you are asking the wrong people this question. 24 million is set for life money anywhere in the world. someone paying 24 mill for 1 apt would mean they are in a different league altogether.
These people who did this to this unique peace of property should be held accountable for massacring the guts of this place. What were they thinking? Unbelievable
I agree. I was looking for all of the special elements of an old Mansion. Beautiful wood floors and trim. Special, expensive details that modern homes would never have. It was extremely disappointing and just ruined. They did not bother to fix up the roof area which could use some help.
When I clicked on this video I wasn't expecting to see a full-gut fixer-upper. I give you credit Erik for keeping your composure and tone in some of those rooms.
It’s heartbreaking how the designers destroyed this home. Nothing wrong with liking eclectic designs and decor, but don’t do it to a historic building like this. It’s going to cost another few million dollars to undo the damage these designers did.
A building, the likes of which will never again be built, transformed from opulence to an obscenity. The only understandable structural accommodation to modernity would be an elevator appropriately designed to reflect the style of its original construction. The only thing worse than losing such a gem is having it vandalized beyond redemption!
“This place has 24 different designers! So each room is as tastelessly decorated as possible! Absolutely no respect has been given to the history and provenance of this mansion whatsoever!”
PS: did they run out of money or why did they not finish the roof? Spending all this money on desginer rooms but not landscaping the roof gives the impression that the owners run out of money.
They think they are doing cool design. Would be nice to see a designer who is able to update & appreciate the gorgeous space without going the wrong way
I can't believe somebody thought taking a beautiful historic old mansion and screwing it up on the inside like that was a good idea! And then want 24 million for it. It looks incredible on the outside. It is in a amazing location. It's a real shame that it will take 5 mill to un F it!
It’s pure hubris on the part of the designers, who wanted to leave their imprint on a lovely, Guilded Age mansion ...as though the design aesthetic of the era wasn’t worthy of retaining in large measure. There is a way to introduce modernity into traditional spaces which marries the two in an inspirational manner. Unfortunately these designers fell flat on their faces.
Imagine what that house looked like in its original splendor! What on earth made them modernize a beautiful mansion with tacky and weird art? Like yup, I want a painting of a crying baby because you know, it makes me all warm and fuzzy inside!?! Just insane how they took out the beautiful fireplaces and changed the esthetics forever. Very sad! The pink bedroom was the last straw. I just can't!!
Another 24 million I bet just to make it look somewhat close to that 120 year old mansion again 😢 the chaos, the lack of taste of those desingers, its just heartbreaking 😭 that poor 120 old mansion 😢 I want to buy it just to make it look like mansion from 1902 😩
@@trulybear2212 New York laws are funky so the furniture is mandatory to pay for but not included in the listing price tag, I can't even imagine how much would need to be shaved off from that 10mil further to actually bring the price to 10mil.
Gilded mansion yes, but my personal opinion is that it lost a lot of its authentic self when designers took over creating their spaces and not adhering to the original aesthetic of the property.
@@samanthab1923 It’s unbelievably bad. Like 1980s Las Vegas/Playboy mansion tacky bad. I’m horrified. But the bone structure and location are great so I don’t think it’s permanently ruined.
@@samanthab1923 Exactly! And the person that buys it will probably end up bringing in their own designer to change it to whatever they want anyways. I've looked at enough of these videos on old gilded mansions to know not everyone keeps the "style" of the house. They make it their own style after they buy it.
I can't believe they butchered that mansion the way they did!!! What a shame!! I also can't believe that a designer was brought in to showcase their talents in an iconic landmark in NYC and the best they could come up with was what we just saw!!
I thought the same thing. The designers picked were horrid. Real designers are turning in their graves at this one. A few rooms were beautiful, but crying babies, dolphin fireplaces and pink plastic rooms are in no way designer
The “Cotton Candy” bedroom is HIDEOUS!!!!! This is a “Guilded AGE” mansion, not a guilded mansion!!😂😂😂😂 Not a bad price at all!! Nice location, great looking exterior!! Selling a totally decorated home isn’t easy and the primary bedroom would absolutely have to be gutted. While some of the design of the primary suite are still very nice, the theme and the plastic bed are just too much and a distraction from the room’s architectural elements. But the space is inviting with the top floor devoted to an owner’s suite! Too bad the roof wasn’t done as the amount of detail for the interior which is reflected in the price, a rooftop terrace could have been a definite plus! 😮
The panda fireplace has to go. The wallpaper and the artwork in practically every floor have to go- especially the screaming child. The "cotton candy" theme in the master bedroom and closet is a total gut job. The library is a gut job as well. Outstanding features are the service kitchen, the main kitchen, the laundry room, and the master bathroom. In fact, all the bathrooms are fine. The small rooms are fine as well. Even though the security features, the elevator, and the amount of space are excellent, not enough of the décor is palatable enough to justify such an enormous asking price. To make it livable, one would have to spend probably $5-8 million to cart away all the hideousness and bring in gracious living. When you see the beautiful, stately outside of the building, it is so disappointing to have your expectations of the mansion's interior so completely dashed. It would be amazing to see an old building treated with respect, with lovely, quality furniture and décor.
the rotten ugly grey black chinese aesthetic is RUINING our great historic homes and buildings! Not to mention little baby girls' nurseries with a stupid inapprropriate greay and black theme! UGH! HORRID!
I couldn't have said it better. Hopefully the designers will read all the negative feedback and NEVER attempt this tragedy again. It breaks my heart to see such a grand old lady be abused in such a manner.
