Comments by "gandf gandf" (@gandfgandf5826) on "This House" channel.

  1. Love it. It makes me smile. Live there? Probably not.
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  2. Yes! If people don't see a wealthy surface, they think you're broke, and leave you alone.
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  3. Tiny house? No. I much prefer seperate rooms to open plan. Don't want to look at the kitchen sink all day. What would be the ideal? Large high ceiling living room. Large high ceiling bedroom. Compact out of sight kitchen. Compact bathroom. What was referred to as a box room in the victorian era, a place to store everything, including hundreds of books. In the middle of 50 acres.
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  4. A simple handsome home built on a human scale. The ideal.
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  5. Who else hit pause to go ogle Point Breeze New Jersey?
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  6. Full size organ? Sold!
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  7. What a beautiful well proportioned house. Irreplaceable, so worth the bother and expense of relocation.
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  8. Another remarkable survival. Favourites were the breakfast room, the Louis xvi round room and all the bedrooms that were shown. Of the larger rooms the library. Always the library. The other grand spaces were well suited to having a few hundred "friends" over to show off your dust collectors. A truly great film location for sure.
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  9. The dining room. Beautiful and perfectly proportioned.
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  10. Love the columned entrance facade. Beautiful.
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  11. Huge, but well proportioned.
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  12. As much as I love a limestone city palace, 'Weekend' was my favorite by far.
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  13. Yes, now thin cheap looking materials with marble thrown at the bathrooms and kitchen. Awful.
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  14. Yes. It magnifies what is there.
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  15. As an art object, wonderful. As a home, well, no. Freeze in winter, cook in summer, and built on a flood plain. Does look beautiful though, sitting in splendid isolation.
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  16. Just looked up what's for sale now in Tuxedo Park. Number 74 Tower Hill Loop. Take a look. I love it. Big dining room, small kitchen. Perfect. Make a toasted cheese sandwich, and eat it in the grand dining room. Such a beautiful outlook from the house. Near to heaven. Edit:. I just noticed the property tax amount, more that $4000 a month. !!!!!!!!! Say what? Wow. Expensive to live in the land of the free.
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  17. "a bit of a construction fiasco". That made me chuckle, imagining me attempting such construction. Love the whole kit home concept but not a task I would take on.
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  18. The library. I'd move a bed in there, and never leave.
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  19. Remarkable that such an oddity is one to survive. Each to their own. Consider some of the monster houses being built now. If they survive a century, what will be said of them then?
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  20. A terrible waste, but as a house it would have made a nice hotel. It had the appearance of an institutional or commercial structure.
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  21. Wow, that really is magnificent. Love the Fragonard room, the staircase, and Henry's bedroom, and of course every staircase landing should have a fireplace with a marble mantelpiece, and marble columns. I know mine has, haha not really. I'm not ever likely to go to New York, but if I did, I think this would be the first place I'd visit. My favourite is the one others have mentioned not in these videos, Clayton. Love the dark wood panelling and staircase. Thanks Ken.
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  22. Gotta have the "antique chachkies". 😊
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  23. There aren't enough superlatives for this one. Magnificent. Spectacular. Grand beyond belief, but surprisingly quite beautiful. Favourite is the breakfast room, followed by the library, and the staircase. 43 bathrooms !? Surely 42 would have been enough? Only 8000 acres left? Dear me. I hope the occupants are alright with that. 😁
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  24. This house was for sale last year, but I don't know what, if anything, was retained from the original house. I like the entrance hall. Love a Corinthian column. Other than that, I like the house next door, which appears to be intact. Interesting facade, unusually high window to wall ratio for a city house.
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  25. Remarkable survival this one. The surrounding streets seem to be ordinary suburban housing.
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  26. I also don't welcome reality, but my only palace is of the mind.
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  27. Based on the exterior I expected to like this one but I didn't. The ceilings are too low for the size of the rooms. To my untrained eye, it's not well proportioned. I did like the guest bedrooms though.
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  28. Thanks. I didn't know that.
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  29. Goodness me, what a wicked waste.
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  30. A "barbed wire empire"? Sounds...spiky.
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  31. I think this one really is beautiful inside and out, and the original garden! How wonderful. I've seen many pictures of the inside. Don't have a favourite room, but as always it's the small rooms that I love in grand houses. Walk up the grand sweeping staircase, and sit in my small private study, would be about right for me. Wouldn't mind a throne room though, just for laughs.
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  32. "monkey dressed up in a costume." That is funny. Apt for what passes for royalty.
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  33. Yes, and even if sufficiently wealthy to maintain one of these places, who would want to? Too much bother. Many are beautiful though, but also many others are grand, but not at all beautiful.
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  34. Prefer the skyscraper. Unique . Let's hope its replacement gets replaced. 😊. I love Ernest Flaggs small houses, but his larger grander domestic works don't appeal to me.
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  35. Thank you for showing the floor plan. Love to see the floor plan.
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  36. Love the perfect symmetrical appearance of the facades. There's sonething about symmetry that calms the mind.
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  37. It's good to be the King.
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  38. The interiors seem as if they couldn't decide what to do, so chose to have a touch of everything.
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  39. Now I want corn flakes.
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  40. Money no object then yes. Pay other people to do it. I love hard work, I could watch other people do it all day. 😁
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  41. Those opening words re pronunciation 😂. I pronounce it woosh shooster sheer, so no one feels the need to 'correct' me, as I'm clearly not being serious.
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  42. Love everything about the entrance, especially the doors "hidden in the shadows", and the entrance hall and staircase.
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  43. One of Australia's main banks is the National Australia Bank. N.A.B. 😂
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  44. I wondered why this was your favourite, but then that staircase. Wow. It looks like a movie set, not a house.
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  45. To pay the WWI debt possibly. I read that the UK took 80 years to pay off all WWI debts. Canada being a commonwealth country may have had to do the same. Always money for war.
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  46. Magnificent setting and gardens.
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  47. At least a sculpture garden was a nicer outcome than most.
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  48. Guillotined?
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  49. Hmm I'm guessing the architects cared for Frick as much as he cared for this house. Going off on a tangent, reminds me of people whose hairdressers clearly don't like them. 😅
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  50. Yes. Those interiors are very grand and seem to still be intact.
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