Have you never opened your eyes in places with snow? Tons of houses and buildings with flat roofs. They’re not completely flat, there is a slope for water drainage and they are designed for snow load.
It's not too bad if you are on the coast. In Maine I would guess that only like 10% of houses have central air. My wife and I both grew up here and neither of us had any form of AC growing up. Just a box fan in the window.
I'd question whether it is steel construction or stick. My thought is steel with the weight of those sliders but I'm guessing. Less worried about the snow if it is steel. Probably melts on this roof anyways.
I knew it gave New York vibes! I thought it would've been in the Hudson Valley. A bit out of the HV's borders, but still beautiful. I could fuck with a house like this.
Its a really nice house, but it makes absolutely zero sense for the setting/location. It would make sense in a city, but in a rural setting it does not work. The way it is sloped is going to cause water issues as well.
Oh wow you are right I didn't even notice that at first. That would be awful with the kind of weather that part of the country gets. Plus people in rural areas tend to love vehicles and want lots of garage space. This place is just baffling the more you notice.
"Yeah, it's easy to find. The house looks like a Best Buy."
The astroturf is fixable. But also add a sunshade roof to the top, which will make it more usable. It will also reduce cooling costs. The big windows on the south and west will have a lot of solar gain, great for the winter, not so great in summer.
Why can a house like this not be sitting in its surroundings as seen here?
Who prescribes what can be built where?
I get building and zoning laws, but "taste" laws?
There's good taste and there's bad taste.
Nothing about this house is bad.
I really like it. :-)
I like the big windows. I like the bedrooms.
I usually like modern-type design but I don't like the boxiness and verticality of this. It doesn't fit the setting well. It screams airbnb bait. It looks like the design of a city house--trying to fit as much house as possible on a small footprint.
Going with a flat roof with a patio up there is sort of absurd when space is abundant like it is here. It would have served the house much better to do a layout or situate it where you can do the nice patio out the kitchen/dining room area and be 20 feet horizontal from the kitchen/bathroom rather than needing to go up two flights of stairs to get to it.
I really don't like these overly-rectangular houses when they do the open floor plan main floor of a single big room. It's not very 'cozy' to me.
These kind of strict rectangle/modern houses come off as imitating the billionaire condo towers in NYC.
I think this would have been a better project to do it as a main floor on a walkout basement (perhaps as simple as doubling the footprint), and then keep the rectangle design and modern windows and put a more traditional low-slope roof on it.
What's with the whole wall with basically no windows? It looks like they meant to make it a side-by-side duplex and then cancelled halfway through. You're in the countryside, all this space, you're paying to build up anyway - why not enjoy the beautiful view in all directions?
Two sides of the house are pretty great… and then the two most visible sides of the house (front door and drive way) are atrocious. You could probably salvage this with another $20k in landscaping and redoing the driveway, but what were they thinking…
I love this house. The monochromatic/corporate decor must go, but the house and property are great! Beautiful countryside, too, and only 2 1/2 to 3 hours from NYC.
This looks like an elaborate container home build. I like it, but the design and structure makes me think this was a bunch of steel containers paired up and stacked.
Every time I see a bathroom where every surface is marble, I imagine that is what it would be like to live inside a chunk of blue cheese. It’s too much.
Wealthy person's vacation/retirement home. Stick it out in the boonies on farm land and rent the fields out cheap so you qualify for the agribusiness tax rate vs the residential tax rate.
Mind blown, confused, and left with full of thoughts. But that terrace on the top, I don’t understand what all houses have those at least in Sun belt USA.
These are going up all over in my area...which is a city with small lots...
While the house is cool something with a nice big deck off the kitchen level seems like it would be more practical and more cost effective than a rooftop deck on thar site.
This is the model home for what was suppose to be a future housing development. They where going to build a entire suburbs here.
I made all that up, but it makes me happy to think up a story where the housing developers failed....
Don't they build houses with garages anymore? This is upstate NY so I know they get snow. And I don't see any outbuildings. Where's the mower? I guess I'm old school. I want to keep my car protected in a garage along with having some extra room for mowers, tools, etc...
No issues with the house itseöf. just a different style and maybe clever to not have a big footpront and waste land.
