11 MILLION?? What..?

[Anonymous]

It's beautiful. If you had just shared the price and interior photos, I would have guessed that it was in Southampton or Sag Harbor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love the kitchen, if I was building a new house from scratch, that would be the kitchen. Especially if I was living somewhere in California.

But I cannot get over the weird mismatch of styles everywhere else in the house. The fake rustic exposed wood out of odds with the integrity of the original architecture. The fake "modern adobe" treatment of parts of the interior that is also out of odds with the exterior. Or that this was built as a nice normal UMC house and has been renovated into something wildly more expensive. The overall impression is one of disjointed, very different rooms leading to very different rooms, no matter how high quality and expensive the renovations were. The feeling is schizophrenic.

I'd have just demolished the house outright and built something much more coherent. I like the original house architecture and I do love a lot of the new interior styles, but the combination of everything just isn't working well. Which is a shame.

I really wish there were a floor plan, because the mixture of styles left me unable to figure out which room led into which, or whether photos were of the house itself or the pool/guest house.

[Anonymous]

Y'all are so funny. And jealous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love the kitchen, if I was building a new house from scratch, that would be the kitchen. Especially if I was living somewhere in California.

But I cannot get over the weird mismatch of styles everywhere else in the house. The fake rustic exposed wood out of odds with the integrity of the original architecture. The fake "modern adobe" treatment of parts of the interior that is also out of odds with the exterior. Or that this was built as a nice normal UMC house and has been renovated into something wildly more expensive. The overall impression is one of disjointed, very different rooms leading to very different rooms, no matter how high quality and expensive the renovations were. The feeling is schizophrenic.

I'd have just demolished the house outright and built something much more coherent. I like the original house architecture and I do love a lot of the new interior styles, but the combination of everything just isn't working well. Which is a shame.

Those gorgeous tiles!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Oh, I was not expecting to like it from the outside but the inside is gorgeous.

Sure, but $11 million gorgeous

Am I in the minority here - the inside is looks so old fashioned and basic to me...

"Basic"?

No. The owners have exquisite taste.

It's not exactly my taste, but it is beautiful.

[Anonymous]

The outside is beautiful.

I would at least expect upper cabinets in the kitchen for 11 million though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The outside is beautiful.

I would at least expect upper cabinets in the kitchen for 11 million though.

What for? If you have plenty of pull out drawer cabinets then you don't need upper cabinets. And all the wall space is used for windows. This is a gorgeous kitchen. I'm sure there's also a walk in pantry or two somewhere.

[Anonymous]

I like it. Going to put in an offer for 10.5!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love the kitchen, if I was building a new house from scratch, that would be the kitchen. Especially if I was living somewhere in California.

But I cannot get over the weird mismatch of styles everywhere else in the house. The fake rustic exposed wood out of odds with the integrity of the original architecture. The fake "modern adobe" treatment of parts of the interior that is also out of odds with the exterior. Or that this was built as a nice normal UMC house and has been renovated into something wildly more expensive. The overall impression is one of disjointed, very different rooms leading to very different rooms, no matter how high quality and expensive the renovations were. The feeling is schizophrenic.

I'd have just demolished the house outright and built something much more coherent. I like the original house architecture and I do love a lot of the new interior styles, but the combination of everything just isn't working well. Which is a shame.

100% THIS A 6.5 million mark up in 4 years for that kind of a house is actually insane

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well the buyer bought it for $4.5 million in 2022 before renovating it so $11 million might be right. For very expensive properties, it’s really a guessing game as to what the right price is. So I can’t blame them for starting out at $11 million.

Ummm are you the listing agent? .5 Milllion does not warrant 11 million FOUR years later for a reno.

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They slightly overpaid in '22 (should have been $4 tops) and then basically deconstructed it. Where they did "renovate" those are nothing more than the cheapest big box finishes. No way should this be out of the $4s.

No clue whether they’ll get their asking price, but those are not cheap finishes.

Actually they absolutely are. Look at the bathroom vanities - that is a very inexpensive brand. The counter thicknesses are the cheapest. The fake stone is the cheapest color option. Then look at the bathroom fixtures. Incredibly cheap brand & finishes, just pressure balance, not thermostatic, they didn't recess the pool cover (excuse was probably b/c of the clipped corners, but that's just laziness), the light fixtures are incredibly cheap, where they replaced windows they used the cheapest ones allowed by CP historic, etc. We have renovated a few DC houses in the price range they are asking. This is not an expensive renovation.

[Anonymous]

It's really beautiful and it's 7400 square feet on a big lot with a pool and pool house. It's not totally crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's really beautiful and it's 7400 square feet on a big lot with a pool and pool house. It's not totally crazy.

Well the listing linked says 6900 sq ft. and even that seems inflated based on the layout. I'm not sure where they are "faking it", but just because you pour $5 mil into a renovation doesn't make it worth that +1 a mil for your trouble over such a short period of time. It seems crazy to me.

[Anonymous]

The pool already existed when they bought the house. You can see from the prior photos.

My guess is that contractors made tons of money off them. In wealthy areas like this, if you're not careful and you go with the priciest design/build firms, it's pretty easy for costs to get out of control.

[Anonymous]

I think they just listed it for what they spent on it and they'll end up taking less, but they don't care. They're not in a hurry to sell it, and this is probably good marketing actually because we can all believe that they DID spend that much, even if we don't like it or wouldn't want to pay for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love the kitchen, if I was building a new house from scratch, that would be the kitchen. Especially if I was living somewhere in California.

But I cannot get over the weird mismatch of styles everywhere else in the house. The fake rustic exposed wood out of odds with the integrity of the original architecture. The fake "modern adobe" treatment of parts of the interior that is also out of odds with the exterior. Or that this was built as a nice normal UMC house and has been renovated into something wildly more expensive. The overall impression is one of disjointed, very different rooms leading to very different rooms, no matter how high quality and expensive the renovations were. The feeling is schizophrenic.

I'd have just demolished the house outright and built something much more coherent. I like the original house architecture and I do love a lot of the new interior styles, but the combination of everything just isn't working well. Which is a shame.

I tend to agree. There are parts I love - like the kitchen, but it's a kitchen that belongs in a different house in a different location/geography. I really like the front room and what they did with the fireplace, but then they went really California-Swedish minimalist and it's jarring.

The pool house/detached garage is a great aesthetic. I love it.