Tasteful Friends: A country estate with a private lake, lighted tennis court, and private golf course

Could someone explain the hole in the ceiling of the master bedroom? It looks like it might have a purpose.

Too much... of everything. So I'll only mention two. Too many rooflines. Too much paving up against the house.

Nothing says luxury like living on a lake the same color as baby diarrhea.

The golf course isn’t lighted? Pass.

Nothing says class like a TV in the dining room!

That's what I said, too R3. It must have just rained. It's nice, but not stunning. It's too damned big, too!

All those tits on the walls... the ridiculous gun safe... hideous kitchen and bathrooms...

Canister lighting is the least of the problems.

Oh, and R1 - That's a mounted television set in that ceiling hole. So you can watch porn in bed. Or maybe even closed-circuit views of the other bedrooms...

So. Much. Boring.

[QUOTE]All those tits on the walls...

???

Look at the first few photos of the interior, R9. The "art" on the walls is all buxom babes with tits overflowing.

The copy in the listing comes across as way too desperate.

This screams church-going Christian MAGA with large family but the dad cheats when he travels.

The titty art I believe is for the workout/man cave room near the tennis courts. They got the photos out of order - to their detriment.

No real art - and what they have is the crap you'd find at a Starving Artists sale - just pure crap.

The decor is - well, purchased straight from a furniture showroom floor all at once. It's offensively bland.

C-student white middle-aged couple who lucked their way into some money. Car dealership? Or perhaps some sales exec. They live out in the middle of nowhere just so they can afford to buy enough land to show-off.

I dislike them and have never met them. He likes golf shirts and khakis. She lives in yoga pants (although she's 25lbs too heavy to be wearing them) and oversized shirts which shows her tit implants but not the fat rolls. She paints her finger and toe nails frosty pink.

What do I win?

[quote]What do I win?

A round of golf with Paul Ryan and Eric Cantor for you and a guest.

Five kids. Mormon, maybe? He's put over $10M into the house over the years, but the asking price is $6.65M? Hmm.

Moore, president and founder of Gil Moore Oil Co., bought the property in 1998 for $1.3 million, according to public property records, and soon took on a major renovation.

“In 2005, we gutted the entire inside and outside under the guidance of (the) renowned Suzy Stuart, an acclaimed interior decorator in San Francisco and Northern California,” Moore said. “My company, New West Petroleum, was doing extremely well, and it was the second largest privately owned company (in the region) ... at that time. I spent over $8 million creating and designing this home for privacy, safety, and all sports possible for our family.”

The cost for the interior remodel totaled $2.5 million, which included more than $1 million to renovate the kitchen, according to Sayson. A new, energy-efficient roof was recently installed for $250,000.

An attention to fine detail runs throughout the home’s spacious interior and captures the owner’s commitment to quality work, Sayson boasted.

Sacratomato—no thx.

Dime-a-dozen mansion. Nothing special.

Who the fuck is Suzy Stewart and why does he keep name-dropping her like we're supposed to know?

I can't find any interior design from Suzy Stewart online.

Bet it was a side-chick because nothing in this house screams 'designer'.

It looks like a golf clubhouse - at least one from a newer country club. I don't think it's the worst ever and the actual indoor space is fine (the space - layout; not necessarily furnishings and interior design). But, it's really underwhelming. That brown lake is a turnoff. Does it smell?

R18 - good eye - yes, I was trying to put my finger on it - but clubhouse definitely.

It's hard to transport yourself to styles and images from 20 years ago - SO much has changed for the better. Just take a look at Trading Spaces episodes from the early 2000s - we lived like savages.

So maybe for the time it was fashion forward and people have copied it? I don't know - but it definitely feels almost corporate - like corporate housing or something.

I'd be surprised if he gets $4 million for it. He overspent and he knows it. The 'value' calculations in the listing shows how desperate he is. Oh - but he dropped it $50,000!!!

I guess the clubhouse theme fits since the owner seems to love golf, including having a semi-replica of the famous 17th hole at the TPC Sawgrass stadium course.