1:31 You know what else, has to go ?? The glass plate on the left with the names of all the culprits from DAVID SCOTT INTERIORS who did that to this house. Why would I want to see their names every day
The designer of that master bedroom should serve time for pure idiocy. All these sitting rooms, yet no grand dining room. The whole thing makes no sense.
1:22 - “This entire house has 24 different designers that have done every room of the house.” Yes, it definitely shows. Nothing is cohesive or makes sense. This house is so bizarre… and makes me feel so dizzy.
All of these differently designed rooms just look overwhelming and chaotic. Definitely would only be bought as an art piece in itself. Can’t imagine anyone actually living in all that. 😵💫
i agree. i love old architecture but this has made very busy and just all over the place,every corner and inch of the house was filled with stuff. i would of loved to see something more simple and something that was kept original and historic. but the building is amazing. it was almost not cosy home feeling at all, kinda remindet me of some kind of gallery or hotel lobby.
I bet whoever ends up buying the place will do a pretty substantial renovation. After all if you can afford $24 million for a home you can afford some nice decorations.
It’s so disgustingly obvious the designers’ primary concern was making sure their own, personal tastes/aesthetics were blindingly highlighted in every corner of this mansion, and thus completely erasing the original, classical beauty this home boasted for over 100 years. They didn’t give one shit about actually turning this relic into something truly amazing, while respecting and highlighting its past; they only cared about pushing their own creative agendas. “Creative” being extremely subjective; nearly every room besides that foyer and the kitchen, in my opinion, is absolutely hideous and unliveable.
Agreed!! I wonder how this house would look thirty or even fifty years from now? What would happen to the "cotton candy room" even five years hence? The raw roof space was not even tidied up, horrendous!!
Having seen other homes that have been decorated by various designers, either for charity or publicity, I cannot believe how badly this has been done. It looks like a final year project for design students. I imagine that the rather surprisingly low price reflects the amount of money required to create a home. There were some items that I would have kept, the silver wallpaper, the oriental screen, the black bath, and the shower for example, but generally, I would have got rid of most of it. Thankfully, beneath the gaudy, tart's boudoir decorations, the bones of a beautiful house remained. Good taste, and a lot of money would create a truly gorgeous home. A very strange place to put the kitchen though.
Shame on the designers who did this to this house. I can only imagine how beautiful this house was before they ripped out all of the moulding, trim, panels and plumbing and lighting fixtures. I wish that people would stop doing that.
The list of designers would be a handy guide of who NOT to engage. Some of these rooms are horrific, dark, crowded. The house itself is a beauty but will take a lot of money to undo the showcase “staging”.
The house looks like a photoshoot template. Who could live there with soooo many people ideas and marks all over it. I’d gut every room and style it the way I want.
Wow they really managed to turn this once nice mansion into a real-life Charlie's Chocolate Factory. I see you also had to hold back some laughter here and there ;)
@@erikvanconoveraha I though it might have been used for that when you said the designers had to bid. About the “cotton candy room,” who won the bid for that? The same person who did Barbie’s Malibu Dream Home?
The main floor isn’t bad at all. What keeps the continuity is the fact that the designers who did the main floor kept a lot of the original elements, used similar color schemes and furniture from the same eras. The next floors don’t even feel like the same house.
Stunning bones and location as well as what you could do with the rooftop! I wish the interior was more original or even just period interior design. So many sitting rooms; common for a gilded mansion, but the space feels misused today. Love how authentic you remain in all your videos!
When new owners opt to renovate and assume occupancy, a number of those “sitting rooms” will be redesigned as bedrooms. Right now it’s all for show - a demonstration of each design group’s vision, aesthetic, capability, etc.
One thing about living in America I've never understood, is why there has always been the need to either tear down buildings and houses that were built to last or the desperate need to modernize buildings or homes thatve stood strong throughout decades and even centuries, either leaving no ability to see what once was or a modernized skeleton of what once was, that's not even a shadow of some of the most beautiful, unique architecture, woodwork and detail ever created and without computers that cookie cutter and mass produce everything we see these days but you can travel or even see online that countries such as Japan, China, Russia, the UK, Italy etc and see things thatve survived centuries, decades and so on because many countries don't find it nessesary to tear down things that are a window into the past, don't need to modernize these structures to an unrecognizable level and found ways, professionals that managed to keep these historic sites, even homes maintained. In England they many cottages etc that survived the medieval period and lasted today despite having a Thatch roof because thatchers were shown these skills since the medieval times and they didn't determine it to be an unnecessary time of skill just so they could replace roofs with roofing shingles or whatever is the easiest form of roofing there is or was throughout the years and although not all homes have that particular type of roof and many homes or places are modern or have been made more modern, there are entire villages in England that have been maintained and untouched by modern designs and architecture yet in the US although I do love my country, I just wish there were far, far more historic homes well maintained, kept as original as possible as well as many stores or buildings in general but unless it's a courthouse, statue etc seems as if knocking things down to make land available to build, build and build on is more important, leaving even the town I grew up in, become a city, almost unrecognizable to how everything was when I was a child and in came more crime, drugs, issues and seems to be all about money
The exterior, the location, the views, the rooftop terrace. This mansion is beautiful. While some of the design elements are not to my taste, if I had the money, I would get it. Spend another 10 mil to redecorate and it's not much more than some of the other apartments you've shown. This is an entire BUILDING! My fear is someone will buy this and chop it up into micro apartments. Thanks for the tour.
@@alainportant6412 Its happened to me with my house several times, hired a designer and it ended up looking modern and gross. A friend who lives in an apartment complex when it was under renovation, it ended up being very hard to find designers who didnt do modern. Designers have a lot more freedom than you think but you can still reject the idea. This house isnt the case of that.
