Dumb Expensive Houses That Are A Waste Of Money

picture your dream home well you may be envisioning pools saunas and sea views others have very different ideas for their perfect abodes for mansions that look like they were designed by three-year-olds to the biggest waste of two and a half million dollars you'll ever see here are some dumb expensive houses that are a waste of money the slammer one man's dream home is another man's nightmare nowhere is this more evident than with magician penn gillette's bizarre las vegas home nicknamed the slammer what started as a simple a-frame house with two floors became a massive seven bedroom eight bathroom two kitchen spectacle with heavy duty fences to keep rabid magic fans at bay although they'd have a hard time finding the place to begin with as it's a very isolated property located in the middle of the mojave desert to transform the property into what it is today gillette splashed out buying land around the initial two and a half acre property turning it into a 10-acre compound as it grew the slammer began to feature some shall we say unusual features these included the questionable color scheme eccentric architecture and an eyebrow raising mismatch of styles then of course there was the baffling toilet office a scrabble-themed bathroom and murder scene themed flooring who could forget the multi-colored fake grass lawn though this might seem like the perfect place for an eccentric man of show business even gillette encountered issues while he claimed that he would have lived there forever if he didn't have kids children simply don't want to be raised in an isolated compound in the middle of the desert the general ugliness of the place may not have flown too well with them either and it made selling the property almost impossible gillette initially reported that the house was simply too eccentric to attract a buyer but after two plus decades of ownership he eventually sold the land at a loss to developers for 1.88 million dollars in 2016. with all the expensive eccentricity being bulldozed to the ground maybe for gillette's next trick he'll build an even weirder house paris hilton's dog mansion who let the dogs out definitely not paris hilton because she spent a fortune on a ridiculous way to keep the dogs in the hotel chain heiress and socialite worth a hundred million dollars is entitled to spend her fortune how she wants but a 325 thousand dollar mansion for her dogs even though paris is reported to have around 30 dogs that's still more money than most people spend on their own homes the dog house is a two-story mini villa with air conditioning heating designer furniture and a chandelier while 325 thousand dollars is a drop in the ocean for paris it just seems like a lot of effort for what's effectively a giant litter box for dogs but who am i kidding paris hilton doesn't clean dog poop herself she probably has an entire team of staff for that hong kong high roller while the value placed on a house always takes a number of factors into consideration the price of this next home goes beyond any sense of reason so what's the price for this 5 700 square foot four bedroom fixer-upper with a faded exterior 447 million dollars for perspective that's enough to buy both of these private islands more than three times over this somewhat shabby house sits on one of the costliest pieces of real estate in the world the gated middle gap road community in hong kong considering an empty lot on a nearby road sold to developers for 650 million dollars you might begin to understand the kind of money that gets thrown around in an area like this you might even see this place as a bargain but you'd be wrong while the middle gap road property has great views of deepwater bay and is a short drive from hong kong's central business district a 447 million dollar price tag still seems extortionate it's no wonder there are still no takers as the owners haven't budged on the price but hey throw in a couple of private islands and i'll take it mcmansions with a name that intentionally compares homes to mass-produced fast food you can probably guess there's not a lot of positive stuff to say about mcmansions these cheaply built hugely overpriced types of mass-produced mansions are found throughout the united states all in similar cookie-cutter styles that combine mismatched architectural styles usually painted in an awful shade of beige throw in jumbled illogical roof stylings decorative hollow columns out of place uneven turrets and a total lack of balance and symmetry and you've got yourself a prime mcmansion the houses are typically around three thousand square feet with nine to ten foot ceilings and luxurious features like chandeliers to help them hit the mansion definition and justify price tags in the millions these slab dash homes were actually highly sought after in the early 2000s as they were the middle ground between more modest suburban homes and the expensive homes in gated communities but today with more people aware of the poor quality architecture on show which usually implies bigger issues with the construction quality mcmansions are mostly just seen as eyesores in fact people feel so passionate about the matter that there's even a website dedicated to criticizing them you might say that's a little mcmean but i think it's absolutely mick necessary let me know what you make think about mcmansions in the comments below statue of liberty house derek jeter might be one of the best baseball players of his generation but his choices of home decor are a little questionable the miami marlins part owner and former new york yankees captain bought franklin castle found in greenwood lake new york in 2003 for just 425 thousand dollars it was a steal at the time but the sale price he's now asking for his souped-up overhaul of the castle will leave your jaw on the floor and not in a good way while the mixture of castle bricks and modern walls looks a little mcmansion asking themselves there's another on-site eyesore that would turn away all but the most patriotic americans meeting your gaze each time you look outside the window is a roughly 12 feet high replica of the statue of liberty unfortunately it looks like a giant spray painted version of a keyring you might find in a gift shop but