It’s only been two months since Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen listed their estate in the upscale Boston suburb of Chestnut Hill, but that’s not preventing the duo from giving the ask a considerable whack—a little more than 14% off the top brings the price down to $33.9 million. An aggressive reduction.
The duo brought L.A.-area architect Richard Landry in to design the home, which was completed in 2015. The postmodern amalgam features exterior architecture inspired by American mansions of the 19th and early 20th centuries, with multiple chimneys, dormer windows, and even an ornamental cupola lookout that appears to have been liberated in the dead of night from a Hamptons estate. Intense, but not without playfulness.
The home’s interiors begin from the shelter of a deeply recessed entry, launching into a thoroughly traditional-contemporary feel that is bright, inviting, and comforting. No grandiose foyer here; the results are quite tasteful.
At its best, the house presents a living style that is joyously uncomplicated, establishing a pleasing dialogue with its setting along the way. A living room flanked by massive steel-framed casement windows and French doors, a strongly flavored farmhouse-style kitchen, and a solarium dayroom opening onto the exterior living area that features a wall in whitewashed brick are two gems in the roughly 10,000 square feet of interior living space.
There are five bedrooms and seven baths in all; a detached guest cottage on the property allows for extended visits, and a zero-edge pool is situated at a generous remove from the main house. The grounds extend to about five acres, with forest, gardens and rolling lawns all present and accounted for.