Some homes really put the "extra" in extravagance.
A Redditor highlighted one such example, starting a discussion in the r/zillowgonewild community over a property in Bradbury, California, that last sold for $22.5 million.
"I think this has to be the most [ludicrous]-looking house I have ever seen," they wrote in the caption of their post.
The 47,000-square-foot home took real estate tycoon Don Abbey over eight years to complete, and in 2012, Forbes reported that he listed the residence for $78.8 million.
However, its worth fluctuated wildly over the past decade, as pointed out by the OP. Estimates from Zillow show that its value oscillated between $7.9 million and $42 million before stabilizing in the $20 million range over the past four years.
Some of the amenities of the seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom main house include two master bedrooms, a 10-car garage, a wine cellar that can hold 2,000 bottles, a walk-in butler's pantry, a 3D movie theater, and a two-story library.
The rest of the estate features a subterranean shooting range, a detached guesthouse, an infinity-edge pool shaped like a cross, a 15-person spa, and a temperature-controlled trout pond.
This house and other similar properties have drawn criticism for epitomizing wastefulness, as the resources required to construct and maintain these buildings come at a significant environmental cost.
For example, they need more concrete — which produces an exorbitant amount of carbon pollution during manufacturing — to create the foundation, and more power to heat and cool that large of a space. The energy footprint compared to an average-sized house would be much larger.
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Definitely 🙁 They also stand in stark contrast to the eco-friendly options of the world, like passive homes or tiny homes, that seek to minimize their contributions to the planet's overheating.
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Several commenters felt that the grandeur of the Bradbury estate paired with the cross-shaped pool elicited a Righteous Gemstones vibe, referencing the television series about a family of televangelists and megachurch pastors.
Others found that its aesthetics did not match the tens of millions of dollars it took to construct it.
"Looks cheap in a way. Sort of like a movie set," one person wrote.
"Imagine building such a ludicrous home for such a stupid amount of money and somehow making it so ugly and completely void of any landscaping anywhere at all," another person complained.
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