It was the vault… now it’s your bathroom!
Tasteful Friends: remodeled bank in Conway, WA (no drive-thru)
by Anonymous | reply 94 | October 5, 2024 9:51 PM |
I'm a tall person who likes sunlight. This is very nice for me. I wish the basement was finished and spic and span.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 29, 2024 10:21 PM |
I feel like you’d get confused people walking up to your door and rattling the handle wondering if you were open. It does say “bank” above the entryway.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 29, 2024 10:22 PM |
Lots of natural light. Surprising for a former bank.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 29, 2024 10:25 PM |
I love it. It has a very solid feel, due to it having been a bank.
That bathroom is probably my favorite room. But where's the toilet? I think there's a separate water closet (toilet room). Too bad. You wouldn't have to worry about noises escaping from it, since it was a vault.
Love the bedroom and all the mouldings in all the rooms.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 29, 2024 10:36 PM |
I have no idea where the fuck Conway, Washington is but this is very nice. It's always interesting to see buildings being renovated into homes.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 29, 2024 10:44 PM |
Meh.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 29, 2024 11:28 PM |
Where's the ATM?
by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 29, 2024 11:34 PM |
Love it but it is kind of small, especially for a bank.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 29, 2024 11:39 PM |
I wonder if it's a historical building. They would pay for upgrades.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 29, 2024 11:43 PM |
Bar right next door with and outside dinning area, you better not be an early riser living in that house. You ain't getting no sleep in that house.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 29, 2024 11:59 PM |
From the outside it looks like it should be larger than 950 square ft.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 30, 2024 12:01 AM |
An earlier listing for the same house says over 1800 sq ft. Maybe that counting the basement and now it cant.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 30, 2024 12:03 AM |
An hour north of Seattle. "As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 84 people, 28 households." I don't think the bar next door will be a problem.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 30, 2024 12:06 AM |
[Quote] I feel like you’d get confused people walking up to your door and rattling the handle wondering if you were open. It does say “bank” above the entryway.
Yes because people do regularly just visit a bank where they don’t have an account, just to windowshop for money.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 30, 2024 12:16 AM |
I’d do anything to live across the street from the coveted Sund Building.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 30, 2024 12:17 AM |
Maybe I just missed it, but was their any kind of kitchen?
by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 30, 2024 12:18 AM |
Yet again, you bitches are MISSING THE ENTIRE POINT. "Tasteful Friends" is intended to be the severest type of irony, as these threads were originally dedicated to eviscerating the pieds-à-terre of society matrons on the Upper East Side. Their apartments were, almost without exception, designed in utterly ghastly fashion: either severely dated or severely hideous. Oftentimes both.
What is the point of having this title if I can't use it? Deliver us unto CUNTINESS, bitches! I want UGLY houses! (And while it is certainly not my style, this refurbished bank is at least smart & refreshing.)
by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 30, 2024 12:20 AM |
Didi, you're being a drip. You can die on that hill. Nobody gives a crap about your finer distinctions.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | September 30, 2024 12:31 AM |
It's a beautiful little building, and a great candidate for conversion as a house.
Unfortunately the renovation did the building few favors. The shadowy grey monotone erases the great blocky mass and the crisp detailing is flattened out and all but lost. That's an easy paint job though. 8 The tacky, trendy details and finishes like the weathered barn wood siding used inside the house, the sloppily planned kitchen, that horrific raw wood fencing and deck and railing, and the finish details were all done on the cheap and ugly.
It's all the latest lowest common denominator trends mashed into what's in essence still a handsome building but tarted up on the cheap and with no sophistication or design knowledge - just shit bought from Home Depot and Target.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | September 30, 2024 12:35 AM |
That fuse box is to die for!
by Anonymous | reply 20 | September 30, 2024 12:37 AM |
R20 lighten up honey. It's a middle-class house not a design showpiece.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | September 30, 2024 12:43 AM |
That was for R19
by Anonymous | reply 22 | September 30, 2024 12:43 AM |
Fuck off, R17. Or start your own fucking Tasteful Friends threads, to which I would either contribute or not.
Post Tasteful Friends posts about Somers Farkas' summer cottage (and formidable sternum) if you like that sort of thing. No one is stopping you. But you can stick your repeated criticism of Tasteful Friends threads not being yo your taste for tacky up your shitter.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | September 30, 2024 12:43 AM |
[quote]The shadowy grey monotone erases the great blocky mass and the crisp detailing is flattened out and all but lost.
