Edit: you can’t burn it down. Find a new purpose
The house itself looks pretty dope. And a waterfall and grotto? I'd totally be down to turn into either communal housing for ~15 people, or a dope ass public space, like a community park/retreat or something. Library, recreation center... the works!
Houses like this are never built with livability in mind. They're meant as collector's items for the wealthy. There's a 15,000 sqft mansion in the mansion district of my city (right across a highway from the poorest part of the city and has its own police force) that's only occupied for 2 weeks/year by one billionaire oil executive. The rest of the time he charges rent to his personal trainer who lives in a one bedroom above the 10 car garage with his son.
Sad thing is this is actually better than what you usually get with these sorts of places
You even have a turret to defend yourself with!
Edit: if we have a Hoxhaist Revolution, this house is a perfect presidential palace
Pairing a cheap grey computer chair with a Louis XV writing desk is just :chefs-kiss:
yeah okay fine you can keep it for a community vacation house or whatever
im not gonna pretend to be happy about it tho :bottle:
Send the Olive Garden cooks to this house and have a reality show
It will be enshrined in McMansion Hell, which will be a real place
Love to see rooms that are so fucking huge you can't furnish them without clogging the entire room with useless furniture. A single couch in the middle of the vast white void. Need to pick up a phone and dial my spouse to let them know I'm cooking dinner and which dining room I'll be bringing the food to. One time I think I saw another person but I couldn't tell across the distance.
I've been to a few actual palaces and at least they know to keep room size reasonable for the most part. Dummy high ceilings but the walls don't stretch to tomorrow.
Love to see rooms that are so fucking huge you can’t furnish them without clogging the entire room with useless furniture. A single couch in the middle of the vast white void.
I always thought it would be hilarious to do this with a bathroom. Just have a needlessly big room with a toilet in the middle, so that the person using it can’t help but feel awkward and exposed.
guest bathroom with a profoundly unnerving shitting experience, to gain an edge on potential business partners
Obviously communal housing or community centers and whatnot are a good option, but they feel somewhat inefficient. A sort of band-aid to use this place short term, but long term we would want to build brand new housing with specific considerations made for building communities.
So an idea that struck me for these kind of buildings is some kind of like, hotel-style vacation spot? I could picture reserving this place or part of this place for a large group of friends to just, spend a week or two at? I'm not sure what vacations or hotels or really the hospitality industry in general would look like post-revolution but presumably people would still want to be able to spend some time in "luxurious" accomodations in a new locale.
Idk maybe it's a dumb fucking idea, but I just feel like there's some human drive to enjoy hotels that can be divorced from capitalism and my first thought seeing this place was "this is a resort, not a house."
That's wishful thinking. Nobody is going to be maintaining places like this. They will eventually crumble to ruins, as all empires "great works" do.
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away
