Friday, August 5, 2011

Disney Cash Cow Miley Cyrus Back at the Real Estate Rodeo




BUYER: Miley Cyrus
LOCATION: Studio City, CA
PRICE: $3,900,000
SIZE: 5,173 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 6.5 bathrooms

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Thanks to The Bizzy Boys at Celebrity Address Aerial Your Mama learned just this very morning that 19-year old Disney cash cow Miley Cyrus–YouTube-ing she-rah of Hannah Montana–recently caught a classic case of The Real Estate Fickle.

In late 2009, when she was just 17 young years old, the salvia smokin' teen queen dropped a very grown up $3,400,000 for a gated fixer-upper mini-compound located just around the corner from her family homestead in Toluca Lake, CA. Little Miss Mily's mini-compound includes a 4 bedroom and 5.5 baño hacienda-style main casa originally built in 1933, a detached 2-bedroom guest house that we heard but can not confirm she converted to a recording studio, a swimming pool, and tennis court.

We had heard some time ago from an anonymous snitch that Little Miss Miley might be in the market for a new house in Tinseltown but Your Mama foolishly dismissed the scuttlebutt as idle celebrity real estate chatter. Turns out, this anonymous source was speaking the truth. Property records now reveal the throaty voiced singer/songwriter–born with the maudlin name Destiny Hope–recently spent $3,900,000 for another house, this time a secluded estate with state-of-the-art security and a recently remodeled mid-century modern residence nestled into the hills above Studio City, CA.

Records show the private 1.15 acre property, purchased in early June 2011, was acquired with the same trust (and trustee) used to buy her Toluca Lake property. The walled and gated property occupies a broad and flat promontory and includes a multi-winged residence originally built in 1952 and recently given a full-scale gut renovation that retained the original architectural spirit of a contemporary California ranch typified by the low-slung hip roof and blurred lines between indoor and outdoor living.

Listing information indicates the house contains 5 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms but a careful perusal of additional marketing materials we squeezed out of the interweb like a pimple reveals something a wee bit more nuanced. The main house includes a two-pronged bedroom wing with two family bedrooms–both with private facility–plus an expansive master suite that encompasses a private sitting room with fireplace and sky light, spa-style bathroom with steam shower and separate jetted tub, two walk-in closets and a wall of windows that slide open to a semi-private patio with canyon view.

A half pooper just off the entry means no dinner guest must stray into more intimate quarters when it's time to do their post-dinner dirty business and tucked discretely in another wing between the kitchen and attached three-car garage, a fourth smallish bedroom with private bathroom that seems best utilized as a home office, meditation lounge, staff room or, perhaps, a scrap booking command center that would make all the Quacker Factory-clad ladies and gays scream silently with jealousy.

A separate but attached suite on the far side of the garage includes a bedroom/living area with wall-to-wall carpeting, a private patio, walk-in closet and private bathroom. Although this space would function magnificently for a stays-to-long in-law or a live-in domestic who–like our imperious house gurl Svetlana–desires and requires a modicum of privacy, Your Mama would not be the least bit surprised if Little Miss Cyrus instead converted the privately situated suite into a recording studio.

The front door–painted a vibrant shade of green at the time Miss Cyrus purchased the property opens into an entry area that bleeds seamlessly into an irregularly shaped "formal" living room that features dark wood floors and a wide banks of floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors that scoots the eyeballs through the room to a covered patio, the backyard, swimming pool and canyon view.

The adjoining dining room opens over a four-seat breakfast peninsula to a sleek and modern center island kitchen with stone tile floors, a combination of solid surface and wood counter tops, and high-grade stainless steel and integrated appliances that include a six-burner/two oven range with built-in spigot for pot-filling and a full-height booze refrigerator that makes our wine-loving Dr. Cooter go jelly-kneed with deep oenophilic desire. The lower cabinets in the kitchen show a horizontal wood grain that reinforces the linear nature of the house and the few upper cabinets are a glossy orange material, which we love because we love almost anything orange. Behind the kitchen the compact service area include a mouth-watering walk-in pantry, laundry facility and the aforementioned bedroom/office/scrap booking work station.

