Tasteful friends, the gay interior to end all gay interiors

Where do they store the crinolines? That should’ve been his first question, looking at houses.

I think they took their inspiration from a granny smith green apple.

Their colour palette looks like a children's cartoon.set.

One of them looks such a ponce.

Why do so many Brit gays go for the Cecil Beaton styling? Absent fathers is usually the reason.

Too crowded and stuffy-looking.

Impossible to tell which of the two is the bottom.

They both scream 'princess tiny meat'. This one was a Burberry model.....apparently.

From the "throw it at the wall and keep what sticks" style of interior design.

I love it. Ive long been sick of mcm everything.It shows individuality and tons of personality to go against the trend like they have. I think they are both fabulous too. Love their clothes. Yall some jealous old biddies,arent you?

Goes against the trend R8?! The UK is FULL of these type of designers- all doing the same thing!

Luke Edward Hall is their patron saint(ess)

I love green

Everything needs to go except the kitty.

The proportions are way off, making the rooms look small, stuffy, too busy and overworked. Love some of the artwork, though.

And seriously, that many pillows on the living room couch? Are they mad? It's like The Onion is now branching out to do interior design features.

I love it!

Are Staffordshire figurines an English gay thing only?

This is the umpteenth Tasteful Friends Brit home of effete gaylords with these objects dotted around the place.

You can practically smell the Crisco™ from them

No figurines. My hand twitches and I have an urge to smash it to bits.

I wouldn't want to live there, it feels to much like a mature clown house, but I do like the kitchen. And the cat.

The cat is nice. The only pussy either of those fruits go within a mile of.

I’m just not into sectionals.

I like the green sitting room, the sofas, the rug.

Some of the decor looks cheap, esp. where cloth was involved. Seems like they used cloth to cover up a lot of cheap stuff.

Kitchen looks kind of non-functioning.

I like the bathroom sinks.

The room with the dormer (?) window and purple twin bed looks like a junk room.

Thanks, OP, for posting something with a lot of photos, vs. a YouTube video.

Way too much green. Surely most people can agree on that.

Green fetishist, here. Its never too much

Green is very in, has been the past twelve months. Wonder will they change the colour when this fad for green goes as quickly as it came.

Struggling to understand the colour of the kitchen. Mucky

Green is my go to color but I understand why it is an offensive color for many. There are green shades that are hideous and cold looking. The colors used in the photos are attractive and juicy. I would be impressed to sit in a home including so many rich green colors in the deco

And unfortunately [bold]everything[/bold] stuck R7.

The house must be near impossible to walk around in. Too much. Too much.

Whenever I come across the color green, all I can think of is the Gosford Park quote "Green. Such a tricky colour" by Dame Maggie Smith.

She is right, it is a tricky color. The slutty maid sneered at machine manufactured lace too!

My home office is painted hunter green and I love it. One small room in the house is enough, though.

They have some interesting taste but the place looks cramped and busy. Needs to be dialed back about 75 percent.

The good: Cheerful. Bold color choices

The Bad: OVERSTUFFED TINY ROOMS. That's bad. What's worse? Every single goddamn square meter is a carefully arranged, curated, Mise en tableau. It's exhausting and OCD. Why do people do this? Do they live empty lives otherwise?

I do think young people in particular interested in cultivating their own sense of style often mistake a lot of taste for good taste. But a small place like that would be more memorable with a few vintage finds and designer touches sprinkled about, not a glut of them in every room.

Yellow greens are vile, and bilious.

Blue greens are sophisticated teals.

Gray greens are restful and verdant.

No fear of color at all....at all. Not dull, for sure.

I think it's an English thing. I bought a place once from an English couple and it was decorated similar to this (lots of stuff absolutely everywhere) and even had the bedroom painted hunter green. One of the other rooms was purple. I left the colors because they grew on me.

I like it much better than the all white on white trend, here in the states.

You can't even refrain from self-hating cruelty during the end of year holiday season, OP et al? The couple is happy in their loving home, and couldn't care less what we think. Get over your jealous selves.

Kindness matters, and it doesn't cost a dime.

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r36, get lost Jewel.

It's very Amélie. An overdecorated delight!

