I said on Monday that I would be touring an old mansion in Baltimore on Monday afternoon, but there was a mix-up with the date of the tour, and I can’t make the new date, but I thought you’d like to see the pictures anyway. Although it doesn’t look like anything spectacular on the outside, the inside is filled with rare and exotic hardwoods, numerous varieties of marble, gold leafing and leaded windows.
Let’s take a look…
The Entry Hallway
The Front Parlour
The Dining Room
Kitchen with the requisite granite and stainless steel.
Media Room
Bedroom filled with light.
Another bedroom, the detail is amazing
Dear real estate photographers: please put the lid to the loo down before you take a picture. K?
More of the stairway… There’s also an elevator.
Even though this house is in the heart of the city, it’s got some great outdoor space.
The house is on the market for $2.4 million and has five bedrooms and five baths. Click here for more information.
You're going to think I'm crazy, but I don't like it. It seems like a department store that's been decorated... the rooms are all too uniformly huge to feel comfortable to me. Even the outdoor space... it looks like a hotel patio. With the kind of money that went into this place, the media room looks like something you'd see in a Long Island condo. I would have made a great old movie theater room... with dark walls, red velvet plush seating, wall sconces, and a much larger TV screen framed with theater curtains.
ReplyDeleteYour movie room idea sounds fabulous!
DeleteSo sorry you won't be able to make the tour. But why would they put a big honking black treadmill in a lovely bedroom in a house they are trying to sell? Makes no sense to me.
ReplyDeleteAnd why would they leave the toilet seat up?
DeleteTo each his own, said the old lady as she kissed the cow, but I think the bones are extraordinarily beautiful and it's obvious a lot of care has gone into the reno, even though we may not share the same taste in furnishings.
ReplyDeleteHe's done a couple of other houses as well... would love to see them!
Deletewow thats a great house!
ReplyDeleteand very inexpensive in comparison to dc!
DeleteI agree the structure of this home and the details are incredible. As far as the decor, not my choices, i can see all of the potential though!
ReplyDeletexoxo
Karena
The Arts by Karena
loads of potential!
Deletewhy did they furnish the rooms this way + to each his own + love the outside. xxpeggybraswelldesign.com
ReplyDeleteno accounting for some people's taste!
DeleteThat is a very interesting pattern on the front entry hall. Is that octagonal tile? I've never seen it used like that before.
ReplyDeleteLooks like octagonal tile. We had some great tile work in our front hall in Cardiff.
DeleteMy goodness. The click here reveals so much more it seems as if this person either ran a business from the house or was a chef that owns restaurants. hence the tread mill lol
ReplyDeleteThink he ran his business from the house.
DeleteDon't much care for the kitchen, but the rest is at the very least spectacular.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course would cost $6M in my neck of the woods. Or more.
Your neck of the woods is 5 times more expensive than mine!
DeleteReservoir Hill and Mt. Vernon are full of these deceptively sumptuous piles from their heyday as the fashionable addresses of the city's elite before they abandoned downtown and lived in their country spreads full time. Sevenoaks, George Jenkins's former estate in the Valley that's now part of the dubiously named Stevenson University, was something special a long time ago as well.
ReplyDeleteSome of the places in Reservoir Hill are drop dead amazing. You can only hope that they aren't ruined.
DeleteBolton Hill is lovely but most of the housing stock can't compare, with a few exceptions. It's a shame fortune favored that enclave and not it's uptown neighbor. North Avenue was too wide of a gulf to bridge unfortunately.
DeleteGreat post! These are some incredible houses. Keep up the awesome work on this blog!
ReplyDeleteThanks for this post! My wife and I have been considering designing our own new home, and we couldn't be more excited about it.
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