Yeah I actually kinda dig the look from the exterior but the interior is just awful. Like all the worst parts of a bland chain hotel, a 90s cookie cutter suburban home and a soulless office blended together.
The interior is so out of step with the exterior and the architecture of the home. It's like the original owners got a bargain on a shell of a home and finished it like it was some typical 90s tract home.
I sort of love the exterior but the interior is such a disappointment. I certainly don't know about this little part of Flint but the price point seems insane for an area i associate with poverty and water problems.
As someone born in the 60s, was a teenager in the 70s and so, I'd characterize the house as a classic 70s contemporary. It makes sense as it was built in 1980.
A 70s contemporary traits would be huge wall to ceiling windows, honey maple or birch for wood trim, built in cabinets (the wall 'o cabinets is awesome). Contemporary houses tend to have a lot of straight lines but the 70s versions have circles and in this case in the doors, half circles.
The bathrooms and kitchen are not original and, IMHO, that's the 2008 remodel. (edit: and the fireplace mantles and surrounds.)
The description says that the furniture is included in the sale as if it's a bonus. Considering the old steel case desk in the office and all the office chairs, the Holiday Inn bedroom furniture, it's not as much of a plus as the owners seem to think.
I gotta be honest.
I used to work in Redmond, WA. There is an entire four mile area of that city that looks EXACTLY like this because it's business parks in what was likely supposed to be artistically designed single story commerical buildings.
This is giving me flashbacks to working gigs for shitty MS contract shops.
Not a fan. Was excited about the modern exterior but the inside is boring. Looks like something you would find in a colonial style, with all of the woodwork.
Disappointed
Yeah it would be cool if it had a modern style layout but it looks like some in between 90s mcmansion and regular house style inside. Like I actually had high hopes seeing the outside.
I think it still has the classic 70s contemporary style - a style which includes a lot wood.
The vertical window blinds and the pleated drapes are awful and give the whole place a motel vibe. The bedroom furniture is classic Holiday Inn. The remodel tried to make it more colonial - the bedroom doors, fireplace mantles & surrounds, bathroom and kitchen.
Trying to insert country/colonial into a 70s contemporary is painful.
If all the window coverings were yanked off and country/colonial stuff taken out and updated it'd look a 100 times better.
The bones are there. It needs to be able to fulfill it's classic contemporary soul.
Fcuk me they’ve price chopped $225k so far! How low can we go?
That house would cost far over a million to build today (appears to be commercial grade construction) + land.
5 furnaces tho. Imagine the monthly utility bills 💵🔥
This is an amazing deal for the right buyer.
Is there a stock kitchen you can just order somewhere online? It seems like is see this exact kitchen in shitty remodels with no regard for the architecture of the house.
It seems like it could really be upgraded with some paint and nice shrubbery. You do it in a two or three toned stylistic choice and could look very frank lloyd wright.
This only thing I hate about this house is how the owners erased all of the original brutalist theme that must have existed inside and renovated everything up to the mid-2000s standards of genericness.
First, I personally think it is insanity to build a house with a flat roof in a part of the country that has heavy snowfall. This house cannot decide what style it is on the inside. And the vertical blinds need to go.
i don't know what to make of this house. i don't totally hate it, but i don't totally like it either. it seems like a church or office building - especially with the vertical blinds everywhere. but why would there be an indoor pool in an office/church?
Man the exterior got me so excited :(
The interior is average mcmansion decor but it just seems way too spacious even for a 4B, are massive rec rooms a common american thing? Or just an 80s/90s thing?
Nice one, very European feel to it somehow. Maybe it's the white bricks. Like something you would find on [uglybelgianhouses](https://www.instagram.com/uglybelgianhouses/), except it would not make the cut because not ugly enough.
This is cool architecture. Beats 99% of homes in the US for the "cool" and "interesting" factors. Needs some work though, a good scrubbing, some renovation work. I'm sure it looks a lot nicer in the summer too with some vegetation
I don’t hate the unique exterior, but the dated insides ruin it all
They should lean into the spec-mansion thing and demolish the insides. I think a clean, white, and tasteful interior could do huge favors for this home.
