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

"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.

...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.

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

I saw that, and liked it too.

Bling, ya want?

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

Uncle Monty's flat !

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

(Withnail & I)

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?

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!

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

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

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?

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

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!

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.

This one is much more, well more

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