Color? Pattern? France? Piano? Your house is here!
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So many thoughts...
A lot of times when I see something really overdone like this, I think of the old rule to get dressed and then remove one piece of jewelry. So I tried to picture this house decorated the same way, but less...and it was still awful. I truly don't want anything these people own. It's like a fractal pattern of bad decorating. You can keep looking closer, but it's still the same.
Also, imagine moving to Arizona and not liking sunshine, because so many of the rooms are so very dark. (Can you imagine how much it costs to air condition this thing?)
Speaking of Arizona, the pool area is much more appealing than the house, but it calls my attention to the five acres of green grass. (Minus the footprint of that gargantuan house, so maybe just one, but still.) How expensive and irresponsible is it to maintain that much grass in the desert?
The closet is nice, but I don't need all my clothes behind glass. But maybe they do? I wonder if this is a part-time home and the closet is intended to keep dust off the designer clothes that don't get a lot of wear.
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Now we know where Elon lives. eh eh eh.
“I’m at an age when remembering something right away is as good as an orgasm.”—Gloria Steinem to Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Wiser Than Me
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So many thoughts...
A lot of times when I see something really overdone like this, I think of the old rule to get dressed and then remove one piece of jewelry. So I tried to picture this house decorated the same way, but less...and it was still awful. I truly don't want anything these people own. It's like a fractal pattern of bad decorating. You can keep looking closer, but it's still the same.
Also, imagine moving to Arizona and not liking sunshine, because so many of the rooms are so very dark. (Can you imagine how much it costs to air condition this thing?)
Speaking of Arizona, the pool area is much more appealing than the house, but it calls my attention to the five acres of green grass. (Minus the footprint of that gargantuan house, so maybe just one, but still.) How expensive and irresponsible is it to maintain that much grass in the desert?
The closet is nice, but I don't need all my clothes behind glass. But maybe they do? I wonder if this is a part-time home and the closet is intended to keep dust off the designer clothes that don't get a lot of wear.
@Mary-Anna said in Color? Pattern? France? Piano? Your house is here!:
I think of the old rule to get dressed and then remove one piece of jewelry. So I tried to picture this house decorated the same way, but less...and it was still awful.
@Mary-Anna said in Color? Pattern? France? Piano? Your house is here!:
it calls my attention to the five acres of green grass. (Minus the footprint of that gargantuan house, so maybe just one, but still.) How expensive and irresponsible is it to maintain that much grass in the desert?
Yep, I noticed that too! Not good, not good at all!
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They have the companion to my living room rug! I love that rug. I bought it at Macy’s in Bellingham Washington. I had a hard time deciding between it and the one in the Arizona house.
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@CHAS said in Color? Pattern? France? Piano? Your house is here!:
Now we know where Elon lives. eh eh eh.
I think it's more Trumpesque. Think Mar-a-Lago and the penthouse in Trump Tower. Over the top ornate.
One of the houses that Elon once owned is actually quite lovely.
https://www.hiltonhyland.com/property/2232-westridge-rd-los-angeles-ca-90049-us/
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@CHAS said in Color? Pattern? France? Piano? Your house is here!:
Now we know where Elon lives. eh eh eh.
More like Liberace.
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@Steve-Miller said in [Color? Pattern? France? Piano? Your house is here!](/post/
Big house, small piano.
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Looks like you’d need to sell the furnishings along with the house, because what else would work there?
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The fabrics and papers are beautiful indeed, but if one doesn't know how to put things together they lose a lot. The place looks confused with bad choices made everywhere, from scale to pattern. The large cornices the the bedroom area need realy high ceilings which that place doesn't have. The blue & white checkered rug in the living room ruins what could be a great space.
They've not decided whether each room is going to be focused on walls, ceilings and floors or furnishings which results in a terrible struggle. They got some beautiful materials but it's a shame to see the beauty get lost in the commotion.
The only room I really liked was the tavern because it is more coherent.
I wouldn't have been surprised to find that it was one of Trumps properties.
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So many thoughts...
A lot of times when I see something really overdone like this, I think of the old rule to get dressed and then remove one piece of jewelry. So I tried to picture this house decorated the same way, but less...and it was still awful. I truly don't want anything these people own. It's like a fractal pattern of bad decorating. You can keep looking closer, but it's still the same.
