OMG! If this wasn't MADE FOR DL - Helen Reddy's 1970s house!!

This room is BIZARRE!

All those ferns everywhere!

I even bought some for my room at boarding school. LOL.

Way to go, Helen!

Actually it considering the decade and that it's the home of a pop star, it could have been a lot worse.

It's very cluttered.

Someone needed to tell her "less is more".

The photography is very 70s Playgirl in style. I expect the next photo to be of him naked. Pubes and body hair and all.

I have to admit that, apart from the carpeting and some of the wallpaper, I love it. Especially the master bedroom.

Kids today won’t know the importance of ferns to the 1970s. I mean, fern bars were a thing.

Thank you Miss OP. Simply Fab and Fascinating. In San Francisco, the 70s went way overboard with ferns too. Haight Street apartments were like jungles.

[quote]OMG! If this wasn't MADE FOR DL - Helen Reddy's 1970s house!!

Sort of. Not quite kitsch enough to really get the wheels turning...and the gurls laughin'.

Her ceilings are all so dark and busy.

Other than some dated patterns in the upholstery, wallpaper and maybe tiles, it is an attractive home. The decor is French inspired. It is a look that was common at that time.

Too many house plants. I wonder if they were brought in for the photo shoot.

I really like he kitchen. Just need to toss out the ferns and macrame.

Agree with other posters. It needs to be de-70s-fied, but it's not terrible. It has a certain cottage-y charm. Not my style, but one would not have to take it down to the studs to bring out the better things about it.

Thanks OP, it made me roar. .Its just too 70's to ignore

I noticed in the kitchen she had a KitchenAid dishwasher. Helen was a very practical housewife that brought superior appliances! I

I wouldn't blame this ugliness on the French. Just some Aussie's trashy version of what was popular then.

I love everything, especially the dining room. Gosh, it's so nice to see COLORS again. Remember when there used to be more colors than gray, sandstone, and eggshell white? Good times.

The style holds up. It is some of the patterns and colors that are dated. The French style is still attractive. I agree on the macrame and most of the ferns. They would have to go.

Where in Los Angeles did she live? In the article, her husband says something about smelling jasmine and the ocean.

Whatever happened to hanging ferns?

NO way did they live with that many ferns on a day-to-day basis. Watering them would be a full-time job.

After their divorce Jeff Wald said that Helen had the filthiest mouth of any human he'd ever come into contact with.

I don't like most of the individual things in it - and yet, as a whole, it sort of comes together. It feels inviting, somehow. Like if you were invited over there for a 70s brunch party, you'd have a good time. There would be devilled eggs, a bowl of punch, and you'd meet someone cute and get their phone number.

I can smell the pot.

Looks like the interior of a typical upper middle class LA home in the 70s. Of course it seems tacky and dated to us now. The furniture screams "Broyhill" to me, that was the brand they always gave away on the Price is Right.

It looks homey though, like kids could live comfortably in it. The big celeb houses you see today are so perfectly arranged and decorated you cant imagine anyone, never mind children, playing or horsing around.

Broyhill was the Wayfair of its day.

Looked kinda okay, fell apart in the blink of an eye.

I used to love looking at celebrity house tours like this in my mother's womens magazines when I was a kid. I distinctly remember seeing Mary Taylor Moore and Valerie Harper's houses in Ladies Home Journal or Better Homes or one of those. I know Architectural Digest has always done them, but these articles weren't as pretentious as that.

Love this!

I clicked on James Coburn's house too--interiors by TONY DUQUETTE. I was impressed....I always thought there was more to James Coburn than met the eye.

Coburn knew that good interior design is a guaranteed panty peeler.

Everything looks so weirdly clean and pristine in spite of the clutter. Like no one lives there. Look at the kids' room, there are no kid's toys. Why isn't there a yellow phone on the wall in the kitchen and one of those wipey message boards on the wall with numbers scribbled down? Where are the phones anywhere? ( I always used to see what phones people had in those days. It revealed a lot about a person. Not always good.)

Something's not right here. There are questions that may never be answered.

This must be the Brentwood house they paid cash for. Later on, Helen found out Jeff had taken out 3 mortgages on it to help feed his coke habit.

I love R24's imagination. I could sit and listen to him making up stories all day long. In fact, I want to know what happened after he got the cute guy's phone number. Did he call? Was there hot 70s sex?

It was very in style at the time. Ferns and macramé were the way to go in the Carter presidency. Other movie stars and recording stars at the time also favored this look--Mary Tyler Moore's house at the time was also exactly like this indoors.

I love that one of the dominant colors in the decorating is bright green. That was so Seventies!

[quote]I love that one of the dominant colors in the decorating is bright green. That was so Seventies!

I have a lime green stripy wallpaper in my bathroom right now as I type the message. I must have got the idea in the 70s.

We even had FERNwood Tonight.

I love the bright/lime green! That's a color that should really make a comeback in decorating.

I've suddenly realized something. Our house in London was photographed in House & Garden back in 1976. My mother had a lime green bathroom and I think with a fern hanging. I have the magazine. I might scan it and post it on DL. That could be funny...or painful.

r38=Edina Monsoon

I don't think Edina's mother's house was in H&G somehow.

It looks perfect because it has been sanitized for the photo shoot. That, and I'm sure HR had domestic help to keep the place spotless. Many of those plants look like they were just brought in for the photos.

Such an appallingly unremarkable, mediocre frau.

Her success in the '70s was as baffling as Bonnie Franklin's.

That house was on Marlboro Way in Brentwood. The house was totally razed in the early 00s and a new McMansion replaced it.

The house wasn't razed r43, it's still there. Tudor revival built in 1936 on nearly an acre in the middle of Brentwood Park. You can see part of it from street view in Google, the exterior much the same as when Reddy and Wald lived there.

WOW! An acre! I'm often surprised by how large the land belonging to houses in LA. Fantastic. They should have photographed the garden.

[quote]The house wasn't razed [R43], it's still there. Tudor revival built in 1936 on nearly an acre in the middle of Brentwood Park. You can see part of it from street view in Google,

Link, plz.

View it on Google or other maps, 12850 Marlboro Street. Gorgeous corner lot, one of the larger parcels in Brentwood Park.

Property details on the real estate sites state its the original house from 1936.