I’m so confused. What the hell were the other 9,800 square feet?
There is an enormous stone (as in the walls are actually built of huge granite blocks) great room with 30 foot ceilings for large parties and gatherings, plus kitchen/dining/baths scaled to match. That’s all fine I suppose, but it’s located in BFE an hour away from where anybody else lives. Hope you enjoyed the soiree but you can’t spend the night! GL driving home drunk!
Both of those look pretty sick. I can’t really hate that much on the pool if that’s your thing. But LOL at the bookshelves.
The guests can stay in their campervans.
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These guests don’t just have drivers chilling in their limos while they’re partying? I guess that is moronic.
Not sure about the second pic, but that first one is fake.
eta: pretty sure 2nd one too
I hate to go off topic here, but I’m interested in some of the details of this. I’m trying to imagine how this works. Is the granite actually load-bearing? Are there just granite slabs placed over drywall? Is the granite in place of the drywall?
lol it’s not granite countertop slabs, it’s blocks of stone. Like the way people have been stacking stone for thousands of years.
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So, it’s load bearing? Does it have some mortar in between the blocks?
Does it actually look good?
Definitely fooled me.
But as you can tell from the dumb questions I’m asking ZZ, this stuff in not exactly my forte.
The grass in the first is obviously fake. The infinity pool edge at the sofa is impossible and doesn’t make sense since they need to overflow somewhere and that one doesn’t. The marble veining is way too large and you’d never find pieces that big.
Zara, are you a Volga German?
Did you/your family already speak German before you got to Germany?
I thought the deportations were around WWII, so I would have guessed your grandparents would have spoke it for sure.
Was getting into (i.e., immigrating to) Germany easier because of your ancestry?
There was a typo in my first version. I edited, but it looks like you didn’t have a chance to see it.
I meant was Germany more lenient about you immigrating there because of your German ancestry.
So it sounds like even before the deportations, most of the Volga Germans had stopped speaking German and had converted completely to Russian?
I see. So it sounds like your grandma was born after deportation. I don’t think I’m that much older than you, and my grandma was born way before the 1940s, but with 3 generations involved, having a grandmother born after early 1940s isn’t that weird if everyone had the kids on the younger side.
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