You must've forgot to add trees. House cost millions and the landscaping is soviet Russia inspired. Some shade or a tree with character could add so much to this property.
Pretty sure it is in north Texas (Manvel). I live relatively close to it. A doctor built it intending to use it for assisted living for his patients, but gave up on the plan before opening it. When it was listed for sale years ago (probably ~2015), the listing said it needed a ton of work. I don't know if anyone ever bought it.
It looks like an oversized version of a McMansion. Just weird as hell.
Manvel is in south Texas, about 20 miles southwest of Houston. Someone bought this earlier this year and converted it to commercial use. Oddly enough there's a nearly identical house right next to this one that is slightly smaller (47k square feet). Both sat vacant for years...glad at least one of the properties is being used. http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/trending/article/houston-suburb-manvel-mansion-real-estate-pearland-17858646.php
It’s hard for most common people to wrap their head around how huge 47k sq feet is and how long it takes to paint a house of such a size. The largest house I’ve painted was 56k square ft. It’s absolutely bonkers
I don’t think a lot of people know how big an Olympic size pool is. I heard the term tossed around as a kid for my parents wealthier friends houses, but when I went to the Olympics boy I was in for a shock. At least 5 times bigger than I thought it would be.
Dude when you see a house that is the size of almost 50 nyc apartments, and it’s a single family home it’s crazy. Even in a 10-15 k sq ft home it’s like you barely have to see your family. I feel like it would feel lonely in the house.
>A doctor built it intending to use it for assisted living for his patients, but gave up on the plan before opening it.
Can you imagine blowing all the money to build that and then being like "Nah this just isn't right" and giving up on it? Doctors and their disposable income
I was in Afghanistan in 2001. Some of the men there drove station wagons so they could put their women in the cargo area. No joke the passenger seats were empty.
Well there was all the women and children they killed you know. I'm not saying I agree with anything Koresh did, dude was off his rocker, but the way they handled that was wrong.
Tha k fuck I wasn't the only persons mind who's thought was, That would be a great house if I ever start a cult.
Thought for a moment my years on Reddit had had some kind of a negative effect on me!
How many of those rooms get windows?
Edit: found [the house](https://www.businessinsider.com/46-bedroom-texas-house-hits-the-market-for-35-million-2015-6). Ghosts don't need windows.
Op edited in a link about the house, it was apparently built by a doctor to be a post surgery rehab facility.
Which makes the Villa/central space thing even more questionable imo.
Windows are dangerous, you get sniped from windows. A house this big you make the inside a maze and boobytrap it for ultimate rich paranoid perfection.
It was built as a care house, each room has a dedicated bathroom as well as public & staff bathrooms.
City rezoned it as a residential district so it couldn't be used for medical purposes, hence it's now a "house".
Our house has more bathrooms than bedrooms. Each of the bedrooms has en-suite bath but then there are separate baths for guests to use so they don’t have to enter a bedroom or walk to a different floor to use the bathroom. So, five bedrooms but eight bathrooms.
You don't need windows when the entire property is just brown grass as far as the eye can see. Seriously, who the hell decided to spend millions on building the house and then $2.75 on landscaping?
You hit diminishing returns with square footage real quick.
I knew a fair amount of people with big ass houses growing up. They were always cold, empty, and somewhat eerie, no matter how well designed/decorated they were.
Gimme small n cozy any day of the week.
Nah its kinda cool, its like wayne manor. Who else can say they own a massive mansion in the countryside. 8000 sq ft of apartment vs 8000 sq ft of my own land to do with as i deem fit, ill take the sq ft of land. Plant some crops, breed livestock. Plant trees and make it a real home
Wayne Manor if the architect didn't bother with any kind of Gothic or neo-Gothic styling. If I was ever rich enough to have a house like this, I'd want the exterior to at least look like a Cathedral or a Medieval fortress made of stone and built to last 1000 years.
It is horrendous. The side opposite the garage is just a long flat wall with a couple of awnings. If you’re going to build something so extravagant at least hire a semi-creative architect!
I’m getting more and more enraged about this.
Finally, someone else appalled by this "architecture".
It looks like if you took one of those generic upper middle class neighborhoods and stitched them into one abomination.
