On that note, I’m dismayed that the many TH-cam content creators who thrift and design the interiors of their homes, etc., treat books only as decor items. They all have bookcases, but few of them actually read. Books are there for color, size, antiquity, etc., but rarely because the creator actually loved reading them. I’m overjoyed when I find someone on TH-cam who actually buys books at thrift stores and estate sales because they want to read them. @livingwithLK is one of them. I love her unpretentiousness and sense of humor.
@@Eloiseat6 I couldn’t agree more! I buy plenty of vintage and second hand books for myself and my nephews. They are not for “styling”, they are for reading….although they do live on one of several antique bookcases I’ve found at auction. Don’t even get me started on the content creators who destroy books for some asinine aesthetic project.
Birds living in a kitchen gives you more than just annoying noise. I think of feathers, bird poop dust and whatever. In a kitchen? germs, guys, germs...
And maybe the birds don't like onion fumes or smoke. But hey, maybe nobody cooks in this kitchen anyways and the cooking kitchen is in the servants' quarters.
Birds are notorious for spreading salmonella and flu viruses. It is a health hazard. These people are a fine example of money neither buying class nor intelligence.
My God, that's insane. I could squat in the house and no one would ever know, I was there. Personally if I had this kind of money, I would live a life of experiences (food, trips....) instead of a tacky, pretentious and gaudy house that I won't be able to enjoy fully due to the sheer size, imagine needing a golf cart to get from one room to the other.
There are stories about people living in Buckingham Palace. Squatting is not out of the question. Probably easier while it is under construction. So forever then.
The reason they have a morning kitchen (!!) is so they don’t need to traipse their hungover derrières across the way and down a level to the main kitchen 30 minutes away (because let’s be honest, they’d starve before navigating to it 😭😭)
An absolute nightmare. The fact that it’s still not done too, I can’t confirm but from what I’ve heard online it keeps going into new builders hands because they don’t want to work with them
There is an entire show hosted by Jackie herself a few years back, that is all about all of the many revisions she has done over the years and just how much everything cost to move walls to accommodate a larger coffee pot. And while that is not true...many of the revisions are that ridiculous.
I think this is obscene. I have nothing but contempt for our systems that allows for ultra wealthy to exist along side of average people struggling to put food on table and roof over their heads
There is rich ppl and there’s poor ppl. Get over it. Rich ppl can do what they want with their money. If you were rich I’m sure you wouldnt want to live in a small box.
@@jdos5643Counterpoint: letting the rich do whatever tf they want just because they're rich is why corporations control our government and our lawmakers keel tow to lobbyists and special interest dark money. We live in late stage capitalism hell. The rich aren't more hard working, morally righteous or above the law by virtue of their wealth- they're just rich. It's not your point, I detest. I care little about their house and their shitty taste. But your mindset is deplorable and elitist.
Then go live in North Korea 🇰🇵 or another communist country. This is a capitalist society. You have the option to become just as rich 🤑 if you want it.
This level of wealth only exists because others are exploited. It's immoral to be this rich. It's immoral to hoard so much while others die from your exploitation. That shouldn't be a controversial take.
I am shocked that they still have any money left with how recklessly they spend. It is sad to me that so many people have so little while people like this spend so carelessly and tastelessly
So i admit i have a chip on my shoulder where the ultra-wealthy are concerned. i've lived in my state my entire life, and i've watched these past several years as these wealthy people have come in and made things harder for the rest of us -- those of us whose families have been here for generations, built the tax base, supported the schools and filled the cemeteries; we're getting priced out because these guys want to come and play and / or take over. Two examples: Rupert Murdoch has a place in state and our governor is a billionaire. So people like the Siegels don't impress me, they just make me angry.
I feel like once they actually finish the home, their kids will be grown and gone, so they'll want to "downsize." So to offset the costs of the home, they'll turn it into a wedding venue, which kinda feels like the original idea when planning it anyways!
When you said she has a fake jet in her morning kitchen, I couldn't begin to guess what that meant and I thought I misheard. And now having seen it I'm somehow even more confused. A jet is a weird thing to associate with food because your sense of taste is diminished when you fly. Something to do with cabin pressure and humidity and altitude. I can't pretend to understand.
