I was a bit confused at first: the casework, fixtures, and interior stonework suggests a period home; the exterior doesn’t. Yet those exterior materials would not be used in a historic rehab. Luckily, the virtual tour’s Design & Construction tab states this is a newer home. Kudos on the interiors, then!

Although… it also says the interior columns are structural. How does that work, given their weird, segmented design? What happens when the house settles? There isn’t a lot of design tolerance to accommodate much movement. Ancient columns were often built of layered, horizontal slabs anchored together inside with bronze spikes. That wouldn’t help a lot here, as the sections are taller than they are wide. While these look pretty good, I’d have used another ancient technique – plastering over the entire column to make it look like one giant piece of stone. Much more impressive. And it’s not like the designer was trying to be “honest” with his/her materials. The exterior stonework is not structural (or even structural looking) and the fancy “plaster” ceiling in the living room is admittedly just painted tin!

There are some interesting pics at the bottom of that Design & Construction tab, in part showing the bent plywood core of the “stone” towers being hoisted into place. Not what I expected. (Nor are the multiple spelling and grammatical errors at both the listing and the virtual tour.)

As for the generators… if one of the honored “guests” decides to join in the pool party, the results will be positively electrifying! Because it just ain’t a party unless you go home totally fried.