Whenever friends come down to stay, it's mandatory to take them past this insane house to take all of its glory in.
Also, when I was a kid, the owner of this house had a giant poster hanging up in the garage area on the left, taking up half of it. It was a photo of him standing in front of a green screen, with the president of his home country.
Another time, I was parked across the road admiring his house, and he came out and threw his arms up into the air. I love it.
Oh I'm so happy about that 😂 I found the poster!! Shame he moved it over in the Google maps photos, cause I remember it taking up half of the actual garage.
Before my aunty killed herself she used to throw lavish dinner parties and they would all drunkenly walk up the road to look at the neighbors house which has astroturf and fake flowers. Fucking hilarious but has nothing on this.
That was wild from start to finish and I loved reading it. So sorry about your aunt but she sounds like such a character, and I would have loved to partake in her dinner party.
She was a traumatised human with incredible support who didn’t have the strength to do the right thing which is okay! She was hilarious but mean. I think she’s why I love Lucille Bluth so much.
You overestimate the pride canadians have in our government. Its uncommon to see a flag on someones house let alone a photo on display of us with the prime minister
That's fair - it's been around for ages now and it's looking worse for wear. It was in pristine condition when I was a kid. I'm pretty sure the owner of it is quite old now.
The whole place looks like a decaying restaurant facade. Might have looked good when new, but the cheap construction materials and accessories are definitely showing their age.
To be fair I think it's been standing for nearly 30 years now, and I haven't seen them do any repairs on the place. I do wish I had a photo of it from when I was a kid, when it was in good nick.
I can't imagine it would have been cheap for them to construct this place haha
I really think they should pack it up and move it next door to this house. They would make great neighbours and I feel like they could have some friendly competition going on.
Growing up I lived near someone like this, only they didn't have the money to go this far. Statues everywhere. They had so many of them on the deck that the deck collapsed from the weight.
We just called it the tacky house
It was just tacky. You couldn't sit down because there was no free space. the whole thing was just covered in statues. Their yard was pretty much the same way. I wish I had photos of it because a description just isn't enough.
I wish you did too!! I'd love to see photos.
That actually reminds me of the frog house down the road from my own. So this lady was OBSESSED with frogs, so much so that she collected toy figures of frogs and super glued them to her front fence. She had random frog memorabilia surrounding her house, but by far the best thing was the frog fence. Sadly she moved on from it and the frogs were removed from the fence some years ago, and sadly, I never got a photo.
I say this with all of the respect I can; she also looked frog like. No kidding. I thought it was so fitting.
There was also another house down the street from mine, where the lady was obsessed with pigs and her entire loungeroom was decorated with pig stuff.
I could actually keep going on and on. This is all to say I have some weird units in my neighbourhood, but I love em.
Does a Greek immigrant who works in the trades live here bc that is one micro niche that def take that “cradle of civilization” flex very seriously (don’t try to debate them on that)
I'd love to know more about the guy who owns this place. I've actually fantasised about throwing on some sort of work uniform and knocking on his door, to "sell" him solar or something (just so I can look inside the house and ask him questions lmao)
A guy can dream
lol knock on the door w a gift basket of those rock hard dried chick pea snacks, some red pistachios, and golden sultanas and then ask him if baklava is Turkish or Greek and he will invite you in for a 7 hour conversation where he teaches you the answer.
It's fairly common in Australia to see houses with columns and statues. Lots of immigrants from the Mediterranean here and I love spotting places with this aesthetic. The houses seem happy.
Check out the movie "Wog Boy" - it's kinda like Australia's version of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."
Huh. That's interesting.
I actually have a small bronze statuette of statue #2 on the second story over the garage. Italian, and outrageously expensive. I cannot imagine how much those full-sized statues cost.
I'll put it to you this way- My parents have life-sized lion statues they got for a screaming deal many years ago. They have to have special insurance on them because each one of those bad boys are valued at about $12K a piece.
Stupid expensive!