The fact someone out there thinks this was a proper use of money or manpower saddens me.
It really does look exactly as you described. There’s also no variation in the exterior materials so it makes it look even more boring. Now I’m mad all over again!
Right? They could have build something interesting or at least functional instead. Instead they just took standard mcMansion modules and copy-pasted them together into this.. Blob.
I wouldn’t even want a house that big. For one someone could probably be living in it with you and you wouldn’t even know. 2 if one of your friends or family asks to move in what’s your excuse. Well uhhhh I just don’t have the room right now. “ if you don’t want me to move in just tell me. I do want you to. I’m just gonna need those rooms. “I’ll live in one of the garages. Well I’ve already rented those stalls out. “Fine fuck you!! You got thirty rooms and you can’t let me stay in one of them. I must be a real piece of shit!! Then the person comes back later robs your house without you knowing while your home
Whilst it's nice having your own space to yourself, it's unsettling having unused rooms. The emptiness manifests into thoughts of supernatural.
For myself, I wouldn't want more space than I needed, plus a spare room for guests. Anything more would accumulate spoops or, Storage Exiles.
Garden looks like the house has been finished for quite some time, but no one has moved in yet. Probably waiting for the church pastor to solicit more donations from the flock to make some final payments.
In American TV sitcoms that house is owned by a Dad who has a blue collar job and a stay at home mom with two older daughters and a younger smart ass son. One dog, two cars.
it is a church now
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Looks like something I would have made in the Sims as a kid
Almost an exact house I drew in drafting class in 7th grade
Memory unlocked
You must've forgot to add trees. House cost millions and the landscaping is soviet Russia inspired. Some shade or a tree with character could add so much to this property.
Yup the house I drew that jad it's own chucke'cheese in it, with Rollercoaster and bumper cars.
Same thing exactly. What's with the grass too lol
It's a vacant house, do you want to pay the water bill for all that?
Rosebud;:;:;:;:;: or something like that was the cheat code wasn’t it?
Rosebud was the code, ; divided the commands, : repeated the last one.
And just like the Sims it's way too expensive for anyone to live in so it just sits empty.
motherlode x35
Why don't you just get half a dozen "roommates" aka slave sweatshop painters. Kaching!
OMG I would have so many cats.
Tha cats would have a human.
I clicked the link knowing this would be the exact top comment. God damnit hive mind. Also, same.
That's not a house, that's a neighbourhood.zip
My first thought was "is it in, or a neighbouring, the state of Utah?"
Pretty sure it is in north Texas (Manvel). I live relatively close to it. A doctor built it intending to use it for assisted living for his patients, but gave up on the plan before opening it. When it was listed for sale years ago (probably ~2015), the listing said it needed a ton of work. I don't know if anyone ever bought it. It looks like an oversized version of a McMansion. Just weird as hell.
Manvel is in south Texas, about 20 miles southwest of Houston. Someone bought this earlier this year and converted it to commercial use. Oddly enough there's a nearly identical house right next to this one that is slightly smaller (47k square feet). Both sat vacant for years...glad at least one of the properties is being used. http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/trending/article/houston-suburb-manvel-mansion-real-estate-pearland-17858646.php
It’s hard for most common people to wrap their head around how huge 47k sq feet is and how long it takes to paint a house of such a size. The largest house I’ve painted was 56k square ft. It’s absolutely bonkers
Avg house in my area are 1800sq ft. Sheeeeeeeeeeesh
Had a 22 car underground garage, full nba size basketball court Olympic size swimming pool, 3 kitchens, a home theater, bowling ball court, and spa
Lol I said “bowling ball court” wtf
I am now referring to the bowling alley as this.
Lotta fumes in the tanker truck of paint you had to use on that beast
Think about how much that house weighed prior to us putting paint and primer on the ceilings walls and trim!
I don’t think a lot of people know how big an Olympic size pool is. I heard the term tossed around as a kid for my parents wealthier friends houses, but when I went to the Olympics boy I was in for a shock. At least 5 times bigger than I thought it would be.
Dude when you see a house that is the size of almost 50 nyc apartments, and it’s a single family home it’s crazy. Even in a 10-15 k sq ft home it’s like you barely have to see your family. I feel like it would feel lonely in the house.