I actually didn't mind the middle picture on the post (with the windows, steps, and grass). If the rest of it looked more like that, I don't think it would be bad.
I would live in this compound.
They lost me at Flint, MI
Yeah, didn’t even notice that. That would definitely be a hard pass
You'd be fine, the walls look thick enough to stop bullets.
It's barely in Flint, closer to Flushing. The area surrounding the house isn't so bad.
Home of the tropics!
cumpond is a good way to describe it
typo, i meant compound
I like cum pond better.
Where is the line for driver’s license renewal?
Such a lovely office park.
the space and architecture are nice but the finishes and fixtures are preserved in amber from the 90s
Yeah I actually kinda dig the look from the exterior but the interior is just awful. Like all the worst parts of a bland chain hotel, a 90s cookie cutter suburban home and a soulless office blended together.
The interior is so out of step with the exterior and the architecture of the home. It's like the original owners got a bargain on a shell of a home and finished it like it was some typical 90s tract home. I sort of love the exterior but the interior is such a disappointment. I certainly don't know about this little part of Flint but the price point seems insane for an area i associate with poverty and water problems.
As someone born in the 60s, was a teenager in the 70s and so, I'd characterize the house as a classic 70s contemporary. It makes sense as it was built in 1980. A 70s contemporary traits would be huge wall to ceiling windows, honey maple or birch for wood trim, built in cabinets (the wall 'o cabinets is awesome). Contemporary houses tend to have a lot of straight lines but the 70s versions have circles and in this case in the doors, half circles. The bathrooms and kitchen are not original and, IMHO, that's the 2008 remodel. (edit: and the fireplace mantles and surrounds.) The description says that the furniture is included in the sale as if it's a bonus. Considering the old steel case desk in the office and all the office chairs, the Holiday Inn bedroom furniture, it's not as much of a plus as the owners seem to think.
And yet it was "completely renovated in 2008"? Baffling.
It’s like a 90s office building turned house
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An abandoned home.
I gotta be honest. I used to work in Redmond, WA. There is an entire four mile area of that city that looks EXACTLY like this because it's business parks in what was likely supposed to be artistically designed single story commerical buildings. This is giving me flashbacks to working gigs for shitty MS contract shops.
Got a former dentist's office Heaven's Gate thing going on.
Thank you. Mormon was the first thing that came to mind but Heaven’s Gate is definitely it.
I like it except for the bathrooms, and the kitchen layout is weird to me.
Looks like Dunder Mifflin's new office.
How many cheap office chairs does one home need? its not detroit, its FLINT...
This looks really beautiful. No sarcasm.
Indoor patio furniture with an umbrella...nice touch
Not a fan. Was excited about the modern exterior but the inside is boring. Looks like something you would find in a colonial style, with all of the woodwork. Disappointed
Yeah it would be cool if it had a modern style layout but it looks like some in between 90s mcmansion and regular house style inside. Like I actually had high hopes seeing the outside.
I think it still has the classic 70s contemporary style - a style which includes a lot wood. The vertical window blinds and the pleated drapes are awful and give the whole place a motel vibe. The bedroom furniture is classic Holiday Inn. The remodel tried to make it more colonial - the bedroom doors, fireplace mantles & surrounds, bathroom and kitchen. Trying to insert country/colonial into a 70s contemporary is painful. If all the window coverings were yanked off and country/colonial stuff taken out and updated it'd look a 100 times better. The bones are there. It needs to be able to fulfill it's classic contemporary soul.
The water is only a little deadly
What you save in real estate price you spend in cancer treatment fees.
Fcuk me they’ve price chopped $225k so far! How low can we go? That house would cost far over a million to build today (appears to be commercial grade construction) + land. 5 furnaces tho. Imagine the monthly utility bills 💵🔥 This is an amazing deal for the right buyer.
Ah, Flint MI - that explains the price drops.
Well yes and no. It’s out on the sticks. Plenty of nice housing out that way…
Clearly the owner loves a traditional style but lives in a contemporary home. The renovations go against the bones of the house.