I live in FL, and this house almost didn't get built. It was stalled completely when the stock market crashed, and they tried to sell it, but couldn't. Just FYI -- about the maids' rooms in the basement having windows, under Florida law, a basement room has to have an egress window large enough for a person to climb out through. All basement bedrooms are supposed to be along the outside walls, I believe, but don't hold me to that. That floor plan doesn't look like they are, but the rooms could be connected to each other, so inside bedrooms could get to the windows to get out if necessary. Each room also has to have a sprinkler. I'm sure this house has a massive fire suppression system.
Not sure if you heard but there is a musical starring Kristin Chenoweth and F. Murray Abraham currently in development about this story. It's called Queen of Versailles. Written by Stephen Schwartz and Lindsey Ferrentino.
A textbook example of how money can’t buy style. There are people that have way less money than Jackie who have more beautiful houses. If I had the amount of money that Jackie has, I would have built myself a modest mid century brick ranch house. Outside of my necessities, I would’ve used the rest of the money for experiences like theme parks, water parks, diners, and flea markets.
I've visited historic homes and seen the houses of the rich in paintings. This mansion doesn't look like a real home of the rich, it looks like a set designer's idea of a home for the rich.
I have a pretty big home with a gigantic terrace. We already have all amenities (gym, office, laundry room, wardrobe room and guest room) and we still have 2 empty rooms that serve no use. I watched the video to see if I could find an inspiration but now I still think that my idea of having a fart room and a sex room is more serious than this dystopian house 😵💫
When you said "inlaid jewels on the floor". WHAT? That dining room reminds me of Lincoln, as in the former president. Here's the thing: This has nothing to do with Versailles. I mean, in extravagance? Yes. In style? No. This reminds me of a shopping mall. (One episode was enough - until they show actual finished photos/video!).
I’m always anazed how so many rich people can’t seem to find proper portraitists - there’s the Grand Central Atelier in New York which I’m sure is chock-full of talented youngsters waiting for a huge commission, not to mention the number of classical prodigies from Korea and China,.and they settle for that Inferior Thomas Kinkade atrocity. John Ruskin would have a field day discussing the psychology of aesthetics and morality.(or lack thereof).
I am living for your shade, DD. Where to begin? Those columns in the ballroom look like pencils. They need to be more substantial to create intrigue at the masked balls, amirite?
If you have a bedroom you have to have a window or door to the outside. It’s code. in case of a fire the person in the room should have a way out and/or firemen a way inside
The proportions all look wrong in the video, columns seem too narrow inside, the mansard roof doesn't look right with the building, and so on. If the decorative elements will be for real like what's shown, they just didn't opt to get specialists in the respective fields to design something amazing. And for that amount of money, you could buy and make absolutely splendid a pretty fantastic chateau in France, and then you'd have real elements. But then, probably no bowling alley, no English pub, so there is that.
I absolutely agree. I don't know if it is because of my european viewing habits, but visiting a castle over here, the sheer thickness of the built stonewalls matches not just the real, but also the visual weight of the decoration. Without that, this ornamentation subconcously feels like a cheap copy to me, e.g. what one could find in an amusementpark. Please excuse me for any mistakes in my spelling or grammar.
@@blackphonepink8027 I now live in Europe too, so maybe that makes it more apparent how incorrect the proportions are. And don't worry, your writing was perfect.
As a french, i"m comptely schoked by the ego of this people, in a country where the health care is so bad, having a home like this is a felony, transform the half in a hospital or a shelter. I"m not rich , i"m just a vet, i have a little family mansion near the french riviera, i have rescue horses,donkeys cats, dogs, loud parrots etc and i built a shelter for homeless people and their animals, some of them have a degree now and money to take care of animals and garden. They're my trustworthy team. And remember, in France, health care is completly free for the poorest and like 15 euros for an exam like RMI, think about that !
I watched the progress of this house years ago. They had to bail for awhile because of a downturn in his business due to a recession. It sat unfinished for several years. Mostly the old video showed them squabbling and the dogs having accidents. It was pretty gross. In some fairness. they have a whole bunch of kids. The husband was up there in years. I'm assuming he is still alive.
William Randolph Hearst built the outré Hearst Castle outside of San Simeon, California. Stunning. If you've never been there, you really should go. Some of it is so gorgeous, and some of it just yuck (at least not to my taste, but then gaudy doesn't appeal to me). Maybe the Siegals were using it as an inspiration, but they couldn't bring any real châteaux bits over from France or monasteries from Italy, and pubs from England, so they got knock-offs. To each his/her own, I guess.