A massive flagstone chimney breast with double-sided fireplace divides the dining room from the family room that is plenty large enough to contain multiple seating areas. Sliding glass doors in the dining room lead out to a long lounging deck that runs along the side of the house and an expanse of sliding doors in the family room open to a covered patio and backyard.

A small exercise room, inconveniently accessible only through one of the family bedrooms, opens directly into back yard. A cabana bath that opens to the outside for swimmers and landscaping staff who Little Miss Cyrus may not want traipsing through the house in muddy boots or wet swim suits everything they have to use the terlit.

At one end of the swimming pool an open-air shed-like structure–the sort of thing a person might see in Dwell magazine–shades a dining/lounging terrace. An attached built-in grilling station includes an under-counter fridge so that the lazy and/or inebriated need not shuffle or stumble all the way to the kitchen every time they want a cold grape or boozy beverage.

Given that Little Miss Miley is just 19 years old and this house in Studio City is already the third home she's bought with her own money, Your Mama expects she'll catch another case of The Real Estate Fickle in the next year or two and move on to yet another multi-million dollar estate. We shall see, puppies, we shall see.

As for her celebrity-style compound in Toluca Lake, well, obviously Your Mama don't know a Thing from a Rolls Royce so we can't say for certain what her plans for property may be but our brief research indicates the property is not currently on the open market.

Purchasing a new home in Los Angeles is not, as it turns out, the only real estate transaction undertaken by Little Miss Miley this year. In February the capricious minx unloaded a penthouse condo in the somewhat unlikely locale of Panama Beach, FL–otherwise known as the Redneck Riviera–for $1,968,750. Miss Cyrus purchased the Gulf-front Panhandle penthouse just about 14 months earlier for, as per records Your Mama peeped, $1,850,000.

In 2007, when the Cyrus clan moved from their 500-acre Singin' Hill Farm outside Nashville in teeny-tiny Thompson Station to Tinseltown, they spent $5,838,000 to scoop up an 8,299 square foot faux-Tuscan mansion privately situated down a long, gated drive in the upscale and celebrity-packed enclave of Toluca Lake. Last year Little Miss Miley's parents were headed for the court of dee-vorce and there were rumors and reports the 6 bedroom and 7 pooper property would be sold. Earlier this year, Poppa Cyrus announced he had called the divorce off. Whether a reported reconciliation means Mommy and Daddy Cyrus will keep the family house or sell it for a fresh start somewhere else is not known to this real estate gossip. As far as we know–which is really so very little–they have no plans to sell the farm in Tennessee.

New Crib for Glee's Chris Colfer in Laurel Canyon

BUYER: Chris Colfer
LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA
PRICE: $860,000
SIZE: 2,462 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 2.75 bathrooms

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Even though Glee-mania continues to sweep the globe, it is Your Mama's humble and meaningless opinion the super-gay show has done jumped the proverbial showbiz shark, a victim, perhaps, of its instant mega-success. Since we think the boo-toob super-hit already passed its prime we find it a complete waste of time to shed any tears for actor Chris Colfer who portrayed the fey and steely-spined teen homosexual Kurt Hummel for the first three seasons but will not, reportedly, be back for a fourth.

Sassy Mister Colfer will inevitably move on to bigger and better things. As per both The Bizzy Boys at Celebrity Address Aerial and our impossibly well-informed confrère Lucy Spillerguts–he will also soon move into a new house that hovers over the rugged Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles, CA.

Property records show that Mister Colfer, through a trust, paid $860,000 for an ass-uglee residence perched on the last hairpin curve of a secluded cul-de-sac high above Laurel Canyon. A deeper dive into the property records reveals that Mister Colfer bought the blue beast out of foreclosure. Some of the resident Real Estate Chicken Littles around here will surly go giddy when they learn the non-celeb sellers of Mister Colfer's new crib purchased the property in early 2007 ago for a substantially higher $1,232,000 and lost the house, according to the docs we peeped, into the snapping claws of foreclosure in September 2010.

