Tasteful Friends, Inside Serena Williams’s 14,500 sf waterfront home, with interiors by V Starr Designs.

Classy!

I like the outside. The blue on the appliances makes the kitchen look vulgar.

And the rest of the house looks like storage space for expensive novelties bought on impulse.

It's pretty tacky, bland and devoid of any personality or taste for all that money.

I like this bedroom though.

I like it a lot. The only negative for me is Florida

I don't care for....

...The triangular seating area in the kitchen. It's small and weird.

...The dining table. Probably $10K for $100 worth of wood.

...The pool. Unless there's another one, the one Serena is standing at is way too small.

...The standing tub within the shower zone whose base is flush with the floor. Two dislikes.

...Flora as wall art.

It feels like each room was kind of designed separately. Some elements I find quite cold and others seem far more designed to live in. You can tell though that she designed it and loves it and at the end of the day it is a home to live in - so if it is what she wants, then great.

Bland and ugly for so much money. But that's just a matter of taste.

Also, one giveaway of too much money and being clueless…or tasteless...the infinity edge pool that doesn’t drop off (visually) into infinity. Like off the edge of a property with open space beyond. Ridiculous to have an infinity edge in the “middle” of a pool. Why bother, other than to be able to say you have one?

Plenty of space to store her roids!

I like the building. The interior décor is an abomination. It's not a home. It's a building with stuff (mostly ugly and uncomfortable looking) placed all through it.

Bless her heart. Even in a sequin dress that probably cost more than my whole wardrobe,she looks like a man .

boring.

The house reminds me of a provincial art museum, all plate glass, white walls, and bare neutral space. If only the art in it were museum-quality instead of awful!

Still, it's more tasteful than I'd expect from someone with her dress sense.

I feel attacked by the dining room light fixtures.

R9 A pro designer working quickly on a boutique hotel using the same "stuff" as 20 other recent commercial projects. Doesn't look like people live there.

I hate all the “art” but I do love the idea of a bookcase opening into a secret room.

she sold it already. she's moving the CA

I love it as a fancy friend's house to visit. Not my style but I appreciate the design and look. Nice job to Serena and her husband.

The interiors look like an art project for high school. The house is rather elegant.

Shes not passionate about winning another slam so it won't be happening and seems she's possibly accepted that.

Tokyo (if it happens) will be Serena's swan song

Absolutely not. And the back yard view (if you want to call it that) is underwhelming, to say the least.

Beautiful

I don't understand this exterior wall that would block out light to at least 3 sets of windows.

Except for swimming pools, hot tubs, and fish ponds, not a fan of decorative bodies of water.

The decor is frau-ish, IMO.

Honestly, I like a lot of it, but not all of it.

The art gallery-esque white and squareness work - when she offsets with wood, patterns, and color, which she does in some rooms, but not enough in others. Like that flora/fauna art piece works really good against the white wall.

The kitchen is pretty unbusy and actually looks like you could just have people hang around while food is made. I'd repeat that midnight blue/gold over the one counter on the cabinets over by fridge.

The shower/tub area is simple and lovely

Outdoor areas are fine, if bland.

Dining room, karaoke room, guest room - all very nice if spectacular.

I don't LOVE it, but don't have huge problems with it.

I meant "if not spectacular."

I love that bath/shower space. Most of it does feel like a gallery. The barrage of fixtures over the dining table is alarming.

I am over open layouts and huge cavernous bathrooms. The blue bedroom and the dining room are decorated nicely but that Lucite baby grand piano is South Florida trash.

I wanted to see the daughter's room with the slide! Don't tease by just describing it.

It has a "secret Karaoke room." Such class!

Yeah, I hate these wide-open bathrooms. I want my bathroom to be more private. I would use the extra space from these stupid, huge bathtub areas for a walk-in closet or something like that.

Lol u all really wanna hate it. Lots of reaching. “I hate how large the bathroom is - not classy” lol.

Ok a karaoke room- a secret karaoke room- may not be classy, but it does sound like fun!

It's not my tastes, but it is nice for what it is. I am sure it was staged a bit for this shoot.

Those plastic plants are sublime.

White box in the swamps. Zzzzzz

I love it! It's Miami for Christ's sake. And it's young. Very Instagrammable.

I can’t stop staring at her manly body. The size of her head has increased. Reminds me of Barry Bonds when his helmet became too small for his head from using too many steroids.

V Starr Interiors? That's her sister Venus. Venus is a much better tennis player than designer and should stick to her day job.

Where is the panic room Serena hides in when drug testers come unannounced for random PED tests?

These people are of no value to society. Yet they get all the money and applause.

I don’t know why anyone would spend that much money to live in a red state, especially Florida.

Whenever someone’s home appears in Architectural Digest, it means they’re going to sell it.

How bright is the dining room when you turn on all those gaudy light fixtures?

R38 I think that it’s self evident that Venus and Serena are of value to society. Both grand slam and Olympic medal winners and are aspirational figures in a sport where their success was unlikely, but their talent won out despite other factors. They’re great role models for young girls, particularly young black girls. It’s kinda undeniable. I understand why you want to deny that tho and it’s sad for you.

Yet another celebrity home that looks like it belongs in an office park on Long Island or in the Valley.

[quote]I don’t know why anyone would spend that much money to live in a red state, especially Florida.

