Tasteful friends: I present 1024 Smith Ridge Road

I like it but I don’t have millions of dollars.

Is there any white left for the rest of us?

Tasteless and so very, very, very, VERY white.

Its beautiful...I wouldn't change a thing, although it does seem about a half million to one million over market.

So, so white...

White and bland: truly WASPish, OP.

[quote]I think it's a bargain at 5.75 personally.

Digits?

The foyer (assuming that's a pic of the main foyer) needs a serious overhaul. It's not nearly grand enough for that type of house.

A gravel driveway? How barbaric.

[quote]Tasteless and so very, very, very, VERY white.

Honey, New Canaan, CT is so very, very, very, VERY white.

(and "so restricted!" as my Jewish grandparents used to say)

Too white and much too much. Ugh. No. Why does anyone need this much white+house?

Gloria Upson, Peter's snobby girlfriend in "Mame" was from a "restricted" community in Connecticut called Mountebank. I always thought Mounteback was a stand-in for New Caanan.

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Darien was the town portrayed in Gentleman's Agreement-- VERY WHITE and non -ethnic.

[quote] Honey, New Canaan, CT is so very, very, very, VERY white.(and "so restricted!" as my Jewish grandparents used to say)

Anyone know a real estate agent in New Canaan?

Given the exterior , the interior is a bit of a surprise.

I LOVE the property. The house? It's too large, and far too formal for my taste. It doesn't feel remotely like a home. I'd rather have a four bedroom, four and-a-half bath rustic cottage. Or the Martha's Vineyard farmhouse we recently discussed.

WASP? This isn't 1965 honey. WASPs are lumped in under the "white people" umbrella in the 21st Century.

The interior belongs in Los Angeles, terribly un-WASP.

[quote]Darien was the town portrayed in Gentleman's Agreement-- VERY WHITE and non -ethnic.

That movie was almost 80 fucking years ago.

The house is beautiful. I don't get the white and cream EVERYWHERE. It looks more like Los Angeles than New Canaan. WASPS have never been afraid of having any color in their homes. The champagne colored chaises longues and that hideous sculpture make it look like entertainment people have infiltrated the neighborhood. Ghastly.

New Canaan's Silver Hill Hospital is where all the rich druggies and alkies on the East Coast go for treatment. Joan Kennedy practically has a condo there.

It's so dated, like somebody with money in the 1980's had it redone and it stayed that way. The metal patio furniture is a dead giveaway. Nobody buys that iron/steel outdoor furniture anymore. They buy teak. Beautiful place but no homey, bland and seems sad and dead.

P.S. This isn't WASP. It's very, very East Coast Jewish. I can practically smell the egg salad and matzah from here.

"WASP" hasn't been a thing in two or three generations, but don't tell DLers that. Let them live with their fantasies.

It’s so damn white inside they could use it for a hospital.

So boring. There is hardly anything interesting displayed in that whole pile of bricks.

Did no one notice how WHITE it is inside?

There is an amazing new invention called paint.

It's bad. The ceilings are New England low. The renovations including all the boiserie are truly hideous. Laughable.

I think all of that white paint could drive one to suicide.

Nice house, but they should try some color.

Fat Farm Hollywood Regency.

[quote] "WASPs are lumped in under the "white people" umbrella in the 21st Century."

Haha! I know that very umbrella!

I know where this is! I lived in Norwalk and my dad used to make Sunday beer runs(no beer on Sundays in CT back then) to Vista Market so we went by this house quite a bit.

I’m also a proud Silver Hill alum.

The walk-in closet is bigger than some apartments.

The interior is so boring that I was sure we'd had this home posted before, but I don't believe we have. They call it "Hollywood elegance" in the description but it's just LA McMansion blandness. If the ceilings weren't so low I'd never have believed it was built before 1990.

[quote]no beer on Sundays in CT back then

That was only changed a few years ago. Oh, how people in CT used to bitch about no booze sales on Sundays!

The kitchen is completely impractical.

The stove and oven are one side of the room.

The sink and fridge are on the other.

And there's a giant island between them.

As white as the people who lived in it.

All these comments and no one has pointed out the house is named Bluebell Manor? Fantastic!