Agreed Phoenix, not sure I would call that a home. Would be interesting to know how much of it they actually live in when it gets done. I'm also picturing a tv show a 150 years from now set in that place called "The Gaudy Age" BTW how many square feet is the average condo in TO?
Woof, fixing this mess into a stylish home would be a full-time nightmare and cost way too much 😬 They're in too deep at this point, I hope for them that this is their forever home!
Oh lord her kids names are David, Daniel, Debbie, Drew, and twins, Jacqueline and Jordan the daughters have the grandmothers name and mothers name eeeew . No imagination.
If I were that wealthy, I would help the less fortunate. I do what I can now, but with that, one could really do some good. This is just disgusting. I don't like anything about this "house".
I actually liked the kitchen...it had its own style and the chandelier was likely made from Murano glass Italy which is fairly expensive. For sure it wasnt the worlds ugliest home..sterile Kardashians home is on top of the list to my taste.
I think what upsets me most about just the build itself is its future. If it doesn't stay in the family if the kids don't keep using it and upkeeping it after the parents are gone its just gonna rot. No one is going to buy this no one is gonna want this overly stylized poorly designed chunk of building materials that hardly qualifies as a home. All that work all those materials its just going to end up wasted if the family decides they don't want to keep it. Especially as its being designed based on what they want now with no real thought to the future. Is anything in there energy efficient or anything like that how is the upkeep going to be managed idk all I see is waste waste waste
Funny you mention the housing crisis. You did say they wanted to build a Palace of Versailles in Florida and I think they hit it out of the park. I've been to the Palace of Versailles and It's amazing but it's also disgusting, because all of that grandeur and opulence and marble and tapestry and mirrors (which were more valuable than gold by weight at the time due to difficulty to manufacture) was built as people were starving in the streets of Paris. So yeah, I'd say mission accomplished.
I liked the dark crown molding in the kitchen and the stained glass window of the peacock (I think), though I would have that window in a different room, like the bathroom for privacy. I do like some of the details because I do like ornate, but it is just too much. The size is also ridiculous. I cannot imagine a single family needing that much space, unless they literally had a dozen young kids that were still growing up and they entertained like all the time with BIG extended families. And still, with a ballroom like that (though some of the details were beautiful, it all seems like a bit much in one space) I would expect them to be hosting charity balls several times a year. This makes me think of beyond wealthy vampires (especially that ballroom with all the mirrors). 🧛🧛🧛
Calling it “Ugly” is a compliment for that mausoleum. This is what people do when they have no talent or purpose to keep them focused on outward preoccupations…, they surround themselves with dead opulence.
A house like this is not worth $200,000,000. It is worth what someone is willing to pay. Somehow, I doubt that many super-rich would be willing to pay that much (unless Russian or Arab, perhaps) because they all have their own ideas (usually tacky) of the perfect home. The owners of this have no idea when to stop. There were several OTT items that might have looked good on their own. Unfortunately, they seem to believe that if one is good, one hundred is 'gooder'.
I feel like there's potential in this house. They just need to scale back the opulence by 30-40%. Detail and quality finishes can be beautiful. But there's a line where beauty becomes tacky. The finest designers know where that line is.
Money can't buy you class as LuAnn DeLesseps sang. The house is butt ygly IMO, but Jackie herself is quite delightful. I saw her on an episode of Below Deck
Still doesn’t come close to the square footage of the Biltmore House in Asheville, NC, which is actually the official largest privately owned house in the US at a whopping 178,926 sq feet. Built 129 years ago and still astronomically more tasteful and iconic than this McMansion could ever hope to be.
David A. Siegel (timeshare company) is worth around 500 million usd according to Celebrity Net Worth. There's another David Siegel (Two Simga Investments) worth over 6 billions. They're not the same person. Before the 2008 crash, David A. Siegel estimated his net worth to be almost 2 billion dollars... yet he could never complete that damn house? 24 years after they started and it's still not done?
So there's a documentary of when they started building and then had to stop because (I think) they ran out of money OR the hubby was under investigation and their assets were frozen OR both? But from what I recall, she had a lot of kids, like 6 or 10. So by the time you give each child their own room, bathroom, wardrobe, the house is going to get pretty big. The irony of the kids now getting too old for the home that was created for them! It's just sad. Sad to have so much wealth that all you can do is show off your wealth! Imagine how many homeless people could be housed with just a 3rd of what they spent so far! AND they could have still built a beautiful home!