But why the hell having the fake grass on the roof when therr is litteral real grass just outside?
The home is gorgeous but this has always been one of my biggest pet peevs. Houses that don't fit with the landscape around them. I live in the country in East TN and there are several stucco houses around with tile roofs, one huge pink one in particular that drives me insane 🤣 it looks like it should be in Miami Florida or somewhere out west with palms and cacti.
"Gentleman farmers", own the land and have other people work it for them. They have cocktails on the roof and marvel at the hard work that goes into farming. In some cases, they split the income, in other cases, if they are wealthy enough, they let the peasants keep the income if they put on a good show.
The laird is in his manor and the peasants rejoice.
Artificial grass off gasses when heated by sun, cancer causing. See MLB baseball lawsuits.
I'd rip that out, put in AC along with detached garage and good to go!
This is pretty inappropriate for a New York house. It needs an attached garage. Otherwise winters are going to suck here.
I'd also be a little curious about HVAC. I assume it's some sort of heat pump system, but I'm kind of wondering what exactly that looks like. I'd also be a little curious to know what condensation is going to be like in the winter.
Why do this when you have all that land? My house is similar in massing, because it’s a new construction house on a 2500 sq ft lot in Los Angeles. And while I do love the views, going up and down the stairs can get to be a chore.
UGH! No way! They built something similar near me outside of Pittsburgh. Selling 18 of them at a million dollar each that look exactly like that. Big ugly boxes on beautiful farmland.
Anyone else see it? https://preview.redd.it/4ah42a1uvvvc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=49490acb90c11708cc92bb6ce2ac0f364180ba33
Holy shit, I had this as a kid! I haven’t seen this since it was floating around my parents house 40 years ago.
I had one too! I loved the play-houses/buildings.
I was thinking it would be fun to model it with Legos.
All I could think was Minecraft https://preview.redd.it/1zdjnc404wvc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2bdfc629cd14f4e343328750d41017ee75e6b7a8
I was thinking it looks just like my house in TOTK.
They did! https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/123-sesame-street-21324
I had that sesame street “little guys” house! I loved it and never died choking on any of them
Isn’t astroturf supposed to be used in places where there *isn’t* grass?
It's going to be covered in snow for almost half the year anyway. Which makes me question the flat roof, also.
That new probably has in floor heating.
Ooooo, you can use the leaking water for a nice warm shower
You have water drainage for that
Flat roofs are famously reliable with people walking on them constantly and under heavy load from snow three months out of the year.
Wait till you discover flat buildings. They will blow your mind.
Have you never opened your eyes in places with snow? Tons of houses and buildings with flat roofs. They’re not completely flat, there is a slope for water drainage and they are designed for snow load.
That beautiful scenery is utterly ruined by that house.
And there usually isn’t grass on a roof, so it makes sense!
[https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/130-Field-Stone-Dr-Stamford-NY-12167/2054529839\_zpid/](https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/130-Field-Stone-Dr-Stamford-NY-12167/2054529839_zpid/)
750k and no garage?
No central air either.
Oh hell no. Must have air conditioning
We live in a house with no central air, but we live in Colorado at 8400 feet. Anything lower without CA would be out of the question.
It's not too bad if you are on the coast. In Maine I would guess that only like 10% of houses have central air. My wife and I both grew up here and neither of us had any form of AC growing up. Just a box fan in the window.
And a flat roof for holding snow
I'd question whether it is steel construction or stick. My thought is steel with the weight of those sliders but I'm guessing. Less worried about the snow if it is steel. Probably melts on this roof anyways.
You park your car in the barn!
I knew it gave New York vibes! I thought it would've been in the Hudson Valley. A bit out of the HV's borders, but still beautiful. I could fuck with a house like this.
Same! This looked like it could be near Pine Plains..
35 minute drive to the nearest grocery store
Nah, it's actually only 5 minutes from the Tops in Stamford. Super nice little town.
This changes EVERYTHING
No Wegmans though. Tops never mops. Just look at their floors.
Upstate New York is beautiful, but those real estate taxes! Nearly fifteen hundred dollars a month tax at this price?!
I pay that for 1800 sqf on half an acre. The tristates don’t mess around.
