Fifty shades of grey

SQUARE SHUTTERS, BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

11 Partridge Hollow Road cut its price to $5.150 million today. That’s an improvement over the $6.695 million sought in 2015, when this house was newly-built, but it may be a while before these owners find a buyer with the same bold fearlessness they themselves displayed when they chose to build so far out of town. Regardless, it’s a nice house, and I’m sure someone will come along, eventually, and relieve the owners of possession. What I found amusing is that a 2013 Greenwich Magazine puff piece on an earlier construction project by this couple (they build, but don’t seem to stay for long, if they ever move in at all), quoted their decorator on the owners’ tastes:

“They’re not afraid to take chances with color,” says the designer. “It’s wonderful; it’s a bonus. They love gray. In New York they had an entire room covered in gray flannel and they wanted to keep it pivotal in the new house.”

The decorator was right: pictures of that house show that it was in fact almost exclusively painted grey. And so is this one. I’m not sure how one reconciles “not afraid to take chances with color” with such a neutral color scheme, but perhaps these owners are ex-Navy. My own father was, and he taught me the timeless naval adage,

“If it moves, salute it.

If it doesn’t move, pick it up.

If you can’t pick it up, paint it grey.”

I don’t think this house is moving anywhere quickly, and any heavy lifting will only be found in the process of finding a buyer, so … get out the paint.

GREY GOES ON SAFARI