Chandler Mansion, Estate of the Day
I mentioned this one back in 2006 but it deserves another look with some new pictures. There's a reason it's been on the market for a long time, it appeals to a very particular style. This eight-bedroom home in Chandler, Arizona has a manor style that seems rather out of place in the Southwest. The home was built in the 1980s by someone with a taste for the baroque. It is on over 11 acres and the home itself has over 13,600 square feet of space. Most of the furniture is remaining with the house because it was purchased for the home. The home also has an English bar with a pool table, a large theater room, game room, wine cellar and two workout rooms. The estate also includes a guest house, gardeners house and a garage that can hold 15 cars. Murals, stained glass and an amazing barrel vaulted library room all contribute to the overall sense of English style gone theme park. A Sotheby's listing shows the home at an even $10 million but the property website has it at $8.8 million. It was listed at $11.5 million back in 2006.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jay Aug 18th 2008 1:21PM
"Baroque"? "Manor style"? Please!
This house has no architectural style.
(And I have no idea what 'manor style" is, anyhow.)
Really, you should only post these hideous houses if you're going to make fun of them.
Northwood or La Leopolda deserve proper attention.
But, houses like this, not so much.
Rich Aug 18th 2008 2:30PM
Who'da thunk that Dracula would be a desert retiree?
jkc Aug 18th 2008 4:29PM
Good one.......
jkc Aug 18th 2008 4:34PM
(I was refering to the Dracula comment)
DTOlness Aug 18th 2008 10:12PM
I think this house may spend quite a long time on the market without doing some sort of redecoration!
kenny17995 Aug 19th 2008 1:13AM
the color and decoration choices are just awful. nothing seems to go together. the home doesn't seem comforting.
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Tex Aug 19th 2008 7:17AM
Ugly then....
.........ugly now!
joeybrill Aug 19th 2008 11:04AM
The rich buyer will be very very stoned and into dungeons & dragons. He must LOVE LARGE statuary. It sounds like a Craigslist posting from hell.
The lighting fixtures are too big. The fake skylight in the kitchen should be demolished. The walls and ceilings should be repainted. The murals should be painted with Kilz so the colors do not bleed through.
Throw away every plastic plant!
My Little Pony, Neptune, Eagle, and Angel need to go outside and keep the lawn company.
Mark Aug 19th 2008 11:27AM
I think this architect did a few places for Cardinal Wolsey and Thomas a Becket.
Berkeley Beth Aug 19th 2008 11:24PM
Who owns this home.
Seriously the decor, the furniture, the accent items, they are all hideous.
I would not give them even one million.
It is just plain tacky taste inside and out.
Goes to show you, having money does not mean having any taste.
Nelson Aug 25th 2008 10:39AM
I would rather be homeless than live in this disaster...
Megan Aug 31st 2008 10:21AM
I am a house aficianado and I have to say, despite some of the negativity above, I think that it has potential. What I believe the main issue is, and someone said it above, is that it isn't comforting. I think that there is TOO much stuff...everywhere.
The small dining room could benefit from the removal of the tile and the TV from the walls. In many of the rooms because the woodwork is so dark (and there is way too much of it) either they need more lighting or to put up warm colored paintings to off set. In the large dining room and the home theatre, the paint color/wallpaper and flooring colors need to be changed. In the billard room, there needs to be a large rug under the pool table to offset the dark walls, ceiling and floors.
I think the large statuary has to be repositioned, removed or relocated. The mural above the fireplace in the library is too jarring and needs to be changed if not eradicated all together.
Jay, a home has a style even if you don't understand it. I believe the outside of the house is chateau and the inside is gothic. Weird combo, definitely, but it is a style. Right now if I was to renamed this I would have to call it "Dracula opens a bordello."
Mike B. Sep 10th 2008 3:55PM
I think Gene Wilder would like this house. A shame that Peter Boyle, Madeline Kahn and Marty Feldman couldn't join him. The library was sort of cool, minus the smoking cigar, of course !