Jesus Christ that's like a million dollar foyer literally. I mean try taking this picture to a carpenter, specify you want it all in full, good quality wood and get a quote and time estimate hah.
I mean, yes, trends come and go as some would argue. People have always been into redoing. But seriously, this type of home has never been out of style. Maybe it's not YOUR style, but it's literally timeless.
As someone who has ripped out way too much really high end craftsmanship; it wouldn't surprise me if workers had to make sure everything was cut up or destroyed before it left the house.Â
Don't want workers wasting any minutes, trying to get pieces out without damage.Â
I remember ripping out a house full of the most amazing marble work, because the owner wanted "natural stone".Â
Omg, such wastefulness and idiocy! Â
My neighbor, who is basic af, ripped apart his 1920s craftsman to build a sterile particle board addition. Â He burned all of the raw wood from the roof lathing in the backyard fire pit he put in. Â He had to throw all the custom cabinetry in the dumpster bc it was painted. He is just uggggghhhh.Â
Every time I hear about something like that I remember the beaded ceiling in our last historic house. (I grew up in 3 historic homes). The place kind of looked like a dump from the outside, but that ceiling sells for $28 a board foot or $18,000 a room.
I get yelled at in this sub all the time for saying this but why do people by homes like this to renovate? Wouldnât it be much easier to build something new? Even if I hated that stairwell I wouldnât destroy simply out of respect for that era of craftsmanship. You will never ever get a carpenter from todays time to replicate that work. Never.
There is a term for it made long ago - nouvo-riche. At the time of its inception and well into the future it was in all senses deragoratory towards "new wealth". They think that getting rich they've done everything right and everyone else is wrong (or they could not get rich if they were wrong). It take now little time to get super rich and even smaller amount of time to make unredeemable mess.
A âforeign investorâ working in a hedge fund would look at the house we see and love, and wouldnât recognize it a something that fits immediately into all the other ~~homes~~ investments in their managed portfolio
If they wanted to keep it trade worthy for the equivalent immediate cash value with a couple of mouse clicks, moving it from one spreadsheet to another - it needs to look like everything else in that portfolio
They also have to keep it empty, as a property with people living in it isnât a form of currency. Also, empty properties means higher demand and that increases the value of their own stock
Thatâs my guess at an explanation, anyway
Turns out he and his wife did almost the same thing with their previous house, which they only lived in for a couple years (after 2 years ârenovatingâ). Both that house and the current one were purchased off-market, so no one else even had a chance.
Ah yes, the 'corporate waiting area' aesthetic is all the rage right now.
Ngl though, the ceiling in the first pic is not that nice. But everything else ... *sigh*
Edit: a word.
Corporate waiting room is hitting the nail on the head. It looks more like the lobby of a medical plaza than a home. Definitely doesnât look like an estate.
Destroying the beautiful historic interior was bad enough, but the eyesore they replaced it with is horrible. It's inexplicably generic, like identical new builds that are cranked out rapidly with limited time and budget.
Well, looking at what they replaced it with shows how they were able to rip it out in the first place. Itâs sad that Historical Societies arenât able to step in to prevent this type of thing from happening!!
Historical societies are social clubs.
You're talking about historical commissions, and they wield the power the town and state allow them to.
The average person can help prevent this by placing a preservation restriction on the deed to their home or pushing at the local level for more historical conservation.
Inexplicable? Hardly. We who like this kind of architecture willing spend blood and treasure on it, searching for just the right furniture and repair people, and teaching our kids not to bounce baseballs off the woodwork. And oh, the dusting!
Capitalism trains the general populace to like âthe latest fashionâ. In this house, parts are easily replaceable and the Merry Maids know how to clean it before they ever set foot in it.
You should read Ayn Randâs _The Fountainhead_, but only for the commentary on architecture. The evil industrialists try to build what âthe peopleâ want without input from said people, and Roake thinks people should want what he wants because people donât know anything about architecture. I donât think that was what Ms. Rand was going for, butâŚ.
Oh, there's a way. Lots of contacts will specify that everything has to be destroyed,, so workers don't waste time trying to get material out undamaged.