Are they a couple? The article calls it "Max's house" and talks about a roommate.

Good grief. Just appalling. You'd be vomiting chintz by the time you escaped that place.

Where are Melanie and Scarlett just when you need ‘em for a photograph?!

[quote] Blue greens are sophisticated teals.

Living through the '80s, I've seen too many teals. I worked at a chain restaurant and our uniform color was ... teal. So, no, I don't think of teal as being necessarily "sophisticated."

I do much prefer this home to the beige interiors of the farmhouse in the Hamptons we discussed a while back.

Too much color blocking. Pink and green have been done better before. Some rooms are drenched, smothered in PAINT. This is suffocating

The swathes of fabric just draped and pinned around doorways looks cheap and thin and not the theatrical baroque look they were hoping for.

They are a couple R40, there's mention elsewhere of a housemate, so a throuple should the need arise.

I like the green couch that is it. They simply do not understand how to work with color. Looks weird, strangely dated and claustrophobic.

Nope!

I will take the green sofa, please.

The cat in the basket in the kitchen is the best.

[quote]I think it's an English thing

Yeah, sure, every house in England is decorated like this. Idiot.

Decorating aside, it looks like a beautiful house.

R50, every GAYLORD house in England is decorated like this

I know DL hates minimalism - but as a place to live and a peaceful retreat, this is way too much stimulation. I like peaceful design - art for color and excitement but the basics should be simple, well made and calming. Bright colors are fine for Instagram but calmer colors are much better for day to day living IMO.

That guest room for the lodger is just too random. Black and white moody gay themed biker pics mixed with Bloomsbury Group wall paint treatments. It looks every inch the spare room.

A Dale Chihuly rug? Who hurt them as children?

They said living with grandma would be fabulous!

That Chihuly rug would send me into an epileptic seizure.

Have these prisspots upcycled the fainting couch or is it as found?

There is way too much going on here. The decor is too aggressive.

"The decor is too aggressive."

Unlike their love life

We shall call them Miss Gurl and Miss Thang, interchangeably.

I actually like it. I'd remove the curtains and maybe do a few touches, but I could live in a place like that just fine. But we are putting the damn cabinets back under the kitchen sink.

Doorbell chime:

[quote]Yeah, sure, every house in England is decorated like this. Idiot.

Nobody said anything about EVERY house in England being decorated like this, CUNT.

You either have very poor reading comprehension, or are just a raging CUNT.

I love it. Sorry.

How could you possibly expect me to suck dick in there?

They're adorable and the place is cute. It's not all to my taste but...that's fine. I don't live there. The rooms do seem to be on the small side and I hate a small over crowded room. But, I'm also firmly on #TeamColor and #TeamMaximalist and #TeamPattern.

I love the green!

I'm guessing most of the people on here who hate it live in very bare, very austere, very grey/white/greige homes with trendy "modern" kitchens. And, with most of thier decor bought from every dull bland home furnishings store that everyone else buys their dull bland home furnishings from.

Which is fine. You live your dull, drab, colorless little lives and we'll continue with our fun, colorful, madcap existence.

One needs a bit of space and air live madcap existences. Things ended badly for Sally Bowles in her fringed hovel.

But it's not 'madcap' R67.

The whole thing is curated and arranged within an inch of its life. There is no spontaneity. This is a kooky cookie cutter interior in the exact same vein as so many other gay boho designs. Right down to the 'Granny Smith' apple green walls someone mentioned above.

Tasteful friends, the gay interior to end all GRAY interiors!

I hope they got a discount from Farrow & Ball given the amount of name-dropping in that article. The decoration is relentless.

Of course, they're Farrow & Ball queens.

Any other paint is considered "naff."

Farrow & Ball is to label queen interior designers what Chanel has become to footballers' wives, oligarchs' molls and the nouveau riche.

Max and Benedict decorate for a New Year’s Eve party.

Like it except for the orange in the bedriom and stripes ?! Scary !

[quote]...distinctly lacking in the looks department themselves,

Geezuz, now people are distinctly unworthy if they're not up to 'A Gay' facial standards.

Yeah, I know where I am. It just gets tiresome. It's about the decor. I don't know how nonpersons survive in your world.