Listing information for the 1963 mansard-roofed hot mess shows it measures 2,462 square feet. Listing information for the property gets a mite confusing when it comes to the bedroom and pooper count: In one area of the listing 2 bedrooms and 2.75 bathrooms are indicated, in another it reads "3 Bedrooms, 3.5 Bathrooms," and in a third section the bathroom count gets broken down into 1 full, 1 three-quarter and 2 half bathrooms. The Los Angeles County Tax Man, for what it's worth, shows there are 2 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. Make of all that nonsense what you will.

The three-story hillside house, called a "contemporary" in the listing, sits hard up on street with a front facing two-car attached garage with convenient direct entry and indoor laundry facility. We anticipate a couple or few of the children will whine and stamp their real estate feet with righteous indignation about how they would never, in a million damn years, pay nearly a million clams for an architecturally rude-looking residence that sits so close to the street that someone could walk by and easily reach right in an open window and snatch a bottle of booze or pack of menthols off the table. Spare us the jibber-jabber. The geographic reality of building in the steep ravines and perilous canyons in Los Angeles often means that a house must sit very close to the access road. Don't like it? Buy a ranch house in Sherman Oaks with a wide front lawn, broad back yard and no canyon view. Real estate is a trade off, kids, and just because you wouldn't swap a deep front lawn for a canyon view doesn't mean that it's foolish for someone to do so, okaaaay? Our bigger concern here is not the lack of front yard–Your Mama lives in the Hollywood Hills and has but a sliver of a front yard–it's the dearth of architectural or aesthetic fabulosity. More on that later.

A tightly curved stair case with brushed stainless steel (or perhaps its aluminum or some other material) banister doubles back around itself and connects the three levels of the house. The open-plan lower level main living space encompasses a living/dining/kitchen area with blond wood floors, fireplace with slate surround, built-in banquette sofa, and sliding glass doors that lead out to one of the two decks that run along the back of the lower two levels and cantilever over the canyon.

The kitchen, which looks like it was fairly recently punished with an upsetting remodel, has average-grade stainless steel appliances, some sort of solid-surface or granite counter tops, a separate wet bar with sink and wine fridge, and an L-shaped center island with a breakfast bar fashioned from an perplexing panel of curving green glass that looks like it was ripped right out of the 1980s.

However many bedrooms there may be, two or three, Mister Colfer's new grand master suite features a private pooper, walk-in closet and an unobstructed view over the jagged canyon.

Aerial images of the house show the rooftop covered in solar panels but listing information doesn't mention anything about solar panels, not that we noticed anyway.

At the time Mister Colfer scooped the place up, the exterior was painted a gawdawful blue color that resembles tur-qwahze. Now children, Your Mama loves us some turquoise–and tur-qwahze–but it is not, generally speaking, an appropriate color for a 21st-century house. It just isn't.

Your Mama can only hope Mister Colfer has already had the good gay decorative sense to consult a color queen, a nice, gay decorator and/or a smart architect to come up with a more acceptable solution to the jaw-droppingly horrific exterior of the house. We also hope with all our might that Mister Colfer hires a brawny contractor to remove that silly half-assed mansard roof hoozy-goozy that makes our flesh pimple with architectural discordance.

Before y'all get your architectural panties in snit and start to yammer about how this house is beyond saving and should be torn down, we ask that you keep in mind it is not a realistic or practical solution to tear down all the ugly houses. It just isn't. To make that case is just wasted words and aesthetic pie in the sky. Sometimes and for a myriad of reason, like it or not, you just have to work with what's there and–to put it another way–put some goddam lipstick and lashes on the pig.
With that in mind Your Mama took the liberty to whip together a rough mock up of a possible solution to the troubling existing exterior of Mister Colfer's Laurel Canyon cauchemar. Rather than tart the house up with traditional details–a device that almost always ends up looking cheap and depressingly faux–we opted to strip the structure down to its core and just let it be what it is: a boxy contemporary slammed right up on to the roadside.