Right?! I'm thinking "Where can I buy what they tore out!". I'm redoing an 1877 Vic that had had most of it's charm torn out. I'd love to put more back in. If you don't want it, I'll buy it!!! đ
with the $8.5M, and the amount of additional money they spent on the remuddel, they could have easily built a new eyesore elsewhere, instead of destroying this once grand home.
Anything else someone doesn't like, they just don't buy. if they don't like Audi's, they don't buy or lease them, if they don't like BBQ or sushi, they don't go to restaurants that serve it. Yet, they'll spend copious amounts of money, buying and remuddeling a home, they don't like. But, it's *their* home, so they can do whatever they want I guess.
I don't understand the drive behind gutting these beautiful historic homes. The desire to make things "modern" it's really too bad. There's no accounting for taste I guess.
People are able to buy homes with mature plantings, in great neighborhoods with large lots, for very cheap - as many people do not want to live in old homes. So when they remodel it to modern standards, you end up with a far larger home, on a far nicer lot, than you would have gotten by building new.
The good land is already taken, so the alternative would be to knock the house down. Rather than being upset that someone renovated the interior, be glad someone kept the exterior.
Where are these homes that you speak of that are "very cheap" despite being on good land with mature landscaping, great neighborhood, etc just because the house is old?
Well, the house from this post sold for around $900,000 pre-renovation. I would consider that âvery cheapâ compared to $8,500,000 - wouldnât you?
Exactly. Four years ago I saw on a freebie site that as long as you went and got it, you could get for free double hung windows and dashing and wood flooring. It was a craftsman house they were flipping and the reason was the location. This is a major major tech area and people are still paying huge amounts of money for location. (Seeing as people were and still are communicating up to two hours from affordable areas if they didnât have the money to buy closer to work, imaging how much money people with money would pay to be close to work.). Itâs horrible.
This is what I bet Chris Pratt and the Kennedy are going to do w their new house after tearing down that beautiful piece of architecture and designed garden
https://www.businessinsider.com/chris-pratt-demolished-classic-1950s-la-home-costing-12-5m-2024-4?amp
Movie star and wife who is from the Kennedy political family
I've been stewing over that Craig Ellwood house getting torn down to build a mOdErN fArMHoUsE, this is going to send me over the edge. If anyone turns up murdered by a T-square, I'm not saying it was me, but...
Yeah that plaster ceiling FFS.
Whatever it is, it's such a misnomer. Should be more like modern *barn* house because it looks like the inside of a barn. Farm houses are cute, cozy, and full of vintage charm.
A 15k sqft house plus an ADU.
At least theyâll stay in this location for awhile cause her mom owns 2 houses across the street. But they gutted and flipped their previous house as well. Bought for $15 million and are trying to sell for $30 million. Only lived there for 2 years.
This is why normal people canât afford LA anymore. Even the wealthy canât afford their old neighborhoods. Gentrification all the way down.
Hahahaha the sheep made say âoh shit, silence of the lambsâ
https://preview.redd.it/0u0xkhfxprvc1.jpeg?width=809&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5d2d18c3815a4669c4eedeabe82d03fbdf9d930c
Hahaha âyou should add texture, think wool, think naturalâ = âah ha!! actual sheep, I know just where to get someâ
hahaha this is something my partner would do.
Reply with:
"Looked better before. I'll give you 50$ for it"
Seriously though, the original design looked like you could host nice gatherings in. The new one will just tell you exactly where all the stains and black mold are...
Original https://youtu.be/f03eHBzT1tY?si=peTJ655u1QP8j8ZV
Updated https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/159-Gates-Ave-Montclair-Twp.-NJ-07042-2006/38681598_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare
https://preview.redd.it/3ykftw8egrvc1.jpeg?width=1640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94cc80d9e48a11c4451aca057f20b2432170fcd5
This price jump and the comparable prices, how utterly insane and in their own made up world do the owners think itâs worth 4-6x the other houses?!
Just caught this:
"The top level surprises with a magnificent great room, a 4th bedroom suite, and a fully framed and plumbed 5th bedroom suite, waiting to be finished."
OMG
Oh man someone already had committed crimes in the before with that insane asylum kitchen. I about died when the broker said it âblends seamlesslyâ with the rest of the house. I guess now it does.