I like that they left the original grey walls and didn't sheetrock over it. Looks pretty good.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | September 30, 2024 12:46 AM |
R22 I was about to cut your power line; all forgiven now.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | September 30, 2024 12:47 AM |
R24 I’m guessing he meant the exterior
by Anonymous | reply 26 | September 30, 2024 12:47 AM |
I like it, but $650,000 for less than 1000 square feet in a dinky little town like Conway seems like highway robbery.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | September 30, 2024 12:53 AM |
Or a bank robbery
by Anonymous | reply 28 | September 30, 2024 12:56 AM |
650k would buy a shack in Seattle, this could be nice for someone who doesn't mind the commute, or could work remotely.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | September 30, 2024 1:33 AM |
[quote] Yet again, you bitches are MISSING THE ENTIRE POINT. "Tasteful Friends" is intended to be the severest type of irony
Severest type of irony? What the fuck is that?
[quote] What is the point of having this title if I can't use it? Deliver us unto CUNTINESS, bitches! I want UGLY houses!
You want LOW-HANGING FRUIT that even a dimwit can mock and ridicule.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | September 30, 2024 1:50 AM |
[quote]Bar right next door with and outside dinning area
Oh, dear.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | September 30, 2024 3:55 AM |
^^ get fucked
by Anonymous | reply 32 | September 30, 2024 4:15 AM |
^^ learn English
by Anonymous | reply 33 | September 30, 2024 4:42 AM |
^^eat shit grammar nazi
by Anonymous | reply 34 | September 30, 2024 4:59 AM |
Nazi! For CHRIST'S sake, it's a proper noun!
by Anonymous | reply 35 | September 30, 2024 5:01 AM |
The price is a bit steep for the location.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | September 30, 2024 5:05 AM |
um, grammar nazi is not in fact a proper noun.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | September 30, 2024 5:07 AM |
Uh, yeah, you'd still capitalize the "Nazi" part. Just because it's "grammar Nazi" doesn't mean you put the "Nazi" in lower case.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | September 30, 2024 5:13 AM |
Actually it does…as a compound noun, it takes the common form in this instance.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | September 30, 2024 5:15 AM |
OK, just researched it. I guess you can bring the Nazi down to a "nazi" for "grammar nazi." I've never written or typed it out, before. It just seemed wrong to not capitalize it.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | September 30, 2024 5:17 AM |
Is that an Apology
by Anonymous | reply 41 | September 30, 2024 5:18 AM |
It's not really an apology, but if it makes you feel happy, take it as an apology.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | September 30, 2024 5:20 AM |
It is if you lowercase "Apology."
by Anonymous | reply 43 | September 30, 2024 5:20 AM |
Grammar trolls are such fucking losers.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | September 30, 2024 5:23 AM |
Acknowledgment—
Judas H. Priest!
by Anonymous | reply 45 | September 30, 2024 5:24 AM |
R44 the Nazis among them are the wurst.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | September 30, 2024 5:24 AM |
Grammar trolls just epitomize the stereotype of gay men as prissy, pissy queens. It's embarrassing.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | September 30, 2024 5:30 AM |
^^WTF is that?
by Anonymous | reply 49 | September 30, 2024 5:38 AM |
That’s a Nazi grammarian!
by Anonymous | reply 50 | September 30, 2024 5:40 AM |
^^Put down the gin and go to bed. Mother needs you to get up early to give her her morning colonic.