Holy shit that's expensive! Well thank you, that does put things more into perspective for me.
Here's a little fun fact - some statues have fallen over, as the years have gone by. So what you can see isn't even all of the ones that were there. Dude must have been loaded when he build his house.
To me, not really. Because if you pull up into the start of your driveway, and your gate is closed, you can keep your car parked in front of it as you open the gate. Otherwise you need to move your car.
Also, you're pushing the gate rather than pulling it, which is easier to me. All my gates, big and small at my house, open that way. I'm guessing it's different where you live?
My main reasoning is the incline, the gates hit the ground if they open that way, but if they opened the other way they would have plenty of clearance to the ground
Oh gotcha! Yeah that makes sense. It looks like they open on a weird angle to counter that issue. I've never even thought about it since my property is on flat ground.
Not far from me is the Asian equivalent of this. Pagodas, dragons, while house and all yard decorated in an Asian/Chinese theme. About 5 acres worth. It is at least well kept
A long time ago I did my undergrad at UCSC and in the town there were a few crazy houses. My favorite one was a weird stacked brick monstrosity that sprawled over its lot and looked like someone’s attempt to make an ancient Hindu temple complex.
I honestly thought this building was severely fire damaged at first glance and then came to realize that it is just really really ugly and poorly maintained
For some reason, it reminds me of the [house from Beetlejuice.](https://hookedonhouses.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Beetlejuice-House-set-photos-Tim-Burton-27.jpg)
nah this is just aweful :D the gate is crooked, the light is crooked, the color of the driveway is giving river of blood, shits broken all over...
i dont actually even hate the collumns that much.. but everything else. sheeesh.
sorry you gotta see that every day :D
In my stuffy hometown, the city counsel was up in arms because the new owner of a house with male and female statuary in front painted all of the pubic areas red.
You live in Australia, don't you? :P
We love spotting the houses of Mediterranean immigrants when driving around. They feel so joyful, especially next to the shitty boxy modern units crammed onto a subdivided strata. One of our neighbors even has a miniature vineyard!
Someone, some time ago, enjoyed pulling their expensive car, probably a Mercedes coupe up into this garage every day before going inside to do a fat line.
Whenever friends come down to stay, it's mandatory to take them past this insane house to take all of its glory in. Also, when I was a kid, the owner of this house had a giant poster hanging up in the garage area on the left, taking up half of it. It was a photo of him standing in front of a green screen, with the president of his home country. Another time, I was parked across the road admiring his house, and he came out and threw his arms up into the air. I love it.
It's giving "Honey we have the Scarface Mansion at home:
It looks like the house for “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”
That’s what I thought in the first place
Yeah, that is Tula’s parents’ house!
Which suburb of Athens do you live in?
You’ve got so sell a LOT of gyros to build something that magnificent.
Clearly a man of culture and refinement. Pure class.
...I'm assuming 3 arms then, two cut off and one to throw them..
I genuinely dont know whether to picture beaming joyful uncle buck or sad angry godfather
He was mad as hell 🤣 he threw his arms up like "WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT MY HOUSE!! MIND YA BUSINESS!!"
Motherfucker's build an eyesore and act surprised when people stare.
Admiring 😭
It looks like a middling quality set for a musical. I wonder what production they’re mounting.
There has GOT to be a house like this somewhere in Queens
You were not kidding about the giant poster
Were you able to find a photo of it!?
Someone shared the maps link and if you go back to 2013 you can see it
Oh I'm so happy about that 😂 I found the poster!! Shame he moved it over in the Google maps photos, cause I remember it taking up half of the actual garage.
Before my aunty killed herself she used to throw lavish dinner parties and they would all drunkenly walk up the road to look at the neighbors house which has astroturf and fake flowers. Fucking hilarious but has nothing on this.
That was wild from start to finish and I loved reading it. So sorry about your aunt but she sounds like such a character, and I would have loved to partake in her dinner party.
