All I can think of is the poor person who has to dust it. Each leaf, individually caressed with a Swiffer.
*achoo*
Anyway, if I went to this listing’s open house I’d be so tempted to sneak in little… special bits of foliage. Maybe pick up some nice vines from the Lost prop sale, for example, or see if I can find a cheery Triffid or two. