Seattle reminds him of booming shanghai 10 15 trs ago he says. Really you can keep you shangahi there.
I just don't see why there is so much shade thrown! I think it's just a brilliant house and admire how they've kept the front and much of the interior. Kitchen is spectacular. If this is the wave of the future, let it ride.
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All that money and one of these guys still doesn't know the difference between being envious and jealous. I just adore that little guest house!
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“It has a bit of a men’s club feel to it,” Mr. Boyce said. “All of our friends get really jealous when they go in.” Elitist nonsense like this has no place in the New York Times IMO. Earlier this week Manscapers on Bravo showed a similar status-obsessed gay man: "If you want something badly enough, you'll [find the money for it or find a way, or something like that.]. I wanted a Rolex and my dad found the money." It's typical Bravo fare, though. I guess I should be grateful for the representation but I'm actually appalled.
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It looks like a Madison Park house from the front, not Capital Hill. At any rate I like what I see on the computer screen, and, if those who object to the mashing of traditional and modernist styles would come to Nantucket, they will see a Potemkin village--colonial facades with Hamptonesque white interiors. The owners have no shame. After gutting the interiors they slap on the little historical sign announcing that the house was built in the 1700's or 1800's. The only thing that remains from that period is a few boards that they are required to keep. The town of Nantucket has become a Disneyland for the ultra wealthy.
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“it was not the kind of house we were looking for...”
So, instead of finding the kind of house they _were_ looking for, they decided to butcher a 90-year-old masterpiece. It's their property, of course, and they can do with it as they please, but maybe don't damage something that can't be replaced.
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@David Siegel In Seattle, that would involve demolishing the house and starting over. That has happened thousands of times.
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Not as bad as it could have been but still, as a person who grew up in Seattle, I wished they had just let it be. I have an appreciation for old houses and also for modern architecture but there is a time and place for everything.
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@ms You can't see the addition from the front or the sides so it is difficult to see why people are so upset about the change. I have news for them, throughout history buildings have been adapted to changing circumstances (take a look at any of the manor houses of England).
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Beautiful throughout - amazing that the modernist addition works as well as it does with the Tudor-style house.
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@NorCal Girl
No, it doesn’t work well at all. If the new owners wanted a glass enclosed space, why not construct something akin to a traditional conservatory but with a 21st century touch that would have been more appropriate to juxtapose alongside the existing architecture? The current structure — lacking visibility from the front or sides of the main house notwithstanding — is just plain jarring.
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Exterior is fabulous as is the dining room but kitchen and other areas too modern and not a good transitional flow. It is not balanced throughout including the exterior. Too bad they ruined it as the location is fabulous.
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It is GORGEOUS. Not surprising as it does come with a $5M price tag.
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Amazing house. Sorry to be cynical, but for the price of the "Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman" you could have cover the annual tuition for about ten Kenyans to college. Nice chair.
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How do you know they didn’t do that too?
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What a shame to do that to such a great house. Why couldn’t they just have left it alone and bought/built a modern glass something or other? It is what they really wanted. They had the money. So why inflict this on a magnificent French Normandy?
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I wonder what it looks like from next door. I wonder how the neighbors felt about all the construction, renovation, and landscaping that went on...and on...and on...
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Probably the same as anyone living next door to reno /construction. It was of a limited duration and the owners have a right to do it.
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@Anita Larson
The article clearly stated that the renovation period stretched out far longer than originally anticipated because of the business boom in Seattle that was just beginning.
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@Leslie The back view of the house and gardens are obscured from the neighbors by landscaping. Why should you care about what the neighbors can't see in the first place? BTW, the big pile next door has a horrendous-looking third floor carbuncle added to it. Should Boyce and Ren be upset about that?
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Thanks, Guys. It’s just gorgeous, I’ll walk by on my next visit.
Future Seattle Retiree. Seriously.
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This is spectacular. There has been a disappointing trend in Seattle of tearing down old houses and building huge boxes with no character. Although, I'm a huge fan of modern architecture, most of these newer builds are uninspired. Congratulations to the homeowners for the amazing remodel. Truly well done.
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I am glad they did not knock down the original house and renovated with a light touch, but I am tired of people who don't like old houses buying old houses and putting on modern additions, modern fixtures, modern flooring. Buy a new house if you want to do that.
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But that would entail doing a tear down if you want to live in an established neighborhood, which would elicit a louder hue and cry. I am starting to really like these traditional/contemporary combinations if they are done well, like the additions on the backs of brownstones in NY.
We bought an large old craftsman in the Kenwood neighborhood of Minneapolis and redid it top to bottom including a large addition. We tried to make it as architecturally sympathetic as possible including having a saw made to cut ceiling beams to match, finding matching brick, finding the original stucco to match, matching the hardwood floors, finding vintage lighting and tile, pouring old style concrete, etc. It looks great, but it cost a fortune, much, much more than we paid for the house. Today, I would be inclined to do this. God knows, it would have been easier.
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I didn't think you could do that kind of modernist addition to a Tudor style house without it looking like a hodgepodge, but they pulled it off. Beautiful.
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