Also, imagine moving to Arizona and not liking sunshine, because so many of the rooms are so very dark. (Can you imagine how much it costs to air condition this thing?)
Speaking of Arizona, the pool area is much more appealing than the house, but it calls my attention to the five acres of green grass. (Minus the footprint of that gargantuan house, so maybe just one, but still.) How expensive and irresponsible is it to maintain that much grass in the desert?
The closet is nice, but I don't need all my clothes behind glass. But maybe they do? I wonder if this is a part-time home and the closet is intended to keep dust off the designer clothes that don't get a lot of wear.
@Mary-Anna said in Color? Pattern? France? Piano? Your house is here!:
The closet is nice, but I don't need all my clothes behind glass. But maybe they do? I wonder if this is a part-time home and the closet is intended to keep dust off the designer clothes that don't get a lot of wear.
Oh, is that a closet? I thought it was a china pantry! LOL.
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We used to do work on a house like this. Half the size, still plenty big, similar decorations but done in much better taste. My customers bought it fully furnished from the estate of a chi-chi designer from Beverly Hills.
Patricia loved the house but it made Phil nervous. He would joke that wasn’t allowed to touch anything, and spent his time outdoors by the fine outdoor kitchen. We added a TV and some heaters to extend the season. Spent quite a bit of time on the fabulously complicated outdoor lighting system that was one of the few features that hadn’t been maintained. Not much to do in the house, which was fine with us. Patricia would tell us not to worry - she was actually pretty down to Earth - but no one wanted to work around all of those fussy furnishings.
Their story was kind of interesting. Phil worked in sales but something happened and they lost pretty much everything. When I met them they were living in a travel trailer in the parking lot of an industrial building they had leased, intending to put in an assembly line to manufacture cables for Ricoh.
Which they did and it was wildly successful. So much so that they also took over the building next door, tearing out a wall and installing exterior doors so the two buildings could share a common yard.
The building next door had been a tie-dye factory and was a hot mess when they got it. Phil liked the convenience but Pat wouldn’t have anything to do with it until I promised her that we would make it look brand new.
Which we did, and it became one of the most beautiful factory spaces I have ever seen. We demolished everything back to the interior walls and started over. Filled in all of the floor channels where the dyes used to run. Replaced all of the utilities back to the street connections. Re-roofed it and installed some 20 skylights. Installed new restrooms and a fine employee kitchen with Villroy and Boch tile.
Did I mention that budget was not a concern?
The factory floor we finished with a thick and remarkably expensive epoxy coating called Stonehard in a light teal color. The ceilings were insulated in a puffy white material that looked like clouds. The shop lighting was Holophane glass.
We painted the shop walls in Dunn Edwards “City Lights” - an off white that runs barely gray - after hours and hours of prep.
Pat would come check on us every couple of days and whatever she asked for we did. She never asked for much - it was pretty obvious from the start that everything had to be museum quality and we cut no corners.
She didn’t come by during the last week on the job because she had to travel to look after her ailing mother. That gave us a chance to do what it is now called a reveal and she was not disappointed.
The result was spectacular! Bright sunny day with passing clouds that shone through the skylights. The light bounced off of the floor and the light gray paint reflected the teal color on the walls. The glass light fixtures sparkled like diamonds! The puffy cloud ceilings sealed the deal.
The result was that it looked something like an aquarium inside. Very, very pleasant and they only needed the shop lights on overcast days and at night. Pete wanted to hang some cardboard fish from the ceiling but I nixed that idea, not wanting to insult.
Pat was thrilled, and Phil was happy that he didn’t have to move the operation to another building. Paid me on the spot!
They later sold the operation and Phil retired. Retirement didn’t really suit him though, so he started flipping houses in Palm Springs. We remained friends with them up until we left.
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I think it is fun! I would love to attend a party there. No way would I want to live there.
Oh, and that blue and white check area rug goes with nothing.
I am wondering if the house, stripped of all the byzantine gilded garbage, actually has good bones. Impossible to tell from the photos.
Obviously they have an insane amount of money to be able to irrigate a lawn like that. I suppose it is possible they are in a less desertified area of AZ, but still.
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