This is a must see. I usually link bizarre houses, but I would actually buy this odd house this time. Behold, Knight’s Retreat.
Super private estate nestled on almost an acre and a half. “Good Morning America” named this the #2 backyard in America. No detail was left untouched. Master bathroom is spa-like. HUGE bonus “entertainer’s” room features a custom sound system. “The Knight’s Retreat/Cottage” was designed by a local artist & beautifully crafted w/ precision & quality in mind. Ideal area for wine room. 4 total car garage(s) ideal for car collector! Close to downtown Austin/top-rated schools! MUST SEE!
Let us see.
Listen very carefully. Did you hear a faint wail? That would be Grace Draven when she sees this bedroom. This is her dream house.
You can see more of this house at this link. Don’t forget to check out the guest house. Looks like something out of Robin Hood. I realize that “no detail” was left untouched, but they were touched in an odd way. We have medieval Europe in the dining room, Asia in the kitchen, Africa upstairs, Arabia on the ceiling, modern Austin in the bathroom, and Greece in the back yard.
I still like it, though.
This is amazing. I really like that sand colored room with the greenery and skylights. The kitchen with the stone walls are nice but I would dread having to dust. Seems like a lot of nice work that’s just a tad bit too much. The bathroom is so dark though.
I would almost by it just for the guest bathroom. mmmmm
No. Just no. Not my taste at all; too ornate, too dark! Yard is gorgeous, though!
+1. Gaudy and mismatched interior. I’d take the yard.
A bit Austinatious for me, although I respect the creativity.
+1
Austinatious lol
Is that a disco ball in the bedroom?!
That backyard is pretty…wow.
The toilet in the guesthouse bathroom is pedestrian, disappointing, and anticlimactic. In order to maintain the theme, I would expect a hole in the ground, with extremely detailed tiling all around it, and a bidet with jets that shoot from various angles in the floor and walls. To stick a brown mid-century, suburban toilet in with all the excess of Rome or Pompeii demonstrates an egregious lack of imagination and gumption.
or http://www.herbeau.com/5501.html ?
YES.
It screams “Air B&B” to me. You would make more money than selling it probably.
Yeah, no. I mean, parts of it appeal to me greatly, but then others very definitely do not. It’s interesting how polarizing the decor is- it’s very much a love it or hate it situation… which is probably why it’s been on/off market since March 2017.
Nice … but give me the Biltmore House in Asheville NC anyday, lol !
That’s my dream house too! ?
absolutely! And when you consider when it was actually built, it’s even more impressive in it’s modernness.
Housework
LOVE it. Some SCAdian made the big money.
Wow!
Parts of the house look like someone got too excited after watching some History Channel documentaries, and parts of the house make me thing “Hmm, I could imagine Kate Daniels I this space” (eg either as part of her house, part of the temple grounds, part of The Guild etc)
Way too baroque for me. One will need staff, or how does one keep deeply grooved rock clean? It’s a huge dust and spider catcher! I do love that open room you named as ”office”. although it seems uncomfortably big for that use. More like a small ballroom…I can just picture it, swirly taffeta or silk dresses, and all. That could be inspirational. : )
A Gertrude Hunt ball room! Yes!
The statues & busts in the house are tad bit too much for me, but other than that – the house is gorgeous! I LOVE it!
When I buy my own house I’ll design it similarly! 😀
The Dicksee and Leighton murals are stunning touches
Yikes.
I love this! Thank you.
If I lived close I’d go on that 5pm tour for inspiration. I love the outside and “my office.”
How beautiful! It would be an amazing hotel or place to hold workplace retreats.
Wow. ………..I…………….wow.
Actually, I’d probably enjoy it for a vacation. The backyard is fantastic.
I can’t say this is my taste…
However, where I’m from (Belgium, center) so much space and such a garden.. it would cost double that price (at least)!
Again, not that I live it, too dark, too much everywhere but for the breathing space only, that’s worth it for me ?
Soo much space… too much space to clean… I’ll stick with my snug 948 sq ft bungalow thanks!
Wow.
The house is really overdone. The garden room and the yard are awesome. I can’t imagine having to take care of all that. Is there any plan for another Innkeeper soon? Not to rush you, but I want to know if Klaus has found his parents.
