Tasteful Friends - Admire the Outside of This Stunning $3.8m Omaha Estate

Proof of funds? Is that common?

Psychotic decor.

R1 It's probably a reasonable step to take when showing a property of this scale and price range. Don't want to waste an afternoon showing it to yokels who can't afford a full-time gardener and a full-time housekeeper. Plus, the blind old fruitbat who owns this place might still be alive, and the realtor would have to shuffle her off someplace for each showing, so she'd better make it worthwhile.

It is actually a nice house but of course, it needs redecorating. The decor is not Laura Ashley, it is a ridiculous mishmash of crap.

Green carpet in the bath.

I actually like the tile in the kitchen.

And hate the carpeting.

Green carpeting in the bathroom?

Hideous. I need to have my eyes scraped. Too many patterns. I'd have a panic attack walking in the front door.

For fuck's sake, it's Omaha. What did you expect?

R9 There are plenty of tasteful homes in Omaha

Eleven bathrooms. Okay, five bedrooms, so let’s assume there are two people in each bed. What is the ELEVENTH bathroom for?

I'm not hugely familiar with 1930s American architecture but surely a red brick home built in 1939 was unusual for the time?

Great googly moogly.

The ceilings are too low and especially so for the size of the rooms. When the ceilings are occasionally high, they are ugly and useless.

They never heard of the phrase Less is more. Just throw most of the crap out and it would be a nice house. Btw what's with the birthday box packages on the toilet?

I actually like the interiors but I love the OP’s bitchy description since it really does conjure up a visual of the floral and black scheme.

[quote]I'm not hugely familiar with 1930s American architecture but surely a red brick home built in 1939 was unusual for the time?

Not at all, an interest in the Colonial Revival and Its uptown cousin Georgian Revival arose in the 1870s and has stuck around without interruption to the present day. Red brick Colonials and Georgians were at peak from the 1890s through WWII. And variations on these styles are popular today in suburban developments, for example - more an Easy Coast and Southern taste now, but found elsewhere too.

Nebraska has no architectural history, no regional architecture to draw inspiration from; its culture had to be imported from what was popular elsewhere. But their poor upbringing is not the only reason. In Southern California Spanish Revival and Mediterranean derived architecture had a link to the region's colonial past and it's architectural history, but you also find Cape Cods and East Coast Colonial Revivals and more English derived Georgian Revivals from the same period 1900s-1940s. The period I'd sometimes referred to an the Eclectic Era to take into account the variety of architectural revival styles that flourished then.

Rich clients whether in Omaha or L.A. or Darien selected styles that suited their taste and often which made the desired statement about what kind of people they were.

This is how I would imagine the first marital home looked for Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew.

The kitchen is almost nice in a somebody took a trip to Lisbon sort of way.

Low ceilings kill much of the house, and no amount of clearing out the previous owner's taste and installing one's as own will fix low ceilings

piss-elegance

R20 what do you do in this room? What is it's purpose?

That is the crux of the matter.

R21 I think it's a breakfast nook, only instead of windows to capture the morning sun, you get a dry tile fountain and hand-painted portraits of the old lady's dead animals.

It's still less depressing than that pitch-black room with the ballet mirrors. You couldn't even do coke in that room!