Tasteful Friends: New Construction!

I am not mad at what they're trying to do here. I actually like the living room and kitchen.

Holy Cow the recreation is uncanny. They collected all that furniture? But the new house is for sale?? What is the backstory?

It looks like it was decorated by a very old woman and a very unhip gay man using an old shelter magazine. It's a weird mix of some good pieces and then lots of really, really bad ones. And terrible wallpaper.

The setting is horrific.

I disagree. The point was to recreate the BAD bourgeois taste. Not to make a design queens Palm Springs collection of "exquisite" mid-century design.

Well, this is what mid-century looked like. Horrid.

It looks like it is situated in the Gobi dessert.

Why, it's positively groovy!

Why was this house built and furnish and on the market already? Is it an art piece? A film set? What?

Everything about the living room is perfect, except for the picture over the tv.

I love it! It just needs some grass.

Very kool.

It looks like every house in my neighborhood growing up inside and out. Really unusual to see someone recreate that look when there are 1000s of the real thing being sold by elderly parents.

Well, I love it, it reminds me of childhood. Everyone's home was like this when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s, where the living room was furnished back when the house was bought, but then the dining room and laundry room (basically the rooms which had more use) were updated in the early 1980s. The only thing that's different is that nobody's 1960s television sets survived to the 1980s, the tubes always went out and finally you couldn't get replacements.

I love it too. I actually have a set PDFs of 500 mid-century house plans, and if I ever find myself in the position of wanting to build, I will pick one out and hand it to the contractors.

600k for Idaho?

I like it, but the old kitchen appliances need to go. Absolutely nobody likes cooking on an electric coil stovetop.

It looks like a cheaply remodeled 1950s subdivision ranch. Not a look I'd go for. There's none of that bringing the outside in stuff which probably makes sense in an arid place, but the inside is basically generic w/o the furnishings, except perhaps the formica countertops in the kitchen.

Is that some kind of bird house built into the front gable?

why so expensive…a desirable location? also, why no grass

What is the thing in pic 39?

It's tiny and on a flat piece of dirt in Idaho. No idea who would pay that much for that.

Is that a proto hot tub in the back?

The ineffable sadness of the solitary ‘Hers’ towel in the bathroom…