And don't forget to feed the cats.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | September 30, 2024 5:46 AM |
JD—the cats feed you
by Anonymous | reply 52 | September 30, 2024 5:50 AM |
It's charming and solidly built but for $650,000 US I'd want cladding on the outside, updated pipes and a GFCI outlet in that powder room. An S-trap and a regular outlet is a disaster waiting to happen.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | September 30, 2024 6:07 AM |
Never mind
by Anonymous | reply 55 | September 30, 2024 6:09 AM |
Everyone should put r18 on ignore.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | September 30, 2024 6:10 AM |
Yeah, I hope they updated the pipes and electrical.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | September 30, 2024 6:12 AM |
The Skagit valley is famous for its stunning fields of tulips. The backdrop of Cascade Mountains and volcanoes just adds to the beauty
by Anonymous | reply 58 | September 30, 2024 9:17 AM |
Exterior is interesting. Interior is bland and uninviting. I'm so tired of the HGTV reno look.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | September 30, 2024 2:42 PM |
R56 nice try didi, also R17, but everyone agrees with me. You're a humorless, control freak, hall monitor cunt.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | September 30, 2024 2:47 PM |
Grammar and spelling are not the same thing. And there's no excuse for spelling errors when free spellchecking is available to all.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | September 30, 2024 4:36 PM |
Tell that to Jennette McCurdy, Jennette Robbins and Jenntte Nelligan, R61. One site (can't find it now) accepted "Irregardless." "Woah" is acceptable here, but not on Google:
[quote]In US English, “woah” is still always considered nonstandard
by Anonymous | reply 62 | September 30, 2024 5:41 PM |
Hah! R62, I've been having a now years-long argument (in good humor) about that subject with some friends of mine on a group chat. I'm strongly on the "whoa" side, but others are interestingly not, and note that all of us are dictionary bitches.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | September 30, 2024 7:23 PM |
[quote]And there's no excuse for spelling errors when free spellchecking is available to all.
When you're quickly typing stream of consciousness style on a bullshit internet forum about bullshit topics, it's not really all that important if you misspell a word or two. This place isn't an academic thesis or a jounalistic article. So fuck off you prisspot.
Seriously, the spelling and grammar queens are such stereotypes of prissy gay men that everybody hates.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | September 30, 2024 7:26 PM |
Love it at first - but as others have mentioned
1) No kitchen?
2) Toilet is in a separate bathroom in the bedroom
3) No partition for the bedroom - there's no wall - it's like a large studio.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | September 30, 2024 7:34 PM |
I only just now got around to reading the description, and I noticed this part: "This building features a combination of thoughtful design and practicality, making it an ideal choice for any potential business owner." I'm entirely confused: why is it listed as a residential sale – and for a building with residential zoning – if its intended use is commercial? And why is it decorated akin to a home if so?
All that said, I think I know the point of the renovation: for use as an Airbnb. Conway is extremely conveniently located right off the 5 in-between Seattle & Vancouver. The revamped bank lacks a kitchen but *does* have plumbing (including sewer) and central A/C, meaning they could've definitely added a kitchen if they wanted. But they didn't, and using the building either as an office or Airbnb seems to be its only practical use without one.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | September 30, 2024 8:03 PM |
R58 - I remember that! I took the train from Seattle to Vancouver BC - beautiful trip. Although, typical Amtrak, a lot of delays and it took forever.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | October 1, 2024 12:16 AM |
Where are the gunshot holes?
by Anonymous | reply 68 | October 1, 2024 12:31 AM |
Everyone here bitching about the price, somehow expecting to find a roomy, stylish, move-in-ready house for $300,000 in ANY CITY in America need a wake-up call. Welcome to 2024, where only millionaires can afford to be homeowners.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | October 1, 2024 2:53 AM |
I don't want to live in a bank. WTF? I'm special enough. Dummies striking up dumb conversations, noise, bandits. There's a stooge born every minute.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | October 1, 2024 4:58 AM |
R69. I am not even bitchin about the price. However, it needs one real kitchen and one real bathroom. I could deal with the rest.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | October 1, 2024 3:33 PM |
Overpriced.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | October 1, 2024 3:52 PM |
Honest question - can a stand-alone structure be listed as residential with no kitchen? I know a lot of states require window and exit features to be called a bedroom.
I thought most building codes require a kitchen - not that it has to be large - but something. I did a quick search on Google and it says WA state requires permanent provisions for cooking, living, sleeping, and sanitation.
How would you use this - or can you even buy it as a non-commercial building?
by Anonymous | reply 73 | October 1, 2024 5:25 PM |
R73, that's pretty much why I commented on this bit from the listing: "This building features a combination of thoughtful design and practicality, making it an ideal choice for any potential business owner." You're correct that a kitchen-less house should, in theory, be impossible: property law varies significantly by state, but the literal bare minimum that a livable dwelling should contains are largely standardized. A housing unit MUST have – normally, at least – fully functional electricity & plumbing, sufficient heat to keep the entire home at least 55º year-round, at least one full bathroom (including at least a shower) and, at minimum, some type of kitchenette. I don't see how this place even got a CO from a code inspector without one.