Yes offense to Florida for this unnecessarily huge house they (the owners) probably don’t even spend a lot of time in. This is a “I have it because I just want it” purchase. Crazy!
I watched _The Queen of Versailles_ . She actually seems like a nice person, but omg... taste is not in her vocabulary. It's too much of EVERYTHING X100 🌹..Just want to mention, any butterfly motifs are in memory of their daughter. 🕊
not to be shady towards you, but that house has been beat to death already.. what's worse is for the amount they are worth (now) they must not have a lot of cash on hand because why isn't the house finished? like they have dabbled here there on it for 20 years now.. that's atrocious.
She's one of those people who loves purple and the people who love purple have no chill with the amount of purple they have in their home and nobody does this with any other color it's only purple people. And they usually have no design taste whatsoever
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I’m just realizing the ultra wealthy decor and design elements is coming next week! Stay tuned for that one, it’s gunna be good!
Im dying to hear your thoughts on large format tiles on floors i.e livingroom contemporary and the ideal colors, grout etc 🙏
It's hideous!
@@handleisGGI meant the uh, house is hideous, not large format tile.😊
@@Julia.Mandelbrot 😂😂😂 yeah I figured lool
@mrphoenixgrey Will you ever give a tour of your home?
No shock that they don’t seem to have a library
On that note, I’m dismayed that the many TH-cam content creators who thrift and design the interiors of their homes, etc., treat books only as decor items. They all have bookcases, but few of them actually read. Books are there for color, size, antiquity, etc., but rarely because the creator actually loved reading them. I’m overjoyed when I find someone on TH-cam who actually buys books at thrift stores and estate sales because they want to read them. @livingwithLK is one of them. I love her unpretentiousness and sense of humor.
@@Eloiseat6 I couldn’t agree more! I buy plenty of vintage and second hand books for myself and my nephews. They are not for “styling”, they are for reading….although they do live on one of several antique bookcases I’ve found at auction. Don’t even get me started on the content creators who destroy books for some asinine aesthetic project.
@@Eloiseat6Thank you for saying this; I see too many creators buying books for their color, and thanks all. It’s really disheartening.
Why do mansions in movies always looks bigger grander and more elegant. But the rich make things smaller in scale?
Well I guess they have to spend some of their millions somehow! It Might as well be on their own home 🏡 😂
Birds living in a kitchen gives you more than just annoying noise. I think of feathers, bird poop dust and whatever. In a kitchen? germs, guys, germs...
And such a tiny cage in a house that could've had an aviary. Cruel.
And maybe the birds don't like onion fumes or smoke. But hey, maybe nobody cooks in this kitchen anyways and the cooking kitchen is in the servants' quarters.
Histoplasmosis anyone ?? Grosss
Birds are notorious for spreading salmonella and flu viruses. It is a health hazard. These people are a fine example of money neither buying class nor intelligence.
Oh for the days when the vanity projects of the ultra wealthy were building libraries and schools 😢
Lifestyles of the Rich and Tasteless. How is this not a show yet?! You’ve gotta host it!
Next up on Eat the Rich....
My God, that's insane. I could squat in the house and no one would ever know, I was there.
Personally if I had this kind of money, I would live a life of experiences (food, trips....) instead of a tacky, pretentious and gaudy house that I won't be able to enjoy fully due to the sheer size, imagine needing a golf cart to get from one room to the other.
For 200million I would not be putting it into a custom home in Florida. lol
There are stories about people living in Buckingham Palace. Squatting is not out of the question. Probably easier while it is under construction. So forever then.
@@Stess-j4nFlorida made squatting illegal.
@@bradc6199 just because somethings illegal, doesnt mean people wont do it.
@@bradc6199What a terrible law.
Oh, it's the private jet breakfast lady 😂
The reason they have a morning kitchen (!!) is so they don’t need to traipse their hungover derrières across the way and down a level to the main kitchen 30 minutes away (because let’s be honest, they’d starve before navigating to it 😭😭)
Can you imagine the stress levels working on this never ending project! Imagine the revisions….lol!!!
From the architects to the decorators to the handyman... 🥺🥺
An absolute nightmare. The fact that it’s still not done too, I can’t confirm but from what I’ve heard online it keeps going into new builders hands because they don’t want to work with them
With global warming, will Florida be there when they finish? Does anyone know how close they are to the ocean and how low the elevation?
