That is a very strange house.

The stair railing is striking, but makes no engineering sense to me.

It's really interesting but I do not understand the lumpy, ugly, upholstered furniture. I like the juxtaposition of old and modern though.

I like how they preserved at least the wall, and the combo of the two styles is very interesting. On the inside, I find all the windows and views very attractive.

Better than just destroying the place which is what they are planning on doing in Danbury.

The views are wonderful, but the furnishings look to me like they didn't budget for that part of the home and then didn't have the funds for it. It may have something to do with it being used for rentals and events, though, and not a home that someone lives in.

I don't think they preserved a wall. It was built that way.

Honestly I didn't pay attention to the furniture. But it does look like furniture for a rental.

It was a corporate rental @ 11,000 a month. Claims are that the downside was only a 1 car garage !!

The wall is my favorite part. I think it's really interesting!

I see a bit of the "contemporary turret" in my neck of the woods on big mansions. This is nicer on the inside than most I've seen but maybe a little gangly/outsized on the outside for my taste.

The inside to me would flow a little better if they decided on antique or contemporary and kinda stuck with it for the architecture and fittings. I see some ultra-contemporary, some suburban boxy, some transitional and some quasi medieval going on. E.g. where did that kitchen come from?

Robo said pretty much exactly what I was thinking.

At least it is castle sized. Here is the one near me, it is a common marker for directions, i.e. "Take the first right after the castle". The funniest is trash day as they hang the glad bags from the gnomes on the gate columns.

Annette's example is the more typical one I am used to seeing.

I think "Castle" in the description lowers the bar (possibly a lot). So while the interior architecture of this house has some definite inconsistencies, I think it is nice (for a castle). I don't know how many of you follow new builds on the Building a Home forum, but I think the interiors are stylistically at least as consistent if not more consistent than many of the builds taking place in the forum.

This castle is pre WW2 but not by much. The owner was an actor and had great design sense. The interior is fascinating as well.

Gillette Castle

It's way too big, but I kind of like the modern take on the old ruined castle look. When I was a kid I used to try to draw out floor plans of my dream houses. Influenced by the 1970s books about earth-bermed homes, I wanted a house built into a hillside where the entrance looked like the ruins of an old castle, and had a foyer that overlooked the rest of the house interior with lots of windows, kind of an upside down plan, with bedrooms on the bottom. I guess I was a weird kid with a passion for old German castles :).

Annette, the gnome castle came to mind as well with this thread :). We drive by it every once in a while. DH's coworker thinks it is creepy.

Speaking of ill-conceived 1980s castles, courtesy of Jeff Cook, a member of the band Alabama.