Two villas in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica, for $4,800,000.
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Two beachfront villas in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica, are on the market for $4,800,000.
The main villa’s master suite is on the first floor. The three-acre estate slopes down to the water, and the owner has a concession to 292 feet of waterfront. The main villa has a two-person private outdoor shower.
The villas, built of local hardwood, each have two bedrooms and one bath (only the master bedrooms are air-conditioned). Upstairs, the kitchen and seating area face the ocean.
The second house has a staircase to the second floor, with a wooden bridge connecting the main bedroom to a private balcony.
The property has 15 varieties of banana plant and dozens of fruit trees. The gardens have ginger flowers and night-blooming jasmine. The beach, Playa Santa Teresa, is popular among surfers, and the famous surf break at Suck Rock is right beside the estate.
The exterior of this mansion in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, reminds me of Alcatraz Island. Of course, the latter isn't kept nearly as well maintained as this house!
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Clingstone, an unusual, 103-year-old mansion in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay, survives through the love and hard work of family and friends. Henry Wood, the owner, runs the house like a camp: all skilled workers welcome. The Jamestown Boatyard hauls the family's boats and floating dock and stores them each winter in return for a week's use of the house in the summer.
Clingstone had been built by a distant cousin, J.S. Lovering Wharton. Mr. Wharton worked with an artist, William Trost Richards, to create a house of picture windows with 23 rooms on three stories radiating off a vast central hall.
The total cost of the construction, which was completed in 1905, was $36,982.99. Mr. Wood is as proud as any parent of his house, and keeps a fat scrapbook of photographs and newspaper clippings that document its best moments. Many of the historic photos he has were provided by the company that insured the house for its original owners.
The house is maintained by an ingenious method: the Clingstone work weekend. Held every year around Memorial Day, it brings 70 or so friends and Clingstone lovers together to tackle jobs like washing all 65 of the windows. Anne Tait, who is married to Mr. Wood's son Dan, refinished the kitchen floor on one of her first work weekends.
There are 10 bedrooms at Clingstone, all with indecently beautiful views. The dining room table seats 14. Refinishing the chairs is a task on the list for a future work weekend.
A sign by the ladder that leads to the roof reads: No entry after three drinks or 86 years of age. "It used to say 80 but we had a guy on a work weekend who was 84, so I changed it," said Mr. Wood, ever the realist. It would have been a shame to curtail the activities of a willing volunteer.
^ I love that house! The rooms are so original and I love the atmosphere. Great use of colour and I like that it isn't such an over-decorated house, which you see a lot these days. And of course the view! To die for!
This is the home I grew up in when I lived in Singapore. It was featured last year in Architectural Digest. Unfortunately, it looks a hell of a lot more expensive and chic than it ever did when I lived in it. Hahaha. Even so, I'm proud to have called this my house.
The tree that's partly visible in the upper lefthand corner... a kid fell out of it one time and broke his arm, then his parents tried to sue us. Bahahaha. Let's just say, he never hung out with us after that.
The hallway from my room to my parents' that I dreaded running down during thunderstorms cos there were so many windows which left scary shadows on the walls. =[
My brothers' bedroom.
My old room. My bed was against the opposite wall.
Source: architecturaldigest.com
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This house belongs to fashion designer Pierre Cardin and was the location for his spring/summer 09 collection. It's an ocean front villa in Theoule sur Mer, southern France.
Of course, the latter isn't kept nearly as well maintained as this house!
Thanks for posting seanutbutter!
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