French Chateau Calgary Style?
 

French Chateau Calgary style...........

http://www.calgaryherald.com/busines...48674&tab=PHOT

Is the housing market booming in Calgary?

Re: French Chateau Calgary Style?
 

Seen this property and it is nice looking house if you have the money, mind you i'd expect its not got the biggest price tag many of the properties in Springbank are up in the several million dollar price bracket

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I think it looks bloody ghastly...yes, if I am in a secret promise...please give it back! It's ugly as sin.

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It looks more like a French barn conversion than a chateau, however the inside is classic American nouveau riche. Marks out of ten? Maybe 5.

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Quite. There is nothing terribly French about that place.

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It's too plain, it needs more shiny stuff. :thumbdown:

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You have to applaud the way that even the mentally challenged can get a job as a journalist in Calgary. Or an architect.

Do you think anyone in Canada has ever actually been to France?

Re: French Chateau Calgary Style?
 

An architect is a person you employ once. It said in the Guardian this week, part of a feature on dysfunctional buildings awarded the Stirling Prize. After reading the article twice I was still unclear if the prize was one for the most awful recent buildings, like the Carbuncle Cup, or one awarded for recent buildings that are incidentally awful. The Scottish Parliament buildings featured, devolution seemed the least one could wish upon people who spent money on that.

I actually knew a McMansion architect, a man who's days were spent imagining and drawing seven and nine car garages with swimming pools, built-in hot dog stands and roof top golf courses. I got all schadenfreudy when the collapse of the housing market (in Phoenix) meant he had to live in one. It was surreal, not content with 12' internal doors usual in such a monstrosity, it had 16' doors and 20' ceilings. In the smaller rooms it felt as if the house had fallen over.

Re: French Chateau Calgary Style?
 

This reminds me of the many things I see described over here as "European style" and I think what's European about that?

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Here's an example of proper Frenching of a house:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125666/

I liked the film, the people in it are engagingly unsubtle.

Re: French Chateau Calgary Style?
 

This more of a French type of house.

Typical French Style House

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I wish I owned it ......so I could sell it.

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IN Van "european style" is code for "built by Italian builder"

which means there will probably be statues of lions in the front of the house

Re: French Chateau Calgary Style?
 

Not french style per se., but under the heading of "god awful gaudy manors-of-bling", I present Newfoundland & Labradors entrant...

http://beta.realtor.ca/propertyDetai...rtyId=13586393

Re: French Chateau Calgary Style?
 

Dear God. It's like Alan Partridge actually got a a real house built.

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It's impressive in it's awfulness isn't it?

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"European kitchen" is the best. They have no idea that a real European kitchen is 6' x 6' and incorporates a 30 year Baby Belling cooker attached to a gas bottle and a vinyl curtain instead of cupboard doors.

Re: French Chateau Calgary Style?
 

...or that in many European countries it's standard practice, when moving house, to take the entire kitchen - appliances, cabinets, light fittings & all - with you when you go, leaving an empty space for the new owners.

Re: French Chateau Calgary Style?
 

If you a prefer something more 'castle' like, this is for you. I walked past this once and could not imagine why anyone would build this, let alone in the middle of Calgary suburbia, with no land to speak of. It was built on spec. Boggles the mind. According to google it sold in 2013.

http://www.calgarysun.com/2011/08/10...-12m-price-tag

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I saw that, and liked it too.

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Bling, ya want?

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-28041360.html

Re: French Chateau Calgary Style?
 

Uncle Monty's flat !

Do you grooow? I happen to find the cauliflower more beautiful than the rose... :D

(Withnail & I)

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No, I rule that inadmissable. We're talking about noveux/faux Canadian piles as opposed to how-to-ruin-what-could-probably-be-quite-a-nice-London-pied-a-tere. I mean how is Canada, particularly those of us in the provinces, supposed to compete with that?

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The single most expensive home for sale in Nfld (on MLS at least) is this:

http://beta.realtor.ca/propertyDetai...rtyId=13390244

Now it's quite nice in a faux-rustic log cabin style. But your 3.2 acres of almost-island isthmus is no more than about 10 ft above high tide level. The breakwater referenced in the blurb was breached last winter in a storm and one can't but wonder how many years it will take for your exclusive residence to be subsea!;)

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I think that, should we wish to find something to compete with that, we'll have to look to Detroit or, perhaps, Nawlins.

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Brilliant film....the ghastliness of the house was only matched by the sprawltastic surroundings of the neighbourhood

http://goo.gl/maps/1wSJP

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...struction.html

http://www.ninehomes.com/listings/468

Re: French Chateau Calgary Style?
 

All these houses look the type of places those wankers on the Canadian Dragon's Den would live in. Did I mention they're wankers?

Re: French Chateau Calgary Style?
 

You did....and whilst I might not couch it quite in those terms, I fully concur. :thumbup:

I once knew an architect who used to build what was called Louis Farrouk, sort of Dallas type Chateaux in the Gulf, he took me round some of them and they were quite unspeakable...He's probably moved and is alive and well and working in Canada now!

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Countertops made from labradors, a waterfall that can see the Rockies and natural ducks on the pond, and a room you can't find. Sounds perfect for Hyacinth.

Re: French Chateau Calgary Style?
 

This one is much more, well more

http://www.rosspavl.com/244-aspen-ri...ridge-chateau/

Re: French Chateau Calgary Style?
 

...understated (is that the word you were looking for?).

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More Garagey.

I always think two is a waste of space that could be better used...but three? Probably doubles too.

Re: French Chateau Calgary Style?
 

Takes one to know one.

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That would be one of them, yes.

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I realise its only Tuesday but I’d of expected a lot better than that. Put some effort into it man. :)

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Dundee is your hometown isn't it? You could use your dirty oil money to buy this one ........

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-36023626.html

Faded grandeur rather than chichi........

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Oh yes! I wouldn't mind looking like a w*anker in that! I'm just having my kitchen upgraded...which is involving my husband and and I and a large hammer ( I just cannot find one good workman here!) but I'm feeling very underwhelmed after that!

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There's no soul in any of those houses (the new money Canada ones I mean) doesn't matter how much money you have, they will always end up looking cookie cutter (albeit with virgin feathers adorning the countertops instead of granite / stainless steel that seems to be still the buzz words for kitchens)

Re: French Chateau Calgary Style?
 

I thought the Newfie one looked quite nice. The Calgary ones are certainly subdivisiony, huge but squished together; that's what Mississauga looks like.

We, however may be worse than the Canadians. We too can produce ghastly interiors. In doing so we may ruin delightful buildings

(http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...?premiumA=true)

at least the McMansions are uniformly horrible and built in places where no one wants to go.

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Someone forgot to tell the designer that the Nineties were two decades ago. Like the oast house part though.