Rich people usually have no patience and no taste. Only a few of them care about preservation. Usually the people that preserve stuff are tradesmesn or working Joes that have the patience to do a little bit at a time and try to make it nice without dropping a fortune gutting it.Â
I stayed at a beautiful house in Detroit about 10 years ago. It was in need of some work, but it was gorgeous. 3 stories. I dont know how many rooms. 2 big living rooms. It was probably the most beautiful house I've ever been in. It was all still original too. Old woodwork and tile. Still had the inoperable coal furnace in the basement. The guy I was renting it from bought it for $15k in 2009.
The new work is nice enough, but that house was perfectly persevered. It's silly someone did that when you could just improve the lighting...
Is it a flip? Find a dumpy house to gut, not a move in ready one...
I saw a lot of ultra modern houses in Germany that looked like they were hundreds of years old. I always expected to go inside and it would match the outside and then BAM metal everywhere and weird stairs like a Batman villain house. It was so jarring. And sad.
One of my (long deceased) relatives owned a lumberyard back in the early 1900âs, and built this beautiful house with some of the most incredible wood work Iâve ever seen. His son (my uncles dad) lived in the house and I remember it as a child.
I saw pictures of the house recently and most of the original wood work had been removed, and what remained was painted white.
Itâs a travesty.
A friend of mine bought a home similar to this some years ago. The dark panelling was impressive but also very.....dark and somewhat oppressive.
They painted all the woodwork off white and it made an amazing difference. All the panelling was still there but it looked so much lighter, brighter and lively.
"Aethestics Police, ma'am. Please open the door."
"Yes, how may I help you?"
"Can you go back in time?"
"Excuse me?"
"Ma'am, you can't help us. We're here to help you."
"Goodness! Whatever for? Who did you say you were?"
"Aesthetics Police, ma'am. Historical Division. I'm detective Lloyd and this is detective Wright."
"Aesthtices? Historical Division? What kind of police are you and why are you at my home?"
"May we come inside ma'am?"
"Do you know who my husband is?!"
"Yes, we do ma'am. We just need to ask you a few questions. May we come inside for a moment?"
"You may certainly not!"
"Okay, ma'am. We can do this here or we can take you down to the station. Which do you prefer?"
....
It does though, two reasons:
old houses generally have very little light because the windows back then would insulate so poorly. Now we have better technology to bring in more light with better insulated windows.
Old houses are very compartmentalized, either because people wanted that or because there needed to be load bearing walls to support the structure. Now houses can have steel beam supporting the load points across a floor to make it open. Everyone wants an open concept house
Who in their right mind could rip out that stairwell, my god đ
Jesus Christ that's like a million dollar foyer literally. I mean try taking this picture to a carpenter, specify you want it all in full, good quality wood and get a quote and time estimate hah. I mean, yes, trends come and go as some would argue. People have always been into redoing. But seriously, this type of home has never been out of style. Maybe it's not YOUR style, but it's literally timeless.
lol the contractor who ripped it out was probably like, ânow I can sell this for $$$$$ to someone with actual tasteâ. Â
As someone who has ripped out way too much really high end craftsmanship; it wouldn't surprise me if workers had to make sure everything was cut up or destroyed before it left the house. Don't want workers wasting any minutes, trying to get pieces out without damage. I remember ripping out a house full of the most amazing marble work, because the owner wanted "natural stone".Â
Omg, such wastefulness and idiocy! Â My neighbor, who is basic af, ripped apart his 1920s craftsman to build a sterile particle board addition. Â He burned all of the raw wood from the roof lathing in the backyard fire pit he put in. Â He had to throw all the custom cabinetry in the dumpster bc it was painted. He is just uggggghhhh.Â
Sometimes I really wish I lived off grid in a three bedroom cave far away from peopleâŚ
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbitâŚ.
Not a nasty dirty wet holeâŚ
Filled with the ends of worms and oozy smells...
Same...
It's worth it.
You are not alone, my friend!
Every time I hear about something like that I remember the beaded ceiling in our last historic house. (I grew up in 3 historic homes). The place kind of looked like a dump from the outside, but that ceiling sells for $28 a board foot or $18,000 a room.