She was a traumatised human with incredible support who didn’t have the strength to do the right thing which is okay! She was hilarious but mean. I think she’s why I love Lucille Bluth so much.
What was his home country?
I’d guess Greek, but it’s not a stretch to say Filipino either.
>a photo of him standing in front of a green screen, with the president of his home country Gonna go out on a limb, and say he's Canadian, right?
Nah, Canadians would have a beer cooler in the garage. This guy is probably Australian, right?
I'm gonna guess by the amount of statues that the owner is from North Macedonia. Those people absolutely love their statues.
You overestimate the pride canadians have in our government. Its uncommon to see a flag on someones house let alone a photo on display of us with the prime minister
No, this isn’t great execution. Broken statues, lights, at least 3 different stone colors. I’m sorry you live near here, it must be hard.
That's fair - it's been around for ages now and it's looking worse for wear. It was in pristine condition when I was a kid. I'm pretty sure the owner of it is quite old now.
The whole place looks like a decaying restaurant facade. Might have looked good when new, but the cheap construction materials and accessories are definitely showing their age.
To be fair I think it's been standing for nearly 30 years now, and I haven't seen them do any repairs on the place. I do wish I had a photo of it from when I was a kid, when it was in good nick. I can't imagine it would have been cheap for them to construct this place haha
I’m assuming you live in the USA judging by your expectation that a building *only* looking this bad after just thirty years is acceptable.
Australia 🤷
r/USdefaultism
🙄🙄🙄
You live in the coliseum?
It’s giving Roman ruins. That’s the aesthetic
I’m sure mist of the “great execution” examples we see here wouldn’t last 5 years of wear and tear. Lots of glue and staples.
It probably *was* great execution, at one time. Now it just looks old and dilapidated.
Great Taste Aweful Execution?
This is great taste but awful execution
ATAAE
It's definitely different but I like it in a weird way.
Same. It's nuts but I love the place.
A beautiful mess
That's such a great way to put it Poetic
Looks like someone is experimenting with Minecraft and haven't got the aesthetic quite right for their new house.
Me when I play Minecraft
Great execution of the decline of the Roman Empire
😂🤣
This is in tootgarook on the Mornington peninsula isn’t it I walked past that house one time and I’m still convinced it was a fever dream
Yes lmao 😂 I'm surprised someone recognised it so fast. Dude I see the house frequently and I totally get what you mean.
There is a pic on google street view from a few years ago with a whole lot more red paint and it is really quite something.
We have a mini version in Darwin
I really wanna see a photo! Do you have one? 😂
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-13/the-architectural-mystery-behind-darwins-incomplete-acropolis/9540484
I really think they should pack it up and move it next door to this house. They would make great neighbours and I feel like they could have some friendly competition going on.
Or we just need to find each cities version of this and make a tour map, or game?!
https://maps.app.goo.gl/RX2VC1RqyRVxdoex6
What do they have against the letter S?
It's a "no standing" sign - means you can't park there
Growing up I lived near someone like this, only they didn't have the money to go this far. Statues everywhere. They had so many of them on the deck that the deck collapsed from the weight. We just called it the tacky house
That's actually hilarious that they had such a big collection, their deck broke. You'd have to have a lot for that to happen.
It was just tacky. You couldn't sit down because there was no free space. the whole thing was just covered in statues. Their yard was pretty much the same way. I wish I had photos of it because a description just isn't enough.
I wish you did too!! I'd love to see photos. That actually reminds me of the frog house down the road from my own. So this lady was OBSESSED with frogs, so much so that she collected toy figures of frogs and super glued them to her front fence. She had random frog memorabilia surrounding her house, but by far the best thing was the frog fence. Sadly she moved on from it and the frogs were removed from the fence some years ago, and sadly, I never got a photo. I say this with all of the respect I can; she also looked frog like. No kidding. I thought it was so fitting. There was also another house down the street from mine, where the lady was obsessed with pigs and her entire loungeroom was decorated with pig stuff. I could actually keep going on and on. This is all to say I have some weird units in my neighbourhood, but I love em.
