Tasteful Friends: Palm Springs modernism

I'll take it as long as the realtor comes with it.

Realtor John White is daddy hot.

Really like it for the most part. Hate the kitchen table and chairs and some other items aren't great. But, overall, very nice.

Why is California so goddamn expensive? Is it because all the celebs that live there? Because it has a reputation of Hollywood glamor? All the studios are ghost towns and half the state is burnt to the ground.

You have earthquakes, mudslides, wildfires, and high taxes. Yes, it's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there.

Looks a bit light in the loafers, if you catch my drift.

I love it. I’ll take everything.

Not a hundred percent to my taste, but there something there that's worth the investment. But 3 million is a bit overpriced -even for Palm Springs. 1.5 to 1.75, tops.

Christ I remember when we first moved to the desert you could pick up a run down Alexander for 65K.

It's a really nice area of Palm Springs in Indian Canyons, down off El Camino. ~4,000 sq. ft. Nice mountain views, facing SW. I like it.

Nearly $3mil and no garage? Hard pass.

I quite like It. It's a good balance of a preserving the plan and the architecture and remaining faithful to the spirit of the MCM style without being super anal about the pureness of everything.

It's a handsome and comfortable house, nice division of spaces, a bright and attractive and useful kitchen, and some emblematic elements of the period style. Some of the furnishings and personal flourishes could be better, but those are all things any sensible owner would expect to change on his own.

I'm not a MCM fanatic and couldn't live long in a house if the style, let alone in a MCM bubble of only furnishings and decorative arts in the same period. While I much prefer much older houses and design, I enjoy seeing good design of examples of MCM. This house, far from what I usually like, has a lot of appeal.

Less of all that interior "decor" would be more. The house is great, but it's suffocating under so much busy patterns and clutter.

Pictures don't load for me on OPs site. Here is Zillow.

It's very nice and I love the mature majestic palms.

As for the green hedges, who pays to water those? Both houses that share the hedge? And are those olive trees here and there?

[quote]It's very nice and I love the mature majestic palms.

Yes, R13, that chopped off view through the kitchen windows of the mid-trunks of the palms won me over to the house. I would have done some of the modern kitchen elements a little differently, but what a pleasant fucking kitchen. In MCM houses they are too often an afterthought, small and badly placed (often internally) with natural light too often borrowed from an adjacent room.

The wallpaper in the bathrooms would give me a seizure but other than that I really like it. I'm a sucker for the mid-century modern look.

that realtor....DADDY!

Bought for 1.29 million in 2021. It's nice - 4000 SQ ft is quite large.

They clearly have a good eye for design - some really well done rooms and scenes. Beautifully done actually. Not all to my taste - I don't like the brown and yellow color scheme - and for me, it's too far south in PS. I also don't like being on a golf course.

But these queens are delusional if they think they're going to sell for over 2.25 million.

Sold for $486k in 2013? Thats quite a jump in value.

Tear-down; land value only!

The realtor in the photo looks like a big queen.

R16- It looks late 20th century not mid 20th century.

The interior looks like a photospread of a house in Architectural Digest in 1971.

Either way I like thoroughly dated upscale interior of the house including the kitchen. I would buy it furnished as is.

R19 - yeah - early 2010s was the time to buy after the economic crash.

Arguably PS has also been on the upward trajectory the past 10 years as well in terms of notoriety.

Tourism has more than doubled in the last 10 years.

R21: Fabulous! Just what I need.

[quote] But these queens are delusional if they think they're going to sell for over 2.25 million.

You should see how many absolute shoeboxes are getting over a million in PS, just because of their locations. 2.75 might be a stretch but they'll probably get at least 2 to 2.25.