Like the kitchen, but the rest is all Very Particular Tastes, in a rococo direction. You have to love marble, etc., or expect to spend big to get rid of it!

Yikes - I hate all the marble (or marble-looking) surfaces -- way too busy for my taste, and probably very expensive to replace. You'd have to have the same tastes as the people who decorated it. Of course, there might have been other things that caused them to get lower than they thought, but I suspect that the owners expected everyone to love their aesthetic as much as they do - and were mistaken.

You can’t buy style.

It’s chaotic. There’s no natural flow for the eyes to follow nor is there any place for the eye to rest because all the elements compete with each other to be the “star”.
It’s so gaudy it looks cheap.

Hard to imagine living in a soulless place like that. Lot's of bling doesn't mean good taste.

Nice kitchen ..the rest is horrible

How is the location?

The marble floor in the main living space near the stairs has to go. I'd tear that out and match the hardwood that's on the other side. The marble bathrooms are not so bad. You can "de-glam" a bit by putting in different light fixtures and put in plain white vessel sinks instead of the copper ones. Change the faucets to a satin brass and you're good to go.

Mcmansion moved inside still horrible no matter where it is put. I am not really undestanding the question or your comments but that would be a run don't walk for me on every space except the kitchen , the kitchen actully is very classy the rest I love the Tony Soprano comment.

I think pleballerina’s ”chaotic” sounds right.

Someone with no taste chose the decor.

There’s a flipped house in my small town like this. Every wall surface, inside and out, is gray. All counters and fixtures and appliances (kitchen and bathrooms) are black. Every floor is black/gray zebra-stripey engineered wood, which doesn’t go with the walls. And is way overpriced.

It's easy to repaint, so all gray walls wouldn't bother me. Black appliances are easier to replace than marble wall tiles.

Where is the house?

I would say Middle East or Canada with Middle Eastern owners?

There's an old saying; "All their taste is in their mouth!" Why do you care anyway, Tia?

The problem with the two bathrooms is the sharp contrast between the two types of marble which have a lot of veining. Notice in the kitchen, which I think is very nice, the counter top is quite subdued, even though it has veining, compared to the area behind the range.

The general problem, assuming this house is located in the USA, is that a vast expanse of marble with pronounced veining is definitely not in style here. For example, if you google "Italian luxury bath marble" you'll find examples of baths completely done in marble, some with pronounced veining, that are quite beautiful. They do look, IMO, more cohesive than the examples shown here.

The last picture has a similar problem (large area with a marble floor) plus stark contrast with the oriental rugs. Putting aside the rugs for the moment, here's a picture from the Florida Tile website. I wouldn't expect to see a living room floor like that here on Houzz, although it is beautiful, IMO. (Yes, it's porcelain tile, not real marble.)

I agree with chispa - my guess would be Middle Eastern owners.

Speaking of homes that sell for way less, The Daily Mail recently featured a mansion that took $30-some million to build but sold recently for only $9-some million. There aren't a lot of interior shots, but it looks way more reasonable than the original home posted here.

When I worked as a real estate agent I would sometimes comment to buyers about really horrible houses that the sellers used "more dollars than sense (cents)." That seems to fit here.

@wishiwereintheup, the house that sold for $9 mill was in Philadelphia, if I remember correctly. It was quite nice inside and came with around 20 acres and some outbuildings The comment by the realtor was that the top end in that area was $10 mill, so no one was going to pay $30+ mill.

Here are a couple more photos of this house for anyone interested.

Thanks everyone for you thoughts on this!

(Update: the house is in Whitby, Ontario, Canada)

I don't mind the marble splash, but those floors and oversized cabinet handles would need to go.

(The first kitchen I like those floors and the marble, but that weird ceiling is bothering me)

I also don't like all of the palatial marble in the entry or the bathrooms, ditto the very modern crystal chandeliers (that don't even work w/the red Turkish rugs)

This looks very middle eastern or very NJ circa 1995.

What's w/all of the ceilings in that white 'panel'- looking covering?

Did you buy it or what's with the questioning?

" It was listed at ~$5M (was only $0.5M - only 4 years prior) "

I had to look it up now that we got the location, and when it sold for $650K in 2018, it was a 2+1 bedroom/2 bathroom with a single garage. Now it's a full story taller, a 4+1 bedroom/7 bathroom with a triple garage, a pool, and an elevator. It's a new build on an old location.

The kitchen is simple enough. The rest is awful. I would have to rip it all up and redo it. You'd have to pay me to live in this place.

Those bathroom sinks would drive me nuts. I can't imagine wanting bathroom sinks that cause normal hand-washing to run water down the arms to the elbows. I know some put that type of sink in a guest bathroom, but for everyday ablutions, give me a normal sink recessed into the counter every time.

And I have really never cared for the all-over dramatic hard-marble-looking walls/floors/showers/vertical surfaces. I I think it looks like a lobby in a business-y building, and not a comfortable home, and probably creates a cold echo. Can't imagine why anyone would use that zebra flooring either.

Ostentatious

I gotta say I love it. It's over the top but not to the point where it's waaaaaay too much. With a few minor changes could be Old Hollywood Glam. I am disappointed in the first kitchen though and the floors with the rugs on them. Both totally miss the mark. That flooring is awful mix of styles. And those large pulls do need to go. Bakelite looking pulls are just odd. Oh, and that last pic! I thought for sure it was going to be a huge walk-in shower not wine storage.

" I thought for sure it was going to be a huge walk-in shower not wine storage. "

Me too.....maybe it's a temperature controlled wine storage area?

“what is wrong with this house?”

Nothing.

Minor tweaking is all that would be needed.

No house is for everybody. And this house is not for everybody. Is it for me?

Yes.

I think they lost their marbles.