In our "after" version (shown above on the right) we painted the exterior white so it glistens in the scorching southern California sunshine, added new front and garage doors, ran a privacy fence along the property line at the front of the house that provides an illusion of privacy at the street level, and we consolidated that unholy trio of mis-matched windows on the second floor into one large opening partially shielded by vertical privacy slats.

Now, of course, kittens, this is just one quick and dirty solution to the front façade by a boorish blogger. Certainly a smart architect or crafty landscape designer could come up with something far superior than our paltry five-minute effort.

Any of y'all want to give it a go?

From Stiller to Statham


The Hollywood Reporter reported today that British-born he-man actor Jason Statham has purchased actor/comedian Ben Stiller's two-mansion compound in the low-key but high-brow Outpost Estates neighborhood in Los Angeles.

Your Mama have no idea if this is truth or fiction–nor do any of the few informants we've queried–but we do know that The Hollywood Reporter has a very good track record with these celebrity real estate scoops. We also know that the virile action movie star–currently on the hot and heavy with panty and bra catwalker Rosie Huntington-Whitely–has been on quite a real estate tear the last couple of years.

First he bought a condo at the Broadway Hollywood building that he bought in July 2007 for $1,543,000 and–as per prop records–sold in late May 2011 for $1,200,000, a teeth-grinding $343,000 loss not counting carrying costs and real estate fees. In June 2009 the architecture appreciating Mister Statham splashed out a very a-list $10,950,000 for a contemporary wood and glass ocean front home in the guard-gated and celebrity-stocked Malibu Colony. Oddly enough, he sold his condo at the Broadway Hollywood to a couple who also own a home in the Malibu Colony. Most recently Mister Statham sold his modernist house above the Sunset Strip to talent agent Joel Lubin for $2,700,000 after just a few weeks on the open market with an asking price of $2,749,000.

For what it's worth, Mister Stiller's 10 bedroom and 11 crapper compound that still appears on the open market as active and available with an asking price of $11,495,000 but that doesn't, my dears, mean a damn thing butter beans. Wily real estate agents in Tinseltown who do deals with high-profile peeps have been known on occasion to attempt to fool all us real estate gossips and looky-loos by not changing the status of a property on the online listing(s) until every last transaction paper is signed, sealed, and delivered.

Kellan Lutz Rents New Crib in Venice




WHO: Kellan Lutz
WHERE: Venice, CA
PRICE: $7,250 per month
SIZE: 2,400 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: In 2009 chisel-chested male model turned concrete-bodied actor Kellan Lutz asked his brother Randy to find him a roommate or two for the frumpy Van Nuys, CA house property records show he purchased in late 2005 for $715,000. The brother put a suggestively worded ad on Craigs List that stated he/they were "alcohol friendly" and "looking for very athletic guys" to move in and splash around with in the swimming pool and hot tub. It wasn't long before a gaggle of gym-toned gay gentleman were ringing Mister Lutz's bell. It was all, according to Mister Lutz, a laugh riot case of unfortunate wordsmithing by his bro Randy.

So that none of the children think Your Mama is insinuating something about Mister Kellan's proclivities that we know not a damn thing about: Until recently Mister Kellan was frequently reported to be hooked up with 90210 blond bomber AnnaLynne McCord. Previous to that he was romantically linked to actress Kayla Ewell–another member of what we think of as the Tinseltown Vampire Brigade–who shakes her money maker in The Vampire Diaries.

A few near pornographic underwear ads and a couple of bit acting parts in the mid-Noughts led beau-hunky blond Mister Lutz to a recurring role on the lone season of the sitcom The Comeback with Lisa Kudrow. A few more bit parts brought Mister Lutz to 2008 when he was lucky enough to be cast as muscle-bound teenage blood sucker Emmet Cullen in Twilight. The seemingly ceaseless Twilight franchise, a showbiz super-phenomena of epic money-making and cross-marketing proportions, quickly catapulted Mister Lutz to the pinnacle of gossip glossy fame. It's unlikely the meticulously man-scaped lamb can go to the damn 7-11 anymore with out a t(w)eenage girl, lonely lady or horny homo collapsing to the floor in the beer aisle from a burning rush of unrequited love and unrestrained lust.

Your Mama isn't sure if any alcohol friendly athletic dudes moved into Mister Lutz's 3 bedroom and 3 pooper bachelor pad in Van Nuys. We did, however, recently receive a covert communique from our friend and celebrity real estate snitch Lucy Spillerguts who whispered in Your Mama's big ear that Mister Lutz has done decamped the suburban streets of Van Nuys for the boho beach community of Venice where he recently leased a somewhat newly (re)constructed contempo-Craftsman-style crib just a few blocks from the beach near the Venice canals.

Listing information for the pristine-looking property that Your Mama cajoled up out of the interweb shows the two-story shingled residence measures around 2,400 square feet, includes 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms, and was leased by Mister Kellan at a rate of $7,250 per month.

A deep inset front porch with stacked-stone columns defines the entry to the fully re-habbed house with an open plan ground floor that orbits around a (melo)dramatic floating stone, wood and wrought iron stair case. The L-shaped main living space stretches across the back of the house and includes a living room with wide-plank wood floors and stacked stone double-sided fireplace. Banks of wood-framed glass panels flank the fireplace and open up to merge the room with the courtyard-like backyard. The living room area spills into a long dining room/kitchen with built-in buffet, center-island, mahogany cabinets, thinly veined black granite counter tops and super-sized commercial style stainless steel appliances.

Mister Kellan's new master suite on the second floor sports wood floors, an awkwardly located fireplace with flat-screen tee-vee mounted above it, walk-in closet, and wood-framed French doors that connect to a private balcony that hangs over the backyard. The clean-lined master crapper conveniently provides two sinks set into one long white marble counter top, a soaking tub long enough for Mister Kellan and a friend, and an over-sized shower space with flooring fashioned from randomly shaped slate pieces set into a bed of black pebbles. No one loves a natural element like rocks used for art or day-core more than Your Mama. We've been known to display piles of carefully curated rocks in our own home. Howevuh, we sincerely hope those shower floor pebbles are glued down and not scattered around loose where they could be a real and annoying pain in the tootsies.

Like most beach communities in California, lots tend towards tiny in Venice so in addition to the front porch and private balcony in the master bedroom, outdoor space was maximized with a sunbather beckoning roof deck and a tree-shaded backyard with flagstone terrace and Buddha-guarded koi pond. A detached structure–probably originally built as a garage–was converted to a home office/entertainment space with over-sized flat screen tee-vee and 10-speaker surround sound system. Sadly, the property lacks a swimming pool where porn-bodied Mister Lutz can horse around and play Marco Polo with his pin thin gal pals and buff man-buddies.

Property records show that Mister Lutz still owns his house in Van Nuys and a cursory look around did not turn up any (online) evidence of currently being on the (open) market.


Hank Azaria Downsizes in Los Angeles

BUYER: Hank Azaria
SELLER: Dan Castellaneta and Deb Lacusta
LOCATION: Pacific Palisades, CA
PRICE: $5,500,000
SIZE: 4,415 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Multi-talented actor/producer Hank Azaria has been on the Hollywood hamster wheel for a very long time. His scads of starring and recurring roles on both the boob-toob (Huff, Friends, Mad About You) and silver screen (Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, The Birdcage) have earned him oodles of respect and accolades among fans and other industry denizens. He is, however, probably best known (and paid most) for the voice over work he's done since the late 1980s on the long-running animated sitcom The Simpsons. His comedic talents and long-term showbiz success have allowed him to build up an impressive portfolio of posh properties in Los Angeles and New York City.