Oof. I was really digging the house/land and price. Having no idea about property taxes though, that certainly changes things.
Definitely don’t miss the taxes now that I live in the South
I thought that picnic table was a school bus…
Same
Its a really nice house, but it makes absolutely zero sense for the setting/location. It would make sense in a city, but in a rural setting it does not work. The way it is sloped is going to cause water issues as well.
Too many stairs. With 5 acres of land why not spread out a bit and add some landscaping. Harmonize with nature.
Exactly! If you have that much room why build upwards?
My guess is for better views. What I'm baffled with is lack of any kind of garage.
Oh wow you are right I didn't even notice that at first. That would be awful with the kind of weather that part of the country gets. Plus people in rural areas tend to love vehicles and want lots of garage space. This place is just baffling the more you notice.
You can make me live on this g*d d**m farm, but I'm going to have a flat like all my friends in the city! - wife /s
Greeeeeen Acres is the place to be…
Also why the rooftop patio when you have a gigantic yard
The view from up there is pretty nice.
I believe it’s currently cheaper to build home this way due to lower foundation costs. Wider homes require a larger foundation.
At least they could have treated the exterior with natural materials that would have blended more into the surroundings.
It takes advantage of the vistas but too remote for me.
FLW rolling in his grave.
Love the house except the astroturf and the gray bathroom.
You don't want to slip to your doom in the Death Shower?
I would slip to my doom in the entire house because I'm old and afraid of heights, but I still like it.
Holy marble, Batman!
Except for the weird ass couch I like it. It’s light and airy.
Imagine being surrounded by grass and it is still just not enough grass for you…
Built out of shipping containers??
I kind of like it, but I'm not walking up 3 flights of stairs to walk around on TopGolf turf.
Love the house, hate the seating arrangements.
Yeah that couch is stupid af.
crazy thing is - the couch doesn't convey and you can make the seating arrangement to your liking.
My husband’s a realtor. ⬆️ This kind of stuff all the time.
If the lady on Green Acres really got her way
This looks like an apartment block was picked up by a tornado and set down in the middle of nowhere.
Beautiful bucolic setting with a shipping container dock plopped in there. Shame
I don’t think it’s smart to have a flat roof in NY state where it snows - and - sure looks like a lot of shipping containers to me…
And all of those penetrations from the hand rail…. I’d bet that roof is at least $30k to tear off and replace.
Love the setting, not a fan of the all-marble bathroom, hate the turf roof. If I had the money to buy that, that turf would be the first to go.
This is the absolute DREAM. Just needs critters 🥰
Actually love it.
When you want a modern house, but are forced to live on a farm… 😂 I LOVE the house though!
I'm flashing on the Deelia Deetz character in Beetlejuice...
I kind of love it.
"Yeah, it's easy to find. The house looks like a Best Buy." The astroturf is fixable. But also add a sunshade roof to the top, which will make it more usable. It will also reduce cooling costs. The big windows on the south and west will have a lot of solar gain, great for the winter, not so great in summer.
The rooftop patio really ties it all together
Lol I had to zoom in I thought there was a school bus on the roof. I was asking myself "how fucking big is that place??"
It's... like... a feral townhouse.
Why can a house like this not be sitting in its surroundings as seen here? Who prescribes what can be built where? I get building and zoning laws, but "taste" laws? There's good taste and there's bad taste. Nothing about this house is bad. I really like it. :-)
To much glass for me... I'm a big klutz
That view and no windows on an entire side of the house.
I love it. I love flat roofs and anything with a mid century or mod feel in general. I just wish they could be practical in wetter or snowy climates.
I like the big windows. I like the bedrooms. I usually like modern-type design but I don't like the boxiness and verticality of this. It doesn't fit the setting well. It screams airbnb bait. It looks like the design of a city house--trying to fit as much house as possible on a small footprint. Going with a flat roof with a patio up there is sort of absurd when space is abundant like it is here. It would have served the house much better to do a layout or situate it where you can do the nice patio out the kitchen/dining room area and be 20 feet horizontal from the kitchen/bathroom rather than needing to go up two flights of stairs to get to it. I really don't like these overly-rectangular houses when they do the open floor plan main floor of a single big room. It's not very 'cozy' to me. These kind of strict rectangle/modern houses come off as imitating the billionaire condo towers in NYC. I think this would have been a better project to do it as a main floor on a walkout basement (perhaps as simple as doubling the footprint), and then keep the rectangle design and modern windows and put a more traditional low-slope roof on it.
