Tasteful Friends, Your Connecticut country home awaits!

Good Heavens.

All that and not even room for a pony.

I do like 50 acres - the Walton house might have to go

It's a little too "big city folks buy a house that they think looks like what a country house should look like" for me.

Wow. If I was young and rich...

The interior is very tastefully done. None of the bathrooms are McMansion. They show restraint and good taste. Just because the house was built in 1799 does not mean that it could not have been totally McMansionsized in the interior. It’s slightly rustic for my taste. But the interior is still lovely and tasteful as is the property.

I think it’s lovely, but of course way too much. One would need quite a staff to keep that up.

R2, have you started day drinking already? It's a hundred acres, and if you think it looks like the Walton house, well...

It’s beautiful. It’s the kind of house I (in the UK) grew up thinking all Americans lived in when they weren’t living in New York! There’s something about it which reminds me of the kind of house you would see in eighties films. And, weirdly, I mean that as a compliment!

It’s beautifully decorated, spacious and is situated on a lovely piece of land. I’ll add it to be to-buy list.

[quote]It’s the kind of house I (in the UK) grew up thinking all Americans lived in when they weren’t living in New York!

If you saw what much of Connecticut looks like it would blow your mind. Let's just say you never see it in the movies or tv shows.

It’s lovely. Though there are a lot of outbuildings that need to be maintained.

I looked at the pics before reading the copy and I thought that's the kind of rich person's house that has a name. Yep, Reverie Farm.

A name for your house is always the hallmark.

The UK people are laughing their heads off at "ancient" fireplaces. I am, too.

R9 is typing from his mother's basement in Waterbury,

No r13 but nice try. I was just making a simple statement, why the hostility?

[quote] Whomever owns the house now

Oh DEAR.

The staging furniture is ridiculous. The property itself would be move-in ready for me.

Warren is back country, not much out there. It's a nice place if you're a homebody.

[quote] A name for your house is always the hallmark.

Mine is “Foggy Bottom”

Former owners include Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ramsey.

A nearby home was once owned by bandleader Ricky Ricardo and his wife whose name escapes me at the moment.

R18 There's a thread idea, if you were filthy rich whst were be the name of your house.

R19 The Ricardos in CT vibe is exactly what I thought.

What would be. Sigh. Please an edit button.

Staging furniture like this doesn't really help -- it takes away from the beauty of the home -- you don't see the perfect proportions of the rooms, the crafted details, etc as easily. Still, at last the stager didn't make it look like something out of Ethan Allen Hell.

What exactly is Ethan Allen Hell?

It's a beautiful house, externally.

The interior is wanting in architecture for my taste. Photos 8, 10, 15, and 21 show some nice New England vernacular architecture: simple, modest in scale, and appealing. But there's no center point to the house, no hierarchy, no sense of progression (all of which is very organic and vernacular), but got $7.4M, I something in the way of architecture, not simply a lot of farmhouse rooms pieced together like the tiles of a crossword puzzle. I've seen many houses of the same period, modest architectural ambition, and similar economic status that grew this way and that but which have a lot of quirky charm and variety. This one not so much.

There seems to be no main stair (at least not in the photos) an no entry hall on the old core of house. It doesn't help that someone topped down some plaster ceilings to expose beams that were meant always to be hidden by plaster (in other rooms, the beams are exposed now as they were originally). The later exposed ceilings look dark and raw, and through the balance of the rooms off.

The furniture (charitably assuming it's staging) is a disaster. Modern furnishings could look fine in the house, if well chosen.

I wish there were more photos presented in better order, and a plan. The later addition to the house is a sophisticated design externally, but I don't see much evidence of that sophistication inside.

It's a fine house and could be much improved by a few modest changes inside. But it's a house for people with loads of weekend guests or kids. A house where it would be fun to be a weekend guest. But for $7.4M, there are endless houses I'd prefer over this one which oddly has so little architecture inside.

All of those outbuildings would just be a huge pain in the ass for me.

[quote]What exactly is Ethan Allen Hell?

The house I grew up in. North Jersey, 1960s. Fauxlonial as fuck to fit out a 1919 Colonial house. I grew up in a room that was mainly brown, beige, and the tiniest bit of olive. I think it contributed to my adolescent depression.

Ethan Allen is nothing like what it used to be. Or what it used to be thought of, at any rate.

Visit a store.

What a dump.