My first odd house listing!

Way cool home. I saw this on TV before, but I'm trying to rack my brain what program it was on. $4.5 mil is a lot of dough, but probably not really that much for a home of this magnitude.

So unexpected!!

Kinda cool if you wanted an old cottage type feel.

Lol, I was looking at it thinking that yeah, it’s a big house...not totally my style but nice...hmmm I wonder if some of those window treatments would work in my house...wow there’s quite a few fireplaces...WHOA transition from reality to a winter lifetime movie special!!

Love some of the features such as the balcony over the kitchen. There is so much light everywhere with all those windows. The basement downstairs is kinda different, and would be wasted space to me.

I love this house!  Especially the basement!

Looks like ultrasound pictures of a baby to me.....

I would love to make this house a bed & breakfast!

Loved the basement.  I'd be willing to bet they got the idea from the Rick Hendricks car museum, it was the first thing I thought of when I saw the pictures.

I LOVE the downstairs.. that is soooo cool and fun!! Almost seems like upstairs is all prim and proper and go downstairs and be 'normal'. lol. Can you imagine being a kid and having a sleepover with the friend that lives there and not knowing about that downstairs?

It's all pretty though. A little on the formal side for me.. but give it to me, sure thing.

This house came up on my Twitter feed this morning and someone posted a link to a couple articles about the owners. Apparently they also collect WWII aircraft. Someone else on Twitter pointed out something I hadn't noticed--there's a fire pole in one of the hallways (photo 29).

article about owners

A bit ornate for me (and waaaay too many floral prints) but lots of nice touches. That basement was pretty extra.

The basement area reminds me of the Seattle Children's museum. One area of the museum is a little street with various stores and the kids can roam around and go in and out of the stores. It is a fun place. Interesting about Barbra Streisand too!

My favorite house was the last one that was a stand alone house. I loved the look of the outside. None of the 3 are my style on the inside. The main house has just too much going on. I also would never design a kitchen like that. I think kitchens are one of the noisiest parts of the house and to have it open to the second story....no thanks.

I think the basement collection is pretty interesting. Especially if it was built to display some of their collections. Reading a little about the man’s story was interesting and sad. If I were the mother, there is no way I’d give up my child because the boyfriend didn’t want him. Although it looks like he landed in a very loving home with his father’s sister.


Life did not start out with such great promise, though. Blair was born in 1944 to a young English woman – two weeks after his American G.I. father was killed during the Normandy invasion. He was barely a toddler when his mother’s childhood sweetheart, freed from a German P.O.W. camp, came home. The British soldier wanted his old girlfriend, but not the son of a Yank.

“When I was 2, she got on a boat and brought me to America and gave me to my aunt, my father’s sister, Dorothy Lane Blair,” Blair says.

His new parents were a working-class Maryland couple who gave the youngster all of their love, their name and the necessities they could afford. He was able to go to college, the University of Maryland, and there he met his wife, Alice.

“When our first child was born, I didn’t have enough money for gas to get to the hospital,” he says.