Construction fall picture

Factual Questions
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Hello Everyone,

I’m sure some of you have seen the photo that appears in numerous construction fail lists that shows a two story home and what appears to be a garage door on the second story. The photo in question is taken from what looks like an off ramp of sime sort. Why in the world would anyone put a full sized garage door on the second story of a house?

The picture I’m taking about is here
https://me.me/i/mmc-hahaha-archlechure-fail-memecenter-com-photoshoper-a-second-floor-garage-door-9936540

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Hard to tell if that’s even a house. Could be just storage of some sort that a forklift could put pallets of anything into with ease.

3

If I recall, they eventually put an elevated driveway from the garage, connecting to the street. I would assume that was planned and they just hadn’t done it yet.

4

There was a thread here in GQ about that photo a couple of years ago, if anyone can find it.

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I think this is the earlier thread, from February 2017.

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Yep. The house is in Southern California, where it’s not at all strange to put a garage on top of a hillside house, with a driveway connecting to a street on the uphill side. IIRC, that pic was taken while the driveway was being replaced.

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Yes. And I believe if you pull up the house on Google Maps, you can see all the neighbors have the same setup.

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647 Dimmick Drive, Los Angeles, if you want to look up the house on Google Street View.

9

Here is the link to the finished house from the other thread. Google Maps

I wonder how all the publicity has affected the property price?

10

For sale now for $1.4 million.

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When was that house built? I’m amazed at how small the front windows are: I’d have put glass all the way across.

12

According to the Zillow listing, 1997.

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Cripes. We can see tha one side has a few windows, the ‘front’ has some windows, the back into the hillside none. I’m gunna assume that the ‘front’ is west or south facing, and they didn’t want too much afternoon sun. Am I missing something – what about the other side? Would I expect to see that other side (perhaps north facing) with more glass, of are those few windows all that’s expected in that area?