Keep in mind that this is the Kips Bay Decorator Show House. The whole point is for designers to show off-- the home decor equivalent of fashion designers' runway shows. For 47 years, Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club has celebrated the best of interior design by transforming a luxury Manhattan home into an elegant exhibition of fine furnishings, art, and technology.
I don't love the interior designs, but that is a SPECTACULAR building and at 25 Mil, it's a steal! I'd make that property worthy of its architecture and neighborhood
I don't know why they didn't just mention that it was decorated this way because it was the Kips Bay Showhouse this year, so each designer had a room to go crazy in. No one would actually live here with it decorated like this, 😂. It's Sherry Bronfman's house.
Could I live here? Yes. Already live a few blocks away. - it’s a shame that designers did what they did to this place. It would easily take a few $100ks to get this space to be “normal” again. What were they thinking
This is the Kips Bay Decorator Show House. The whole point is for designers to show off and go a little crazy-- the home decor equivalent of fashion designers' runway shows. For 47 years, Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club has celebrated the best of interior design by transforming a luxury Manhattan home into an elegant exhibition of fine furnishings, art, and technology.
I enjoyed this tour! I hope Erik eventually learns the difference between a Gilded Age mansion [which is what this property is] and a gilded mansion [which is what he kept calling it, and implies something very different]. Small thing, but I laughed every time he called it a gilded mansion. 😂
Love the video - a part of NY that doesn't get the love it deserves. Eric says "STAGED" not designed so you spend $24 million on the place they hire one of the designers who's room you liked - or bring in your own then furnish and design it. Correct me if I'm wrong but you don't get the anything you see with the price - unless you pay separately for it. Then do the roof if you want. With the roof final move in price is more like $30 million to pick a price from the air.
The photograph is by artist Jill Greenberg, she has a full set of crying kids. They're pretty affordable though, auction records show them going for only 2k-3k USD, even in a large size like that. She's also know for photographing portraits of animals, ones with very expressive faces as well.
Beautiful home! Love it! It's about $23.8 million over my budget, though. There is much to be said for an 860 sq. ft place, though. Imagine being alone at night in a house like the one in this video and hearing a strange noise coming from...somewhere in the house LOL! I much prefer seeing the front door, turning my head, and seeing the back door - and hearing a noise and knowing exactly where it is coming from. Gosh, though, this is a cool mansion (except for the cotton candy room and some other weird rooms that could be easily cured with five coats of Behr).
This place screams classless, nouveau riche "style". It's an absolute travesty what those people did to this place, so have the gall to turn around and ask $24m for it is nigh unbelievable
Nice bones but some of the eclectic interior designs were too kitsch for me. Also I don't prefer that each room has its own interior design style. It would feel more 'acceptable' or palatable if at least some of the color and design schemes complemented or flowed into the adjacent rooms. It just started to get too busy. But the structure itself is nice. I like the wide staircases and the wood banisters.
The disjointed designs was overwhelming. Not pleasant. I bet the home could be gorgeous if everything was removed and someone started all over from scratch.
it's impossible to appreciate the house due to the designers going absolutely bonkers. they've literally devalued the property. once all the staging is removed, what is a buyer going to do with it? they'll have to spend a few mil to rip out the surfaces and start over. it's a shame.
I totally agree with last comment , every one of those designers should be punished . Particularly the main bedroom , absolutely vile , would love to see how it looked before being trashed 😢
Mr. Conover, I admire your ability not to retch over the decor in that home. It's horrific. And the floor layouts make no sense. A huge kitchen but where is the dining room. The owner who approved this mess should be barred from ever again purchasing a house more than 2 years old. And they definitely be banned from decorating a house. Whoever buys that house is going to have to budget additional millions to undo the damage to fool of an owner did.
This is the Kips Bay Decorator Show House. The whole point is for designers to show off and go a little crazy-- the home decor equivalent of fashion designers' runway shows. For 47 years, Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club has celebrated the best of interior design by transforming a luxury Manhattan home into an elegant exhibition of fine furnishings, art, and technology.
I literally just had the same thought !!! I pay $1200 a month in Seattle for a classic apt. built in the 1940's. After the video I looked around,, said to myself I like my place better.
The video itself was done well. The jarring, disjointed decor harmed my spirit. lol I would strip all the furnishings. Paint all the walls cream. And start from scratch to decorate & restore some peace.
24 different "designers" equally shared in ruining a fine old mansion. They should be ashamed of themselves. It would probably cost 24M to restore it back.
I appreciate the tour, but really would have loved to have seen it in its original state. That was a hippo fireplace/log holder in the first room - because that’s a design statement that needed to be made ....somewhere else. The second floor looked like various waiting areas for high-end hair salons/spas -very commercial. I can’t imagine why someone thought that aesthetic is appropriate for a home ...unless they’re vying for the business clientele. I appreciate that this was all done to raise money for charity, but it would have been nice if the designers had brought their A Game. People would still have paid to come see it - and maybe actually walked away feeling like they’d experienced something special rather than something chaotic. 🤷🏻♀️
Would have never thought that this house had such a unique interior, I'd go insane if I had to live in that cotton candy room tho 😂 But rly like the other floors^^
I think the different designer rooms clashed with one another giving the sense of a crowded rabbit warren of rooms vibe. Sometimes, less is more and this mansion could have benefited greatly from that thought.
Whomever, in any charity in the country that started featuring historic home “show houses” however long ago for the purpose of making money via tours, began giving Decimators, I mean “designers” free reign of whatever room they got, should have their souls CURSED to the bottom of Hell and be barred from EVERRRRRR coming near ANY interior design project again.