Does a Greek immigrant who works in the trades live here bc that is one micro niche that def take that “cradle of civilization” flex very seriously (don’t try to debate them on that)
I'd love to know more about the guy who owns this place. I've actually fantasised about throwing on some sort of work uniform and knocking on his door, to "sell" him solar or something (just so I can look inside the house and ask him questions lmao) A guy can dream
lol knock on the door w a gift basket of those rock hard dried chick pea snacks, some red pistachios, and golden sultanas and then ask him if baklava is Turkish or Greek and he will invite you in for a 7 hour conversation where he teaches you the answer.
It's fairly common in Australia to see houses with columns and statues. Lots of immigrants from the Mediterranean here and I love spotting places with this aesthetic. The houses seem happy. Check out the movie "Wog Boy" - it's kinda like Australia's version of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."
Perfect setting for a horror film. The garage entrance already looks like it's covered in blood
Huh. That's interesting. I actually have a small bronze statuette of statue #2 on the second story over the garage. Italian, and outrageously expensive. I cannot imagine how much those full-sized statues cost.
I've always wondered what this cost them. That much concrete fashioned into these shapes has gotta be a pretty penny.
I'll put it to you this way- My parents have life-sized lion statues they got for a screaming deal many years ago. They have to have special insurance on them because each one of those bad boys are valued at about $12K a piece. Stupid expensive!
Holy shit that's expensive! Well thank you, that does put things more into perspective for me. Here's a little fun fact - some statues have fallen over, as the years have gone by. So what you can see isn't even all of the ones that were there. Dude must have been loaded when he build his house.
How to say your Greek .... without saying your Greek
There's a lot of holiday homes in my suburb owned by Italians and Greeks, with lots of little hints. But this one is not subtle 🤣
I went to school with a lot of 2nd generation Greek and Macedonian kids, and I can definitely see some of their parents doing this 😂
Someone has been pondering on the roman empire for a while
at least they got their other lamp on straight
This is the kind of house I would want to own if I lived in the middle of an HOA that I wasn't part of.
Bet they have mad orgies in there
It reminds me of a house in Gießen, Germany, which was in fact a Swingerclub.
Is it not meant to have a roof? Wait. Is it meant to not have a roof? That still doesn’t sound right.
It's an "artful" ruined temple.
Man why does the gate open that way lol???
My gate at home opens this way. Is that unusual?
Would it make more sense for them to open the other way?
To me, not really. Because if you pull up into the start of your driveway, and your gate is closed, you can keep your car parked in front of it as you open the gate. Otherwise you need to move your car. Also, you're pushing the gate rather than pulling it, which is easier to me. All my gates, big and small at my house, open that way. I'm guessing it's different where you live?
My main reasoning is the incline, the gates hit the ground if they open that way, but if they opened the other way they would have plenty of clearance to the ground
Oh gotcha! Yeah that makes sense. It looks like they open on a weird angle to counter that issue. I've never even thought about it since my property is on flat ground.
I mean if you're already known as the town eccentric, you may as well lean into it and have some fun.
the folks on r/vaporwave might like this.
The shitty grey paint job is pulling the whole look down 🫤
It looks like they drive a chariot dragging bodies out of their garage.
Guessing one enters it from the rear.
Not far from me is the Asian equivalent of this. Pagodas, dragons, while house and all yard decorated in an Asian/Chinese theme. About 5 acres worth. It is at least well kept
How's rosebud treating ya OP?
😂 so you too have been blessed with the sights of this house
We are all bound by our suffering on the southern peninsula
Yeah my gran used to live nearby. That house was the highlight of childhood car trips to visit her.
So glad you got to experience this in person. I reckon this house should become an official tourist destination/landmark.
I don’t think this qualifies as “good execution”…
I like it! Looks classy.
Wow do you live in Rome or something.
Whoa, you must live in Italy!