@@ac1646the Winchester House wasn’t the cautionary tale they needed
There is an entire show hosted by Jackie herself a few years back, that is all about all of the many revisions she has done over the years and just how much everything cost to move walls to accommodate a larger coffee pot. And while that is not true...many of the revisions are that ridiculous.
I think this is obscene. I have nothing but contempt for our systems that allows for ultra wealthy to exist along side of average people struggling to put food on table and roof over their heads
Complete pass! OMG the waste and I wonder what they will do with the back yard.
There is rich ppl and there’s poor ppl. Get over it. Rich ppl can do what they want with their money. If you were rich I’m sure you wouldnt want to live in a small box.
@@jdos5643Counterpoint: letting the rich do whatever tf they want just because they're rich is why corporations control our government and our lawmakers keel tow to lobbyists and special interest dark money. We live in late stage capitalism hell. The rich aren't more hard working, morally righteous or above the law by virtue of their wealth- they're just rich.
It's not your point, I detest. I care little about their house and their shitty taste. But your mindset is deplorable and elitist.
Then go live in North Korea 🇰🇵 or another communist country. This is a capitalist society. You have the option to become just as rich 🤑 if you want it.
This level of wealth only exists because others are exploited. It's immoral to be this rich. It's immoral to hoard so much while others die from your exploitation. That shouldn't be a controversial take.
I am shocked that they still have any money left with how recklessly they spend. It is sad to me that so many people have so little while people like this spend so carelessly and tastelessly
Seriously, they might want to pay their employees a bit more, ugh. Gross.
u could get a gold toilet like trump
It might be worth 200 mill but they have to try and sell it first and it’ll end up on a video of unsellable home’s eventually 😂😂
Mansions like this need to be used for homeless people if they cant sell it, im tired of these abandoned mansions when there's still homeless people.
So i admit i have a chip on my shoulder where the ultra-wealthy are concerned. i've lived in my state my entire life, and i've watched these past several years as these wealthy people have come in and made things harder for the rest of us -- those of us whose families have been here for generations, built the tax base, supported the schools and filled the cemeteries; we're getting priced out because these guys want to come and play and / or take over. Two examples: Rupert Murdoch has a place in state and our governor is a billionaire. So people like the Siegels don't impress me, they just make me angry.
Agree, I’m an Aussie and I won’t read or watch any thing Murdoch owns 🙄
@@KatieB33 i wish America was as smart as Australia in some very key things, banning Murdoch being one of them.
@@tamaramartin4015 100% agree on banning Murdoch he’s an insidious little man.
I feel like once they actually finish the home, their kids will be grown and gone, so they'll want to "downsize." So to offset the costs of the home, they'll turn it into a wedding venue, which kinda feels like the original idea when planning it anyways!
Only middle class people "downsize". The rich don't.
I’m sorry “A LITTLE BIT tacky”?!! 😂😂😂😂 Sir you are too kind.
real tacky
When you said she has a fake jet in her morning kitchen, I couldn't begin to guess what that meant and I thought I misheard. And now having seen it I'm somehow even more confused. A jet is a weird thing to associate with food because your sense of taste is diminished when you fly. Something to do with cabin pressure and humidity and altitude. I can't pretend to understand.
I thought Lisa Frank was dead, but I guess if you have enough money you can get anyone to do your portrait, afterlife-be-damned.
Makes Neuschwanstein Castle look minimalist
It's amazing what's possible when money and taste aren't an object.
They're living in a casino too tacky for Vegas but, too rich for Laughlin.
It takes only one matchstick to destroy this whole American building. European mansion like that is stone built and after a fire can be restored.
I live in FL, and this house almost didn't get built. It was stalled completely when the stock market crashed, and they tried to sell it, but couldn't.
Just FYI -- about the maids' rooms in the basement having windows, under Florida law, a basement room has to have an egress window large enough for a person to climb out through. All basement bedrooms are supposed to be along the outside walls, I believe, but don't hold me to that. That floor plan doesn't look like they are, but the rooms could be connected to each other, so inside bedrooms could get to the windows to get out if necessary. Each room also has to have a sprinkler. I'm sure this house has a massive fire suppression system.