4:21 This mural makes me happy. I was planning to paint my kitchen "Relentless Olive" by Sherwin Williams and this just inspires me so much! I'm going to paint a field of flowers on an olive field. However, my flowers will be white, yellow, orange & pink daisies. This mural also lso makes me think of Barbara Streisand's bedroom wallpaper in "On a Clear Day, You Can See Forever". I saw it as a kid in 1970 and I STILL want that wallpaper for my own bedroom!
After that “cotton candy” bedroom im not hearing ANYONE out. This is the only house that made me genuinely angry. Why they gotta ruin the house like this.😢
By looking at the neighborhood, and the mansion itself, I would assume that it is probably worth much more than $24 million. However, in the current state, they will probably have trouble getting that much for it. I agree with the others, whoever took this breathtaking Gilded Age Mansion and did this to it, had more money than sense. So much of the original beauty has been lost forever. If it was not, this mansion would probably sell for closer to $100 million.
The outside is beautiful...but the inside makes me cry. I'd gut the whole thing and try to bring back the original essence of the home; i prefer when the inside matches the outside.
This is the Kips Bay Decorator Show House. The whole point is for designers to show off and go a little crazy-- the home decor equivalent of fashion designers' runway shows. For 47 years, Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club has celebrated the best of interior design by transforming a luxury Manhattan home into an elegant exhibition of fine furnishings, art, and technology.
Do you think its worth it?
Some of the rooms feel a bit overcrowded and dark. This property will sure require a very unconventional buyer 😉
you are asking the wrong people this question. 24 million is set for life money anywhere in the world. someone paying 24 mill for 1 apt would mean they are in a different league altogether.
Hell no
This house needs to be gutted [mostly] and updated. Do NOT LIKE anything really except the locale, and bones of the home.
The place itself is fine but my god it's gross on the inside. Designers my ass
These people who did this to this unique peace of property should be held accountable for massacring the guts of this place. What were they thinking? Unbelievable
Thank you!!!! That beautiful Gilded house has been ruined. I cant believe it!
I agree. I was looking for all of the special elements of an old Mansion. Beautiful wood floors and trim. Special, expensive details that modern homes would never have. It was extremely disappointing and just ruined. They did not bother to fix up the roof area which could use some help.
Hopefully the new owners restore it. So selfish to destroy a historical home's interior like that.
YES, some of those rooms are just SO ugly to look at
It would take $40 million to fix it
When I clicked on this video I wasn't expecting to see a full-gut fixer-upper. I give you credit Erik for keeping your composure and tone in some of those rooms.
It’s heartbreaking how the designers destroyed this home. Nothing wrong with liking eclectic designs and decor, but don’t do it to a historic building like this. It’s going to cost another few million dollars to undo the damage these designers did.
Ye that was exactly what i was thinking while watching this video
you mean you don't like the Weird Barbie Acid Trip aesthetic in the owner's suite...? /s
Yea I would rather have seen the decor how it looked in the 1900s
I agree, it's like Beetlejuice
I was thinking the same thing. They needed to just let Ralph Lauren do this place and be done with it.
A building, the likes of which will never again be built, transformed from opulence to an obscenity. The only understandable structural accommodation to modernity would be an elevator appropriately designed to reflect the style of its original construction. The only thing worse than losing such a gem is having it vandalized beyond redemption!
“This place has 24 different designers! So each room is as tastelessly decorated as possible! Absolutely no respect has been given to the history and provenance of this mansion whatsoever!”
It’s absolutely horrendous 😢I can’t imagine anyone actually living in that chaos.
maybe a prostitute house
Bronfman family home
The grounds are rat infested too
Where do the new owners put their things? Who pays to get rid of all that stuff? Is the roof “as is”?
Such a stunning building with lots of history. Why do current architects and desginers have to distroy this heritage all the time?
PS: did they run out of money or why did they not finish the roof? Spending all this money on desginer rooms but not landscaping the roof gives the impression that the owners run out of money.
@@icetea3647 Also, is there not a basement too?
They think they are doing cool design. Would be nice to see a designer who is able to update & appreciate the gorgeous space without going the wrong way
Personally, I wouldn’t want everyone of those fireplaces in working condition
Because old architecture is ugly as hell. Who would wanna live in a gothic haunted looking house anyway?
I can't believe somebody thought taking a beautiful historic old mansion and screwing it up on the inside like that was a good idea! And then want 24 million for it. It looks incredible on the outside. It is in a amazing location. It's a real shame that it will take 5 mill to un F it!
It’s almost comical how bad it is.
I totally agree.
It’s pure hubris on the part of the designers, who wanted to leave their imprint on a lovely, Guilded Age mansion ...as though the design aesthetic of the era wasn’t worthy of retaining in large measure.
There is a way to introduce modernity into traditional spaces which marries the two in an inspirational manner. Unfortunately these designers fell flat on their faces.
I can't fathom why anyone thought this was a good idea.
@DH-rh2mb The primary bedroom is pretty bad, the rest of the house is astoundingly beautiful
If I had limitless money, I’d systematically undo each and every room, attempting to return the interior to its former, gilded age glory!
totally agree
Ditto
24 different designers for 24 different rooms? What on earth were they thinking?
Imagine what that house looked like in its original splendor! What on earth made them modernize a beautiful mansion with tacky and weird art? Like yup, I want a painting of a crying baby because you know, it makes me all warm and fuzzy inside!?! Just insane how they took out the beautiful fireplaces and changed the esthetics forever. Very sad! The pink bedroom was the last straw. I just can't!!
ugh that first fire place made me so damn mad! It was SO UGLY!
Out of all the ugly things here, I hated the crying kid painting the most.