In March 2009, with a bun in his lady-friend Katie Wright's oven, Mister Azaria splashed out a very a-list $10,000,000 for an 8,434 square foot mansion at the tail end of an exclusive cul-de-sac. Although the property hovers over the parking lot at the extremely hoity-toity Bel Air Country Club in Los Angeles, the children can be assured it sits well elevated enough to have a distant but de-lovely vista of the Pacific Ocean during the day and a sparkling view of the glittering carpet of lights of Los Angeles at night.

The actor and his baby momma hired talented and much-published decorator du jour Trip Haenisch to work over the traditional interior spaces. Mister Haenisch, for those who like their celebrity decorators cross referenced, recently re-worked the chic mid-century Malibu compound owned by Courtney Cox that recently appeared in the pages of Elle Decor.

Mister Azaria's Bel Air mansion includes 7 bedrooms 10 bathrooms, formal living and dining rooms, a barn-sized family room with a pair of sofas upholstered in teddy bear fur, a substantial home gym, screening room and an office where Mister Azaria keeps his quartet of Emmys and a poker table surrounded by Eames-designed office chairs. Magazine readers will recall that Mister Azaria's meticulously done Monterey Colonial-style mansion was just featured in the August (2011) issue of Architectural Digest and y'all know what the say about celebrity homes that appear in the gleaming pages of Arch Digest, right?

Well, dontcha know pets, a few weeks ago, just days after the August issue of A.D. landed in our mail box, Your Mama's bedazzled and bedraggled princess phone started to clang-a-langa-lang. On the other end was a chatty real estate insider pal we'll call Peter Peckerwood (of the north of Sunset Peckerwoods) who snitched that Mister Azaria was very quietly in the process of selling his big ol' Bel Air mansion and purchasing the much smaller Pacific Palisades residence of The Simpsons cast mate Dan Castellaneta (voice of Homer Simpson) and his wife Deb Lacusta who has herself penned a number of episodes of The Simpsons.

Property records for the sale of Mister Azaria's Bel Air mansion have yet to clear but, according to the usually impeccably informed Mister Peckerwood, Mister Azaria has done sold the posh property to a friend who couldn't resist making an offer that Mister Azaria could not refuse.

Mister Castellaneta and Miz Lacusta's part of this real estate tale starts in 2006 when, according to Mister Peckerwood, they went a-huntin' for the perfect contemporary house. Not having found something more modern to their liking, in December 2006 they settled on a charming 4,415 square foot mock-Tudor mini-mansion in the quietly ritzy Riviera area of Pacific Palisades. They paid, as per property records, $5,750,000 for the well-preserved pad that was, according to listing information, designed by architect Gerard Colcord and built in 1928.

A little over four years later Mister Castellaneta and Miz Lacusta stumbled across their contemporary dream house–oddly enough located just a couple short blocks from their Colcord-designed crib–and in April 2011 they coughed up $5,700,000 to purchase the 5 bedroom and 4.5 bathroom property. The following month they heaved their 4 bedroom and 3.5 crapper Colcord-designed digs on the market with a $5,750,000 price tag.

Along comes Mister Azaria and Baby Momma Katie who must have desired a real estate downsize and, according to Redfin, paid his fellow Simpsons cast mate $5,500,000 for the smaller and less glitzy but still atrociously expensive residence in the Riviera 'hood. Why did Mister Azaria opt for a new house almost half the size of this celebrity-style pad in Bel Air? We don't know, so don't anybody take the bother or breath to ask.
In addition to his new house in Pacific Palisades, Mister Azaria owns two additional homes in Los Angeles. In 1992 he paid $390,000 for a house in the Hollywood Dell neighborhood that he still owns and rents out. November 1996 he paid $285,000 for a property deep in one of the canyons that cut into the mountains behind Beverly Hills. The secluded Bev Hills hideaway (above) briefly appeared on the market last year with an asking price of $3,600,000. It was also listed for lease at $11,000 per month and online listing information Your Mama persuaded out of the interweb shows it went for $9,000 per month.

