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PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 12:24 am
 


Title: Luxury Calgary mansion sells for record $10.3-million | Homes | National Post
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Date: 2013-03-03 22:15:38
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 12:24 am
 


The wood on those staircases is just horrid. :)





PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 12:33 am
 


martin14 martin14:
The wood on those staircases is just horrid. :)


My wife wasn't crazy about the stairs, but it wasn't a deal breaker.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 4:33 am
 


martin14 martin14:
The wood on those staircases is just horrid. :)



True but, then again they probably kept some finishing carpenter busy for 20 years fitting the strips of exotic woods together. :roll:

It's a nice house but IMO not 10 million worth.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 7:36 am
 


The Man cave is nice, but the house is still in Calgary.......


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 9:49 am
 


martin14 martin14:
The wood on those staircases is just horrid. :)



ROTFL

The only wood on those staircases is the bannisters! The treads and risers are carpeted. And I agree that "it looks like hell'! Note the risers are done correctly, being done separately, but even then the pattern isn't properly matched-one to the next-, given that the treads are arced, that was definitely the wrong pattern to use. In fact, carpet shouldn't have been used at all! Rather the staircases should have been appointed in wood or stone. As they are, it looks like what it really is. "Somebody cheaped out"!


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 10:02 am
 


Meh. 10.5 mil doesn't even buy you a lot in a prime location in Vancouver. Penthouses go for double that.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 10:10 am
 


Some of the house looks pretty nice (home theatre, billiard room, kitchen), but those carpeted stairs are pretty hideous. Nevermind that the garage isn't attached, so you get to freeze your balls off three months of the year when you want to go anywhere.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 10:17 am
 


They don't have electric heat in Calgary?


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 10:26 am
 


I'm sure everybody can find things they don't like.

Carpet on the stairs, the wood used for the banisters and the banisters themselves, double stairs going up and down are a waste and white laminated cabinets in the kitchen... really!!! 8O


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 10:33 am
 


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They don't have electric heat in Calgary?


Of course they do, but when it's -25 (worse if there any wind), do you really want to walk outside to get to the garage? I sure as hell don't.


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 12:27 am
 


Yogi Yogi:
martin14 martin14:
The wood on those staircases is just horrid. :)



ROTFL

The only wood on those staircases is the bannisters! The treads and risers are carpeted. And I agree that "it looks like hell'! Note the risers are done correctly, being done separately, but even then the pattern isn't properly matched-one to the next-, given that the treads are arced, that was definitely the wrong pattern to use. In fact, carpet shouldn't have been used at all! Rather the staircases should have been appointed in wood or stone. As they are, it looks like what it really is. "Somebody cheaped out"!



Damn you're right. My eyes aren't getting any better with age I guess.

So you pay 10 million for a house and have the guy from End of the Roll carpet it. XD

Looooooooooooosers. :roll:


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 1:32 am
 


Meh, I would have demanded $1,000,000 off the listing price those ugly looking stairs.


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 6:55 am
 


Looks like a cruise ship, absent all the Filipinos.


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:11 am
 


Usually, the selling feature is the kitchen. What was it here?


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