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The most gloriously hideous homes in America? Two Houston abodes rank high onnational list

The galaxy-themed wet bar lights up at night.
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According to the realtor’s description, 158 Sandy Grove in Nassau Bay is “idealfor [a] discriminating lifestyle.”
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158 Sandy Cove boasts lakefront views from every room; including the blacktile-clad master bathroom.
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Highlights of the master bedroom include a custom glass box bed and purplespeakers.
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The movie theater features custom seating and audio/visual systems.
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Guests will be blown away by the game room's custom pool table.
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We think the kitchen would have looked better with purple appliances.
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Purple reigns in the dining room.
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Forget the lakefront views - the true centerpiece of this room is a gold dolphinstatue on the coffee table.
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1818 Willowmoss Court, located in the Lazybrook/Timbergrove neighborhood, isrelatively unassuming from the exterior.
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Sure, the kitchen wallpaper is a bit dated - but that's not terribly uncommonfor a home built in the 1960's.
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Things start getting crazy in one of the bedrooms, which features a wallpaperedceiling and complementary geometric bedding.
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Apparently builders had a difficult time finding nine matching windows for thesunroom.
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The pièce de résistance of this home is the master bedroom - also known as fiftyshades of green.
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After being thoroughly nauseated by all the green, try making your way up thestairs that divide the master bedroom.
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An animal-themed narrative comes alive on the walls of the guest bedroom.
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We're not entirely sure, but that may just be a statue of Toy Story protagonistWoody.
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If you’re in the market for a new home and have yet to find something that takes your breath away, today may just be your lucky day.

National real estate blog Curbed recently posted its annual round up of “the year’s most gloriously hideous listings.” The listicle features 13 different homes, most of which boast hefty price tags, insane amounts of square footage and plenty of “unique” features.

According to the realtor’s description, 158 Sandy Grove in Nassau Bay is “ideal for [a] discriminating lifestyle.”

Two Houston-area homes made it onto the list, including a Nassau Bay lakefront mansion decorated in an entirely purple motif and an unassuming Lazybrook home that showcases some extremely creative uses for wallpaper.

According to the realtor’s description, 158 Sandy Grove in Nassau Bay is “ideal for [a] discriminating lifestyle.” The four bedroom, 3,693 square foot home features a backlit galaxy-themed bar, a $100,000 movie theater and neon lighting throughout.

Highlights of 1818 Willowmoss Court, located in the burgeoning Timbergrove/Lazybrook neighborhood, include a master bedroom plastered entirely in green — green and gold wallpaper, green shag carpeting and green ceiling tiles. To further complicate life in the color-crazed residence, several different rooms appear to be split level.

The Willowmoss Court home was featured on Swamplot earlier this year, and prompted a slew of responses from readers. One pointed out that “the sauna is tasteful” (it is quite nice), and another joked that the home made her want to “wear puffy taffeta dresses and sniff cocaine.”

A reader joked that the home made her want to “wear puffy taffeta dresses and sniff cocaine.”

Unfortunately, the home has since been sold. But the good news is that 158 Sandy Grove can still be had for a cool $2.2 million. The listing doesn’t specify whether or not the ceiling-suspended dining room table is included.

For a closer look at the two homes, check out some of our favorite photos from the listings pages in this story's slideshow.

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Houston nails down No. 8 spot among fastest-moving luxury home markets

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11095 Memorial Drive is for sale for $8.8 million.

For-sale signs on the lawns of luxury homes in Houston-area communities like Bellaire, River Oaks, West University Place, and The Woodlands are disappearing faster than in most U.S. markets.

November’s Realtor.com Luxury Housing Report shows luxury homes in the Houston metro area spent a median 61 days on the market in November, up 3.4 percent from last November. That puts the Houston metro in eighth place among the country’s fastest-moving luxury home markets.

Asking prices for Houston-area listings among top-tier luxury homes started at $794,576 in November, according to the Realtor.com report.

The Houston Association of Realtors (HAR) says stepped-up activity in the luxury home market helped boost the average single-family home price in the area to $422,552 in November. The luxury market — homes priced at $1 million and above — was the region’s top-performing home category in November, according to HAR, with sales up 23.4 percent compared with the same time in 2024.

The Realtor.com report ranks San Jose, California, as the fastest-moving metro for luxury home sales in November. There, luxury homes spent a median 56 days on the market, down 6.7 percent from last November.

“Luxury home dynamics are increasingly driven by local factors rather than national trends,” Antony Smith, senior economist at Realtor.com, says in a release. “Some high-cost metros are experiencing brisk demand and fast turnover, while others face slower sales even at elevated price points. Understanding these local dynamics is key for both buyers and sellers in today's luxury market.”

Roughly 200 miles west of Houston, the San Antonio metro lands on Realtor.com’s list of the country’s slowest-moving markets for luxury homes. San Antonio-area luxury homes lingered on the market for 99 days in November, up seven percent from the same time last year. That gave San Antonio eighth place on the list of the country’s slowest-moving luxury home markets.

Asking prices for San Antonio-area listings among top-tier luxury homes started at $766,548 in November, according to the report.

In November, 5.6 percent of home prices fell into the $750,000-and-above category, according to the San Antonio Board of Realtors (SABOR).

Bend, Oregon, tops Realtor.com’s list of the slow-moving markets for luxury homes. In the Bend metro area, luxury homes were stuck on the market for a median 146 days in November, up 14.1 percent from the same period in 2024.

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