tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post5623401819705304657..comments2023-11-05T01:14:14.295-07:00Comments on The Real Estalker: Tuesday Tidbit: Updown CourtYour Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14600002907755148264noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-47455123547538670892011-11-03T22:40:08.866-07:002011-11-03T22:40:08.866-07:008:00 - Leave judgements to the professionals. It&...8:00 - Leave judgements to the professionals. It's more about context. Upsidedown Court looks even more ridiculous in a country with a bit more authenticity. Candyland is right at home in LA. Don't you get the difference? You sound like you are saying Eurodisney is better than Disneyland...now quit smoking with whitney and bobby brown.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-38540117699626438342011-11-03T09:52:24.419-07:002011-11-03T09:52:24.419-07:008:00 AM, how do you know that the materials used i...8:00 AM, how do you know that the materials used in the Spelling home are cheap and that it's cheaply built? I seriously doubt that. Regardless, the main problem most have with Updown Court is the design. It looks like it was modeled after a multi tier wedding cake. It's pure confection, not architectural design, and the interiors can only be accurately described as "garish" to quote Mama. You just can't make a reasonable case for it's appeal over the Spelling home by most people's perception (NOT that either home is actually appealing).angienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-85509607507528374312011-11-03T09:17:42.991-07:002011-11-03T09:17:42.991-07:00Holy crap. Unbelievable. I too would like to know ...Holy crap. Unbelievable. I too would like to know what area of Surrey this is in - my family is from there, and I can't imagine where this is located. Clearly in the 'upscale' area I have never seen.Calgary Realtorshttp://www.cliffstevenson.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-48420171878582335972011-11-03T08:00:59.039-07:002011-11-03T08:00:59.039-07:007:14, while this is indeed horrid, it is a far nic...7:14, while this is indeed horrid, it is a far nicer home than Candy Spelling's home with far nicer materials and accoutrements. Candy's house is cheaply built with cheap materials with big rooms just for the sake of having them. Very unimpressive. <br /><br />The Spelling home is just a McMansion on steroids and HGH. Updown actually has quality and cachet and manicured grounds with extensive landscaping and so on. If you can't tell the difference between these two homes then perhaps you are the one on crack.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-6368667986736507522011-11-03T07:02:45.577-07:002011-11-03T07:02:45.577-07:00I don't know what's more distasteful: Thi...I don't know what's more distasteful: This house or the people commenting that are trying to mimic Mama's writing style. Stop it and write in your own voice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-57814234332002912612011-11-02T19:14:58.153-07:002011-11-02T19:14:58.153-07:00WHAT? I find the Spelling Manor repulsive. Howe...WHAT? I find the Spelling Manor repulsive. However, it is not worse that this POS. Whoever said that above is smoking crack.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-7200782840344599892011-11-02T16:59:12.374-07:002011-11-02T16:59:12.374-07:00The truest definition of a white elephant if there...The truest definition of a white elephant if there was one. <br /><br />What a horrid house and I would not take it even for free. This is a home destined to bankrupt even the richest person. <br /><br />Amazing to see that the most awful homes in America and London were both able to be sold this year although Candy Spelling's home is still way worse than this house.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-10527931384940668572011-11-02T15:46:23.602-07:002011-11-02T15:46:23.602-07:00This house was used on the Showtime show called Ep...This house was used on the Showtime show called Episodes. It was the perfect fill-in for a nouveau riche LA mansion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-47158068890835479372011-11-02T12:29:34.070-07:002011-11-02T12:29:34.070-07:00I cannot help thinking about the poor souls who ac...I cannot help thinking about the poor souls who actually constructed this monstrosity. Even the laziest, most jaded or disillusioned construction worker must, at least once in their lifetime, possess a silver of the soul of the craftsman, and want to take even a superficial pride in their work. Not to mention those who truly are craftsmen.<br /><br />Those poor bastards; looking at this makes me realize what it must mean to be sentenced to work on a prison farm...lil' gay boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10115496241247504856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-4560851970779276012011-11-02T04:05:42.477-07:002011-11-02T04:05:42.477-07:00OMG...
Get out the gallons of smelling salts.
