I was Manhattan or San Francisco I’d be pretty pissed off about this. Well, actually, I guess it does sort of look like San Francisco in about…1849. Now it looks more like Reno or maybe even Winnemucca.
And does anyone besides me hate the tray on the bed with a flower vase full of water? It’s so impractical that it screams desperation.
Posted by Chris on 08/19/08 at 02:35 PM
Hey, I resent that Bimmer statement. I happen to drive a Bimmer and am currently in the process defaulting on my credit card bills since everyone is doing it on their homes as well
Posted by Chris on 08/19/08 at 02:38 PM
I’d list it for 2M, jack up on my fire insurance, and wait for the Santa Ana wind to blow on my cigarette….ooops, solly, didn’t mean to burn down my house….the damn SA wind made me do it
Posted by WaitingGame on 08/19/08 at 02:39 PM
LOL!!! Did you all see the pictures of the naked guy above the computer area!! I probably would I have to spend another 200K to get rid of the bordello smell!! Yuck!
Posted by LC on 08/19/08 at 05:51 PM
Breakfast in bed, if you can imagine. But it makes me want to puke.
Posted by LC on 08/19/08 at 06:00 PM
Hollywood is a bad neighborhood north of downtown Los Angeles. No wonder.
Posted by Emma Anne on 08/19/08 at 06:04 PM
I was thinking maybe New Orleans of the same vintage.
It does have nice views though.
Posted by LC on 08/19/08 at 06:09 PM
A 2 bedroom condo…a master, and one bedroom for the french maid downstairs?
Posted by sf2oo2 on 08/19/08 at 08:09 PM
Well, there’s obviously way too much furniture. Take that away (please) and you’re left with a bunch of claustrophobic spaces, swimming in an overcooked stew of mismatched materials, colors, and textures. With a OMFG pricetag.
So, yeah—it’s *just like* San Francisco.
Posted by WebcamCoeds RunFree on 08/19/08 at 08:10 PM
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Think of this place as a business op. Quest ought to be able hook up a T1 line right quick. Now where should those little cameras go????
Posted by Bitter Renter on 08/19/08 at 08:13 PM
LOL! [Spot-on with the Absinthe bit.]
Posted by Bitter Renter on 08/19/08 at 08:16 PM
Hee hee hee.
Posted by girlbear on 08/19/08 at 08:58 PM
I’ll bet he means HoHo’s, good with cold milk…
Posted by Walter on 08/20/08 at 07:53 AM
All the ho’s mentioned sound good. But, yes WeHo should fit the best.
Posted by Troy on 08/20/08 at 11:32 AM
I’m pretty sure the owner has to be a guy.
But, as a gay guy myself, I can very confidently state that the owner of this condo is NOT gay. And if he is gay, he needs to turn in his card to headquarters immediately because he is being put on suspension for this atrocity.
When gay interior design goes horribly wrong, it almost always spins itself towards frilly, old lady knick-knacks and French Country kitchens with pastel walls. But that species of gay man is rare in SoCal and can usually be found in small Midwest cities like Dayton or Wichita. This guy went the French Whorehouse direction instead, and he didn’t even do it very well.
He certainly can not be gay. He just has really bad taste.