Not sure if you heard but there is a musical starring Kristin Chenoweth and F. Murray Abraham currently in development about this story. It's called Queen of Versailles. Written by Stephen Schwartz and Lindsey Ferrentino.
If “being rich doesn’t mean you have good taste” was a couple 🙄…
Haha 😆
A textbook example of how money can’t buy style. There are people that have way less money than Jackie who have more beautiful houses. If I had the amount of money that Jackie has, I would have built myself a modest mid century brick ranch house. Outside of my necessities, I would’ve used the rest of the money for experiences like theme parks, water parks, diners, and flea markets.
I've visited historic homes and seen the houses of the rich in paintings. This mansion doesn't look like a real home of the rich, it looks like a set designer's idea of a home for the rich.
I have a pretty big home with a gigantic terrace. We already have all amenities (gym, office, laundry room, wardrobe room and guest room) and we still have 2 empty rooms that serve no use.
I watched the video to see if I could find an inspiration but now I still think that my idea of having a fart room and a sex room is more serious than this dystopian house 😵💫
When you said "inlaid jewels on the floor". WHAT? That dining room reminds me of Lincoln, as in the former president. Here's the thing: This has nothing to do with Versailles. I mean, in extravagance? Yes. In style? No. This reminds me of a shopping mall. (One episode was enough - until they show actual finished photos/video!).
I’m always anazed how so many rich people can’t seem to find proper portraitists - there’s the Grand Central Atelier in New York which I’m sure is chock-full of talented youngsters waiting for a huge commission, not to mention the number of classical prodigies from Korea and China,.and they settle for that Inferior Thomas Kinkade atrocity. John Ruskin would have a field day discussing the psychology of aesthetics and morality.(or lack thereof).
My Favorite thing about this Video is your Sense of
Humor -you had me rolling “Seagulls”
I am living for your shade, DD. Where to begin? Those columns in the ballroom look like pencils. They need to be more substantial to create intrigue at the masked balls, amirite?
As low class as this us; dont call it an en-suite or primary. Call it the the "master" bedroom and bathroom.😂
The ex wife of Australian billionaire James Packer described living in the Sydney Harbourside mansion as like living in a Westfiled (shopping centre..
If you have a bedroom you have to have a window or door to the outside. It’s code. in case of a fire the person in the room should have a way out and/or firemen a way inside
Trash meets gaud.
The proportions all look wrong in the video, columns seem too narrow inside, the mansard roof doesn't look right with the building, and so on. If the decorative elements will be for real like what's shown, they just didn't opt to get specialists in the respective fields to design something amazing. And for that amount of money, you could buy and make absolutely splendid a pretty fantastic chateau in France, and then you'd have real elements. But then, probably no bowling alley, no English pub, so there is that.
Agreed. There are so many elements that could make it look grand, but this just isn’t it 🫣
I absolutely agree.
I don't know if it is because of my european viewing habits, but visiting a castle over here, the sheer thickness of the built stonewalls matches not just the real, but also the visual weight of the decoration. Without that, this ornamentation subconcously feels like a cheap copy to me, e.g. what one could find in an amusementpark.
Please excuse me for any mistakes in my spelling or grammar.
@@blackphonepink8027 I now live in Europe too, so maybe that makes it more apparent how incorrect the proportions are. And don't worry, your writing was perfect.
That’s not a home. It’s an expensive way of admitting you have no love in your life.
As a french, i"m comptely schoked by the ego of this people, in a country where the health care is so bad, having a home like this is a felony, transform the half in a hospital or a shelter.
I"m not rich , i"m just a vet, i have a little family mansion near the french riviera, i have rescue horses,donkeys cats, dogs, loud parrots etc and i built a shelter for homeless people and their animals, some of them have a degree now and money to take care of animals and garden. They're my trustworthy team.
And remember, in France, health care is completly free for the poorest and like 15 euros for an exam like RMI, think about that !
the rich never looked more tasty
I need a second video. Where is this thing even going??
If and when it actually gets completed I will have to do a full official review
I watched the progress of this house years ago. They had to bail for awhile because of a downturn in his business due to a recession. It sat unfinished for several years. Mostly the old video showed them squabbling and the dogs having accidents. It was pretty gross. In some fairness. they have a whole bunch of kids. The husband was up there in years. I'm assuming he is still alive.
You need a golf cart to get to the rooms so of course you need 10 kitchens just to be near at least one if you decide on a snack or drink
I thought the documentary was about them going bankrupt for fraud and not being able to finish building?