Oh c'mon... Who wouldn't want to sleep on that cheap ass bed that looks like a $5.00 toy off of Amazon
Totally correct N.C no class the modernized mansion style doesn't complete with this look
“The decor speaks for itself.”
It is saying NO, very loudly
So are any spirits floating around, lol.
Exactly!
@@mbc65 They're turning in their Graves I'm sure lol
I thought ….We all caught exactly what he meant
Oh! The decor doesn't speak - it curses!!
The amount of money someone would have to spend to renovate the entire house...
🤣 or at least remove as much a possible.. That was way too much.......
I would sell all the pieces of knick nacks, but I don't think it would be enough to make the money back
Another 24 million I bet just to make it look somewhat close to that 120 year old mansion again 😢 the chaos, the lack of taste of those desingers, its just heartbreaking 😭 that poor 120 old mansion 😢 I want to buy it just to make it look like mansion from 1902 😩
Wow! Beautiful classic New York architecture on the outside - but total nightmare on the inside.
I would imagine it would cost many more millions to have this home redesigned to something you’d want to actually live in
That is why it’s listed for $10M now. Under contract so it’s probably going for less.
@@trulybear2212 New York laws are funky so the furniture is mandatory to pay for but not included in the listing price tag, I can't even imagine how much would need to be shaved off from that 10mil further to actually bring the price to 10mil.
Gilded mansion yes, but my personal opinion is that it lost a lot of its authentic self when designers took over creating their spaces and not adhering to the original aesthetic of the property.
Gilded
I didn't recognize anything gilded about this place.
It's called a gilded "age" mansion. The mansion itself is not gilded (covered in bronze, silver or gold).
personal? it's the opinion of basically everyone here
who allowed this gem of a property to become an art project
It's INSANE.
Brendon Fallis, the owners SIL talked her into it. Sherri Bronfman. Yes, those Bronfman’s.
They took the soul. It‘s overloaded with design, art. Awful.
@@samanthab1923 It’s unbelievably bad. Like 1980s Las Vegas/Playboy mansion tacky bad. I’m horrified.
But the bone structure and location are great so I don’t think it’s permanently ruined.
@@stellashepherd3229 No, it’s all redoable. You know anyone with that kind of money will bring it up to speed.
The designers ruined this house! They did not respect the style of the house. It is now hideous!
The other alternative was a run down as is mansion.
@@samanthab1923 Exactly! And the person that buys it will probably end up bringing in their own designer to change it to whatever they want anyways. I've looked at enough of these videos on old gilded mansions to know not everyone keeps the "style" of the house. They make it their own style after they buy it.
Because nobody wants to live in an old architecture ugly gothic haunted looking house. Old architecture is good for a museum. Not nice to live in.
@@secrets.295 I want to live in such a classic house. And definitely with ghosts & spectres.
I can't believe they butchered that mansion the way they did!!! What a shame!! I also can't believe that a designer was brought in to showcase their talents in an iconic landmark in NYC and the best they could come up with was what we just saw!!
I thought the same thing. The designers picked were horrid. Real designers are turning in their graves at this one. A few rooms were beautiful, but crying babies, dolphin fireplaces and pink plastic rooms are in no way designer
The “Cotton Candy” bedroom is HIDEOUS!!!!!
This is a “Guilded AGE” mansion, not a guilded mansion!!😂😂😂😂
Not a bad price at all!! Nice location, great looking exterior!!
Selling a totally decorated home isn’t easy and the primary bedroom would absolutely have to be gutted. While some of the design of the primary suite are still very nice, the theme and the plastic bed are just too much and a distraction from the room’s architectural elements. But the space is inviting with the top floor devoted to an owner’s suite!
Too bad the roof wasn’t done as the amount of detail for the interior which is reflected in the price, a rooftop terrace could have been a definite plus! 😮
That was the ugly shit for a bedroom.
Their first mistake was letting a bunch of decorators go crazy in that place. For the most part they ruined it with all that tacky decor.
You’ll probably pay another $5mill just to redo these ugly rooms. To each their own
The panda fireplace has to go. The wallpaper and the artwork in practically every floor have to go- especially the screaming child. The "cotton candy" theme in the master bedroom and closet is a total gut job. The library is a gut job as well. Outstanding features are the service kitchen, the main kitchen, the laundry room, and the master bathroom. In fact, all the bathrooms are fine. The small rooms are fine as well. Even though the security features, the elevator, and the amount of space are excellent, not enough of the décor is palatable enough to justify such an enormous asking price. To make it livable, one would have to spend probably $5-8 million to cart away all the hideousness and bring in gracious living. When you see the beautiful, stately outside of the building, it is so disappointing to have your expectations of the mansion's interior so completely dashed. It would be amazing to see an old building treated with respect, with lovely, quality furniture and décor.
the rotten ugly grey black chinese aesthetic is RUINING our great historic homes and buildings! Not to mention little baby girls' nurseries with a stupid inapprropriate greay and black theme! UGH! HORRID!
I couldn't have said it better. Hopefully the designers will read all the negative feedback and NEVER attempt this tragedy again. It breaks my heart to see such a grand old lady be abused in such a manner.
1:31 You know what else, has to go ?? The glass plate on the left with the names of all the culprits from DAVID SCOTT INTERIORS who did that to this house.
Why would I want to see their names every day
@@alainportant6412 Hahahaha! I certainly would not want to be reminded of it. Well spotted!
The designer of that master bedroom should serve time for pure idiocy. All these sitting rooms, yet no grand dining room. The whole thing makes no sense.
No one was hungry?
I agree. The cotton candy master bedroom looks awful.