No income tax - Rich athletes have been moving to Florida for decades.

Lots of tennis players live in Florida and California. Allows them to practise outdoors all year long.

R42 Such great role model for young black girls.

Serena being great role model again!

How fucking dare you, R46 / R47? She is a MOTHER!!!! She has a CHILD!!!!!

R42 I don’t care what color their skin is. Hitting a ball around doesn’t advance the human race.

R49 being the best in the world in your sport is a very quantifiable human achievement. It’s of value to society. Winning Olympic medals ditto. You don’t have to discover penicillin to be valuable to humanity. I hope you don’t apply your own rules and regulations to yourself hah, that’d be tough to live with amirite?

Btw I was talking about them coming from a poor / low resources background but it’s prob not an accident that you immediately thought skin colour. Says all we need to know.

R46 yes a great role model for young black girls.

R15 = Anne Frank.

cold, NOT inviting, too stark, like a mausoleum.....

no thanks and not much of a view either! looks like a mansion on the banks of the mississippi!...

R50, sorry, but I don't think pro sports are at all valuable to society.

Particularly now, when you can't get anywhere in any sport, without taking performance-enhancing drugs.

There is a video too that takes you through the art gallery foyer, her office, the trophy room, and her karaoke room.

How is this a "Spanish Mediterranean-style home"? Or is that what it used to be before Serena got a hold of it? And Venus must have a discerning eye with all the bespoke pieces from fine purveyors like West Elm, Restoration Hardware (excuse me, "RH"), and Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams. And of course she has something by KAWS.

I much prefer her sister Vanessa.

She even got breast implants to try and hide the fact that she is roiding out. She would be full on man without those silicone lumps.

R58 you are being both sexist and racist - all in one sentence. Sorry, no awards for that.

This house is a gorgeous hotel. It is an almost perfect air bnb. I would bet they bought it strictly to rent out or flip as someone mentioned before.

are you serious? she got fake boobs? I thought her tits were always very big. but she did put on weight so I assumed her tits got fat too.

but yeah, she's doing some kind of PEDs.

and she claims she doesn't lift weights lol.

It's sunny in FL all year round...they can train everyday...lots of international tennis stars are based in FL.

R54 it’s ok no need to apologize.

R59 how am I being racist? What does my comment have to do with her being black?? Even the comment about her implants isn’t sexist. It’s true. She is clearly using steroids and is trying to compensate by getting plastic surgery.

She looks like a man. A man with big breasts.

R64 I’m not who you were replying to but I think they mean that, while your comment might not contain direct racism, it contains indirect racism. Your suggestion is that she’s a cheat via the drugs comment (based on ??), your comment that she looks like a man - and the ease with which you make these declarations, and describe them in the way one would a fact rather than an opinion all fits in with a history of commentary that is white supremacist in nature.

The shower is my favorite. Needs a shelf for shampoo and soap though.

R66, are you aware that when 2 dope testers came to her home to test her, she hid in her safe room and called the cops on them? She was not tested that day.

R68 that one incident ten years ago might hold some weight if she hadn’t passed every drug test she’s ever taken, and she’s historically been tested more often than her peers. Sorry it’s not gonna stick. You’re biased towards feeling about her a certain way about her because of certain things about her, which you’re not hiding very well.

Rt4, Let me offer a different argument.

Athletic achievements at the highest level are of value to our entire species, to witness what we are physically capable of. Not all humans, not even many, but enough for us to admire, marvel at, attempt to emulate, and sometimes surpass.

We will always want to watch, hear, and understand the zenith of human accomplishments.

And sometimes it is just to observe, for "beauty is its own excuse for being."

These people need to be taxed out of existence.

Serena is married to the founder of Reddit- that would be a lot of tax. Two independently wealthy people. They are pretty much an empire.

I don't mind it. But it's obviously been designed and decorated by people who have spent more of their lives in hotels than actual homes.

andre agassi took drugs. they covered up for him...now serena makes them a lot of money. she gets lots of eye balls on the tv. now do you think they will cover up for her too...if they find something?!

Yes, I know, R72, that's my point. A very tasteless and frivolous empire which does not deserve to exist.

yes, they kept testing her when she wasn't playing...when she was pregnant with her kid and afterwards lol. of course she wasn't taking drugs then.

Those paintbrush chairs are cool

That solid red painting though.

Of course Serena has been taking PEDs for ages. She is clever enough to plan it in such a way that she can pass the routine drug tests she knows about in advance, like the ones they have to take if they win a tournament. Nadal, Djoko, Fed are all very likely on PEDs too. There are no clean athletes anymore and the organizations will protect the big stars if anything came out.

They are sponsor-sanctioned cheats just like the East Germans were state-sanctioned ones. Serena looks like an MTF (with exaggerated "feminine" traits like monster breasts, kinda like Wendell Williams) beating up on women.

The tightly-adhered-to theme seems to be “right angles”. The neon sign part is tacky, but I don’t think the rest of it is tacky at all. It is cold and joyless and uptight.

But we mustn’t dare criticize. Shhh.

R80 the ‘tightly adhered-to-theme” (yikes that wording) in the better end of architecture is ‘right angles’. And has been for a long time.

I wonder what Serena and Alexis Ohanian's (Mr. Reddit) combined net worth is? Talk about a $power$ couple under 40.

If their net worth matched up with their self worth they'd still be cash poor.