For sale: a 10,000-square-foot mansion on the Hudson River in Manhattan. Built in 1902, the Gilded Age building has five stories, five bedrooms, seven baths, two kitchens, and a separate full basement apartment. The landmark is named River Mansion. I was excited to see a tour, but then... oh my eyes! The decor is so ugly! Each room seems to be more of an abomination than the previous one. Apparently it was used as an art project, with a couple of dozen modern designers taking on a room each. The architectural details are nice, but the cost of getting these rooms back to a sensible and maybe even somewhat period-accurate look would be considerable. The good news is that the price has dropped from the $24 million this guy mentions to just under $10 million. That's only $63K a month. You could rent out the rooms to a dozen or so desperate New Yorkers and make that back in no time. Or we can wait and watch the price drop again. -via Nag on the Lake
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Yea, the pictures at Zillow are way less funny. Still too modern for me.
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This was the location of the Kips Bay Decorator Show House, that ended at the end of May 2023.It is a fundraiser for the Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club.After the show house ends, the designers remove everything from the rooms and put it back to a neutral state, unless the owner wants the room kept. This video tour had to have been done back in 2023.If you saw the house today, the rooms wouldn't look like that.
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I'm not too impressed with these designer rooms. The top floor "cotton candy" rooms would really have to go. I did see one room that I liked. I don't think I'd want to live in a house with 5 levels. I'd need a walkie talkie on me at all times so I could find my family!
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I have seen worse. Still not my style though.
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