what?! I LOVE this house! They shouldn't have any trouble selling it. What a great time capsule. At least it looks like they have taken very good care of it - making renovations much easier. Just swap out some of the carpeting, light fixtures and bathroom cabinets with minimalist pieces, and you have an insta-mod, super funky pad.
With another 100G and a Sherwin-Williams franchise this house could be a showplace. It is a spectacular structure with great potential to be a comfortable home. I would love to have the finances to buy & tackle that project!
omg! I really don't like it... it looked almost like a drawing, i wasn't sure if it real. Plus, the outside of the house looks like a medical building.
I will never joke about the "Mondrian" cabinets in a college rental house again - all the counters and cabinet frames were black with bright primary colors on all the non-similar rectangular doors and drawer fronts - quite the shocker in the morning after a late night of ________!
I will give them credit for using one color palate in a variety of ways to give each room an individual or unique 'feel' while remaining part of the whole house. I just don't think I would
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personally feel 'at ease' waking up to that, much less dealing with all the 'visual clutter' on the shelves and walls.
I too feel less is more. I like being in a 'quiet" room and remaining free to engage in whatever activity is of interest, rather than being engaged in the atmosphere of the room. Sort of reminds me of a 1990's Applebees, or TGI Fridays. LOL
"Awe!" (3 syllables 'cause I'm in the south) come on you all! Someone spent a lot of time and money on this place! ..... @VP J and KMS - I was there! .... @Lili L - 70's, it replaced "Harvest Gold!" ... or was that vice versa?!
Between this house and the Google offices in Russia: same decorator must work for Carnival Cruise Lines--and to think, I was under the impression that Mylar wallpaper had died and been forgotten. The more I think about the house in TN, the more I think that the owners should sell it to someone who can run it as a bed and breakfast for people who want to feel like they're living in the Days of Elvis (whenever that was). I remember some of my parents' friends having decorators who did this
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stuff for MONEY and were very "cutting edge" back in their day.
I believe that we have indeed gotten so used to bland that it's what we expect. Having bought and sold houses over all the years I've moved around the country, I do know that people expect bland, though they warm up to comfortable and non-offensive colors, so I usually let my art work bring the color into the room and pick some flesh tone or soft tone that is common in the works to paint the walls. I would love LOVE love to paint a house that really reflected what I needed and felt--but no one would buy it unless they saw the 'potential' of the house or related to the colors the way I would. Oh well...I will keep putting up 'interesting' artwork on neutral walls...
Am in the middle of having reno work done so that the house can be put on the market. What bothers me is that I am putting in what is popular (not what *I* like necessarily) and every ad for a sale house reads that it has the same things: bronze fixtures and stainless steel kitchen appliances--two things that would not attract me even if they are tres chic and en vogue.
Well said, Helene. Personally, I want to live in a space that reflects who I am and that makes me feel good, and if that results in some loss of re-sale value, I'm fine with that.
I will give them credit for using one color palate in a variety of ways to give each room an individual or unique 'feel' while remaining part of the whole house. I just don't think I would ...»
I too feel less is more. I like being in a 'quiet" room and remaining free to engage in whatever activity is of interest, rather than being engaged in the atmosphere of the room. Sort of reminds me of a 1990's Applebees, or TGI Fridays. LOL
I believe that we have indeed gotten so used to bland that it's what we expect. Having bought and sold houses over all the years I've moved around the country, I do know that people expect bland, though they warm up to comfortable and non-offensive colors, so I usually let my art work bring the color into the room and pick some flesh tone or soft tone that is common in the works to paint the walls. I would love LOVE love to paint a house that really reflected what I needed and felt--but no one would buy it unless they saw the 'potential' of the house or related to the colors the way I would. Oh well...I will keep putting up 'interesting' artwork on neutral walls...
Am in the middle of having reno work done so that the house can be put on the market. What bothers me is that I am putting in what is popular (not what *I* like necessarily) and every ad for a sale house reads that it has the same things: bronze fixtures and stainless steel kitchen appliances--two things that would not attract me even if they are tres chic and en vogue.