Either there are things missing from that diagram, or those lower level bedrooms are seriously illegal. They appear to have neither windows or doors. No possible fire exit direct from the bedrooms.
The mudroom isn’t accessible directly from the outdoors. Any mud involved presumably gets strewn all over the garage.
the pantry isn’t accessible directly from the kitchen; you have to go through the supposedly formal dining room.
The only windows in the primary bedroom suite appear to be in the closet.
I could go on. I suspect that house suits somebody perfectly; but it sure isn’t me.
That appears to lead outside as I’m assuming the deck is open to the outdoors.
I was looking at the section labelled Walkout Lower Level and I don’t see any stairs anywhere in it.
I suppose the lower level could be separated from the rest of the house with no direct connection. Like a duplex. But if so, you’d expect there to be an interior kitchen in the lower level. (The wet bar/kitchenette is outdoors, connected to the backyard and patio and there’s no direct connection to the interior.)
Well the word walkout implies it would have to be outside, and I don’t think that would make very much sense in the front. The only other way outside is the deck. In the end it’s just some AI bs so who knows
That was part of my solution when my Bernese got skunked. But it also included a thorough indoors warm-water wash with anti-skunk shampoo (possibly twice), followed by regular dog shampoo.
He was a good boy who tolerated it all very well, and at the end of it, his fur not only smelled sweet but was exceptionally soft and fluffy!
I must say I’m astounded at the price, but then, I have no idea what land values are in Batavia, NY. Around here a house like that, even on a modest lot barely large enough to accommodate the house and a smallish back yard, would be at least $10 million and probably more! Maybe twice that if it was actually made of brick or stone and had a better exterior design.
The average price for a perfectly ordinary little humdrum home in this area with (or maybe without) a little back yard is around $1.1 mil, which includes a lot of dumps in bad neighbourhoods. So less that $900K for a huge place like that seems like a deal!
Prices out in the countryside can be remarkably low versus the same thing in suburbia or almost suburbia.
When all your neighbors are farmers land is very cheap. And out there the home builders work cheap too. But you also get weird designs using all contractor grade parts despite the fact the house is umpteen thousand square feet.
When I lived at the edge of suburbia in the midwest I had a few friends or acquaintances who lived like that. They’d made good money living in the city and when they retired they built their dream “estate” for not much money. Shame about the 30 mile drive to Wal*Mart or 75 to a hospital.
The sad thing was that lots of these houses have special purpose features designed just for them. A dedicated room for this, that, or the other thing. They built a perfectly bespoke suit for their active hobby-heavy immediately post-retirement years. That quickly turned into an unsaleable high maintenance white elephant as they aged and oddly enough, nobody just like them but 15 years younger wanted exactly that combo of stuff when they could build their own bespoke suit a couple miles down the road with all the then-latest gizmos and customized for their mix of hobbies, not yours.
I’ve seen wood shops, recording studios, crazy commercial kitchens, dining rooms with seating for 20, quilting studios, hunting dog kennels, indoor shooting ranges, outdoor shooting ranges, etc., etc.
ETA: I just now looked at the Zillow listing. Exactly what I expected / described. It’s an overgrown double-wide in terms of design and fit and finish. Cheap from end to end. Maybe not even properly designed and permitted. But there it sits. Weird cabinets and closets abound as what amount to shims where the various rooms don’t fit together nicely, so they fill the odd couple feet with “closet” or “built-in shelving” and label their defect a feature.
IMO the weird “workroom” was an armory. The racks along the one wall were full of rifles and pistols. The cabinets in the center were probably full of tools & ammo.
