TASTEFUL FRIENDS: A CONNECTICUT HILLTOP HOME

Hate the terrazzo floors, hate the institutional-looking staircase. Hard pass.

Yeah, not at all enticing.

Yikes.

That house has "home invasion with family held hostage for days" written all over it.

Hideous McMansion with appalling décor (1970s floral print carpeting on the stairs, pieces of furniture from every period haphazardly displayed next to each other, enough minimalist monochromatic settings to make Barbra Streisand have an orgasm), that stands right next to what looks like a light aircraft runway.

No. Just no. And besides OP, isn't it wasteful to be forced to live in a place where you have to fly to get to a major city? I can only imagine how expensive keeping a small aircraft must be.

Very unattractive. Neither the interior nor the exterior is appealing.

Bristol is not the place to live.

how do people afford these crazy property taxes? (I’m poor)

The house can't decide what decade it's in or wants to be in. The exterior isn't ugly--most McMansions are.

Hideous from every angle

Bulldoze. Land value.

It looks like an abandoned hotel from 1987.

[quote]a hanger for your plane

Oh, dear.

The framed portraits are making a valiant attempt to look all "Connecticut" but can't stand a chance against the pasteboard "modern" architecture. I guess if you need a private airstrip you take what you can get, paisley wallpaper and all.

Yeah, boring.

What do you like about his, OP?

Why wouldn’t you have a wild yard? The buzzcut kills it.

Hideously dated. I absolutely detest homes built in that period (I don't like the fashion either). I'm surprised it doesn't have an octagonal window, and forest green and peach faux finishes. I saw it all over the place as a kid. The property is nice, though.

$3 million to live in Bristol? Fucking BRISTOL? That's hilarious.

Bristol is a rough around the edges town, very blue collar.

Hey, R17, at least it's not Torrington!

Torrington is downright scary!

Looks like a conference center.

And Bristol? Yuck.

Hated it!

Yuck too

I remember it as very Italian. Camaros and Trans Ams everywhere. Always black. That was 70s-80s.

Ha! Yeah. I'm sure it hasn't changed in what? 40 or 50 years? Oops, sometimes we boomers get lost. Edibles

r23 the demographics have changed somewhat but it's still a rough blue collar town. I don't live too far from Bristol and go through there occasionally.

Is this where WINGS was filmed?

Come on, Bristol isn't that bad. It's better than New Britain.

Hard Hittin' New Britain!

JFC what a horror. On the bright side, the April 2 post from McMansion Hell could have been written just for this, without amendments.

r28 that house is unbelievably hideous, and the captions to the photos are hilarious.

Bad architecture inside and outside.

This is what happens when you let a builder act as your architect (and pay some architect a few thousand to sign off on the drawings and specs.). Even Sotheby's description says it all "custom designed" where if the architect had the least reputation, his name would have been in the listing description.

There's no evidence of any knowledge of architecture or architectural problem solving, this was just some guy who had a long wish list and everything he realized he'd forgotten about the swimming pool or the double-height space he just drew lines off in a new direction and made a new wing.

The fenestration is pitiful, and yet the Pella window guy probably made more money than anyone. Ugly, stock windows massed to no particular advantage, trying to be focal points that define one amorphous space from another. Was it built as a Sofa Warehouse showroom? If not, there's no excuse for that level of mundane and bad design everywhere.

And that fucking landing strip bisecting the property, the pride of place of the whole mess.

Great home for my pilot. But I'm not living there.