PRINCETON, N.J. – Stories about lucky heirs and their unusual fortunes return tomorrow night on FOX Business Network’s (FBN) hit reality series, Strange Inheritance, and will feature a local couple.
Sandy and Tim Perkins, who now live in Hopewell, inherited an original, furnished French chateau that was moved to a Princeton address.
Strange Inheritance host Jamie Colby talks about the home‘s furnishings.
“This is one part of the chateau that is most impressive. From the gilded front doors to the light fixtures, plaster detail and furnishings. So much of this home is authentic ‘Vanderbilt,”’ she said.
The Perkins renovated the house after it fell into serious disrepair when the previous owners, Sandy’s mom and her stepfather became elderly and could no longer maintain it.
The couple loves the home that they restored to its original features.
Colby states that Sandy loves the house, “and has been probably the most patient home renovation partner…”
She said the couple planned a yearlong project that spanned more than a decade, and according to Sandy, her husband Tim was more than convincing about bringing the chateau back to its original glory days “despite so many issues they endured” to get it to its magnificence today.
Sandy and her siblings inherited the home in 2000 and her and her husband have been living on the property since around 2005 while they were rehabbing the main mansion.
According to Colby, the chateau is “big enough that we may not have seen all it has to offer!” She said it has more than one couple needs, and that it even has an indoor swimming pool that is spectacular, period appropriate in design and elegant.
Strange Inheritance is in its fourth season on FBN, and according to Colby they recently shot their 100th episode of a family’s inheritance.
Tomorrow night, the show will start at 9 to 10 p.m. EST.
During the first half hour, the episode is entitled, “Screen Gems,” where a mother and son inherit 200,000 pieces of jewelry worn in classic Hollywood movies.
The next half-hour episode at 9:30 p.m. is entitled “Gilded Age Money Pit,” featuring the Perkins from Princeton, where Sandy is a retired school teacher who inherits a French chateau that has been moved to New Jersey and is filled with furnishings from the Vanderbilts’ mansions.
The reality series chronicles stories of inheritances from people and places across the country. Folks with inheritance stories that they would like to share can email them to jamie@strangeinheritance.com.
Colby says that they consider hundreds of submissions from their viewers and that they find at least half of the 26 half-hour shows on their own each season.