T...OMG...<br /><br />Get out the gallons of smelling salts. <br /><br />The Real Estalker "occupiers" are really going to go nuts with this one!midTNnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-73154475478281403512011-11-02T03:34:35.890-07:002011-11-02T03:34:35.890-07:00Heavens above, someone actually bought this monstr...Heavens above, someone actually bought this monstrosity? I had visions of it falling into disrepair over the next few years, and eventually being taken over by an army of the dispossesed and homeless masses. <br /><br />Its peculiar and ungainly architecture, more suited to Las Vegas than suburban Surrey, is due to the American architect, but the lamentable decorative finishes are entirely the work of Mr Allen-Vercoe. Lets hope this misadventure into property developing has put him off attempting anything similar in the future.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-64935810158235397082011-11-02T01:24:58.361-07:002011-11-02T01:24:58.361-07:00How hideous. I hated it then, I hate it now. Your ...How hideous. I hated it then, I hate it now. Your Mama needs to publish a blog entry on an equally hideous Palais des Anges in Los Angeles, which got sold recently. And also - who are the architects who design these monstrosities? We need a blog post guide on the best and worst celebrity (and for celebrities) architects of today!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-13609396933120270062011-11-01T20:58:06.486-07:002011-11-01T20:58:06.486-07:00Love your blog Mama but ....Surrey is most definit...Love your blog Mama but ....Surrey is most definitely not 'an upscale rural London suburb', that's a bit like saying Connecticut is a suburb of New York City. Surrey is not even a city, it's a county.emeraldcityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15944171047574404495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-27065497282115722992011-11-01T19:09:56.168-07:002011-11-01T19:09:56.168-07:00Had he gone mad? Did he have a mistress on Doheny...Had he gone mad? Did he have a mistress on Doheny Drive who was thirty-two years younger with a birthmark in the center of her left buttock in the shape of the<br />Isle of Capri? Was she the bitch who had taken it all, who spoke of the acquirement of homes as if it were the plastic pink beads and toxic candied gee-gaws she so idly collected and fingered on her pale thin scarred wrists with seemingly innocent yet caculated abandon?<br /><br />Or was it the Southwestern spiders and tiramisu termites and larvae and Hungarian beetles seething out from the splintered gaps in the expensive Flaviniana mahagony mantelpiece and pointing at him, snickering with the laughs of Asian schoolgirls, as the now forty foot tall silverfish with a monocle and clipped British accent drinking a mojito said "yes, you sold the rights to Micheal Bay to buy this, you sad, sad man....now pick up the gun and know that you are a child of the universe and that you had a right to be here, but your weak and have squandered that particular cosmic conceit and now must immediately off yourself to decrease the surplus population....." <br /><br />He was certainly confused, if just for a moment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-61219968445540367562011-11-01T17:54:00.386-07:002011-11-01T17:54:00.386-07:00it's just too tiny for me and my cat LOL
the ...it's just too tiny for me and my cat LOL <br />the person who bought his house isn't in the same world than us or meFrenchGirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04984690899855445836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-27521801029491860932011-11-01T17:41:17.975-07:002011-11-01T17:41:17.975-07:00Upsidedown Court is so odd. It is obviously so vu...Upsidedown Court is so odd. It is obviously so vulgar and trashy. I could find better real estate and design for that reduced price. Doesn't the pool look like it's half filled with water (the tile didn't know when to stop)? Don't the plans look sort of wonky? Infinity pool above the main reception hall? Your Mama was right - you can never understand the reasoning of the rich and their real estate. And she don't try...she just reveals with wit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-63971145828890099012011-11-01T17:04:08.527-07:002011-11-01T17:04:08.527-07:00It's sad to think that the money spent on this...It's sad to think that the money spent on this place could have built just about any home the imagination can conjure, and this is the unfortunate architecture that was chosen. I would sooo take Candy Spelling's home in a heartbeat over this, and that's saying something.angienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-87996403630887152082011-11-01T15:35:41.885-07:002011-11-01T15:35:41.885-07:00The rot had started decades ago, at least as far b...The rot had started decades ago, at least as far back as Reagan, or so the inspector said with a slight but sinister smile, but the malicious decay was only now crawling up into<br />every single crevice of the house,behind every single peg and groove of wood lay a termite, behind every lighting fixture was a spider's egg, behind every expensive Morrocan kiln-fired and glazed tile was murderous green slime oozing it's way out with a kind of elegant finesse that only a Russian chess master could envy. <br /><br />Or maybe it was all in his mind. Either way, he knew that for reasons at this moment he could not justify or understand, he had purchased a pistol and a box of ammo, something he could not fathom for the life of him.<br /><br />He'd always splurged on classic 1930's cocktail books and French imported candies.<br /><br />He had no criminal record. His wife had left him. The house payments could no longer be made.<br /><br />He also bought creamy expensive paper and a Mont Blanc pen...to write "some sort of note"...but to<br />whom...and why?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-43495916488447832272011-11-01T14:07:50.882-07:002011-11-01T14:07:50.882-07:00Let me see...........Updown Court or Candy's M...Let me see...........Updown Court or Candy's Manor? This is the US Open of bad taste. Now, if the foreign buyer would just move it to Las Vegas, the natural order would be restored. Oh Yester House....restore my soul!StPaulSnowmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-3534211822918702812011-11-01T14:03:26.363-07:002011-11-01T14:03:26.363-07:00Lordy Mercies darlins this big new pile has gone a...Lordy Mercies darlins this big new pile has gone and sold! When the banks and bankrupcies came a calling I figured there was a sucker out there with awful taste and new monies who would purchase this architectural nightmare. Lordy it is vulgar as Kim K on church on Sunday singing on a choir wiggling her arse, as vulgar as Paris Hilton preaching from the good bible on Sunday morning with her knickers on display.. it is vulgar as a nouveau riche Scholz mansion trying to be old money and old school when it is as flagrant Christian Audigier and his threads! <br /><br />I read from my crystal ball some options.<br /><br />1. New Owner will decorate the "manor" in a hideous display of fragrant design that will incorporate the less than tasteful finishings and will be the eye sore of all eye sores that will take much gin to even comprehend.<br />2. I see a new owner who got a "steal" and plans a multi million redo... gutting the interiors... raised spas.. and doing a classical interior complete with vines and charm on the exterior turning this eye sore into something that is delightful, tasteful, and doesn't make all who see the pile burst into tears like Lindsay Lohan in the courthouse!<br /><br />Dayum!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com