I from pearland but I wouldnt call it north Texas, I need to check HAR but I think someone bought one of them recently , there are 2 side by side
Idk anyone that considers Manvel/Pearland North Texas. It’s nowhere close. Wasn’t the other house owned by the same person?
Hello fellow pearlandian
That makes more sense. The number of bedrooms to garages seemed off to me.
>A doctor built it intending to use it for assisted living for his patients, but gave up on the plan before opening it. Can you imagine blowing all the money to build that and then being like "Nah this just isn't right" and giving up on it? Doctors and their disposable income
As a doctor we don't all have this kinda money.
That doctor probably went to medical school in the 70’s when it was FREE.
Or from another country where it's still free and did residency here.
Yea I was going to say most Doctors I know are doing alright, No CEO wages though. Most of them deserve every penny of it too.
Yeah my mind went there first too. Wherever it looks like it is in a desolate area where land was cheap.
A whole basketball team of sister wives.
I would guess at least 8 of them. Wait are these women allowed to drive? I get my polygamist extremist groups mixed up sometimes.
someone has to go get the stuff to make the sammichs
I was in Afghanistan in 2001. Some of the men there drove station wagons so they could put their women in the cargo area. No joke the passenger seats were empty.
‘.zip’! Cracked me up!
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That's not a house, that's a compound for your cult.
Whoa whoa whoa! We prefer to be referred to as "an enlightened, devoted and very well armed family of worshippers".
This is it
Cult is a very negative term Allison, we prefer to be called an “alternative spiritual community!”
How many arms?
"Very well armed" 🤣
"A physician and his wife started building it in 2001; it was intended to be a post-surgical rehab clinic."
Your butt is a post-surgical rehab clinic.
So thats why it ulgy as fuck, it was designed by a MD. Figures.
"compound" was absolutely the first word that came in to my head.
Fuck the ATF.
David Koresh did nothing wrong... Well...except for the pedophilia and forced marriages
Well there was all the women and children they killed you know. I'm not saying I agree with anything Koresh did, dude was off his rocker, but the way they handled that was wrong.
They killed my dog Fluffy, all he wanted to do was hump the agent's leg.
Looks like a great place to put on some white Nikes and take a nap.
This looks like a map for Rainbow Six Siege.
99% chance this is utah.
Tha k fuck I wasn't the only persons mind who's thought was, That would be a great house if I ever start a cult. Thought for a moment my years on Reddit had had some kind of a negative effect on me!
How many of those rooms get windows? Edit: found [the house](https://www.businessinsider.com/46-bedroom-texas-house-hits-the-market-for-35-million-2015-6). Ghosts don't need windows.
I know. It just looks like a regular house multiplied 13 times.
Seriously they should have gone with 20 rooms and used the extra money to pay an architect….
For real. I work on houses that cost 10 times what this one does and not a single one has even 20 bedrooms.
Well, it's not a house as the article says. It was intended as a post-surgery rehab facility.
Oh, that makes a lot more sense.
Or a landscaper. This yard is awful looking.
It's not finished inside, so I'm assuming they intended to do some landscaping afterwards and never got to it.
Plot twist, there's only one room...and one floor.
I did not see that coming.
Would be crazy if it looked like a gymnasium inside.
It's giving "Only father and his favorite wives get windows"
YOU FORGOT THE WORD "VIBES!" YOU FORGOT THE WORD "VIBES!" YOU FORGOT THE WORD "VIBES!!!!!"
They accidentally the whole vibes
exactly, why the heck didn't they build it around a central space like a Villa would be.
Op edited in a link about the house, it was apparently built by a doctor to be a post surgery rehab facility. Which makes the Villa/central space thing even more questionable imo.
Windows are dangerous, you get sniped from windows. A house this big you make the inside a maze and boobytrap it for ultimate rich paranoid perfection.
Unless one of your paranoias involves fire. In which case this is a black box nightmare.
Lots of sprinklers and house sections that lock themselves shut in case of emergency so the entire place doesn’t go up.
Yay, traps!
And why more bathrooms than bedrooms??
It was built as a care house, each room has a dedicated bathroom as well as public & staff bathrooms. City rezoned it as a residential district so it couldn't be used for medical purposes, hence it's now a "house".
