In Greenwich that's a garage with an attached pantry.
In Greenwich you can buy a garage with an attached pantry for about the same amount of money.
The house has a lot of beautiful detail inside, and the cost of those details, particularly in today's world, is substantial. For example, the circular dining room alone has several thousand dollars of wood trim on the walls and window and floor.
In today's world, abundant square footage is often confused with opulence. I saw homes in Northern Virginia that were 4,000 square feet of sheetrock and crappy trim. They'd go for a million dollars. One year later the paint on the exterior, finger-jointed fascia boards was peeling, the crappy OSB sub floors were moving away from the crappy pine trim baseboards and so on.
I remember one woman, first winter (in northern VA!) called the contractor in a panic because her 1,000 gallon, in ground oil tank was leaking. It was February. Contractor asks why she thinks it's leaking. She says because it's empty. He says, "you just used it all, it's not leaking, get it refilled." At 2 bucks a gallon back then she had blown through 2 grand worth of oil. Woops. I guess the excessive use of dormers and gables and foyers combined with 3.5 inches of crappy fiberglass insulation and your preference for 73 degrees in every cubic inch of the house, including the basement, is a costly affair. But hey, you got 4,000 square feet and you have a 900k mortgage, so it must be luxurious, right?
The Pearl house is nice. Very nice. In fact, I think it's beautiful, and, if aliens infected my brain and I thought i might want to spend about 2 million on a house, that would be a great house for that price, particularly when you consider what a million would get you in a DC suburb (or around NYC).
My one complaint about the property would be on the outside. I very much dislike the very tall roof design. Roofs are generally not an attractive feature of a house. They can be adorned with copper and details that make them less unattractive, but generally they are not something to which an eye should be drawn. Pearl's house screams, "look at what a big roof I've got. It's big and it's tall." From the front, the roof looks like a yoodler's hat.
And, finally, I'm glad to see that Pearl is still a lying sack of crap. He's such a pathological liar and professional huckster that he doesn't even know he's doing it. His quip on the sale, "“Now that I’m not the basketball coach and may not be doing quite as much entertaining, it’s bigger than what we need.” Really Bruce?
