Sorry for the delay in responding but it is nice to see the group dispatch this house as quickly and humanely as possible without my help.

I firmly agree with the many comments of disbelief. The question of who, exactly, would think this was a good idea – designer, builder, or buyer – is a good one.

For my money, I think that the internal “balcony” in the master bedroom is the worst because of the pretentiousness. The second has to be all of the silly stairs and the third any one of the small annoying details that will make the life of whoever lives in this house more difficult than it has to be – from kitchen islands to guest bathrooms to a lack of sunlight and closets.

I think the general conclusion is right – this has to be one of the worst houses yet on the site.

For me, the worst things are:
1. the over the top stairs that twists through the house and seems to lead to nowhere
2. the powder room – no sink!
3. the angled kitchen island wastes all the space in the family room and the eating area!

This is terrible!

Louis, I did notice a few of the problem doors. A good one is the lack of doors into the master bath and closet. Jokes on us I suppose.

But I really like the Laurel and Hardy door. As you come up the stairs from the rear entry the guy coming up the stairs from the basement gives you one POW, right in the kisser.

Now I just noticed one more thing. The loft is shorter than the garage. All of that money to build that space and they shorten it by about 6 to 8 feet. I can visualize the front facade with the short knee wall of a slope over the garage door. More materials, a lot of work and you get less floor space for your money.

Are the designers here idiots or are they malicious?

The worst thing about this house is the utter disregard for people embodied by this plan (and I use the word ‘plan’ loosely).

My husband says the worst thing is the missing bathroom door.

If i can paraphrase, ‘Friends Don’t Let Friends Drive Drunk’, we could also say ‘Friends Don’t Let Friends Buy This House’…, unless they’re drunk of course.

What a disaster! This is the ‘pimp my ride’ – cookie-cutter house style. I don’t know where to start or end. How did we all miss that flaw of the main entry door swing?…Anyway, that’s the least of its worries. i guess no one saw it for all its other shortcomings.

Natural Selection couldn’t come any faster for this house to die a timely and deserved death…

Sorry…not having such a great day.

Mark — Maybe the thinking was that, given the many soul-crushing aspects of the house, it was much more likely for the homeowners to need a balcony to throw themselves off in despair than another bedroom to accommodate a growing family.

The thinking that makes it a good idea to have a Juliet Balcony from the *Master Bedroom* overlooking the living room but not a good idea to have a third bedroom in a 1600 square foot house.

Is it worse that someone designed it, or that someone actually built it?

I think the worst part of it is all the wasted space around the “creative” angles. A well designed 1200 sq ft house could live better and bigger than this one. How many resources have we squandered by building homes that would be miserable to live in? 1600 sq feet for a house that can barely fit a dining room table, has about 8 linear feet of usable closet space and not one window on either side of the house? Where is my bulldozer?

45 degree angels
poorly laid out bathrooms
due to being side by side with other units terrible sunlight, especially the 3 bathrooms.
Those stairs

2. The poor use of space in general, such as the “loft”, the gallery over the living room, the lame closet in bedroom 2.

3. The rotated kitchen island and general planning of the kitchen.

I guess it just boils down to someone trying to be “trendy” and failing to get the basics done well.