Wow. I’d not do all of that, and some of it is more than I’d be comfortable with, but overall, wow. I could live there. Clean there? That’s a whole other ball of yarn. Thank you. I wonder if they thought of taking pictures for sale as book covers or other such stuffs.
wondering if u would like this:
https://www.boredpanda.com/two-artists-work-together-to-create-wearable-art-inspired-by-the-natural-world/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=BPFacebook
wow, that almost makes me want to learn to knit. beautiful!
Ooo! Here’s one for you – but probably *not* one you’d consider living in:
https://www.redfin.com/TX/Buda/311-Towhee-Dr-78610/home/33820496
…it’s like someone threw up in Victorian in there.
Even. on. the. breakfast. nook. fan….
And so much Pink….
The backyard w/pool looks so normal….
Right? Well, that and the two rooms that look to be mancaves…
The photos are enough for me. Too much of everything. I noticed they left behind the God-awful red sofas. But…if this is your thing. I would always take Old European over most American designs, but, again, this is too much for me. Evidently all this effort and expense wasn’t enough to keep the owners there. Regrets?
Statues. Weeping angels (Doctor Who). I wouldn’t be able to sleep. ‘Nuff said.
Wow. Just, too much.
My tastes run more to open, light, airy and minimal. Most of the pictures of this house feel claustrophobic, dark, stuffy and cluttered. It’s almost the polar opposite of my own preferences.
It’s also completely disjointed, style-wise. Every room has a different theme, comes from a different time period or location and they almost all seem to try for a multi-cultural fusion. Almost every room has something that is completely out of place for the theme: The kitchen that’s pictured above has old English country style cabinetry, modern industrial refrigerator and range, European stacked stone walls, middle Asian statuary for accents, and what looks a lot like a barn trough style sink. I’m not quite sure what the designer was trying to convey with that room. Some mixed period rooms work. That one, not so much. The room you want for an office is a very nice room, it actually blends… except for the disco ball hanging from the ceiling (WTF?). Then there’s the bedroom that’s done in an Asian/Turkish/Moroccan fusion which could work, except for the bed frame that really belongs in a log cabin somewhere in the Alps.
Sadly every room that’s pictured has something that’s off about it. They all just miss the mark and because of that they all feel wrong to me. Definitely not a house I could live in, or would even want to visit for very long.
It makes an interesting & eclectic mix…but I wouldn’t want to clean it. And I can already hear the designer tell me I’m not artistic enough to replace that _____ that I accidentally trashed just from living there! That said, I would kill for Ilonas proposed office space, disco ball and all–love the light!?
What is with the furniture? If your house is going to be medieval, put in some lovely Jacobean pieces. The dining room table looks like a cheap fake, not to mention the beds. All that work redoing the place and they cheap out on the furniture.
Interesting, but I’d be looking for a spectre “wi’ ‘er head tooked underneath ‘er arm” at any moment. The room you like as your office? Maybe, and most of the outdoors, but ‘way too creepy to live in for me. Someone had a lot of fun creating all that though.
Not enough room for my horses ,barn and arena….
Where are the books?! No house is a real house without books. There should be walls of books! This house is crazy but it doesn’t look lived in. I guess they cleaned it up and took out the personal stuff but it doesn’t look loved.
LOL this house makes me think of the fake Kentucky castle my friend got married in Versailles, KY (and they pronounce that town Versales in Kentucky and not the French way). It looks like a Medieval Times from the outside and while I am not well versed in architecture and decor from different periods, the inside is a mish-mash of what an American thinks a medieval castle should look like. The fake castle has an interesting history too–a couple came back from Europe all inspired to build their own castle in the middle of Kentucky because why not. However after construction the couple got divorced and the unfinished castle lay empty for years. Finally the original owners died and another guy snapped it up and finished the construction. It was sold again to a local group of investors a few years ago and I don’t really know what it is now but it has changed names several times. Here is the website for this ridiculous building should you ever need setting inspiration ever for a book lol: https://www.thekentuckycastle.com/ Very interesting venue for a wedding!
My destriers could drink out of that kitchen trough…umm sink.
To ornate for me. All I could think looking at it is that it would be hell to clean