Tasteful Friends: Sad Country House Bargain Edition

Down to $369,900 and still available... can it really still be furnished like this?

Polly Bergen DIED?

It’s pretty. As a single person I’d never want a house that size, though - I like to hear where others are in the building or I get nervous.

I think someone has already posted this before. That house seems very familiar

I was wondering if this was still for sale. What a bargain! Also did 7 Essex Lane ever sell in Woodbury? Remember we were all thinking it was a scam???

Fill that tchotchke room with books instead then strip out all furniture and start over - could be wonderful. Price is bargain. Does look a little Amityville Horrorish on outside.

Nice house, with some pleasant rooms and reasonably good proportions, and good, period details.

Difficult to say much more for the obvious reasons. The house was "decorated" more than restored, but that has the advantage of the house not having been iverrrdtored in so done else's personal taste. There are some later changes that would be easily undone - the later glazed double doors to the two front rooms on the main level should be replaced by solid wood paneled doors and the openings narrowed. The kitchen looks Abit of a New England Colonial Kitchen mess, as many are, but that's something most newiwners want to change to their own taste anyway. The yellow room (the least overfurnished room) gives a good idea of what the four main rooms in the core of the house might look like; and one of the fireplaces is early and quite nice.

The carriage house is crazy and doesn't fit, yet it's oddly appealing just because it's so curiously out of place. I don't know the area but the house seems to have a nice degree of privacy while not being far removed from a couple small towns. The price is appealing and there is scope to make some nice, manageable improvements without having to have the whole place a construction site for a long time.

This was the probable DLer/owner who died almost four years ago at age 59.

Little did he know he'd join his neighbor in the afterlife just a year later.

Or was a serial killer stalking their neighborhood?

There is a hilarious chapter in Augusten Burroughs’ book Toil & Trouble on Jeffrey - pages 211-231. Nails the house perfectly. There is a YouTube channel as well

He named his dog Thadeus??? Poor dog.

What is all that stuff on those shelves?? So much...stuff. EVERYWHERE.

What happened to old Thaddeus. The house just seems kindof fussy, with too much wallpaper. Not a particularly wealthy town, probably the wrong house for the locations.

[quote]R8 This was the probable DLer/owner who died almost four years ago at age 59.

R5 That 7 Essex Lane house sold this past January. When did that guy post about it, does anyone remember?

There really is a YouTube channel.

Damn that chintz queen had tacky taste. Hideous wallpaper and furnishings.

It's fabulous, I love it. I would dump that those Christmas village houses on the book shelves first thing.

He must've had a full-time staff person just to dust all that shit.

[quote]He must've had a full-time staff person just to dust all that shit.

He probably had someone come in for a few hours one day a week - so he could complain, laughingly, about how little work she does and how much of his liquor she drank.

I have a feeling that the the encrustation if dust became too obvious, he just piled more more shit on top of what was already there. The total value of the stuff in that house is less the cost of hauling it away.

More cowbell!

Love the interior, its a bit stark on the outside for my liking. Particularly like the dining room with the dark patterned wallpaper and chandelier. Maybe the outside would look better with the gardens done

That house at R17 is the other way round, looks fantastic outside, the interior is pretty nondescript

Owner was very hot, especially in the clip at R10 and pic at R14. Wonder why he died so young?

THAT room, R12, would be wonderful as a library.

Speaking as someone considering buying a bookshelf with some of my Mnuchin money, it's a dirty shame to fill that library with whatever that shit is.

R17 5/14/2019

I would definitely take the listing in Southbury over 7 Essex

I like the decorative cinder block in the front yard.

All of the rooms have potential, but it's hard to imagine due to all the clutter and frau-tastic decorating (wallpaper, window "treatments").

The kitchen is where I can see the most potential, could be because it's less cluttered than the other rooms. I also just like yellow kitchens (pale yellow, not like this, though).

It’s a definitive collection of Dept. 56 you boors.

R30 - "if you go to your local market and buy a pound of butter that will be the perfect shade of yellow"

I can’t believe you guys found the Toil & Trouble house and guy! I love DL. Where is the room with all the crap in it? Maybe they cleaned it up. Not quite as over the top as Augusten Burroughs made it out to be - nor is he. But I get where he got the idea from.

The main road is a deal killer. Why are there no pictures of the round silo part of the house?

R34: The silo is part of the garage which (if I recall) is.mentioned as unfinished space suitable for development for a range of potential uses (or some such realtorspeak.)

R33 Yeah it’s right on that road. Really no front yard at all. Definite deal breaker.

That silo must have had an original purpose. There are better architectural shapes for storage than a silo. Anybody have any ideas on what the hell its original purpose was?

R36: It was built in recent years together with the garage; it's primary purpose was a bit if ornamental architecture, a focal point. I don't think it was ever put to any more use that that, to judge by the text (see R34).

Thanks, R37.

I guess that 7 Essex Lane guy was lying since he posted he bought it last April but it didn’t sell until January.

WTF with those tiny chairs in the foyer?