Unless we happen to have a poster from Washington who's familiar with its zoning regulations who can offer a better explanation, I still think this house's only plausible use is as an Airbnb. No, I don't think the price is too high: PNW STRs go for BATSHIT prices between April & October, given the superb weather. It seems like a convenient, well-located place to spend some time – perhaps using the opportunity to check out the surrounding Skagit Valley, or even using Anacortes as a jumping-off point for exploring the San Juan Islands via ferry.
I'll confess that I'm biased: I almost always try to spend at least two weeks each summer in Washington or BC, to escape the heat. I always stay at Airbnbs when I travel, and I'm a sucker for quirky ones like this place. (And while I've never previously stayed in a former bank, I've stayed in a former brothel, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, and a "safe house" of sorts for HNWIs with bulletproof glass and automatic shutters for every single window & door in the place that can close simultaneously in under 15 seconds. (No, I didn't test it out.) If this gets bought up for Airbnb use, I'll very likely be staying there in the future! (The Skagit Valley is one of the few parts of the state I haven't yet explored at length.)
by Anonymous | reply 74 | October 1, 2024 7:46 PM |
[quote]Honest question - can a stand-alone structure be listed as residential with no kitchen?
It worked for me.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | October 1, 2024 9:47 PM |
R75. Shut up, Tubby!
by Anonymous | reply 76 | October 1, 2024 11:30 PM |
I love it. You could put a kitchen in the basement.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | October 1, 2024 11:42 PM |
You made me this way, mom! It's all YOUR FAULT!
by Anonymous | reply 78 | October 2, 2024 12:17 AM |
R78. It's always the mother's fault! Look at you with that celery stick! No wonder you're as big as Shamu.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | October 2, 2024 12:26 AM |
It’s neat.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | October 2, 2024 1:14 AM |
One of my all time favorite living spaces was a large studio apartment with a separated, well designed galley kitchen and nice full bathroom. I loved it. They could have done that there but weren’t sure if they wanted a hime or an office.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | October 2, 2024 1:40 AM |
/home
by Anonymous | reply 82 | October 2, 2024 1:41 AM |
Inside is too colorless for me and I don't care for the walls but I LOVE the outside. It looks so clean and neat. There are very few lines on the front and it is like just one connected piece with two very large windows. I wonder if they have ever cleaned it. (the outside)
by Anonymous | reply 83 | October 2, 2024 1:58 AM |
Love it. A great adaptive reuse of an old commercial building.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | October 2, 2024 2:00 AM |
Talk about a money pit!
by Anonymous | reply 85 | October 2, 2024 2:45 AM |
One bedroom yet two bathrooms? Overall, I have just one word... why?
by Anonymous | reply 86 | October 2, 2024 2:47 AM |
R86. One is men's, one is women's, but you need a third for gender neutral.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | October 2, 2024 2:51 AM |
R86, from the pictures, I see two half baths. One with sink and bathtub; another with sink and toilet.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | October 2, 2024 2:29 PM |
R81, my own favorite living space was also an outlier: two large and mostly separate Manhattan loft spaces, but which share a communal kitchen & bathroom. I almost never cook, so I'd be fine with the Conway place.
R86, are you not familiar with the concept of a powder room? Do you really want your guests freshening up in the place where you take your shits? (especially in an older building with subpar airflow)
by Anonymous | reply 89 | October 3, 2024 10:53 PM |
No kitchen? A deck that looks like a cheapie add-on abd has nothing to do with the architecture of the building? Decor that fails to pay tribute to the building's history--even with an antique store across the street which likely had old cash registers or calculators or vintage signs? Great bones, bad execution. My vote? BANKRUPT! OVERDRAWN! Send this designer TO A COLLECTION AGENCY!
by Anonymous | reply 90 | October 3, 2024 11:17 PM |
Well, I suppose it's better than living in a remodeled shipping container.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | October 3, 2024 11:48 PM |
Great place for a Bonnie & Clyde themed party. That might be tempting fate, though.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | October 4, 2024 3:06 AM |
Don’t Airbnbs require a kitchen? At the very least if would make the place more appealing.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | October 4, 2024 5:59 PM |
Did they get all the blood and brains off the walls after the last botched armed robbery?
by Anonymous | reply 94 | October 5, 2024 9:51 PM |