Itaustralia 🥲🧑🍳🍕
Looks like a place in Sacramento, CA also.
Mohg, is that you??
Whats the deal with the enormous satellite? Does he run a news operation outta there? Also… is there an “ancient” bathing pool up there…? 👀
Looks like the final location in a Fallout quest line
looks like a house from ancient alexandria egypt
Where great engineering?
That gray does not go together well with that white. What a mess of concrete and plaster.
Neopanthic prolific. Art noveau stylę circa '96. Glorious
My! A perfect example of neoclassical slum! With hillbilly overtones and a healthy dash of tastelessness.
A long time ago I did my undergrad at UCSC and in the town there were a few crazy houses. My favorite one was a weird stacked brick monstrosity that sprawled over its lot and looked like someone’s attempt to make an ancient Hindu temple complex.
This is great taste but awful execution
How do people get permits for builds like this? Are there no rules against horizon pollution where ever this is?
I honestly thought this building was severely fire damaged at first glance and then came to realize that it is just really really ugly and poorly maintained
The Parthenah
If this was in LATAM I'd say: Oh ok... Saint Seiya fans, cool. But this isn't. Do better Melbourne.
I have a feeling there have been some wild orgies in that place!
I'd be afraid to be too vigorous lest everything collapse on me.
This is.. something lol
If you cannot do classicism (or any other historical style) correctly, don’t do it at all. This just looks dumb.
That's not ATBGE, it's Debatable Taste Bad Execution
Class!
Should be in a frat house movie scene
For some reason, it reminds me of the [house from Beetlejuice.](https://hookedonhouses.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Beetlejuice-House-set-photos-Tim-Burton-27.jpg)
*My Big Fat Greek Wedding* vibes
nah this is just aweful :D the gate is crooked, the light is crooked, the color of the driveway is giving river of blood, shits broken all over... i dont actually even hate the collumns that much.. but everything else. sheeesh. sorry you gotta see that every day :D
More like AT&AE
Awful in all ways. It’s in disrepair and all the cement is different grades
This house is the most obviously haunted house I've ever seen and I don't believe in ghosts.
Ah the historic Parthenot.
Tell me you’re Greek without telling me you’re Greek
In my stuffy hometown, the city counsel was up in arms because the new owner of a house with male and female statuary in front painted all of the pubic areas red.
Can't wait for the Zillow listing.
Ya gotta get yerself some Maaaable Caaaalims. https://youtu.be/fWGPsS0dh5k?si=H-BHj44bLCvD-sUO
A crap palace.
Their entire bloodline was banished from ancient Greece by their HOA
*"Give me a word, any word, and I show you that the root of that word is Greek."*
I am pretty sure one of the greek gods (or monsters) from Percy Jackson lives there
That's going to really confuse some archeologist a couple thousand years from now.
Do you live in the Paperboy 2 neighborhood? https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gUzhTlgycl0/hqdefault.jpg
thats not even great execution....that looks like shit
People hate HOAs. But this is why they exist.
When you roll up to the frat house for Greek week
Do you live in a sims game????
I swear this house was in Dead Island 2, crazy artist lived there and requested you bring zombie body parts so they could make skulptures
You live in Australia, don't you? :P We love spotting the houses of Mediterranean immigrants when driving around. They feel so joyful, especially next to the shitty boxy modern units crammed onto a subdivided strata. One of our neighbors even has a miniature vineyard!
r/nightmarehomes
You ever been inside?
Ever heard of an HOA
Someone, some time ago, enjoyed pulling their expensive car, probably a Mercedes coupe up into this garage every day before going inside to do a fat line.
I unironically adore the brutalist cross Roman cross gothic vibe from this…it’s so awful and yet I would definetely live there
I’m building this in 7 days now
I'm sorry
Its better than half the cookie cutter bullshit in this country. I like it lol. where was the owner/builder from
Odd, but like so many others here, I love the place. Thanks for sharing.
i really like the abattoir drain driveway. really adds a certain jenny say kwah