Which one of you tastefully pretentious bitches of a certain age put their weekend house on the market? Part Trois

What do the tasteful friends think of Liv Tyler’s house? I honestly think it is one hundred percent perfect. It’s gorgeous and not generic.

Go back to your own damned Tasteful Friends thread, Adolf r1.

Thank you, R2. Be a proper cunt at R1 as DL dictates or don't take on the job!

Ok, the logs are confusing. I don’t get it.

We have a certified Litchfield County-obsessive Tasteful Friend in our midst who must be scouring Zillow non stop.

Other than the driveway and the view of the landscape, there is not one thing I like about this house. Its appearance from the exterior is ok, minus the landscaping, but the inside is to cluttered and confusing. Who needs so much furniture?

I love it - it definitely needs to be edited a tad but they've got very good taste

"Every inch of wall space MUST have a picture, painting or other form of substantial art or somebody DIES!"

Where's the front door? In the addition? I don't like that, for sure.

I was thinking of selling my place. I've known it for a long time, but the real estate agent suggested I declutter, and declutter I did. I gave away or simply trashed lots and lots of "stuff," inside, outside, the garage, the basement.

I'm was so impressed with my decluttering I decided against listing the house for sale. And the place is much easier to clean with the place now in its museum like state.

Hoarders.

It is way too cluttered and the yard is fussy. It looks like mincing prisspot hoarders live here. They must spend the warmer months sitting on the patio ordering the Central American landscapers around, because that is a lot of shrubbery to prune.

One should switch between first person and third person in a single sentence if one hopes to be taken seriously.

Love this room but, yes, cluttered.

This room is horrid, though. Even with a large window and skylight, dark and dismal.

They sure love their venison, don’t they. Hope it was well hung. Of the rest it’s a try at English ? chic. Just far too try hard. Sniff.

That is some grade-A priss.

What's on the top shelf of the parfum display? L'Air du Temps? Very prissy-looking. I'm sure all those perfumes are fresh and usable.

Logs in bathtub: because nobody would use that bathtub, anyway. Adds to cluttered look, though.

That "bathroom" ^^ is completely hideous.

I like the house and the garden. The decor is too cluttered and I don't like any of it except for the framed crab shells. Orthodox icons in one of the bedrooms? Odd.

This is my favorite current over the top country house for sale devised by men with funny ideas.

It’s crazy and beautiful at the same time. The setting on the river is sensational and high enough to never flood.

I think that there is a real success in melding humorousness in a Dr.Seuss way with real architecture. It would be fun simplifying and organizing it.

That one is awful, too.

I like the ceilings & stone work in R21's post; that house has too much crap too, but if you cleaned it out or at least organized it,that house would be absolutely gorgeous.

R21, what IS it with you people? Bad form to interject another house/topic in a Tasteful Friends thread, you gutter spunk. Between you and R1, I'm gonna murderize both of ya. And that house is a DISASTER. A dormer should never overtake a fucking house. Our posting abilities must be way down. The last two of these threads were over a 100 fairly quickly.

I’m not only R21, I’m Snazzy OP. And you’re just a random OP.

Keep posting those mediocrities from CT you hope will sell. But I’m not a drunk broke real estate agent on a Tuesday night desperate to pay next month’s mortgage.

The house I posted is exactly as I described it, and full of possibilities. Yours is the same clapboard sided and shittily wallpapered box that every CT. Tasteful Friends post has been for the past year..

So don’t go blaming me for killing the latest of the ‘Connecticut Gay Realtor Association’ threads. If anything I’ll get your shabby listings more hits.

Now reconsider your comments, apologize, and say Thank You.

Oh,I suspect if I were wealthy with a huge house I might very well cram that much into it as well. Ive got a 3/2 house and every inch is pretty full. I love to discover treasures,but so far I can let go easily enough.

Christ on an everloving crutch. Snazzy my dear. Which axe are you grinding and why? I have been here for close to 20 years. That's legacy around here, and don't fuck with me so quickly. Do not come at me with ill-considered bullshit, because it will be stuffed right back up your ass. I show houses I like because I think they are interesting. Your choice has merit, but the owners ruined it. Why are we fighting again? Please lay out a map because I am not following, you dimwitted slug. I don't care to spar with fools

Hey jackass—don’t put multiple houses in a single Tasteful Friends thread. It get’s confusing.

There's an exterior window on the inside of the kitchen!

What fresh hell??!!

The windows are to die for, but someone needs to putty knife all that wallpaper fuckerie away.

Gawd, OP. The house has nice bones, but I need 100 dumpsters to get rid of all that CRAP! It's exhausting to look at!

R28 is very easily confused.

What are those little white things that are framed everywhere? And those brass palm trees!

Excellent taste!

Cluttered. It feels oppressive. Paint everything cream!

Now wait a minute, which house are we talking about and which OP is mad at who? I'm so confused

I was at a dinner party and seated next to a "society decorator." After she got a few drinks in her she started in how tiresome it is when people "run pictures up the wall!'