if tackiness and unnecessary access are your kind of thing there's more to be found inside in terms of needless extravagance the 12 000 square foot mansion goes above and beyond with 8 bedrooms 12 bathrooms a study a pool multiple dining areas and five kitchens now this wouldn't be so bad except a number of these rooms have seriously questionable design choices like this compressed kitchen or the strange dated decor found in several of the leisure areas which leaves them looking like someone's grandma's house while it may have some rustic charm the property was listed for a whopping 14.75 million dollars a price tag that's left it on the market for well over a year it seems there's no patriot rich enough to fork out the cash for an on-site statue of liberty that comes with all that grey brick and old carpets la's little lodging now for a drastic change in size only without a reasonable reduction in price to match it this tiny home in los angeles somehow features two bedrooms and a bathroom and just 731 square feet despite a minimal scruffy interior and a backyard in serious need of some tlc this property recently sold for an unbelievable 1.3 million dollars while l.a property is notoriously expensive this close to santa monica appear the only way you could justify spending this much is if there's a secret apocalypse survival bunker underneath but as there's currently no sign of that this property remains the most disappointing thing you could ever spend a million dollars on i'll tell you what definitely won't disappoint you though taking a second to hit those like subscribe and notification buttons it may not earn you a million dollars but the content you'll receive from this channel every day priceless paulo alto abode take a look at this itsy bitsy house and have a guess at how much it costs got a figure in mind you'd be reasonable to guess anywhere below a couple hundred thousand dollars after all there's just 636 square feet of living space including one bedroom one bathroom and a hobby room and while the decor is homely and welcoming with details like limestone countertops in the kitchen and a wood burning fireplace in the living room the price is unbelievable for sale at the eye-watering price of one million five hundred and ninety thousand dollars the listing calls it a truly charming cottage in an excellent location translation it's extremely tiny and you're really only paying for the location which happens to be one of the most elite neighborhoods of palo alto california but what do you expect when your city's median average home value is over three million dollars miami's finest as you're hopefully beginning to see not all stupidly expensive houses are massive in fact some of them aren't even houses at all this 767 square foot one bedroom one and a half bathroom apartment at the setai residences in miami beach was listed at two and a half million ranking it among the most expensive tiny homes in america to play devil's advocate the apartment does come with many luxuries like concierge staff room service and housekeeping the complex reportedly has a fitness center too though i think you'd find a better deal cramming your exercise equipment into paris hilton's dog mansion then again the hilton kennel doesn't have those incredible bedroom and balcony beach views maybe that's why it didn't hit its target price and sold for a measly 1.4 million in 2017. that's basically chump change okay okay i'll stop pretending to be rich now airport house if you're ever flying to ocala florida you might be alarmed to look down and see that your airplane is passing over the airport but don't panic you're not on an unscheduled detour you're just flying over the home of saturday night fever star john travolta travolta is such a huge airplane fanatic that he not only became a certified private pilot at the age of 22 but for years he lived in a functional private airport called jumbo lair on the property his five-bedroom house is extravagant enough with a swimming pool fitness center and a banquet hall that can house 400 guests but the strange and stupidly excessive part is that it also has not one but two airplane runways leading straight to the house according to travolta he'd always wanted to be able to hop out of the front door straight into a plane to fly off to dinner somewhere nice plus the poor fellow had never been able to see his planes from his yard until he extended the runway rich people problems am i right owning five different types of aircraft including a full-size boeing 707 i can see why he might need a place to store them but forking out millions so you can land them in your driveway seems like a supremely excessive waste of money to me after all if you can't be satisfied with one runaway on your doorstep happiness won't just fly in by building a second one closer to the porch perhaps john travolta also realized this as in 2019 the 550 acre compound was put on the market for 10 and a half million dollars cube house do not adjust the angle of your screen that's how this next house is supposed to look this home in toronto canada was inspired by dutch architect piet blanc's cube houses built in rotterdam in the 1980s and it's just as eyebrow raising in its canadian iteration it's a house and a cube i don't know about you but that doesn't sound too practical or comfortable with sloping walls and bizarrely shaped windows toronto's cube house just seems like more trouble than it's worth though with one and a half bathrooms a kitchen and an office space all crammed into those unforgiving angles it's hard to deny it's a little impressive but as distinctive as it looks its cubic appearance won't be sticking out like a pixelated tree among the neighborhood's other buildings much longer the property was purchased by real estate developers in 2018 for a hefty 2 fifty 750 dollars with the goal of tearing it down and replacing it with condos is the destruction of the cube house a blessing or a curse for toronto and was it really worth 2.75 million let me know what you think in the comments down below spaceship house when supermodel naomi campbell's ex-partner russian billionaire vladislav dornan hired zaha hadid to design a house he must have told her to boldly go where no designer had gone before she certainly