They’ve been building for 25 years it seems! When they did the show “Wife Swap” they were living in a very modest home.
I’d have to Uber to the kitchen for breakfast!
William Randolph Hearst built the outré Hearst Castle outside of San Simeon, California. Stunning. If you've never been there, you really should go. Some of it is so gorgeous, and some of it just yuck (at least not to my taste, but then gaudy doesn't appeal to me). Maybe the Siegals were using it as an inspiration, but they couldn't bring any real châteaux bits over from France or monasteries from Italy, and pubs from England, so they got knock-offs. To each his/her own, I guess.
The epitome of just because you can, doesn't mean you should
LOL! I never heard of Jackie Siegel until this video. And now I wish I hadn't! Thanks a lot, Design Daddy! 🤣🤣🤣
Didn’t Jeff Lewis go try to help years ago & criticized the design & the husband got mad. Jeff didn’t want the job
Obviously they were not thinking about reselling in the future 😂
Agreed Phoenix, not sure I would call that a home. Would be interesting to know how much of it they actually live in when it gets done. I'm also picturing a tv show a 150 years from now set in that place called "The Gaudy Age" BTW how many square feet is the average condo in TO?
Woof, fixing this mess into a stylish home would be a full-time nightmare and cost way too much 😬 They're in too deep at this point, I hope for them that this is their forever home!
OMG I didn’t realize she was the airplane person 😅 the rest of this “house” is just as wrong
Haha! That’s how we will refer to her from now on 🤣
I guess I won’t feel bad for not knowing who the hell she is. 😂
Look more like a some kind of Royal style Resort :)
The basement looks like the Chamber of Secrets from Harry Potter, the only thing they didn't show was the basilisk :D
As a Floridian, I am also confused on why they are building it here lol
So LV/CC throw pillows! Migraine.
Hahaha! Screams money 🤣🤣
Reminds me of the movie Brewster’s Millions
Oh lord her kids names are David, Daniel, Debbie, Drew, and twins, Jacqueline and Jordan the daughters have the grandmothers name and mothers name eeeew . No imagination.
If I were that wealthy, I would help the less fortunate. I do what I can now, but with that, one could really do some good. This is just disgusting. I don't like anything about this "house".
We need a bigger , more expensive word for TACKY
Gaudy and garish, it's totally classless.
I actually liked the kitchen...it had its own style and the chandelier was likely made from Murano glass Italy which is fairly expensive. For sure it wasnt the worlds ugliest home..sterile Kardashians home is on top of the list to my taste.
It's giving money laundry
yikes!! this is tragic. and its still not done?!?!
Tragic
Give me a well-built historic home over these fugly mcmansions any day!
I think what upsets me most about just the build itself is its future. If it doesn't stay in the family if the kids don't keep using it and upkeeping it after the parents are gone its just gonna rot. No one is going to buy this no one is gonna want this overly stylized poorly designed chunk of building materials that hardly qualifies as a home. All that work all those materials its just going to end up wasted if the family decides they don't want to keep it. Especially as its being designed based on what they want now with no real thought to the future. Is anything in there energy efficient or anything like that how is the upkeep going to be managed idk all I see is waste waste waste
Funny you mention the housing crisis. You did say they wanted to build a Palace of Versailles in Florida and I think they hit it out of the park. I've been to the Palace of Versailles and It's amazing but it's also disgusting, because all of that grandeur and opulence and marble and tapestry and mirrors (which were more valuable than gold by weight at the time due to difficulty to manufacture) was built as people were starving in the streets of Paris. So yeah, I'd say mission accomplished.
I liked the dark crown molding in the kitchen and the stained glass window of the peacock (I think), though I would have that window in a different room, like the bathroom for privacy. I do like some of the details because I do like ornate, but it is just too much.
The size is also ridiculous. I cannot imagine a single family needing that much space, unless they literally had a dozen young kids that were still growing up and they entertained like all the time with BIG extended families. And still, with a ballroom like that (though some of the details were beautiful, it all seems like a bit much in one space) I would expect them to be hosting charity balls several times a year. This makes me think of beyond wealthy vampires (especially that ballroom with all the mirrors).
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Calling it “Ugly” is a compliment for that mausoleum. This is what people do when they have no talent or purpose to keep them focused on outward preoccupations…, they surround themselves with dead opulence.
