Country House With Wild Design Hits the Market for $2.9 Million
The Hudson Valley, New York, compound can comfortably sleep 16 guests.
The house was originally painted run-of-the-mill white.
Source: Sotheby’s International Realty
At the very beginning of Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020, Bradford Shellhammer began to go stir-crazy. Accustomed to constantly crisscrossing the globe as vice president of buyer experience at eBay Inc., Shellhammer suddenly found himself stuck in his Manhattan apartment. In short order he turned to his husband, Georgi Balinov, an investment banker: “I was, like, we need to buy another house,” he says. Specifically, he continued, they needed a country house, preferably in the Hudson Valley.
Husband convinced, Shellhammer headed north. “I basically planned a weekend where two of my best friends came,” he says. “We saw 22 homes. I’d made a list. I’d done the research.”