I'm fascinated by the beds. Almost all of them look like they have something lumpy under the bed coverings. The one with the orange bedspread is lumpy and also has something unattractive stored under the bed. Considering the expense of the home, the staging was not first class. Also the giant bottles of booze out on the counter somewhere - not a good look. The lake is probably not even visible from inside the house. I suspect that the land is reclaimed from a pecan or walnut grove, because I see some of those trees in the background, so the lake probably gets agricultural runoff in the rainy season. Maybe it looks better in summer once the sediment settles, but it doesn't look attractive for swimming. Maybe for canoeing it would be fine

It's definitely designed for a family of sports nuts. Tennis, swimming, other sports activities are each featured somewhere on the 22 acre lot.. There are 3 distinct houses on the land, and it's not entirely clear which pictures belong to which house. From the exteriors, I think the smaller houses are more charming. Better proportions, nicer rooflines.

I hate tile floors outside of very specific rooms.

I like the wooden conversation it overlooking the late, I can imagine reading there with the Sunday paper and a coffee.

A classic mini-mansion--too many rooflines and windows that don't work together and cheap outbuildings There's nothing energy efficient about that roof---a passive solar design would make more sense. Inside, it's a mishmash of periods that don't work well together--all that ornate woodsy-stuff with run of the mill modernism. I think the owner confuses playing golf with being sporty.

He seems to intimate that things aren't going so well for his oil business these days. I'm sure he's trying to liquidate and probably slowly realizing that he won't get asking for this place.

It's not in the middle of nowhere--it's part of a golf course development--likely designed for people who were blackballed by the local old money country club (which now is probably desperate for money and members).

It's not in the middle of nowhere….

HA! Highway 99 in the Central Valley is the very definition of “nowhere.”

There’s no old money in Elk Grive.

$50K his is a drop in the bucket.

I look for the next drop not to be listed.

It will go off list and list for $660k less on the relist.

In this market, people are either saving cash or buying fire sales.

I was just going to say, r25. Elk Grove is the opposite of old money. A coworker moved out there because he could buy a newer house twice the size for the same money as he would in comparable areas inside city limits.

One thing the listing doesn't mention is that the area flooded pretty badly 2 -1/2 years ago when we had a multi-day atmospheric river. Wilson was under evacuation order. With that lake there, if it gets run off...

Jesus, that is the fucking ugliest house on here yet.

These shower rooms are awful the seats don't look like they'd be anywhere near the water spray.

r29

Is this Kelly Clarkson's mansion?

When I first saw the photos, I assumed this was a house in Texas. It had that tacky, nouveau Texas thing going on. That and the shit colored lake.

So did I, R32. I mean, the tacky noveau thing can be found across the country, but still, I highly associate it with Texas where it's often not even considered tacky.

R32 - or just tacky oil people like the same shit - whether they're in Cali or Texas?

But you're right - it's VERY Texan. Big, flash, no style and they want to show off.

God I hate Texas.

Cali? Why Colombia?

Butt ugly and built next to a farm pond.

R17 - Did you look for Suzy Stewart or Stuart? It's spelled as the former in the listing, the latter in the Bee article. I agree, if the "renowned Suzy Stuart, an acclaimed interior decorator" isn't a relative, it's a side piece.

Please don’t tell me that’s an electric fireplace in the Master bathroom?

IFKYK. Stuart had many famous clients. She did Miss Cleo's (Psychic Readers Network) luxurious beach house in Biloxi and Mary Kay Ash's Neo Egyptian mountain chalet outside Reno.

This is eerily similar to the recently posted metastasized Connecticut farmhouse. No sense of personality or flair for design. The only area with real color, that game room with the red patterened carpet and gray beanbags, is nauseating.

an room for a pony?

[quote]He seems to intimate that things aren't going so well for his oil business these days. I'm sure he's trying to liquidate and probably slowly realizing that he won't get asking for this place.

It's look like he's not even really in the oil business, except indirectly by selling their product. He owns a few gas stations/convenience stores, a wine shop, and two car washes. He used to own 43 gas stations/convenience stores. Times is hard.

I've never seen desperate math in a house listing before.

Real, Desperate Mathwives of Sacto