The stage-trained actor–who went to drama school and remains poker-playing BFFs with Oliver Platt who currently c0-stars with the dee-voon Laura Linney on The Big C–bought a large loft in a quintessential cast-iron building from the late 1800s in New York City's SoHo 'hood in July 2005 from famous artist/photographer Cindy Sherman. The peeps at Property Shark (and reports from the time) reveal that Mister Azaria bought the 4,000-ish square foot loft condo in the heart of the maddening tourist-filled SoHo shopping mecca for $4,625,000.

In late July it was reported on Curbed that Mister Azaria had (somewhat reluctantly) put his New York City loft on the rental market with an monthly price tag of $16,000. Listing information for the oddly-configured loft shows it contains 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms, a 70-foot long entrance gallery, an almost 700 square foot living room and a windowless media room with exposed brick wall. One entire corner of the loft is given over to a professional quality gym because, apparently, Mister Azaria is mad-serious about the condition of his body.

The eat-in kitchen has an old-timey tin ceiling, black tile floors, urban-country type white Shaker-style cabinetry, butcher block counter tops and high grade stainless steel appliances. A perusal of the floor plan included with marketing materials reveals the loft has a terribly long list of awkward architectural moments–an essentially windowless bedroom, way too much space devoted to a gym–but none perhaps more pearl-clutching worthy that the kitchen windows that look into an otherwise private windowed corridor that connects the master bedroom to the master bathroom. Admittedly we like the un-decorated put your feet on the sofa vibe of the media room and main living space but the floor plan, puppies, has Your Mama needed a nerve pill and a handful of jelly beans.

get back Facebook Sidebar Chat Reversion old version !!!!!!

Script Summary: Gets rid of the new Facebook sidebar replacing it with one like the original.
Version: 2.1
License: GPL3+ (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html)
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Works in Firefox 5, Google Chrome 13


What has changed in Version 2?

Version 2 is a complete rewrite of the script to use native Facebook functions where possible. What does this mean? Basically it means the entire script should be less buggy and easier to maintain into the future. It also means...

Friend List (Group) Support!

Just like the original Facebook chat, the chat bar will now group your friends into their respective friends lists as well as let you edit these lists or toggle them on/off.
I make no promises to keep this up to date as Facebook changes in the future, though I am doing my very best to resolve all bugs and maintain this script.

Browser Support:

  • Full support for Firefox 5, Google Chrome 13 & Opera 11.5 (Earlier versions may be compatible, these are the browsers used for testing)
  • No support currently for Safari and Internet Explorer

Features:

  • Full Friend List (Group) support!
  • Shows ALL online/idle friends
  • Shows ONLY online/idle friends (Doesn't show offline friends)
  • Orders friends by first name
  • Groups friends by online and idle.
  • Shows total number of online/idle friends when chat bar is open and closed.
  • Chat bar adjusts in size based on how many friends you have online.
  • Does not realign the page when chat opens
  • Header to the top of chat that closes the menu when clicked.
  • Works for both HTTP and HTTPS
  • Keep the list of online friends on the left hand side of the page always visible even when the chat dialog opens.
  • Adds "View Profile" link to the cog menu in each chat window to easily view the profile of the person you are talking to.

