[quote=AN][quote=bearishgurl]The electric blue “family room” with the blue “brick poster” of loose bricks on its FP is “over the top.” This house is a bit to “stylized” for mainstream tastes, IMHO.[/quote]
Isn’t that the whole point of custom? Only when you’re a designer for a builder of a tract house do you have to care about designing something that would fit w/ the mainstream taste. Doesn’t it give the kitchen and the house character? It’s not your run of the mill builder grade kitchen.[/quote]
AN, I don’t think this property is custom. Based upon the first photo, it appears to be on tract, albeit an older tract. It is very possible that a second story was added by these sellers, as the vast majority of tracts in the 60’s were one-story tracts and it was last purchased in 1994 for $162K. Yes, the house has “character” for the right buyer, but due to the colors used, it will appeal to only a small portion of buyers or a buyer that will try to hammer the price down and repaint the whole thing, IMO.
Buyers shopping for “customs,” DO NOT typically consider properties on tracts, esp an older tract in O’Side. They will usually shop in “custom” areas with bigger lots (where the homes were built by different builders commissioned by the separate owners of each lot).
I agree that tracts in older ‘hoods don’t necessarily look like tracts anymore. I live on an older “tract” and it is now difficult to tell that it ever WAS a tract, except for the fact that most of the lots are a uniform size.