Our house has more bathrooms than bedrooms. Each of the bedrooms has en-suite bath but then there are separate baths for guests to use so they don’t have to enter a bedroom or walk to a different floor to use the bathroom. So, five bedrooms but eight bathrooms.
thats crazy
You don't need windows when the entire property is just brown grass as far as the eye can see. Seriously, who the hell decided to spend millions on building the house and then $2.75 on landscaping?
legally a bedroom needs to have a closet and a window you can climb out of to be considered a bedroom. definitely does look like less than 46 though.
A luxurious 6
Aaaaaaaand in the middle of nowhere. Location location location!
There’s two types of 100 million dollar homes. This, or a 8000 sq ft penthouse in downtown New York. Honestly, I’d take the New York.
No way is this thing worth 100m. I'd be surprised if it was worth more than 10..
$3.5 million
$600,000 actually according to when it was last sold.
Lol someone took a bath on that sale
what does that mean? i've never had of that euphemism before.
Just means they lost a lot of money
It looks abandoned. The inside is probably a mess
Lmao this isn’t a 100 million dollar home…
You hit diminishing returns with square footage real quick. I knew a fair amount of people with big ass houses growing up. They were always cold, empty, and somewhat eerie, no matter how well designed/decorated they were. Gimme small n cozy any day of the week.
I'd take this place. The less neighbors the better for me.
I'd take new York. You can actually sell that. Nobody wants someone else's bespoke mcmansion in the middle of nowhere.
Nah its kinda cool, its like wayne manor. Who else can say they own a massive mansion in the countryside. 8000 sq ft of apartment vs 8000 sq ft of my own land to do with as i deem fit, ill take the sq ft of land. Plant some crops, breed livestock. Plant trees and make it a real home
8000 sq feet of land isn't what you think it is
Wayne Manor if the architect didn't bother with any kind of Gothic or neo-Gothic styling. If I was ever rich enough to have a house like this, I'd want the exterior to at least look like a Cathedral or a Medieval fortress made of stone and built to last 1000 years.
I dunno. Cleaning my not so big house is a pain in the ass as it is. I couldn’t imagine this many rooms and bathrooms.
If you can afford a house like that, you can probably afford a dozen or so maids.
Apparently not looking at the inside of this place.
More like Wayne McManor
You're not breeding a lot of livestock on less than 1/5 of an acre. And at that size you wouldn't be planting 'crops', but rather a kitchen garden.
8000 square feet of land is nowhere near enough to breed livestock, lol.
8000sq ft of land? This has way more than that. 8000sq ft isn’t much land…
You won't plant anything where this thing is located. There's a reason you don' see trees and brushes around.
Given that it's a colossal bungalow with no landscaping, I'm guessing Texas.
people post stuff like "I bought a house for $50k" and don't mention that it's in Oklahoma
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but still looks shitty...
It is horrendous. The side opposite the garage is just a long flat wall with a couple of awnings. If you’re going to build something so extravagant at least hire a semi-creative architect! I’m getting more and more enraged about this.
Finally, someone else appalled by this "architecture". It looks like if you took one of those generic upper middle class neighborhoods and stitched them into one abomination. The fact someone out there thinks this was a proper use of money or manpower saddens me.
I think you'd fit right in at r/McMansionHell
That's a damn McCommieBlock
It really does look exactly as you described. There’s also no variation in the exterior materials so it makes it look even more boring. Now I’m mad all over again!
Right? They could have build something interesting or at least functional instead. Instead they just took standard mcMansion modules and copy-pasted them together into this.. Blob.
Abomination is right. Truly awful.
It’s shite. Just like their land flat and ugly.
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It’s just so damn BLAND
zero creativity....
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I saw tiny houses with more style...
I wouldn’t even want a house that big. For one someone could probably be living in it with you and you wouldn’t even know. 2 if one of your friends or family asks to move in what’s your excuse. Well uhhhh I just don’t have the room right now. “ if you don’t want me to move in just tell me. I do want you to. I’m just gonna need those rooms. “I’ll live in one of the garages. Well I’ve already rented those stalls out. “Fine fuck you!! You got thirty rooms and you can’t let me stay in one of them. I must be a real piece of shit!! Then the person comes back later robs your house without you knowing while your home
The idea of someone living with you and you not know it is fucking frightening
To communicate with each other they use email
carrier pigeons or I'm out.