1:22 - “This entire house has 24 different designers that have done every room of the house.” Yes, it definitely shows. Nothing is cohesive or makes sense. This house is so bizarre… and makes me feel so dizzy.
All of these differently designed rooms just look overwhelming and chaotic. Definitely would only be bought as an art piece in itself. Can’t imagine anyone actually living in all that. 😵💫
i agree. i love old architecture but this has made very busy and just all over the place,every corner and inch of the house was filled with stuff. i would of loved to see something more simple and something that was kept original and historic. but the building is amazing. it was almost not cosy home feeling at all, kinda remindet me of some kind of gallery or hotel lobby.
Totally agree. I could only go there as a coffee shop, for one time. Not for living. It's exhausting for the eyes
Agreed too cluttered , no room to breathe or move.
I bet whoever ends up buying the place will do a pretty substantial renovation. After all if you can afford $24 million for a home you can afford some nice decorations.
@benjaminbarba4314 I'd keep the 10:00 bathroom though
It’s so disgustingly obvious the designers’ primary concern was making sure their own, personal tastes/aesthetics were blindingly highlighted in every corner of this mansion, and thus completely erasing the original, classical beauty this home boasted for over 100 years. They didn’t give one shit about actually turning this relic into something truly amazing, while respecting and highlighting its past; they only cared about pushing their own creative agendas.
“Creative” being extremely subjective; nearly every room besides that foyer and the kitchen, in my opinion, is absolutely hideous and unliveable.
you mean the client's primary concern. .? Because what all these rooms have in common is the owner
To put it lightly
Agreed!! I wonder how this house would look thirty or even fifty years from now? What would happen to the "cotton candy room" even five years hence? The raw roof space was not even tidied up, horrendous!!
I think the designers ruined the mansion. :(
Having seen other homes that have been decorated by various designers, either for charity or publicity, I cannot believe how badly this has been done. It looks like a final year project for design students.
I imagine that the rather surprisingly low price reflects the amount of money required to create a home.
There were some items that I would have kept, the silver wallpaper, the oriental screen, the black bath, and the shower for example, but generally, I would have got rid of most of it.
Thankfully, beneath the gaudy, tart's boudoir decorations, the bones of a beautiful house remained. Good taste, and a lot of money would create a truly gorgeous home.
A very strange place to put the kitchen though.
Beautiful building. Gawdy designs.
Shame on the designers who did this to this house. I can only imagine how beautiful this house was before they ripped out all of the moulding, trim, panels and plumbing and lighting fixtures. I wish that people would stop doing that.
I could absolutely live there…
After it was completely gutted and restored to its original beauty! 😍
The list of designers would be a handy guide of who NOT to engage. Some of these rooms are horrific, dark, crowded. The house itself is a beauty but will take a lot of money to undo the showcase “staging”.
The house looks like a photoshoot template. Who could live there with soooo many people ideas and marks all over it.
I’d gut every room and style it the way I want.
From outside very nice, from inside looks it only, like a museum
Wow they really managed to turn this once nice mansion into a real-life Charlie's Chocolate Factory. I see you also had to hold back some laughter here and there ;)
It would be cool to see the place with a proper interior, the Kips Bay Decor show was for a good cause though
@@erikvanconoveraha I though it might have been used for that when you said the designers had to bid. About the “cotton candy room,” who won the bid for that? The same person who did Barbie’s Malibu Dream Home?
You had me saving 24 million in my head until you found the candy cloud room. I burned the money in my head lol.
The main floor isn’t bad at all. What keeps the continuity is the fact that the designers who did the main floor kept a lot of the original elements, used similar color schemes and furniture from the same eras. The next floors don’t even feel like the same house.
I LOVE the entire home!
*Nice presentation and beautiful "bones" of an historic property amidst some of the most vile, high-end, decor imaginable.*
Stunning bones and location as well as what you could do with the rooftop! I wish the interior was more original or even just period interior design. So many sitting rooms; common for a gilded mansion, but the space feels misused today. Love how authentic you remain in all your videos!
yeah those interior designers did an awful, awful job. I think they made it look hideous
@@GloStickGeo It's Tacky.
Exactly what I was just about to say. Also, the incongruity of the designers made the spaces feel less useful.
When new owners opt to renovate and assume occupancy, a number of those “sitting rooms” will be redesigned as bedrooms. Right now it’s all for show - a demonstration of each design group’s vision, aesthetic, capability, etc.
No. I do not like those designers. But the old building is stunning and beautiful. PS. Also your video is so interesting. Well done!
I am so in love with that house
One thing about living in America I've never understood, is why there has always been the need to either tear down buildings and houses that were built to last or the desperate need to modernize buildings or homes thatve stood strong throughout decades and even centuries, either leaving no ability to see what once was or a modernized skeleton of what once was, that's not even a shadow of some of the most beautiful, unique architecture, woodwork and detail ever created and without computers that cookie cutter and mass produce everything we see these days but you can travel or even see online that countries such as Japan, China, Russia, the UK, Italy etc and see things thatve survived centuries, decades and so on because many countries don't find it nessesary to tear down things that are a window into the past, don't need to modernize these structures to an unrecognizable level and found ways, professionals that managed to keep these historic sites, even homes maintained. In England they many cottages etc that survived the medieval period and lasted today despite having a Thatch roof because thatchers were shown these skills since the medieval times and they didn't determine it to be an unnecessary time of skill just so they could replace roofs with roofing shingles or whatever is the easiest form of roofing there is or was throughout the years and although not all homes have that particular type of roof and many homes or places are modern or have been made more modern, there are entire villages in England that have been maintained and untouched by modern designs and architecture yet in the US although I do love my country, I just wish there were far, far more historic homes well maintained, kept as original as possible as well as many stores or buildings in general but unless it's a courthouse, statue etc seems as if knocking things down to make land available to build, build and build on is more important, leaving even the town I grew up in, become a city, almost unrecognizable to how everything was when I was a child and in came more crime, drugs, issues and seems to be all about money
The exterior, the location, the views, the rooftop terrace. This mansion is beautiful. While some of the design elements are not to my taste, if I had the money, I would get it. Spend another 10 mil to redecorate and it's not much more than some of the other apartments you've shown. This is an entire BUILDING! My fear is someone will buy this and chop it up into micro apartments. Thanks for the tour.