Changes

v2.1
  • REMOVED: SUPPORT FOR OPERA, HOPING THIS IS TEMPORARY The code will still work mostly, however searching for friends is entirely non-supported. Install at your own risk if you are using Opera.
  • Added: There is now a nice scroll bar in all browsers, not just Google Chrome
  • Added: Entirely redid how the sidebar was Hooked to hopefully reduce the number of places errors can sneak in and hence cause less bugs.
  • Fixed: The code seems less buggy in Chrome now
  • Fixed: Fixed chat bugs that popped up due to changes on Facebooks end
v2.0.5
  • Fixed: Reverted changes in v2.0.4 as all they did was cause problems in other browsers when going offline.
v2.0.4
  • Fixed: Major problem that causes chat to be completely broken in some circumstances. ( Apparently didn't fix anything :( )
v2.0.3
  • Fixed: Brought back the nice scroll bar in Google Chrome. (Thanks to Mori99)
v2.0.2
  • Fixed: Chat window settings menu would appear under the chat bar sometimes.
v2.0.1
  • Added: Increased Browser Support, added Opera.
  • Fixed: Chat doesn't always resize properly immediately.
  • Fixed: Going offline, then online, then refreshing the page without closing the chat bar, causes the chat to be unopenable on page load.
v2.0.0
  • Full friend list (group) support
  • Removed the automatic closing of the chat bar when you click outside of it
  • Going offline will now automatically minimise the chat bar
  • Opening the chat bar when Offline will now automatically take you online
  • Should fix a number of graphical glitches that were apparent in v1.5.5

Issues to be fixed (Will be fixed in next version)

None at the moment.

Minor Issues (Might be fixed in future versions)

Firefox & Google Chrome & Opera
  • Using left side offline switch to come online after page refresh doesn't show "Loading"
  • First page load can take a while to connect to chat, doesn't say "Loading" during this period.
  • Chat can become out of sync and display people that are no longer online (Fault with Facebook)
Opera
  • Going online after being offline in the same page load, will scroll the page slightly.

Possible Problems You May Have (These are not bugs):

Problem: Removing someone from a friend list (group) does not update in the chat.
Solution: The person is removed from whatever permissions immediately, however a limitation in the Facebook code stops this from being visible immediately. If it is essential that the display be correct, simply refresh the page.

Problem: Coming back from online shows that I have 0 friends online shortly before showing that I am online.
Solution: This is just because while it loads your online friends, it thinks you have no friends online. This should last a couple of seconds at most, the best solution is to just go offline less often.

Problem: Toggling friend lists (groups) takes a while to update the online counter, or lists open/close incorrectly when toggling lists.
Solution: The friend list code is Facebooks, the lag is due to the fact the page must contact Facebook to alert it of the change before it can update the actual online status of your friends. If you toggle lists too quickly the server may respond out of order and mess up which lists are open. To avoid, simply do not toggle lists too quickly, or refresh page if anything messes up.

Problem: Script does not work with Opera and https
Solution: Go to "opera:config" (just type in the address bar) and search for "User JavaScript on HTTPS". Activate it and restart Opera. Now the Script will work! -- A big thanks to the user retsifp for submitting this problem and solution!

ON THIS STEP

Get Back the Old Facebook Chat Box

Want to get old Chatbox?
Follow this steps


Note: it will not work on IE

Firefox:

Install GreaseMonkey https://addons.mozilla.org/en-​US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/

After that restart Firefox
After restarting Firefox, Install Facebook Sidebar Chat Reversion


http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/107159


Google Chrome:

Go go over this url
and install

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/107159

New Sizes in New Technology

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Jakarta's Launching
We just did our product launching and retail gathering in 3 cities in Indonesia. Starting from Surabaya then continue on to Semarang and Jakarta. For this year, we launched not only new motifs in our wall tiles and floor tiles, but also we invented 2 new sizes for our wall tiles, 20 x 50 and 31.5 x 63.
With this new sizes we want to give more choices for you, and we want you to explore your creativity more. Our surprises are not stopping here, all of our new wall tiles motifs are produced in the new product line, PLATINUM DIGISTYLE.
DIGISTYLE is a digital printed tiles, with a higher definition images. The other advantages are you can get a borderless tile and an embossed printed tile. We can say that all the excitement from our guest-lists is motivating us to keep on innovating in what will inspire you. So, check our DIGISTYLE web pages to see our new motifs which will enhance your creativity and imagination.