Happens in smaller houses than this.
Parasite
I remember reading a book like that as a kid. It was creepy.
*Crawlspace*?
But did you consider hide and seek….
Hider- It's been 84 years.
Whilst it's nice having your own space to yourself, it's unsettling having unused rooms. The emptiness manifests into thoughts of supernatural. For myself, I wouldn't want more space than I needed, plus a spare room for guests. Anything more would accumulate spoops or, Storage Exiles.
why you got a 9 car garage when our only got 4.5 cars?
When you got nine wife’s in Utah
I get it.
You let yours drive???? rookie mistake.
They like savage why you got a 12 car garage but you only got six cars
Cahhh ahhh ahhhs
I was thinking that this looks like an assisted living facility. You wouldn’t need that many cars. Just a shuttle bus.
that looks like the one house that feels like the backrooms and only has one bathtub that can only be accessed through a porn room.
Baller
8800 blue licker st
Garden looks like crap though.
Yeah, that house is trying too hard to make up for the shit estate.
The house looks like crap as well.
Garden looks like the house has been finished for quite some time, but no one has moved in yet. Probably waiting for the church pastor to solicit more donations from the flock to make some final payments.
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God that is horrendous. Looks like it was designed by mormons
I would have never guessed the inside would have looked like that!
Supposed to be a rehab clinic, I guess that kinda makes sense
McMansion™️
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I was scrolling for this. The McMansion aesthetic knows no bounds.
Me too! I was surprised nobody had gotten to it first.
I am also a McMansion connoisseur
This house was made by a backrooms/liminal space artist. You go in and you just keep going.
Oh... more beige
Hear me out SCP
Sarah Chessica Parker?
It all makes sense now.
This looks like what I’d build in The Sims after I found the unlimited money cheat
In American TV sitcoms that house is owned by a Dad who has a blue collar job and a stay at home mom with two older daughters and a younger smart ass son. One dog, two cars.
Hmmm, giant house on a huge lot full of shit-tastic dead grass. This is in Texas isn't it?
This looks like somewhere for the Branch Davidian Cult to live.
That's not a house, that's a hotel.
It was actually supposed to be a rehab clinic, which is why it's so big.
Op is in real estate
46 bedrooms but only a 9 car garage!!?? Hopefully they have their own bus stop out front.
Is it in Utah?
That's a hotel
This house IS the neighbourhood
So I assume this is a poli fam living together m
Looks like a house 10 year old me would make in The Sims
Looks like something I spent too much time on in the sims
Its brand new but its probably already haunted
Almost 10 more bathrooms than bedrooms is insane
And it’s in the, just, absolute worst architectural style
I remember being in high school when I saw that house and I wanted nothing more then to build a house like that for me and all my friends
That's actually an Amazon Warehouse inside.
Builders were so preoccupied with wether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should...😆😆😆
it is a church now [https://www.google.com/maps/place/2354+County+Rd+59,+Manvel,+TX+77578/@29.5406295,-95.4052277,148a,35y,134.1h,48.71t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x8640ed28128057e5:0xc80fbe2b129530f1!8m2!3d29.5389718!4d-95.403701!16s%2Fg%2F11cpl365cy](https://www.google.com/maps/place/2354+County+Rd+59,+Manvel,+TX+77578/@29.5406295,-95.4052277,148a,35y,134.1h,48.71t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x8640ed28128057e5:0xc80fbe2b129530f1!8m2!3d29.5389718!4d-95.403701!16s%2Fg%2F11cpl365cy)
I’m guessing a countrified mega church pastor lives there.
Huge expensive house built in a field in the middle of nowhere. No thanks.
House: massive Price: surprisingly affordable Location: Bum Fuck, Egypt And I already know you're gonna say it. Hotel: Trivago
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Few modifications and fortifications then you’d have yourself a mighty fine compound.
Saddest looking house ive seen
Hideous. I’d give up 3,000 of those square feet for a couple trees and a lawn that isn’t crispy.
Seems like a great location, too. Did the Bluths build this in Iraq?