You'd have to be very patiant on waiting for a designer who isn't like this.
@@breckenridgethegreat2725 the designer is your employee and must do as told
@@alainportant6412 Its happened to me with my house several times, hired a designer and it ended up looking modern and gross. A friend who lives in an apartment complex when it was under renovation, it ended up being very hard to find designers who didnt do modern. Designers have a lot more freedom than you think but you can still reject the idea. This house isnt the case of that.
This townhouse is so insane....More art piece then home in my opinion.
Keep in mind that this is the Kips Bay Decorator Show House. The whole point is for designers to show off-- the home decor equivalent of fashion designers' runway shows. For 47 years, Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club has celebrated the best of interior design by transforming a luxury Manhattan home into an elegant exhibition of fine furnishings, art, and technology.
and the art is questionable.
What a shame that the history and elegance of the past has been stripped…
Love the older grand buildings. What a treat to see. More please!
That was cool. I try to imagine what the home was like when it first was built...Thanks for the tour.
I don't love the interior designs, but that is a SPECTACULAR building and at 25 Mil, it's a steal!
I'd make that property worthy of its architecture and neighborhood
I don't know why they didn't just mention that it was decorated this way because it was the Kips Bay Showhouse this year, so each designer had a room to go crazy in. No one would actually live here with it decorated like this, 😂. It's Sherry Bronfman's house.
Could I live here? Yes. Already live a few blocks away. - it’s a shame that designers did what they did to this place. It would easily take a few $100ks to get this space to be “normal” again. What were they thinking
The fireplace looks like a hippo-hamster hybrid. Or maybe a pokemon? It could pass as a pokemon 😂
Wow wow wow! Love everything about it!
Seriously??
Oh, so this is the place where taste and comfort go to die!
This is the Kips Bay Decorator Show House. The whole point is for designers to show off and go a little crazy-- the home decor equivalent of fashion designers' runway shows. For 47 years, Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club has celebrated the best of interior design by transforming a luxury Manhattan home into an elegant exhibition of fine furnishings, art, and technology.
@@davidcattin7006 Why couldn't they have done it inside a 70s brutalist structure? Why this beautiful mansion?
I enjoyed this tour! I hope Erik eventually learns the difference between a Gilded Age mansion [which is what this property is] and a gilded mansion [which is what he kept calling it, and implies something very different]. Small thing, but I laughed every time he called it a gilded mansion. 😂
Respectfully, he’s not the most concise and articulate speaker but at least he’s tall and handsome!
Love the video - a part of NY that doesn't get the love it deserves. Eric says "STAGED" not designed so you spend $24 million on the place they hire one of the designers who's room you liked - or bring in your own then furnish and design it. Correct me if I'm wrong but you don't get the anything you see with the price - unless you pay separately for it. Then do the roof if you want. With the roof final move in price is more like $30 million to pick a price from the air.
The house is gorgeous, the decoration is owful 😢 lot of styles, lot of details and colours
Amazing design, so unique and my style! 💕
The house is actually 4 million, the 20 extra million is for the crying baby piece of art. That is top notch.
location is important
NYC, baby
@@AlexGarcia-bx9cx😂😂
The photograph is by artist Jill Greenberg, she has a full set of crying kids. They're pretty affordable though, auction records show them going for only 2k-3k USD, even in a large size like that. She's also know for photographing portraits of animals, ones with very expressive faces as well.
Hilarious ...
Structure and history are fabulous. Interior design is disrespectful of the history.
It's beautiful on the outside
And hideous on the inside.
Love your tours! I grew up on NYC and these are hidden gems I never would have experienced. Thanks
Beautiful home! Love it! It's about $23.8 million over my budget, though.
There is much to be said for an 860 sq. ft place, though. Imagine being alone at night in a house like the one in this video and hearing a strange noise coming from...somewhere in the house LOL! I much prefer seeing the front door, turning my head, and seeing the back door - and hearing a noise and knowing exactly where it is coming from. Gosh, though, this is a cool mansion (except for the cotton candy room and some other weird rooms that could be easily cured with five coats of Behr).
This place screams classless, nouveau riche "style". It's an absolute travesty what those people did to this place, so have the gall to turn around and ask $24m for it is nigh unbelievable
I like the kitchen. That's it.
My God, it's a museum! Absolutely beautiful! More beautiful than any hotels in NYC!LoL
That master suite is PERFECT!
Unpopular opinion- I thought it was pretty dang cool. I really loved the dark dramatic rooms, not so much the white/beige rooms. Not boring for sure
Nice bones but some of the eclectic interior designs were too kitsch for me. Also I don't prefer that each room has its own interior design style. It would feel more 'acceptable' or palatable if at least some of the color and design schemes complemented or flowed into the adjacent rooms. It just started to get too busy. But the structure itself is nice. I like the wide staircases and the wood banisters.
