With our two oldest children at college age, Tami and I decided this Spring to put our house on the market and explore downsizing into a home that more neatly fits a family of 5.
Our house has a distinctive story, even in an upscale market like Greenwich. We did a gut renovation of the home in 2005 — such a gut renovation that the home is really a 2005 replica of an 1840′s farmhouse that was expanded into a family mansion in 1900.
Unlike most of the recent new homes in Greenwich, we didn’t do a tear-down and build-back. When we designed the renovation, we wanted to keep the original proportions of the rooms, which were uncharacteristically large and distinguished. We also wanted to respect the way that the house was situated on the property; it had once been the main house for a 250+ acre working farm, and the way that the house looks out to the west is really special.
The interest has prompted a number of different news stories. The most fun for Tami and I was a short feature that ran this weekend on the LX.TV show Open House.
Here it is:
