House of the Week: $14 million for an unimaginably grand Bridle Path mansion

36 thoughts on “House of the Week: $14 million for an unimaginably grand Bridle Path mansion”

1. With all of that opulence, why does the interior feel so bland?

2. $14 million? It’s just a giant ugly suburban house with cheap finishes.

3. seriously?

4. Good lord that is ridiculous. At least you’d get a lot of exercise just walking from one room to the next.

   That shot of the foyer is freaking hilarious. And the master bedroom! Cheese-tacular!

5. Wow, that is huge, cold and sterile. I’m grateful for growing up in a slightly cramped house that, despite its knick knacks, faults and 1.5 bathrooms for four kids, had warmth and character.

6. Hoo boy, this house is a semiotic playground! Interesting how often people with serious money want a house with a pre-Revolutionary French nobility vibe. Of all things.

7. UNIMAGINABLE TACKY IS MORE LIKE IT !!!! who owned this house ? the persian mafia ???

8. What a shitbox

9. Wow, for $14 million the finishes are incredibly basic. Talk about underwhelming! Looks like this builder thinks he can put together a crappy house and ask mega bucks for it just because it’s in the Bridle Path area.

10. Unbelievably hideous. $14 million sure can buy you a whole lotta ugly.

11. Liberace called on his Ouija board,He wants his house back.

12. There is not enough money in the world you can throw at this one to make it seem less, garish and ridiculous. I can hear “let them eat cake” echoing in every room.

13. That’s a lot of money to spend without being beachfront at least.

14. I can see potential here. Does the Bridal Path already have a funeral home? That said, if my family tried to drag my dead body here, I’d haunt them forever!

15. Hideous and bland at the same time. What a waste of perfectly good land. Tear it down!

16. It has a few nice features, but so much of it- especially the exterior- is just plain ugly.

17. I want to move here by myself and not cut my hair or fingernails for 30 years…

18. Hahahahaha! Loving the comments on this post.

19. turn in into a school.

20. After looking at a bunch of these I’ve noticed that there clearly is a law of diminishing returns at play. After about $3mm in Toronto, desirability and attractiveness declines at an exponential rate.

21. I want to stand on that staircase and start singing. So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodnight…

22. Now I know why this house has been listed for so long !! LOL… even with the open house about 6 weeks ago and all the Benz and Jag..it still could not move. Awful. Trying auctioning it off for $3mil. Ghastly.

23. listen darlings, call it what you will but don’t call the finishings cheap. The lobby must have cost a fortune and the the attention to artisan detail is appreciated by those who have an understanding of fine craft.

24. yes yes the finishes are fine fine fine….but I would love to see it as a headquarters for Toronto Dog Rescue-Resort. Fill it to the brim with Wiener dogs and all their furry friends and cousins…

25. PC – Sure, there is some fine artisan detail and use of expensive materials, but the house is plain ugly. The bedrooms looks hideously cheap. More thought should have been put into making the space more welcoming, as opposed to big ugly bland rooms. You can put a very expensive gold chain with a dollar sign around a pigs’ neck, but it’s still a pig.

26. I keep coming back to this post, looking at the picture of the foyer, and giggling hysterically.

27. Monstrosities like this are designed for some executives bored wife using 11 different architects, interior designers and decorators. She all of a sudden gets busy with her “project” but realizes she actually has no real design sense so devours magazines and dictates what she wants with obtuse descriptions of the pictures. Alternately, she uses obtuse descriptions of some French or Austrian palace-hotel they stayed at last year. Eventually of course frustration and questionable payments have the staff leaving or being fired, replaced by yet another Name she read about in some magazine.

    This is the end result: a feminine swaddling of boring sameness of an “inspired by” insert historical-architecture term here. At least the Russian’s do it with comical ludicrousness, we just do it with bland effeminacy.

28. I love traditional styled homes-
    it is incredibly spacious- and they could have used more furniture- too much empty space..
    it is gorgeous..one can only dream to own a house like this.
    the bathroom is the size of my overpriced apartment. FML ;(

29. Somebody has to know who owns this…. I have to know … We all want to know. It’s so butt ugly and it reeks of a guy that will listen to nobody and he has probably been padding around this monstrosity by himself since his trophy wife left him .

30. The best room of the house is the wine cellar, the rest is just tasteless, lifeless and well, beige. What a waste of all that marble and material.

    Can’t blame the builder though. A lot of these custom made gaudy mansions are built to the specs of the owner. Builders just deliver the products their clients want, however ugly they are sometimes. Builders can’t argue with these royalty wanna bes if they pay this kind of money.

31. @Rose – oh yes the builder can be blamed for this one! It is his own house.

32. Wait till Dec 21, 2012. Everything will be gone anyway. With all the people suffering we advertise this selfishness

33. Turn it into a homeless shelter…

34. Public Masturbation, that’s what this is.

35. Absolutely pc, but with a derivative approach to design, unencumbered by allegiance to one style or a sense of historical propriety.

36. I would take it for less than $10m

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