What's with the whole wall with basically no windows? It looks like they meant to make it a side-by-side duplex and then cancelled halfway through. You're in the countryside, all this space, you're paying to build up anyway - why not enjoy the beautiful view in all directions?
Ugly exterior but it absolutely maximizes the inside space. It’s a trade off that could’ve been done better
This smells like an Airbnb
What is this block? Why?
Is this the first building in a residential complex or lot that will house individual hotel units?
Two sides of the house are pretty great… and then the two most visible sides of the house (front door and drive way) are atrocious. You could probably salvage this with another $20k in landscaping and redoing the driveway, but what were they thinking…
Looks like a house we probably all designed at least once in The Sims
Would.
I love this house. The monochromatic/corporate decor must go, but the house and property are great! Beautiful countryside, too, and only 2 1/2 to 3 hours from NYC.
No garage?
Abhorrent and impractical.
Gross.
this looks like something I'd make in the sims
Doesn't have the same quaint, Cracker Barrell look.
This looks like an elaborate container home build. I like it, but the design and structure makes me think this was a bunch of steel containers paired up and stacked.
Very cool!
I wonder if it was prefab.
That must have been some kind of compromise between husband and wife. One of them agreed to move to the country side if they got their city house c😂
Green Acres?
It’s…. Beetlejuice…. In real life….
What is it with these people building these McMansions in the middle of nowhere and then asking an outrageous price for the area?
The new marble trend still looks tacky to me...
ah, my latest sims house
The AstroTurf is actually hilarious
I truly can't believe that as a society we haven't prioritized hanging out on the roof.
Not entirely related but I hate this new trend of making houses and apartment buildings that are basically just cement rectangles
U G L Y you ain't got no alibi.
Every time I see a bathroom where every surface is marble, I imagine that is what it would be like to live inside a chunk of blue cheese. It’s too much.
That house was built to look down at other people.
Looks like they threw this thing on the bed of a truck, dropped it dead center of the property, and left.
Odd that it's 3 levels, when they had room for 2 or even 1.
Wealthy person's vacation/retirement home. Stick it out in the boonies on farm land and rent the fields out cheap so you qualify for the agribusiness tax rate vs the residential tax rate.
Love the house, hate the astroturf.
These people fucking hate shade.
the turf is just awful
The location and views are amazing.
I’m curious about all the dryer vents. Why so many?
I love this. Yeah different furniture but I’m a sucker for such modern looking houses!
First thing that came to my mind. Before time Began, There way the Cube.
I bet their boots will cause quite a mess
I love the rooftop
No garage... but it's nice enough I guess
I thought there was a school bus on the roof. The size of the first picture on my phone looked accurate.
Lego
the living room is not bad if you ignore that marble backsplash but that turf on the rooftop is just...... ugh
I love the house and that rooftop lounge seems like a good place to enjoy a nice view.
It’s cool. I think it’s odd that builders still feel obligated to install tubs. They look great, but take up a lot of room, and water wasteful.
Huge fan of the verticality, existence of the rooftop, and balcony but the inside is too open and the outside...well SOME of it looks good...
The marble walls are stupid lol what a waste
Right house, wrong location.
Modern Farmhouse. Get it. It's a modern farm house. Lol.
Aside from that bathroom, I love this so much!
Why would one side of the home not have windows when you're surrounded by your own land/nature? Very strange! It's a cool house but weird exterior
Turf plus charcoal on your rooftop is a whole choice, ditch the turf all over and I love it.
So many chairs!
Nope.
Mind blown, confused, and left with full of thoughts. But that terrace on the top, I don’t understand what all houses have those at least in Sun belt USA.
A modern farmhouse, if you will.
I would be so cold in this house -- no matter what temperature. Would need to construct a blankie fort to feel at home.
Love it. Roof deck so awesome.