Has the word “flamboyant” ever been used for anything but certain gay men? It’s definitely an old school code, like “lifelong bachelor”.

Some nice stuff, but too much.

If you want the look of the chock-a-block English country house of two eccentric and discerning modern day Edwardian aesthetes, you either need to spend some money or be discerning aesthetes. Either their tastes are unevenly developed or they ran short of cash.

It's not as though they need to spend a small fortune to achieve their look, but everything can't be flashy, cheap, and approximately the same size. The pair of white-painted Gothic chair with gilt highlights is very good, the best thing in the house maybe. I like the green lacquered look of the modern dining chairs and the geometric rug under them. And there is some quite good art on the walls, well hung. I also like the kitchen, very simple, the fitted cabinetry appropriate to a cottage, but attractive. Where it falls short for me is the other furniture which looks like a rid on an 'upscale-resale' consignment shop of cast-offs. Everything is a little pokey in scale, the Queen Anne mirror too thin an and tentative just where something big and bold is needed; the ridiculously overstuffed, or too flashy. The Dutch marquetry cabinet with the glazed upper pedimented part is too small to carry its ornament, and still barely fits in the low ceilinged house; it needs some space and some calm and shadows around it to show off the crazy display of woodworking. It would be okay in another setting, here it's just crammed in and fucking busy. The seating furniture is either a little underscaled or tentative, while the upholstered pieces are absurdly overstuffed and there are upholstered chairs with a sort of Laura Ashley pattern fabric that just look mud-splattered, as though Laura Ashley were a very dirty bitch. Many of the seating pieces look like they hate each other's company and are each ready to bolt the room in a different direction. And too many kitschy things: another English cottage with more Staffordshire dogs? Imagine.

A mixed score for me. Some things right and some things wrong, but mostly a lack of confidence -- 'and see what sticks' style of decoration that R7 mentions, the lack of discipline. It's not that there's too much stuff, so such as the choices of putting those particular pieces of stuff together.

I don't like it and I'd never do it, but I've seen far worse out of the NYC gays trying to Downton Abbey up a UES studio. The only real nightmare for me are the stairs. It seems thought through, even if the thinking is nuts.

I was just going to write exactly what r79 did.

Way too British. I mean really. They crossed the line far into the children's playhouse zone. Is this not a dump rowhouse? Would the point be to make it look larger and simpler than a slice of a hoarder on mushrooms? So many things just so wrong. They apparently have a scale issue, which in their case as a couple might help, in this case, has things way too big in really small spaces. The colors should be arrested for assault.

Just way too much, in too small of a space, with all the wrong "stuff". Are those candelabras ON BOOKS on ottomans? Please just stop this book-stacking idiocy.

Ick.

That was an embarrassment.

It's not my cup of tea, but I do love it. Colourful, playful.

Again, would never do my home like that, but it certainly is a nice change of all the careful greys and beiges.

A few nice things among a lot of other horrendous ones. But the major issue how overcrowded it is. A certain type of furniture does not go with such small spaces. No room space for the rent boy to service them without breaking half their knick-knacks.

R79 I enjoyed your analysis! Do you work in interior design / decoration?

I can’t find the pieces r79 mentions.

Needs just a soupçon of taupe.

All well and good, but which one is the felcher?!

Looks like the rejected Vera Bradley color palette exploded in there.

However, I'll take Max. He looks like he would be fun in a hot bubble bath.

It looks like a brothel owned by Pixanne.

[quote]I can’t find the pieces [R79] mentions.

For an embarrassingly good reason, R87. A big 'oh, dear' and a bigger apology to all. I had DL open in two windows and the comments I made at R79 were meant for another house and another thread. R9 has a link to the house I wrote about -- which was also the subject of its own DL thread at link.

And thanks, R86. Budget and bad choices (for the space) are even more evident in this house that's the actual subject of this thread, the worse crime was in trying to decorate on a scale and look appropriate to a massive South Kensington red brick Queen Anne in what's only one chimneypiece better than a workers' rowhouse of the period. But I'll say no more, having said so much about the wrong house/thread.

Funny, most of your comment seemed spot on for this abode, too!