The disjointed designs was overwhelming. Not pleasant. I bet the home could be gorgeous if everything was removed and someone started all over from scratch.
it's impossible to appreciate the house due to the designers going absolutely bonkers. they've literally devalued the property. once all the staging is removed, what is a buyer going to do with it? they'll have to spend a few mil to rip out the surfaces and start over. it's a shame.
I totally agree with last comment , every one of those designers should be punished . Particularly the main bedroom , absolutely vile , would love to see how it looked before being trashed 😢
Probably woke people did this they ruined everything
Mr. Conover, I admire your ability not to retch over the decor in that home. It's horrific. And the floor layouts make no sense. A huge kitchen but where is the dining room. The owner who approved this mess should be barred from ever again purchasing a house more than 2 years old. And they definitely be banned from decorating a house. Whoever buys that house is going to have to budget additional millions to undo the damage to fool of an owner did.
what i like a lot in this house, all rooms, bathrooms, wallpapers soooooooo beautiful
I honestly think I'd rather live in my $1400/mo apartment than that place furnished the way it is. Ghastly.
This is the Kips Bay Decorator Show House. The whole point is for designers to show off and go a little crazy-- the home decor equivalent of fashion designers' runway shows. For 47 years, Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club has celebrated the best of interior design by transforming a luxury Manhattan home into an elegant exhibition of fine furnishings, art, and technology.
It’s not permanent. It was done for charity. A designers showcase.
I literally just had the same thought !!! I pay $1200 a month in Seattle for a classic apt. built in the 1940's. After the video I looked around,, said to myself I like my place better.
The video itself was done well. The jarring, disjointed decor harmed my spirit. lol I would strip all the furnishings. Paint all the walls cream. And start from scratch to decorate & restore some peace.
Nice and unique house but kinda overwhelming tbf. Amazing video as usual.
Sick place. Would love to see a tour of the home used in White Collar the tv show. It’s also on riverside drive I think
I get why people are hating on the place, but somehow I like the different themes in different rooms.
24 different "designers" equally shared in ruining a fine old mansion. They should be ashamed of themselves.
It would probably cost 24M to restore it back.
I appreciate the tour, but really would have loved to have seen it in its original state.
That was a hippo fireplace/log holder in the first room - because that’s a design statement that needed to be made ....somewhere else.
The second floor looked like various waiting areas for high-end hair salons/spas -very commercial. I can’t imagine why someone thought that aesthetic is appropriate for a home ...unless they’re vying for the business clientele.
I appreciate that this was all done to raise money for charity, but it would have been nice if the designers had brought their A Game. People would still have paid to come see it - and maybe actually walked away feeling like they’d experienced something special rather than something chaotic. 🤷🏻♀️
Someone said it was a Hamster. At least it was amusing
This home is insane… in every way possible 😬
Would have never thought that this house had such a unique interior, I'd go insane if I had to live in that cotton candy room tho 😂 But rly like the other floors^^
i agree with you 100%
The interior is not the real layout. The decorators closed off bathrooms or other connecting rooms on some floors. Temporary of course.
I think the different designer rooms clashed with one another giving the sense of a crowded rabbit warren of rooms vibe. Sometimes, less is more and this mansion could have benefited greatly from that thought.
Whomever, in any charity in the country that started featuring historic home “show houses” however long ago for the purpose of making money via tours, began giving Decimators, I mean “designers” free reign of whatever room they got, should have their souls CURSED to the bottom of Hell and be barred from EVERRRRRR coming near ANY interior design project again.
they gotta pay me 24 mil to sleep in that master bedroom
It needs to be restored to its original form.
This wasn’t a home tour, was a gallery tour, all rooms with amazing and different designs
4:21 This mural makes me happy. I was planning to paint my kitchen "Relentless Olive" by Sherwin Williams and this just inspires me so much! I'm going to paint a field of flowers on an olive field. However, my flowers will be white, yellow, orange & pink daisies. This mural also lso makes me think of Barbara Streisand's bedroom wallpaper in "On a Clear Day, You Can See Forever". I saw it as a kid in 1970 and I STILL want that wallpaper for my own bedroom!
In MAD at what they did to this house!!!
After that “cotton candy” bedroom im not hearing ANYONE out. This is the only house that made me genuinely angry. Why they gotta ruin the house like this.😢
By looking at the neighborhood, and the mansion itself, I would assume that it is probably worth much more than $24 million. However, in the current state, they will probably have trouble getting that much for it. I agree with the others, whoever took this breathtaking Gilded Age Mansion and did this to it, had more money than sense. So much of the original beauty has been lost forever. If it was not, this mansion would probably sell for closer to $100 million.
This house is perfect except for one small detail: the screaming child portrait needs tilted.
WOW! And the fact that this is in NYC blows my mind
The outside is beautiful...but the inside makes me cry. I'd gut the whole thing and try to bring back the original essence of the home; i prefer when the inside matches the outside.
This was one of the most depressing property u ever presented to us Erik
as a parent and cat owner, this décor gives me anxiety 😂 Fun design though, hats off to the team of designers who made this cohesive art piece.
A beautiful house tastelessly furnished 🙈 It shows once again that money can't buy taste🤣
This is the Kips Bay Decorator Show House. The whole point is for designers to show off and go a little crazy-- the home decor equivalent of fashion designers' runway shows. For 47 years, Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club has celebrated the best of interior design by transforming a luxury Manhattan home into an elegant exhibition of fine furnishings, art, and technology.
Some old Hollywood mogul with a self-centered, much younger air-head wife would fit perfectly. Look what Pia Zadora did to an old Hollywood mansion.
TRIPLE WOW WOW WOW! Thanks for sharing. Amazing and Awesome
You should revisit this home now. Its significantly less, and a lot more tastefully done on the inside.