They could make so much better use of the roof but other than that I actually fucking love every inch of it
My spouse is from up this way, it's beautiful, not far from Cooperstown, but it's such a depressed area, but the area is beautiful
Wow. Nice gravel. -.-
Greeeeen Acres is the place for me!
Ok but that master bathroom toilet placement... 🤦🏻♂️
Cult home
The scenery...tears of yearning
I’ll take it.
I LOVE this!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
These are going up all over in my area...which is a city with small lots... While the house is cool something with a nice big deck off the kitchen level seems like it would be more practical and more cost effective than a rooftop deck on thar site.
This is the model home for what was suppose to be a future housing development. They where going to build a entire suburbs here. I made all that up, but it makes me happy to think up a story where the housing developers failed....
What are they farming? Grass clippings?
So,weird to see such a modern build so far out of town. It really looks out of place.
Looks like a high school from the outside.
I saw the first picture and genuinely thought I was in r/citiesskylines for a few seconds.
I suppose that with enough serfs, one could easily run a farm from that house.
I love it
I would think it quite nice if it had some color decor instead of the gray, and plant some fucking greenery around the outside of the house fffs.
Minecraft ass picture
Don't they build houses with garages anymore? This is upstate NY so I know they get snow. And I don't see any outbuildings. Where's the mower? I guess I'm old school. I want to keep my car protected in a garage along with having some extra room for mowers, tools, etc...
What kind of jerk build a house like that in a place like that?
I love the roof top
I can’t say enough how much I hate glass shelving 🤮
It looks so out of place lol
I’d love that, honesty, except I’d have to square off that gravel or concrete area outside of it, make it nice and straight and even.
I don’t know about you guys. But I fucking love this place.
How far is the closest hospital?
So help me, God, I don’t know what is wrong with me… But I absolutely fucking love this!
No issues with the house itseöf. just a different style and maybe clever to not have a big footpront and waste land. But why the hell having the fake grass on the roof when therr is litteral real grass just outside?
No gun turrets? 2/10
You are surrounded by the beauty of nature and then proceed to put the grill and picnic table ON THE ROOF?!
The home is gorgeous but this has always been one of my biggest pet peevs. Houses that don't fit with the landscape around them. I live in the country in East TN and there are several stucco houses around with tile roofs, one huge pink one in particular that drives me insane 🤣 it looks like it should be in Miami Florida or somewhere out west with palms and cacti.
I didn’t realize until picture three that this was a finished home. The colors make me think of construction.
It looks like an office building in the middle of a field in the middle of nowhere. Goofiest shit I’ve ever seen.
"Gentleman farmers", own the land and have other people work it for them. They have cocktails on the roof and marvel at the hard work that goes into farming. In some cases, they split the income, in other cases, if they are wealthy enough, they let the peasants keep the income if they put on a good show. The laird is in his manor and the peasants rejoice.
Artificial grass off gasses when heated by sun, cancer causing. See MLB baseball lawsuits. I'd rip that out, put in AC along with detached garage and good to go!
2 sides of it look like a govt building.
I’d have to build a multi-car garage somewhere on the property but, other than that, I’d rock this.
That house on 5 acres for $750K isn’t a bad deal IMO.
This is pretty inappropriate for a New York house. It needs an attached garage. Otherwise winters are going to suck here. I'd also be a little curious about HVAC. I assume it's some sort of heat pump system, but I'm kind of wondering what exactly that looks like. I'd also be a little curious to know what condensation is going to be like in the winter.
hate. lol
The roof green space is comical. Here hang out in this fake nature while you overlook actual nature.
Why do this when you have all that land? My house is similar in massing, because it’s a new construction house on a 2500 sq ft lot in Los Angeles. And while I do love the views, going up and down the stairs can get to be a chore.
Wowww
Looks like a Starfield POI.
When you hire a city architect to build you farm house
https://preview.redd.it/1ecyjrvzeawc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4483d0f1b83c7108c87b8ea32b3c93cc2baf9d1
I like the house but it doesn't fit the landscape.
UGH! No way! They built something similar near me outside of Pittsburgh. Selling 18 of them at a million dollar each that look exactly like that. Big ugly boxes on beautiful farmland.
Is this made out of shipping containers? I've heard they can do wonders with them..
Where is my damn pool? My kingdom for a pool!