LOL.

Apparently, black is the new magnolia...

Gut it. Paint it all white. Start again. Oak floor boards, white-washed walls, sisal rugs, linen sofas, rattan décor, long wooden trestle table and bentwood and rattan chairs, black and white framed pictures on the wall, library with built in bookcases, large wicker basket full of firewood. wrought iron four poster hung with tulle, white waffle European cushions, blanket box, wood plantation shutters

I like the barn but we can't see inside it. Only an old gay man would live in that house. Perhaps a DLounger? There's some nice pieces in that house but too many of them. Individually they're quite stunning but all together they're a cluttered mess that detracts from the individual beauty of each piece. Can anyone tell me what the little white things are in the frame?

R39, no shiplap, hun?

R40. Those little white things are Grand Tour Intaglios.

The owner of the house is Joseph Cicio who is apparently famous and has known lots of famous people and who writes about them and the house here.

Every room painted white requires a huge clock.

Wow only $1.9MM? Way too fussy to care for, but lovely property. There are other parts of CT thiugh besides litchfield county

The other reason is that he wanted to share stories about his fabulous friends that reveal a side of them not always seen: The generosity of Joan Rivers, who surprised him one afternoon with a set of too-expensive iron branches that now adorn his garden gate. (“The best gifts are when you’re not expecting them,” he says.) Or Lauren Bacall — “not as tough as she appeared on screen” — gifting him a silver lace cigarette box from an old admirer. Or Audrey Hepburn — who was exactly the same sweet soul off-screen as she was on — and her gift to his son of a UNICEF rag doll.

If you've seen the way Bacall decorated her Dakota apartment or how Joan Rivers' had her country home, it's the same hodge-podge cluttered mess of antiques and miss-matched old crap as this guys home.

The dual tall trees and plants, ugh.

Bacall's "decorating" was really borderline "ramshackle". The place was a mess.

R21, Thank you! I've driven past that house innumerable times on my way to New Hope/Lambertville, so now I know what it all looks like! Clearly the owner is quite fond of the local antiques scene!

Obviously I would change all the decor, but I love the house and the grounds. Gorgeous.

The house is a bit old money looking but the inside is very nouveau riche. I was a little shocked. I’d take it though. Ha!

The house is truly very lovely but the owners are clearly idiots for listing it with their gauche and horrendous decor on full display. It just keeps getting uglier and uglier as it goes on. Truly nightmarish

I actually gasped at the kitchen. A really big gay gasp

Very clearly a stuffy gay man's house - I can't put my finger one it, but I know it when I see it.

I'd say he's in his 70's or 80's.

And I just looked him up - Joseph Cicio, interior designer, 76 years old. Nailed it!

From an article about the owner:

“I remember what my mentor Cici Blum Kempner once told me,” says Cicio..."

Cici Blum Kempner - not to be confused with CC Bloom from Beaches.

I prefer Liv’s West Village townhouse @R1.

Fucking awesome house OP, I love it. Only thing I might change is the room painted in black, I'd change that out for lighter colours and a nice floral patterned wallpaper or something. And clear the logs outta the bathtub, never know when a guest might want to use it

The place Snazzy posted at R21 is real nice too

Liv's joint at R1 is nice too but doesnt have the same "grab me by the balls and scream buy me motherfucker" that OP's house or R21 do

The place is fine, nothing that a good garage/tag sale couldn't fix.

All I can think of is what a fucking dust collector the whole place is. It looks like a place where you’d find a bowl of boiled sweets covered in ants, stuck, like in amber. The gardens are to die for though. I can see myself walking through those sipping a dry, Provence-style rosé whilst gossiping with friends.

Well they sure do love their bric-a-brac!. Bob, come see this! Don’t they just love the bric-a-brac!?

I love LOVE the satin red caftan draped over the meemaw chair in the master bedroom. Miss Thing the owner must’ve worked the polish off her manicure staging things just so for this very important photo shoot where her life’s work in interior decorating would be on display for all to see!

I adore it OP. Everything about it. Why is everyone complaining about the clutter? Yes it looks like grandma's attic. So what? You don't buy a house with any consideration for the seller's furnishings. You need to be able to imagine all that crap gone so you can appreciate what a truly amazing house it is. It's perfect.

The old queen tried to sell downtown Warren, CT on eBay 14 years ago:

"Warren is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 1,461 at the 2010 census, up from 1,254 at the 2000 census. The town was named for Revolutionary War General Joseph Warren. On July 1, 2006, businessman Joseph Cicio placed most of Warren's commercial district on eBay for $5,000,000."

That's de-cluttering.

Too much of everything. Bric and brac and books and dead crabs in a frame. The house itself is lovely. But I'd get rid of everything inside and start over. Feels maudlin.

This is the same aesthetic my aunt had - it's very late 80's 'chic'. A lot of thrift store finds in there as well.

It holds up as being relatively classic and upscale - but it is dated, without a doubt.