You look stunning today.
A house like this is not worth $200,000,000. It is worth what someone is willing to pay. Somehow, I doubt that many super-rich would be willing to pay that much (unless Russian or Arab, perhaps) because they all have their own ideas (usually tacky) of the perfect home.
The owners of this have no idea when to stop. There were several OTT items that might have looked good on their own. Unfortunately, they seem to believe that if one is good, one hundred is 'gooder'.
What the hell do they do for money?!
I feel like there's potential in this house. They just need to scale back the opulence by 30-40%.
Detail and quality finishes can be beautiful. But there's a line where beauty becomes tacky. The finest designers know where that line is.
Money can't buy you class as LuAnn DeLesseps sang. The house is butt ygly IMO, but Jackie herself is quite delightful. I saw her on an episode of Below Deck
I’ve heard that! I haven’t seen that myself but I’ll have to check it out!
Still doesn’t come close to the square footage of the Biltmore House in Asheville, NC, which is actually the official largest privately owned house in the US at a whopping 178,926 sq feet. Built 129 years ago and still astronomically more tasteful and iconic than this McMansion could ever hope to be.
The Biltmore house in North Carolina is bigger at 178,926 square feet right?
Sorry I should have clarified, yet the britmore is the largest house, this ‘Versailles’ is the largest SINGLE family dwelling.
I would like to see floral arrangements
David A. Siegel (timeshare company) is worth around 500 million usd according to Celebrity Net Worth.
There's another David Siegel (Two Simga Investments) worth over 6 billions.
They're not the same person.
Before the 2008 crash, David A. Siegel estimated his net worth to be almost 2 billion dollars... yet he could never complete that damn house? 24 years after they started and it's still not done?
You, saying someone else is over the top…….😂 go figure. Would have been good to actually SEE the home you’re talking about.
The Gilded Age is back big time.
So there's a documentary of when they started building and then had to stop because (I think) they ran out of money OR the hubby was under investigation and their assets were frozen OR both? But from what I recall, she had a lot of kids, like 6 or 10. So by the time you give each child their own room, bathroom, wardrobe, the house is going to get pretty big. The irony of the kids now getting too old for the home that was created for them! It's just sad. Sad to have so much wealth that all you can do is show off your wealth! Imagine how many homeless people could be housed with just a 3rd of what they spent so far! AND they could have still built a beautiful home!
10 kitchens?!🤨
It is disgusting . They can use this money in something more productive for humanity.
Yes offense to Florida for this unnecessarily huge house they (the owners) probably don’t even spend a lot of time in. This is a “I have it because I just want it” purchase. Crazy!
What’s the video about home decor items of ultra wealthy? I can’t find it
I’m so sorry I’m realizing that is next weeks video! I messed up the order of them coming, stay tuned! That one’s gunna be a good one!
I love you in velvet.👏
I watched _The Queen of Versailles_ . She actually seems like a nice person, but omg... taste is not in her vocabulary. It's too much of EVERYTHING X100
🌹..Just want to mention, any butterfly motifs are in memory of their daughter. 🕊
I love ypur blazer, it looks fabulous on you
i'm just going to call this the zip code house. Good lord.
I’m sure it has its own area code 🤣🤣🤣
@@mrphoenixgrey No lie there.
Haha. I lived in a downtown high rise that had its own zip code, so it is possible.
Uncouth display of wealth!
Only thing i like is the commitment to building their dream home. The rest is too much
not to be shady towards you, but that house has been beat to death already.. what's worse is for the amount they are worth (now) they must not have a lot of cash on hand because why isn't the house finished? like they have dabbled here there on it for 20 years now.. that's atrocious.
She's one of those people who loves purple and the people who love purple have no chill with the amount of purple they have in their home and nobody does this with any other color it's only purple people. And they usually have no design taste whatsoever
Oh, she's the fake jet lady. Gross.
In the future they could turn it into a get away place for people.
Right? I’m thinking an amusement park 🤣
@@mrphoenixgreyall inclusive getaway
Florida! No!
King Louis XIV would turn in his grave, if he knew that they compare this ugly tasteless Lego-hut to his Versailles!😂😂😂
if i were this rich i would buy myself island that's completely self sustaining. to be prepared for the zombie apocalypse
This is the lady from Married With Children...?
Omg…..her husband must love her a lot