Tasteful Friends- A Southern Waterfront Mcmansion (for all the Murdaugh fans) in Pawleys Island, SC

No thanks. It sits on a hot steamy swamp. Hardly a "beach house"

A cookie-cutter subdivision with lawns is a "decent" use of beachfront property? Jesus.

nah, no pool. not on the beach. you are a 'tard.

You seem to have a rather liberal definition of "beach," OP.

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The first "Tasteful Friends" where I have not even liked the outdoor space.

The community of Litchfield Breezes!

Perhaps the developers sought to blend the imagery of white linen Connecticut WASPy crispness with the fun-loving, easy-going, happy-go-lucky hyphenated happiness of a Jimmy Buffett planned Panhandle community?

A concrete helipad parking lot and acres of vinyl flooring in an otherwise ugly house? No thanks.

My aunt lives on Pawleys Island. It is a beautiful rest stop between Hilton Head and Myrtle Beach. There is not much there, but she lives in a lovely gated community on the sound. However, it is an island. For the past four years, they have had hurricanes blow through every year and one even blocked passage on/off the island. With global warming getting worse, I would not take either of these houses, especially the pretty blue and white one on a thin strip of land in NC.

What's up with the neighbor's trees hanging halfway into the backyard? That seems like a red flag (psycho neighbor alert).

Only a real estate agent would call that swamp "waterfront", OP.

emerald isle is actually "high ground."

but even if I won the lotto, i think i would rent.

In all fairness, it is more a marsh than a swamp.

A marsh is a type of wetland, an area of land where water covers ground for long periods of time. Unlike swamps, which are dominated by trees, marshes are usually treeless and dominated by grasses and other herbaceous plants.

[quote]It is a beautiful view

It's an untended swamp.

[quote]Problems- Alligators. Snakes. Lindsey Graham. Population in Pawleys is 99% white and averages 75k a year.

I could live with all those, but not this;

Flood Factor™:Severe This property’s flood risk is increasing.

Also couldnt live with all that griege and white or all the can lights. Its OK outside but so bland inside, one of the most uninspiring interiors I've seen on here. Its not offensive, just intensely dull

The aesthetic of the home is atrocious, a hideous 3 story home with odd garage placement.

Insane asylum grey toned decor for a supposed beach house.

The views are tragic with nothing but a brown withered barren swamp to look at.

Nothing tasteful here.

Does Pawley's Island known for making expensive hammocks? My mom wanted one specifically this brand for the backyard. The house is not waterfront - there is a swampy marsh between this and the real ocean front homes. This house doesn't even have a pool. Pass.

[quote] Does Pawley's Island known for making expensive hammocks? My mom wanted one specifically this brand for the backyard.

Yes, here is the best place to get them.

That's not a beach house. Where is the beach and what "beautiful view" is OP talking about? OP, you must be joking or just released from prison.

I'll stay in Laguna Beach, thank you.

You can sort of see the ocean. I prefer the decor to the typical Jimmy Buffet/Seashells/ Lighthouses TJ Maxx Beachy look that so many homes have.

I'm a Sotheby's agent (Hamptons area) and considering how the place used to look- They did the best they could. Scroll down to the Refin April 1, 2019 listing....Teal, yellow, huge aquarium, etc. The kitchen was horrifying and had jenn air, no gas. It's now bland and basic but it was so much worse.

Sorry, screwed up the link.

Properties in SC beach vacation communities have close to doubled across the board since before COVID. Prices had languished since the financial crisis prior to 2020, but things have absolutely exploded since 2020. That’s not an unreasonable price increase.

I like it because it's not right on the ocean, lower flooding that way. Plus whoever lives there has a collection of Jonathan Adler Vice canisters. Which I love.

The old kitchen wasn't horrifying. All they did to "fix" it was paint the cabinets white and put in equally ugly new marble. The upgrade on the stove is very nice, don't get me wrong, but I don't think most people see a kitchen like the old one and immediately think that it's so "horrifying" that it would be a dealbreaker.

Sit out on the verandah and catch dengue from the clouds of mosquitos that surely emanate from that "wetland," all while waiting for the next hurricane to rip through? Hard pass.

A marsh view is considered desirable in that market. And the outdoor space is far enough off the ground that the mosquitoes won’t be that bad.

That site painted cabinet job is going to hold up for about a week.

Look ou the back window... you see all those houses that you see? Those are the beachfront houses... Not this marshy mess.

The house is not odd but typical of a beach house in that region where insurance companies will not insure anything on the first level due to flooding.

In South Carolina, Tasteful Friends only live on Kiawah Island.

My friends. This home has an elevator.

I thought that was a sauna …

Nope.

And somehow? This home also deserves an “Oh Dear”!

You couldn't pay me enough to live there. I've been a few times to visit my husband's family and hated each trip. Between the good ol' boy & black homophobes, weird interactions with locals, hot weather, humidity, the 'palmetto bugs' (roaches), and the weird atmosphere that left me feeling haunted by ghosts I never want to visit again. The home cooked food was pretty good though.

I wonder what the flood insurance costs there.

I can't handle the mosquitos.

I get the feeling that all your neighbors in Litchfield Breezes (Christ!) would be super-annoying, nosy, deeply invested in keeping the locale "for our kind," and probably heavily Republican. Hard, irrevocable pass.

The only way I could live there is if I bought three of the houses and demolished the two on either side of me.

SO FUNNY that this is posted here! I live in the Myrtle area and we went by yesterday since I thought the open house was being held on Saturday (it's today). They have a little boy whose toys were everywhere on the living room level. Saw them leaving, the wife (?) is drop dead gorgeous-She waved at us because we were in the driveway waiting on them to leave and my partner said WOW LOOK AT HER! Very tall, thin, blonde, modelesque WASP type. They were rushing to leave the house to let us tour so the disarray was to be expected. Very nice neighbors as well, this super hot man told his wife we were there and that's how we got in because his wife is the real estate agent. It's stunning. Although they had been cleaning and getting ready to host for what looked like a cocktail party it was lovely. Very organized, very "The Home Edit". Also- It smelled SO GOOD, I want to know what they use because it was like walking into Creed in Houston. The views of the ocean, marsh, etc. are superb and the interiors are beautiful. We are considering making a offer and are going back today.

Why do chairs in the dining room, on so many of these tasteful friends threads, have those ugly KKK looking white robes on them?

R35 an arm and a leg, which you and I and everyone else are subsidizing under the National Flood Insurance Program run by FEMA.

And while we help pay for it, we don't get to live next to the swamp.