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Views: Yes.
Interest factor: It’s interesting, but it doesn’t blow my mind.
Livability: Not so much. My knees hurt just thinking about going up and down stairs all day.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/201-Entrada-Dr-Santa-Monica-CA-90402/20539844_zpid/?
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Odd set up. I’m still trying to figure out if you have to bathe in the garage or the basement 
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Well this one I came across in the internet is called “The Skinny House” in Boston.
Wikipedia says -
“There are only five doors in the house, despite it having four levels. The second floor holds the living room and the bathroom, one of the few spaces separated by a door.”
“the narrowest house in Boston”
“when one person has to go to the bathroom, everyone has to move . . .”
Learn more about its interesting history:
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And it’s only 600’ from the iconic Charles and Ray Eames house.
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I had not made that geographic connection. I believe there are several Case Study homes clustered around the Eames House — a tour of which is on my bucket list. When I retire, I’d like to buy a one way ticket to LA, stay as long as it takes to see everything I want to see, and then get a one way ticket home.
You wouldn’t like our house, which sits on a steep hill. Out of curiosity, I counted the flights of stairs inside the house and in the yard.
We have seven flights of stairs, each of varying lengths. I don’t mind except when it’s time to haul the lawnmower from the parking strip on the street to the back yard lawn. My Fitbit watch says I’ve climbed a little over 35,000 flights of stairs over the past eleven years. It’s sort of crazy when it adds up.
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Now I feel like Steve … my knees hurt just thinking about that LOL 
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There was this house the owners used for guests to stay over at during holidays - this house had the steepest driveway ever. You couldn’t even see the house on the top and I was sure there was no way we could drive up there . We slid backwards once, trying to drive up and a part of the car broke off. I was near to freaking out. Somehow we drove up the curved driveway without any major accidents. The only benefit of the steepness was that you get to see a really nice view of the ocean.
Very interesting, should be more skinny houses like this one !, let’s make skinny houses great again ! (skinny houses = cheaper ones !)
The funny thing is that I made the comment about my knees hurting somewhat tongue-in-cheek as I’ve managed to reach my age without knee problems. When I’m out on my bike, I’ll take a hilly course over a flat course any day of the week; I find flat courses to be a bit boring. But I do enjoy living in a ranch house with a main floor laundry room.
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David Lynch’s compound recently sold. It consisted of a main house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr.; a pool and pool house designed by Eric Lloyd Wright; several adjacent houses Lynch bought; and a few additional buildings he added. Story and photos here. I particularly dig the photo of his workshop with the Mulholland Dr. sign and the picture from Eraserhead.
EDIT: More pictures and a map of the compound here.
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I was doing a little research to see what I could learn about the house. Turns out, it sold not too long ago, and the listing pictures are still on Zillow.
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That’s a beautiful house for 725k
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Yeah, that is really weird. They seem to be pricing it based on what other houses in the neighborhood with similar living spaces would go for. It’s sort of amazing to me that Kentucky’s only Frank Lloyd Wright house wouldn’t, by itself, double the price. Maybe nobody cares except people like us.
It’s a bit like an auction selling a Picasso painting and another painted by a high school art teacher, with the selling prices based on the size of the canvases.
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You guys piqued my curiosity. The FLW house sold for $268.22 per square foot. There is a house at the end of the same block of a similar era that is listed for $175.56 per square foot. Granted, that’s just one comparable; but, unless I am missing something, it does seem like the buyer of the FLW house paid a premium.
I am a huge fan of Wright’s work. I’ve traveled half way across the country just to see one of his houses. That said, it seems like you have to want to live in a Frank Lloyd Wright house. A typical new house today has a master with its own bathroom with dual sinks, an attached garage, and a kitchen that’s open to the rest of the house … you don’t get any of that with a Wright house. This is not surprising. This house in Kentucky is 116 years old. We live differently today than people did in the early 1900s.
Does Kentucky get snow? FLW houses tend to have flat roofs. You can keep any house with a flat roof anywhere it snows. Impractical.
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