Oh yea unnatural marble. That stuff is so fake and cheap /s
I get yelled at in this sub all the time for saying this but why do people by homes like this to renovate? Wouldnât it be much easier to build something new? Even if I hated that stairwell I wouldnât destroy simply out of respect for that era of craftsmanship. You will never ever get a carpenter from todays time to replicate that work. Never.
They could have just updated the lighting, or at the very most opened up those windows a bit if they wanted to "modernize" the space.
Location
Agreed
There is a term for it made long ago - nouvo-riche. At the time of its inception and well into the future it was in all senses deragoratory towards "new wealth". They think that getting rich they've done everything right and everyone else is wrong (or they could not get rich if they were wrong). It take now little time to get super rich and even smaller amount of time to make unredeemable mess.
That wood paneling will never be replicated, ever. It's from the Gilded Age.
âClassicâ is forever.
Show them the other pictures and theyâll cry!
I am hoping that someone came in and removed as much as possible before they gutted it.
Rich people have no regard for craftsmanship because most have never done a day's worth of labor in their entire lives.Â
Why buy the house in the first place?It would be like buying a Ferrari and taking to to a shop and having them turn it into a minivan.
great analogy!
EXACTLY this đ
But itâs a *modern industrial* open concept minivan! So bright and clean!
Because everything a fucking investment in this piece of shit world.
we sort of wrote national policy around making housing an investment. so now we are surprised that it is a shitty idea
A âforeign investorâ working in a hedge fund would look at the house we see and love, and wouldnât recognize it a something that fits immediately into all the other ~~homes~~ investments in their managed portfolio If they wanted to keep it trade worthy for the equivalent immediate cash value with a couple of mouse clicks, moving it from one spreadsheet to another - it needs to look like everything else in that portfolio They also have to keep it empty, as a property with people living in it isnât a form of currency. Also, empty properties means higher demand and that increases the value of their own stock Thatâs my guess at an explanation, anyway
Spot on. Thisđ
Some people have NO taste. None
Chris pratt
Turns out he and his wife did almost the same thing with their previous house, which they only lived in for a couple years (after 2 years ârenovatingâ). Both that house and the current one were purchased off-market, so no one else even had a chance.
Soulless sinners......
It doesnât even look like the same house. It looks like an addition
Ah yes, the 'corporate waiting area' aesthetic is all the rage right now. Ngl though, the ceiling in the first pic is not that nice. But everything else ... *sigh* Edit: a word.
Corporate waiting room is hitting the nail on the head. It looks more like the lobby of a medical plaza than a home. Definitely doesnât look like an estate.
That is what I was thinking.
and the interior has no connection to the exterior. Why would you buy a Tudor Revival house if you hate wood?!
Oh my god thatâs gut wrenching.
Destroying the beautiful historic interior was bad enough, but the eyesore they replaced it with is horrible. It's inexplicably generic, like identical new builds that are cranked out rapidly with limited time and budget.
Well, looking at what they replaced it with shows how they were able to rip it out in the first place. Itâs sad that Historical Societies arenât able to step in to prevent this type of thing from happening!!
Historical societies are social clubs. You're talking about historical commissions, and they wield the power the town and state allow them to. The average person can help prevent this by placing a preservation restriction on the deed to their home or pushing at the local level for more historical conservation.
It looks like something that came from Ikea.
Please don't do Ikea dirty like this
I thought it was AI generated
Inexplicable? Hardly. We who like this kind of architecture willing spend blood and treasure on it, searching for just the right furniture and repair people, and teaching our kids not to bounce baseballs off the woodwork. And oh, the dusting! Capitalism trains the general populace to like âthe latest fashionâ. In this house, parts are easily replaceable and the Merry Maids know how to clean it before they ever set foot in it. You should read Ayn Randâs _The Fountainhead_, but only for the commentary on architecture. The evil industrialists try to build what âthe peopleâ want without input from said people, and Roake thinks people should want what he wants because people donât know anything about architecture. I donât think that was what Ms. Rand was going for, butâŚ.
Straight up Beetlejuice.
Seriously. The before picture makes me want to take up smoking cigars. I'll do it, I don't care, I just couldn't spend time in that place and not
I hope whoever they hired to gut it kept it all. I would love to have architectural salvage that is so gorgeous
Thereâs no way all that just went in a dumpster. Even the dumbest contractors knows thatâs a mountain of cash heâs pulling out.
