Tasteful Friends: 1970s Chartreuse Complete With Wallpaper that Matches Bedspread

That's more our Rose than our Hyacinth.

I think it’s more Kermit the Frog

Well, they knew what they liked, didn’t they?

For people who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like.

[quote]in unit washer and dryer on the second floor.

How the fuck did they get a washer and dryer up the stairs. Before I read that I was wondering about just a bed.

I like that sort of thing and the only room I liked was the powder room. Good God. These people had to be color-blind. To them it looked like beige and taupe.

Of course I love it, but it's most suited to hipster-punks under the age of 23.

Where the HELL did they find matching wallpaper and comforters? In two different hideous patterns?

I thought it seemed cheap for SoCal, then I googled Ramona. No bueno.

Maybe the “wallpaper” is fabric and they had the comforters made? Who does that? There has to be an explanation other than insanity.

I feel dizzy in a good way. Thanks, OP. I love it and I love to hate it.

Ramona is a distant suburb of San Diego. Country-ish, but the more they build nee housing, the less country it gets. There's an egg ranch where you can buy super fresh eggs. Conservative politically. Sometimes they have midget wrestling. Somewhat hot climate. Not really Datalounge country.

It’s kind of fabulous- I can see the owner being a chain smoking matron still wearing her 60’s outfits. The green is deadly though, everyone will look jaundice.

Trump's next satellite home. The decor is perfect for him - just needs some gold chintz to top it off.

It's the 1960s in green.

I love how it is noted on the website, "this property is popular" and that it has been viewed just under 40, 000 times. Good job DLers!

Every scout for movie and television sets has to have seen this and copied it to their colleagues. It truly is a whole new level of special.

If Bernie Madoff gets early release to die, this is where they should send him. And Papa John’s pizza for every meal.

To those pondering the identical prints on wallpaper/bedspreads ( nobody had comforters back then). I believe this place was "done" by a decorator with access to matching papers and fabrics. However, many regular folks did for themselves. Wallpaper books always included matching and coordinating fabric samples with each pattern. You chose your paper and matching fabric and either sewed curtains and spreads yourself or hired a seamstress. In fact, I still do this. I just redid my guestroom in Sanderson's "The Allotment" paper and had matching window treatments, pillows, and coverlet made so the pattern just envelopes you and feels very cozy It is a soft green and white pattern-- much less bodacious than those featured in this home, which I find rather glamorous. I can see Doris Day in her late-sixties up-do twirling down those stairs, as she did on her tv show! Que sera, sera, Tasteful Friends!

The listing says that the apartment was done by a professional designer when it was owned by the developer. I assume this was the model home and someone bought it and kept it as it was.

I stayed at a hotel in Venice like that except it was red and black, bedspread matched the carpet and the wallpaper

I wonder how many frocks she had that matched the wallpaper patterns?

This is R19s wallpaper. And bedspread. And curtains.

Oy.

Minus the junky, Wayfair furniture, yes. Your point?

Bet R23's carpet doesn't match her drapes and they are BOTH hideous.

Jesus Christ I can smell the cigarette smoke now. It.is.just.wrong!

This is 70s fabulous! Needs to be bought and preserved as is. Just like mid century style came back, so will 70s. Homogenous, designed, era-specific house meant for a gay man with taste.

r20 Would you buy a home from a developer with such hideous taste?

In 1974, sure.

r20

Crikey.

“Stealth” matching curtains? Really? That’s some crazy OCD shit there.

[quote]R19 I just redid my guestroom in Sanderson's "The Allotment" paper and had matching window treatments, pillows, and coverlet made so the pattern just envelopes you

Dear lord....do you really hate your guests THAT MUCH?

If you want a vintage-feel green wallpaper, spring for William Morris’ Willow Boughs.

All I can think of is how much dust collects on that white “latticework” on the walls.

It’s wallpaper R34 - but it certainly tromped your l’oiel.

This thread is amazing - and I want to thank R12 for one of the most Dataloungey posts I have seen in a while. This is why I keep coming back to this place.

Wow, that is so hideous it is almost wonderful. The place is ugly on the outside, and a nightmare of color on the inside.

Usually I can see past color, but with the horrible bright blues and greens. You'd have to strip the wallpaper off of every wall, rip out the horrible blue counter in the bathroom. Even the impractical spiral staircase has chartreuse shag carpeting.

I'd lose my mind trying to live there.

It is so fabulously hideous that if I owned it I wouldn't change a thing. These ultra timewarp homes are rare and very cool.

