Tasteful Friends: I've found my new home

I love the 3 floors. You could have three different design schemes. But cooking in that hot, shadeless house for 9 mos. a year, your A/C would never turn off.

I like the arches.

I like blue.

I went to Charleston once. Beautiful place, but all those lovely old buildings had been made by slave labor and it started to give me the creeps after a while.

I wouldn't live in an old house there for anything.

The walls are thick. Perhaps it's cool. This can be my office and art studio.

The garden is so narrow. Otherwise lovely place

Start your go fund me, OP.

Too antique-looking for me. I’m more of a modern taste.

And a galley kitchen in a house of that size?!

$3.65 million and you have to park the carriages on what appears to be a fairly busy street?

R4, I'm reading a mystery set there and got intrigued by the description of a house and googled for fun. I've visited Charleston, too. It is very beautiful, and also as noted, very arm and humid.The brutal history of the place is all too present. Perhaps you are right, the house wasn built by slaves, they did help build much of the city, and according to the attached article, much of Colonial America. If I were wealthy enough to live in such a home possibly built by slaves I'd have to do something to honor the builders. Perhaps put up a plaque and donating to local black colleges. If I'm going to dream, I might as well be generous with my imaginary riches.

R7, good idea, not sure anyone would donate though.

I believe that if you want something badly enough, the whole world conspires with you to achieve it.

No parking? No pool? No thanks.

R9, it's on the bay, separated by a park. There will be traffic. Have you been to Marina Blvd in San Francisco? Similar set up. Multi-million dollar homes on a very busy street edging the bay. I'd still live there if I could. But I'd have to have a cabin in the woods near a river, too.

It's magnificent in many ways. Stunning. The proportions are fantastic. The interior details are in perfect condition. If I had enough dough, I could see myself buying a place like this to enjoy perhaps one quarter of the year.

OK, I'm convinced. I need a place with a pool.. This one fits my budget. Not built by slaves.

Loverly

No thanks. Cramped rooms, no proper dining room, some fine features but all you'd do is sweat and sit trapped between the two buildings on either side with the noise from them.

As for R4, that's a good point, but for me it's more of a reason not to live in South Carolina altogether, rather than avoiding specific buildings.

At least not until it votes for a Democrat for president. The same with all the slave states. I'm not quite so pure, since I was born in one and live in one but do have a postbellum house from Reconstruction. However, that means it comes from a time when no African American was allowed in the neighborhood, much less used as skilled labor in construction. Should I have skipped buying it, I wonder, based on R4's scruples?

Reminds me of that Irish manor house from several weeks ago - exquisite, but seems like you are more or less restricted to using highly specific and costly furniture.

R15 It's not even June, and it's already 109 degrees there today.

And did you notice? The listing says, "Air Conditioning and hot water are provided by a central system maintained by the HOA."

Is that why the monthly HOA fee is nearly $750?

I'd probably go for the one a few blocks over. The street isn't busy, and there's plenty of garage space off the alley. Plus, it has a pool, a guest house, and even an elevator for sexcapades. Yeah, it's three million more.

R20, it's fabulous! Egad.

I prefer Savannah.

It looks like a funeral home.

And coming soon the indoor swimming pool. Formerly known as the cellar.

R23 The urns on the mantle don't help.

does it ever snow in SC? or is it tropical year round?

In Charleston an earthquake is probably more likely than snow.

" Should I have skipped buying it, I wonder, based on [R4]'s scruples? "

R4 here, and I didn't mean to state or imply that living in a house built by slaves is in any way unethical. All the slaves are dead, all the slave owners are dead, and anyone who remembers Jim Crow is old now, and the house itself didn't do anything wrong.

It's just that I had a strong emotional reaction to Old Charleston, such a strong reaction that I know I could never relax and be happy in a place with such a horrific past. Plus, the fact that the place is so formal would constantly recall the Bad Old Days to my mind, I would be miserable there. It's like murder houses - some people don't see any problem living in a place where a horrible murder happened years ago, some are repelled by the very thought.

OP, Absolutely beautiful home and tastefully decorated.

I love Charleston. That said...two words and a conjunction...

Hurricanes and Flooding

R20, beautiful house.

It's interesting the turn this thread has taken. Let's not forget we're living on lands our ancestors stole from the natives after displacing and slaughtering them. The long arc of human history is filled with atrocity. Some of us try to avoid behaving that way, others keep it going.

That said, no one should live anywhere that doesn't appeal to them for any reason. I would not like to live in a house where a murder happened.

The fabrics and color schemes all seem to be off.

Looks piss elegant and I hate that!

Yes, this is beautiful, but as R9 and R12 point out, no parking at all. And no pool, I'd want that in a hot humid climate. And the area looks to be prone to flooding

I'd love this place in a different location, the interior is near perfect and its not outrageously huge either

OP, you could name it, “Dueling Palms.”

R27 reminds me of my visit to Savanah when they had snow and thick ice. We went to some of the historic homes and took pictures of each other on their front steps. Then we got lost and drove through the ghetto at 10 pm. These poor people had no window panes, just openings in the walls of their shacks. I was driving my Dad’s Monarch, too!

Slaves built the White House and Capital. And the Republic. They had help, though.