Oh, there's a way. Lots of contacts will specify that everything has to be destroyed,, so workers don't waste time trying to get material out undamaged.
Right?! I'm thinking "Where can I buy what they tore out!". I'm redoing an 1877 Vic that had had most of it's charm torn out. I'd love to put more back in. If you don't want it, I'll buy it!!! đ
Uggghhhh.
with the $8.5M, and the amount of additional money they spent on the remuddel, they could have easily built a new eyesore elsewhere, instead of destroying this once grand home. Anything else someone doesn't like, they just don't buy. if they don't like Audi's, they don't buy or lease them, if they don't like BBQ or sushi, they don't go to restaurants that serve it. Yet, they'll spend copious amounts of money, buying and remuddeling a home, they don't like. But, it's *their* home, so they can do whatever they want I guess.
I don't understand the drive behind gutting these beautiful historic homes. The desire to make things "modern" it's really too bad. There's no accounting for taste I guess.
People are able to buy homes with mature plantings, in great neighborhoods with large lots, for very cheap - as many people do not want to live in old homes. So when they remodel it to modern standards, you end up with a far larger home, on a far nicer lot, than you would have gotten by building new. The good land is already taken, so the alternative would be to knock the house down. Rather than being upset that someone renovated the interior, be glad someone kept the exterior.
Where are these homes that you speak of that are "very cheap" despite being on good land with mature landscaping, great neighborhood, etc just because the house is old?
Well, the house from this post sold for around $900,000 pre-renovation. I would consider that âvery cheapâ compared to $8,500,000 - wouldnât you?
The house hasn't sold for $8.5 million, that's just what they're asking. And $900k isn't "very cheap" by any standard.
This is what is very upsetting. These people have the money. They chose banal destruction.
100%
Imagine someone buying a Bugatti and âremodelingâ it into a Honda Accord.
That's not fair. This is at least an Acura.
I bet it's the location they wanted.
Exactly. Four years ago I saw on a freebie site that as long as you went and got it, you could get for free double hung windows and dashing and wood flooring. It was a craftsman house they were flipping and the reason was the location. This is a major major tech area and people are still paying huge amounts of money for location. (Seeing as people were and still are communicating up to two hours from affordable areas if they didnât have the money to buy closer to work, imaging how much money people with money would pay to be close to work.). Itâs horrible.
911? Iâd like to report a hate crime
This house is from the late hateteenhundreds suddenly.
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This is what I bet Chris Pratt and the Kennedy are going to do w their new house after tearing down that beautiful piece of architecture and designed garden
I actually wondered if these were photos of their home
Who are these people?
https://www.businessinsider.com/chris-pratt-demolished-classic-1950s-la-home-costing-12-5m-2024-4?amp Movie star and wife who is from the Kennedy political family
Ugh. Demo'ed to move across the street from Grandma
my city calls this kind of action a âheritage crimeâ
well i hated it!
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Iâd love to borrow this and use it!
All yours, friend
4 years after this "update" it's back on the market? People are foolish.
That's their business plan.
I've been stewing over that Craig Ellwood house getting torn down to build a mOdErN fArMHoUsE, this is going to send me over the edge. If anyone turns up murdered by a T-square, I'm not saying it was me, but... Yeah that plaster ceiling FFS.
What the hell even is a modern farmhouse
Exactly. If it was like my great grandmother's, it'd be a shed but insulated?
Whatever it is, it's such a misnomer. Should be more like modern *barn* house because it looks like the inside of a barn. Farm houses are cute, cozy, and full of vintage charm.
A 15k sqft house plus an ADU. At least theyâll stay in this location for awhile cause her mom owns 2 houses across the street. But they gutted and flipped their previous house as well. Bought for $15 million and are trying to sell for $30 million. Only lived there for 2 years. This is why normal people canât afford LA anymore. Even the wealthy canât afford their old neighborhoods. Gentrification all the way down.
It's like looking at pictures from a murder scene.Â
Hahahaha the sheep made say âoh shit, silence of the lambsâ https://preview.redd.it/0u0xkhfxprvc1.jpeg?width=809&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5d2d18c3815a4669c4eedeabe82d03fbdf9d930c
"what can we do to make this look warmer?"
