Tasteful Friends: A Montana Mountain Lodge

Owner couldnt decide what style to decorate in, so they opted for all of them at once everywhere. There are a few beautiful pieces in amongst all that, but they're lost amongst all the stuff that isnt.

I will grant that at least it isnt dull, its gaudy and tacky but at least its interesting

Wow, it's actually impressive in how hideously tasteless every room is.

Fits Aspen slightly more than Montana. Or jet set Courchevel, France.

Some 71 year old exec married his 38 year old former assistant named Debbie.

Debbie has long frizzly grey-blonde-brown hair and loves renting the most expensive suite at The Art Hotel in whatever city they visit. Debbie likes having her fingernails done and going to antique malls. Her husband thinks he's getting off cheaply with this one, but it's funny how cheap and lots of it adds up.

By far the ugliest interior ever. I couldn’t get past the first 20 pictures.

It just kept getting worse as you scroll. I’m fascinated by its awfulness. Who are these people? My guess is Russian oligarchs.

Found her! A “fashion designer” named Skye Dynan.

Sorry, Skye “Drynan”.

So much TAT everywhere, my god.

I shudder to think which taxpayers all this money was stolen from. Probably the Russians, they don't really mind.

Well, they avoided the clichéd mountain lodge animal heads and cow hide rugs look.

I know there are much "worse" rooms in this house, but for some reason, the kitchen with the red velvet wallpaper and the chandelier over the sink (!) is what I find most offensive.

The outside is pretty ugly, too. There's an art to using fieldstone, but they don't have it.

The chandelier in the gym is also bad. And what's with all those kettlebells and treadmills? Who needs that many?!

Is it a requisite to have a chandelier in every room? Who is cleaning all these things?

[quote]Who is cleaning all these things?

Related to this – I laughed when I saw that handheld vacuum cleaner in the photo with the washing machine and dryer. As if that's gonna do anything in a place like that.

She learned bad taste overload from her father.

Is $15 million a real price?

Confusing ad---there are two homes, but it appears to be just one building.

The owner wants some other Wall Street dolt to buy it.

Ok - so I first thought - this is the furnishings of some rich man's 3rd wife from Russia with fake tits, tan, etc. But no.

As people mentioned, it's Skye Drynan - supposedly a former bio-pharma executive in biotech finance - according to her Wiki. But other sites claim she was an analyst. She apparently went to Wellesley, so not a stupid woman.

Here's my take: she inherited this house from her dad who raised her as a single parent and decided to glitz the FUCK out of it. It's tacky beyond comprehension. She probably thought she could get some interior shots and some press coverage for her 'fashion brand'.

Her dad lived in Whitefish way way before it became fashionable - it's now an expensive place to live. I'll bet he owned quite a bit of land there and they were able to sell it off for millions.

He died 2 years ago. I think my assessment is correct. She had a fair to middling career before - but when Dad died, cha-ching. All of a sudden, she's able to launch these fashion brands and redid this house.

Oh - and the assessment on this house is like 4.7 million - she just thought her 'designs' would add another $10 million. I certainly hope she didn't spend $10 million on doing this crapfest - but she probably did.

She has to sell because she burned through and wasted money, spending it like water on plastic surgery and designer clothes and other shit for her 'brands'.

This has ego, insecurity and arrogance written all over it.

Some Canadian Craig Drynan died 2 years ago. The Whitefish one seems to still be alive.

R20 - Ah - yep. Well I see some other articles from years ago where Craig was contesting the development of a bridge near some property he owned by the river.

I still think they made a lot of $$ in selling off land they bought very cheaply years ago.

Regardless - money can't buy you class. Clearly.

What I don't understand is - she went to Wellesley. She lived in NYC and worked at major financial firms. She came across style and elegance for decades - and she ends up with this SHIT?

Well, I checked out her “fashion” lines and looks like her business is defunct.

A bad time to sell. A Russian oligarch would snap this right up fully furnished.

Why in the world would you obstruct the beautiful view from each of those rooms with that much visual clutter.

I'm not usually a "clean lines" minimalist, but damn...

I call dibs on the unicorn!

Frau fantasy on a CEO budget

[quote] She lived in NYC and worked at major financial firms. She came across style and elegance for decades - and she ends up with this SHIT?

Does the name Trump ring a bell?

Skye received a full scholarship ride at Wellesley and went on to quite the corporate career. I think she made a lot of her money. She is also tacky beyond all imagination and deluded. I love this self written wiki entry:

"Hollywood's A-List has worn her designs, including Gwen Stefani, Lady Gaga, Paris Hilton, Poppy, Maejor, Gavin Leatherwood, Brenda Song, Danna Paola, Laura Marano and others. Skye's fashion lines have been featured in music videos and on album covers for artists including Avril Lavigne, Carrie Underwood, Lexy Panterra and Ally Brooke.[8][9]"

ah, who?

an enigma

I'm sure her fashions are the rage in Baku and Ashgabat.

I respect her bravura choices - such as attaching hundreds of artificial roses onto trees that are not rose bushes.

R27 - I think she just donated clothes for free for some fashion shoot or as a goodie bag gift for awards show.

Her Wiki claims very high roles at those companies, but her LinkedIn and other places show that she was an analyst. She makes it out like she was some big-wig C-level and there's no evidence of that online at all.

She is on the board of directors of some biotech company in San Diego - but I have to wonder if she bought her way on to that board by buying shares?

A lot of this doesn't add up.

And also foosball tables.

Her dad had a seemingly modest gift store in town. Even if she is in biotech does that fetch 15 million for a house? Why are there 2 of these hideous things?

Yes the company exists but appears to be an underwear company. Including the classy line "Bareback".

[quote] "Bareback".

I love it!

She claims 49 years old.

Usually with DLers, it’s the opposite. “Beautiful interior, terrifying exterior.”

[quote]And what's with all those kettlebells

Needs more cowbell.

It would cost a fortune just to bring it up to the level of "bad taste." Right now it's pretty much unredeemably atrocious.

R35 - really? I can't remember one of those. It's usually the interiors that are fucked up beyond recognition.

The two items she sells-briefs and bras are sold out. The business location is downtown Whitefish. Best guess is that she's overleveraged to the max.

The pictures give me a headache, damn.

It’s pretty horrid overall. The kitchen is a no-go.

The outside is ten times better than the inside. Like someone upthread pointed out, there are some stunning furniture pieces.

No thanks.

It would be gorgeous if you removed every last stick of furniture, every shred of wallpaper, every chandelier, every fake plant and followed the basic rule that you can have one all-black item in your home, and only one — and not in the living room.

I don’t see any stunning furniture. I see fire wood.

I want this cutie to calmly guide us through everything wrong with that place in a 50-part series.

Does that tacky bitch have any conception of just how many Darfur orphans all that money wasted on this garishness could have fed in one year?

Does anyone want to bet she walks around town overly dressed up, driving a flashy car, and makes a nuisance of herself at the local places?

Everyone talks about her. They're sharing this Zillow link around town and giggling their asses off.

Anyone willing to bet against me or nah?

[quote]there are some stunning furniture pieces.

Are there? Where? There's barely anything of any age, and those pieces are of very dubious in value, in quality, by any measure. Photo 30 shows a sort of Tibetan altar inspired something or another, in effect a big styrofoam tray onto which little macaroni curls have been glued and the whole thing sprayed with gold radiator paint. Photos 52/53 show a demilune inlaid console that's attractive enough, but it's in rough condition...a/k/a "Shabby Chic!" or maybe "Château Eclectic!" or some ridiculous term. Wherever you move it, across the street, even, the moving cost will always exceed the value of the piece. There are in these 2 images and a few others assorted furniture that falls in the category of Sears Roebuck grade catalogue furniture from the last breath of the 19thC or first decade of the 20thC. The sort of them kept on film back lots to furnish Miss Kitty's Whitehouse or some hostelry of the Wild West for a film where no one looks at the furniture (it's all red). Each is worth about the cost of the lowest grade Ikea dining chair bought new. Without reviewing the endless photos i scanned at a very brisk clip...there's nothing good there. Granted anything would have to be imported yo this location, but the taste looks like that of someone who grew up in the region where real antiques are scarce and good ones almost never encountered. It's the taste of player pianos and whorehouse pussy on fire red velvet, and Bordello Baroque reinterpreted through the eyes of 1960s TV series sets.

To this gorgeous mix, she's added a bit of aircraft fuselage, some Wayfair grade filler pieces, some trippy groovy Plexiglas, everything but the lamps featuring Venus de Milo in a gilded cage of spiral strands of fishing line over which beads of Wesson oil recirculate like the sweat this murder scene induces in anyone who knows anything, any little thing at all, about design.

Looking at her IG, the rooms of the house are prominent in it, so maybe it's all for social media?

It makes my circulatory system sad.

R47: Maybe she writes off all that junk as work related.

R47 - for sure for the Gram - but she has zero control or editing skills. More is more and she loves a LOT more.

I don't even know where to begin to save this place. And she would fight the realtor to remove anything, I'm sure.

This is one of the few examples where I feel bad for realtors.

I think the conservatory was designed by her dear friend and interior design maven, melanoma Trump. I

Chandeliers always add a touch of class!