Tasteful Friends - Muddled Victorian in Wisconsin

Yikes, sorry V8fairy, this house would need so much work. The kitchen is a crime. The bathrooms would need do-overs. A few nice built-ins but some really cheap-looking paneling and ceilings, as well.

I try to ignore decor, but this one was hard to ignore. So many fucking WARM colors. Ugh!

The price IS right, but there’s a lot of work here.

Chiefly, the deconstruction of the later “improvements” to restore its original appearance.

And the decor, where to start?

"Its quite a nice location"

Yeah, if you like living near the arctic circle 🙄

The mid-century chairs with the "antique" table in the kitchen!!! How does that even happen???

It’s summer; that wicker shit goes outside. The over-sized chairs face the fireplace; they were designed to retain heat and prevent drafts.

You do not install spa tubs without a municipal water supply. Softened water kills the plumbing.

I hope this is a thrifter, but there is a slight chance some of this crap was financed. It looks rent-a-center fancy.

That’s a total tear down.

5 bathrooms and not on municipal water & sewage? You're gonna need a bigger lot.

It's a B&B, right?

An ugly one, to be sure. And looks like right next to a major thoroughfare.

The kitchen looked like it was hodge-podged together...truly hideous.

I live three hours away. Phillips is kind of in the middle of nowhere. You vacation there, not live there.

Why are we even talking about this house? It's a hodgepodge mess halfway between Bumfuck and East Jesus

It looks like a hodgepodge (floorplan) from both the inside and the outside. There's no harmony in the exterior.

I love it for a summer lake house retreat. The Jacuzzi tub and velvet wall paper in the bedroom is great but that kitchen....

Next to a 4 lane freeway AND the train tracks-what a joke.

It’s awful. I can’t even tell which side of the house is supposed to be the front. It looks like they added a first story entrance with a different roof pitch and also enclosed a staircase up to the attic apartment. IOW, instead of having exterior stairs up, they put the stairs in the same spot that exterior stairs would be and enclosed them.

If it really had river views and wasn’t adjacent to a busy freeway AND it had a garage, then maybe it would be worth tearing off some of the add-ons and renovating the remainder. Hard pass.

The deficiencies are reflected in the price, though.

It looks a bit like Buffalo Bill’s lair in Silence of the Lambs.

It is hideous.

It would cost more money to rehab that dump than it’s even worth.

Next.

P.S.- They have 9 months of Winter there.

It’s not a bad house. It has good bones, I’m sure. Lots of character and charm. Without all of that furniture cluttering things up, it would look better. I do wish the owners would have left things more original.

But I noticed that in Phillips, Wisconsin, homes appear to sit on the market for a long time. Look at the dates in some of the listings.

I would feel trapped living in Phillips, which is four hours from Milwaukee. The neighbors are likely all red hats, I hate to say.

Good bones? Looks janky from the outside.

The grounds are potentially lovely. But the interior? It’s how I imagine an old Nevada brothel looks. All that shitbrown gives me the heebiejeebies.