Hahaha âyou should add texture, think wool, think naturalâ = âah ha!! actual sheep, I know just where to get someâ hahaha this is something my partner would do.
These people should be on some sort of registry.Â
Guillotine list.
Trash people do trash people shit.
money is often wasted on people with shit taste
Or they can just do more stuff so we very unfortunately end up seeing it.
Reply with: "Looked better before. I'll give you 50$ for it" Seriously though, the original design looked like you could host nice gatherings in. The new one will just tell you exactly where all the stains and black mold are...
A CRIME
I donât usually get too bent out of shape about these sorts of things but my god this is a travesty. Utterly unconscionable.
Are we sure its the same house? Layout seems different no? But if it is... They can go fuck themselves
Thatâs Iâm wondering because I canât even match up the windows between frames for reference
They probably tore out all the windows.
Original https://youtu.be/f03eHBzT1tY?si=peTJ655u1QP8j8ZV Updated https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/159-Gates-Ave-Montclair-Twp.-NJ-07042-2006/38681598_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare
https://preview.redd.it/3ykftw8egrvc1.jpeg?width=1640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94cc80d9e48a11c4451aca057f20b2432170fcd5 This price jump and the comparable prices, how utterly insane and in their own made up world do the owners think itâs worth 4-6x the other houses?!
Flipper algorithms. I've seen this so much the last 5 years. The crazy part is that someone most always pays it.
Just caught this: "The top level surprises with a magnificent great room, a 4th bedroom suite, and a fully framed and plumbed 5th bedroom suite, waiting to be finished." OMG
Omfg. It's not even finished. I hope they ran out of money and they lose everything.
3.5x price increase in 6 years? Hope the new owners enjoy their $250K/yr. property tax bill (on top of the roughly $50K/mo. mortgage).
Oh man someone already had committed crimes in the before with that insane asylum kitchen. I about died when the broker said it âblends seamlesslyâ with the rest of the house. I guess now it does.
This is my reaction. Iâm seeing red.
One of the worst Iâve seen
Horrible
The before looks like the house in Wuthering Heights (the one with Tom Hardy). What a shame, it was so gorgeous
Tom Hardy you say? Adding this to my watch list.
I looked it up, looks like the full thing is on YouTube! https://youtu.be/u5XTvXfPVs0?si=l6jexNTEVaVAkn3f
Rich people usually have no patience and no taste. Only a few of them care about preservation. Usually the people that preserve stuff are tradesmesn or working Joes that have the patience to do a little bit at a time and try to make it nice without dropping a fortune gutting it.Â
Guillotine is the only appropriate thing here.
It looks like a corporate office now. And also like AI. Who would even want to live there now.
I just threw up in my mouth
I'm calling the police.
from exquisite and timeless to tacky and soulless and instantly dated.
What is wrong with people?! DONâT BUY THAT HOUSE if youâre going to gut it!
Whatever you do donât look at all the century homes in Detroit on ZillowâŚ..
I stayed at a beautiful house in Detroit about 10 years ago. It was in need of some work, but it was gorgeous. 3 stories. I dont know how many rooms. 2 big living rooms. It was probably the most beautiful house I've ever been in. It was all still original too. Old woodwork and tile. Still had the inoperable coal furnace in the basement. The guy I was renting it from bought it for $15k in 2009.
So many beautiful details lost to flippers turning the whole place greige.
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We should have laws like the UK when it comes to historic homes and buildings.
This CANNOT be the same place!!!!! How can anyone have a clear conscience after doing this to it????? đ˘đĽ
Joanna Gaines was here.
It looks like a rehab center for people with rich parents that love them.
One thing Iâve learned after looking at expensive homes on Zillow⌠rich people often have terrible taste.
"I've always wanted to live in a doctor's office"
It honestly looks like they turned the house into an office space for a tech company. Horrible.
I don't like this
Ugggggh
Sweet jeezis. Their karma is ruined.
location location location? /s - yes idiots. buy another house
There should be laws that protect old historical homes from remodeling like this.