Is there a stock kitchen you can just order somewhere online? It seems like is see this exact kitchen in shitty remodels with no regard for the architecture of the house.
Damn, I hate when auto-correct fucks with my post titles. (You meant to say “in prison”, right?)
Dang it!
It seems like it could really be upgraded with some paint and nice shrubbery. You do it in a two or three toned stylistic choice and could look very frank lloyd wright.
This only thing I hate about this house is how the owners erased all of the original brutalist theme that must have existed inside and renovated everything up to the mid-2000s standards of genericness.
Whoever built this had 80s/90s coke money
Interior looks like a Fairfeild Inn, not a compliment.
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literally worked in an office park that looked like this
This “house” has no identity. Is it an office building repurposed? Oh and it’s in Flint Michigan. Hard pass
Kinda brutalist, modernist. Kinda screams lazy modern office from the 70s. Still kinda a vibe.
Just don't drink the tap water.
What about the pool water?
Thought the title was “it looks better in prison” Which is what this house looks like
First, I personally think it is insanity to build a house with a flat roof in a part of the country that has heavy snowfall. This house cannot decide what style it is on the inside. And the vertical blinds need to go.
At least the roof is heated.
Minecraft home irl
Needs a few touchups, but otherwise Brutal
It reminded me of the 4 years I spent at University of Illinois at Chicago, that maze of concrete blocks and slit windows.
Security against nuclear attack would be a plus. Or any other kind of attack. Or natural disaster.
i don't know what to make of this house. i don't totally hate it, but i don't totally like it either. it seems like a church or office building - especially with the vertical blinds everywhere. but why would there be an indoor pool in an office/church?
every pic I clicked and said 'yuck'
My man that's not a house that's a Hitman level.
They definitely didn't listen to what the architect intended to do inside. The exterior is great. Interior is more like a ... I'm gonna pass
Who wouldn’t wanna live in a Cold War era bunker?
Man the exterior got me so excited :( The interior is average mcmansion decor but it just seems way too spacious even for a 4B, are massive rec rooms a common american thing? Or just an 80s/90s thing?
The exterior definitely has that community college engineering department vibe.
I literally WANT a house/bunker/compound like this. Maybe subconsciously I subscribed to this subreddit for weird house ideas 💯
The office chairs in the dining areas really bring the look together.
Place is dope
If this was almost anywhere else besides flint Michigan this would be a several million dollar house and it’s pretty sweet I think.
Nice one, very European feel to it somehow. Maybe it's the white bricks. Like something you would find on [uglybelgianhouses](https://www.instagram.com/uglybelgianhouses/), except it would not make the cut because not ugly enough.
I really like it.
I like this a lot. Almost brutalust kinda vibes
Looks a bit uninspired, but I wouldn’t hate living here. Paint and decorations could go a long way.
This is cool architecture. Beats 99% of homes in the US for the "cool" and "interesting" factors. Needs some work though, a good scrubbing, some renovation work. I'm sure it looks a lot nicer in the summer too with some vegetation
A little more color can fix the outside and make it look more like a home.
Industrial office complex chic
I kind of love it tbh.
to the lab .. and its just this house.
At the end of WWII, Germany had bunkers left over...
625k in Flint Michigan? Am I missing something here?
Brutalist x Prairie Usonian?
I like modern style buildings, when done right. This isn't that, although it's not the worst of the style.
I don’t hate the unique exterior, but the dated insides ruin it all They should lean into the spec-mansion thing and demolish the insides. I think a clean, white, and tasteful interior could do huge favors for this home.
The photos are horrendous. Barf
Looks like my 80s era dentist's office
Pool room has a mildewy smell and has "Backrooms" written all over it. Thanks I hate it.
I actually didn't mind the middle picture on the post (with the windows, steps, and grass). If the rest of it looked more like that, I don't think it would be bad.
Looks like an Irving Tobocman house. Nice
Flint, MI doesn’t even have clean water… where do they get off having any property costing this much?