I love it.

It’s definitely caftan-friendly...

I've died and gone to heaven. And I LOVE the green.

Looking at these photos literally gave me a headache.

That's lime green, not chartreuse.

The interior can't help but arouse speculation about hairstyles. It's 1974, the year of Nixon's resignation, so I'm going with some Martha Mitchell (preferred Butter Yellow and Cornflower Blue)

R1 OP Is there room for a pony?

The exterior elevation is a surprise for me, so in the dark about 1970s suburban California. I thought "snout houses" that were practically all garage were came along much later.

Imagine the key parties...

I'm imagining Magda from There's Something About Mary.

That bathroom must be so moldy and musty with the shag carpeting right up to the tub/shower. I'm surprised that they compromised with a little patch of linoleum in the kitchen.

Perfection. Move in tomorrow.

Carpet in the kitchen and baths? That just ruins it for us.

The family car.

There's always Congoleum for the germophobes.

IT is rare for me to like any of these, but this one I like.

Inspiration board for the rumpus room.

Who are we kidding? With that staircase?

This is a spectacular find OP! I nominate this for best tasteful friends time capsule.

It's like Laura Ashley mated with Mr. Yuk. This is their love child.

God help me, I love it.

You haters need more drugs in your life. That’s your problem, see? You got no vision.

I did not see what op is talking about. I like chartreuse.

OMG! Fabulous! And yes, R44, my mind immediately went to suitable hairstyles as well.

A perfect home to make sure your guests don't overstay their welcome. Like, 5 minutes after they have arrived.

Here’s the thing... it’s hideous, but it works.

I see why everyone is focused on the lime green. However, it's the Juliet balcony in the 2nd floor bedroom that opens out into... the living room... (or Great Room as it was hyped in the '70s,) that really makes this place something special. That's photo No. 25, kids.

You can't find that sort of detail anywhere. Nor would you generally want to.

I’m surprised no one has exalted the exterior charms. Imagine coming home to this every day.

Now that’s curb appeal!

I agree with many of you above - this place is amazing and absolutely perfect. Having grown up with it, I don’t love most 70s decor; but this is the fucking Platonic Ideal of Watergate Era Interiors. I’d move right in.

Popcorn ceilings! Recessed fluorescent panels! I’m in heaven.

If only it could be magically transported to Florida.

Replace the green carpeting with cream. Reupholster important pieces in yellow and brown. Put in some blue accents. Keep only 1 french provincial piece. Replace the dining room table and chairs - go for 60s high end chrome and glass or Scandinavian. Swap the large coffee table for lucite.

[quote] If only it could be magically transported to Florida.

And washed out to sea.

At least in Southern Cal, it is absolutely destined to burn.

R69 would make a silk purse of this sow's ear.

Where it succeeds at being wonderfully tacky it will fail at being nice.

Omigod, it's 1975. Did it ever give me a headache.

I'm grateful that the spiral staircase also got the shag carpet treatment. It will provide needed cushion when I take a tipsy tumble down the stairs. This place is a nightmare and I just adore it.

I love it. It has guts and style. I'd rip out the carpet and put in light wood, but I'd be tempted to leave most of it. R19 has excellent taste, by the way. I'm sure that room is gonna be a knockout. Totally against current fashion mind you, but really a good look. Stop being sheep people. There's more to life than gray walls and white trim.

This is the down market West Coast version of my mother's decorating in Evanston, c@ 1977. I would almost swear this was our "family Room" when I was under 10. It smelled of gin and Virginia Slims.

The outside looks like tons of ugly condos in Southern California---my sister had one like it near LA. The Juliet window thing is classic 1970s nutty. Throwing a bit of stage set into a house was popular then--even traditional houses sometimes had some detail like that. I have to wonder what demented professional designer was responsible for this--plus the awful furniture.

Whoever owns it must’ve died. It’s quite a tomb to be found in before you’re laid to rest. It’s dark inside as well. I wouldn’t know what to rip out of this place first. But I bet it’s haunted

Perfect place to host a Trump fund raiser .

I adore that couch R54 ! What a perfect couch to have in a party room .

I’d kill for that place...

I kind of like it. But chartreuse, or lime green, is a color that needs contrast. Bring in a little blue, some fuschia, some eggplant. Everything doesn't have to be chartreuse.

r75 A conversation pit! I'll bet those were the cause of many, many injuries. I wonder if they raised your homeowner's insurance if you had one?