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Redding, Ridgefield. Same Lululemons and grande caramel machiattos.

It looks like a lovely wooded home to be murdered in.

pass

Saw it. It's a wreck

Ha. I must ask you, R2, why so many people worry about having a bit more land. Are you honestly nervous?

I couldn't let my bare feet touch the linoleum floor in those bathrooms. It's hard to look at. There's some potential.

If it's a wreck, why not renovate? Are we gays prone to leaving the good ones aside for freshly done?

I like it. But 3000sqft is too much of a house for me.

It looks remote, r4.

I am a city guy. I need people around me.

I get it , but man, So limiting. Do you not go on vacations where you aren't cheek by jowl? I don't really understand, I guess, R8.

I'll chime in with this gem. I like it, but I'm sure most won't. I like the idea of Cocoa Beach. I like the crowds, the space history. Astronaut's wives would stay in beach houses while in town for launches. This is exactly what I imagined an astronaut's wive's beach house would look like. I hope it doesn't get torn down.

That is not a Craftsman style. Fail.

I would hate to have neighbors so close to me, R10.

Ve like the lions, da?! LIONS!

Lots and lots and lots of LIONS…

r9, I hat vacations. Sometimes I have weekends where I do not turn off the alarm.

I love staying home. I live a suburban lifestyle. Lots of land and house too big do not interest me.

R11, you are obviously unaware of a true English Craftsman. It is not a Craftsman bungalow typical of US building. Go back to school, you troglodyte. The apartment is quite something.Hope it survives.

Sorry, R13. It's tastefulish i don't have much to yell at.

Years ago I had new neighbors move in down the street and they added two large stone lions to the front porch, almost life sized. Their porch has slowly collapsed under the weight of these statues. It really compliments their Escalade.

here's a tasteful find: https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/20261860/1-bedroom-condo-3405-1077-w-cordova-street-vancouver xoxo

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OP, I love your find! Lovely old house, with hardwoods and fireplaces in the bedrooms, and shit-tons of shelving and storage space. If I needed a huge old house in the woods, I'd have a look!

The one drawback of the place seems to be that the driveway includes a bridge over a lovely babbling brook. Where I live, that'd mean a risk of spring flooding and a possibility of being cut off from everything until the water goes down, or someone builds a new bridge.

Love the house .. to visit.

R15, if anything it's Arts and Craft- there is no English Craftsman you fucking retard.. .

Fifth Avenue maisonette formerly owned by Sister Parish and Patricia Altschul

Cocoa Beach, hell no. In fact, hell nowhere town.

Poverty Hollow Rd : the name is not acceptable and would have to be changed. Also, I am not interested in rooms under the eaves with slanty ceilings to bang my head on. Gays in a place like this would be the target for local yahoos late at night, esp fridays and saturdays when the bars close so better have good security (including guns). The waterfall would be attractive, save for the flooding every couple of years. The shack thing in the yard would have to be rebuilt, as would much of the house. The current heating arrangements look haphazard and expensive to run. Pass.

The CT house looks extremely cold. Has it been insulated - walls, floors, ceilings? New windows? Are any of the fireplaces safe and also easy to seal from drafts? Coco beach house is ugly but seems functional - but storms? The maisonette - I could have death with the mirrored ceilings as a young man but now nowadays. They are well done though.

The mirrored ceilings are pure vandalism in a wood-paneled room like that. Who is that elder gay with her turquoise Kafhtan, beads and teatime-martini? She certainly sets the tone. The real killer is that this place is featured in the NYP, under a feature called "gimme shelter" - vulgar, vulgar, vulgar.

It's a beautiful old home, but it looks like it requires heavy duty maintenance to keep it so. But that street name is ridiculous. I can't believe the people who live on it haven't petitioned to have the name changed. I'm sure there are plenty of people who would forego buying a house simply because they didn't want people to know they lived on "Poverty Hollow Rd.".

Poverty Hollow Road is almost as bad as Jackass Lane.

Maybe the Road name keeps taxes down.

Do we really want to create a monster real estate thread? What was wrong with the individual threads?

Mixing all these properties together is going to create a clusterfuck of rare proportions.

Agreed, R31.

"You asked for interior design? You got it -- in spades!

Ditto, R31. No one else thinks it’s a good idea either, that’s why OP is having to do the heavy lifting and post over and over to keep the thread alive.

Thread dead.

Original OP house= "Storybook Style".

How's Grindr in that area? How much room for caftan storage

CT really has some stunning old houses. And for the Northeast, not crazy prices. Needs fixing but I love it as a weekend house. The road name is horrible - but adds kitsch appeal.

Ridgefield CT is just over the border from Waccabuc, NY, where we spent many happy childhood summer vacatia days.

[quote] It really compliments their Escalade.

Your porch can talk? And it's into cars?

R37 There's no signal there - it's the boondocks. The smokehouse (shack) in the yard should be big enough even for your large collection of outsize caftans!

How presumptuous of you, OP. Discussing multiple homes in a single thread is bound to be a confusing mess. This shall not be the place for all our tasteful (and questionable) finds.

Fail.

The Tasteful Friends threads are wonderful because (for better or for worse) each find gets its own brief moment in the sun before slipping down the page and disappearing forever.

Please, let's not change that.

OP that house is hideous inside and out.

You expect one to live on something called Poverty Hollow Road? I think not.

The house looks great. The apartment loooks like a money pit.

I know someone who lives in the Hudson Valley near Rhinebeck on Webster Coon Rd. I asked how could he live on a street with that name?

I had thought similar to R2. A house to be murdered in.

OP, for that money I could get a 200 sq ft. 10th floor walk-up in New York.

OP house has electric baseboard heat for starters, which means no ductwork so installing an updated HVAC system would be prohibitively expensive and involve major renovation work, tearing up the walls and floors etc. And l can’t imagine what the electric bills are like to heat that big old place as is. Electric baseboard heat is basically using space heaters to heat every room - insanely expensive.

Then there’s all that wood siding which looks like it needs painting or staining right off the bat.

And that’s just for starters. The place is a nightmare money pit.

How come Ruth Madoff is only living off of $1.9M in Connecticut? I thought she was living off of $2.5M in Connecticut.