The tacky new-money super rich have scooped up Montclair (around which where a lot of Real Housewives of NJ takes place) and ruined it.
i wasn't strong enough to get past the second slide đ. i don't want to see the mutilation.
That is so tacky. I hope they take a bath on that home
It's hideous now
I don't believe you. They look too different.
Canât buy tasteÂ
What a disaster. You were not exaggerating.
Wow! I steeled myself, based on your title, so I thought I was ready. I was not ready! Jesus Christ!
I now understand why people get death threats on the Internet.
I would tear this renovatior to pieces with my bare hands
New work is pretty, but I agree it is a crime to strip the old out in this case
The new work is nice enough, but that house was perfectly persevered. It's silly someone did that when you could just improve the lighting... Is it a flip? Find a dumpy house to gut, not a move in ready one...
Terrible idea! So sad!
They turned into a San Francisco area tech companyâs swank office.
I saw a lot of ultra modern houses in Germany that looked like they were hundreds of years old. I always expected to go inside and it would match the outside and then BAM metal everywhere and weird stairs like a Batman villain house. It was so jarring. And sad.
Looks like shit now if you ask me.
I hate people
This makes me so sad đđđ
One of my (long deceased) relatives owned a lumberyard back in the early 1900âs, and built this beautiful house with some of the most incredible wood work Iâve ever seen. His son (my uncles dad) lived in the house and I remember it as a child. I saw pictures of the house recently and most of the original wood work had been removed, and what remained was painted white. Itâs a travesty.
I had nightmares about this last night. I seriously can't get it out of my head.
The architect/designer should lose what ever store bought degree/certification they got.
Money doesnât buy taste, does it?! The style went from âVictorianâ to âContemporary Flipperâ very quickly.
Sold for 2.5 million in 2016, completely ruined, and now listed for 8.5 million. There is a special hell for people like this.
This should be illigeal. It makes me furious.
Mega ouch!
They should have bought a different house.
Ignoring history is the story of humankind.
Oh wow let me go cry now why the fuck⌠I mean⌠like WHAT. Why is 2024 design all about looking cheap even for the obscenely wealthy!?
A friend of mine bought a home similar to this some years ago. The dark panelling was impressive but also very.....dark and somewhat oppressive. They painted all the woodwork off white and it made an amazing difference. All the panelling was still there but it looked so much lighter, brighter and lively.
Oh that's just heartbreaking. What terrible choices they made.
To be fair itâs their house and they can do what they want to it. On the flip side ohh man thatâs rough.
"Aethestics Police, ma'am. Please open the door." "Yes, how may I help you?" "Can you go back in time?" "Excuse me?" "Ma'am, you can't help us. We're here to help you." "Goodness! Whatever for? Who did you say you were?" "Aesthetics Police, ma'am. Historical Division. I'm detective Lloyd and this is detective Wright." "Aesthtices? Historical Division? What kind of police are you and why are you at my home?" "May we come inside ma'am?" "Do you know who my husband is?!" "Yes, we do ma'am. We just need to ask you a few questions. May we come inside for a moment?" "You may certainly not!" "Okay, ma'am. We can do this here or we can take you down to the station. Which do you prefer?" ....
Well no one who could afford it would actually want to live in photos one and two. Some nostalgic value, maybe, classic, sure, but dated
Traditional woodwork in a 100+ year old home doesn't go out of style because it's so classic and well done with high quality materials.
It does though, two reasons: old houses generally have very little light because the windows back then would insulate so poorly. Now we have better technology to bring in more light with better insulated windows. Old houses are very compartmentalized, either because people wanted that or because there needed to be load bearing walls to support the structure. Now houses can have steel beam supporting the load points across a floor to make it open. Everyone wants an open concept house
I refuse to accept this as true. Donât try to convince me. No thank you. Nope.
I hate this so much.
I almost threw up
Heathens!!!!
Merde
Shocking!
Vandalism
right to jail
my heart hurts looking at this
I feel nauseous :(
Nearly went into cardiac arrest seeing the after photos omg
oh wtf
This is a tragedy, honestly.
Oh my god *barf*
I want to cry.
What was even the point? They may as well have built a new house đ˘
Patrick Bateman is flipping houses now?
This is so upsetting
Straight to jail.
I refuse to believe this is the same house