did so because the result looks like something from a sci-fi movie located in bereavka on the outskirts of moscow the 28 500 square foot structure resembles a cross between this and this and appears equally space age on the inside the mansion's 65 foot tall towers are made mainly from concrete and huge panes of glass which are supposed to combine with the interior decoration to enhance the futuristic look though if you ask me it just looks like a gigantic child left his fancy toys on the lawn doradan has been trying to sell the home since 2016 and listed it for 100 million in 2019. this is certainly a hefty price for something so bizarre looking but it's actually a substantial loss for dornan since it cost 140 million to build though the house was built specifically for naomi campbell shane dornan broke up in 2013. with that in mind i can't help thinking this mansion was just a very expensive way of saying they needed some space gold house some people really like gold like really really just ask architect robert stone because he designed and built a 1400 square foot house built around the very idea of gold it's not actually made of the expensive metal we all know but every aspect of the design is geared up to creating the illusion that it is with walls and ceilings crafted from metal and polished into mirrors it really does look like someone's dropped the world's largest gold ingot into the desert and it's not just the exterior either the interior is similarly outfitted in hues of white gold and champagne it's beautiful sure but here's the problem the house which stone calls aceto dorado or gold acid is located in the southern california desert as you might expect deserts get hot so sitting in a metal building covered in mirrored surfaces is going to get very sweaty very quickly like a greenhouse but gold even so aceto dorado is being offered as a vacation home at a night so i can only assume they have some top of the line air conditioning will you shell out for this expensive night of luxury let me know in the comments below lego house if as a child i'd been told that somewhere a real home made out of legos existed i'd be straight out the door to begin my pilgrimage there but it's true a lego house was indeed constructed by the bbc's james may and a group of a thousand volunteers back in 2009 and his crew used 3.3 million lego bricks to build a 20-foot tall lego home in surry england in 2009 it came complete with a working toilet sink and a very uncomfortable bed all made from lego bricks while the lego house was intended to be relocated to legoland and berkshire the cost and logistics provided too much to be worthwhile it would have cost an estimated 60 thousand dollars to dismantle and rebuild on top of the initial build cost and if the average price per brick is 10 cents then it likely cost around 330 000 to initially build and that's before factoring in the tv cruise payment but after all the effort of construction despite attempts to save the lego house it was eventually demolished as entertaining as the televised build was building one of your own only seems like a worthwhile investment if you're a six-year-old billionaire even so the demolition of james may's project didn't stop future attempts at building a real-life functional lego house in 2015 an overly optimistic individual tried to raise a million dollars on kickstarter to do this to this day however it's only received 33. from seven backers i'd say that's a sign it's time to let go of the idea transparent house many architects try to design houses that allow plenty of natural light but this next house design is just ridiculous natural light is the whole idea behind this transparent house a proposed concept home from su fukimoto architects inspired by humanity's ancestors who lived in trees the idea is to be able to sit anywhere and be bathed in sunshine it may seem very sleek and modern but solid opaque walls exist for a reason if this house were real you'd have no privacy whatsoever as all your activities could be seen by your neighbors and passersby say goodbye to walking around in your underwear and you'd better hope no one throws a rock in your direction or all the money you spend on your house would come shattering down before your very eyes toilet house sim jay duck one time mayor of suwon south korea earned himself the nickname mr toilet after successfully renovating local public restrooms during his term in office he was so enthusiastic about toilets he even founded the world toilet association but his passion didn't end there in 2007 he built his dream home a house shaped like a giant toilet he called it heiwu j which means a house to satisfy anxiety although i only feel more anxious knowing that he spent roughly 1.1 million dollars to build it that's a very big commitment to toilet humor after jay duck's passing the house was made into a toilet museum with two floors of exhibition showing the importance of toilets so at least his legacy wasn't completely flushed away pierre cardone's bubble palace as far as fashion designer pierre cardone is concerned the times of houses being made up of straight lines and right angles has gone on too long or at least that's the impression you get from looking at his vacation home known as the bubble palace found near keynes france this bizarre boat was designed by architect anti lavag with the simple goal of no straight lines inside and save for the walls at the back of this gaudy property i'd say he met his aim now granted the 13 000 square foot house has a lot of amazing features including 10 bedrooms numerous swimming pools and a 500 seat amphitheater but it's hard to look past the design which resembles a sea anemone mutated by nuclear radiation regardless of the somewhat disgusting appearance it took 14 years to be constructed and cardone took another 5 years to restore it he listed it for sale in 2017 at the astronomical price of 389 million dollars considering how uncomfortable just looking at the place makes people feel i think someone's going to have to burst his bubble or his bubble palace which house do you think was the biggest waste of money let me know in the comment section below thanks for watching you

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Published: Sat Sep 12 2020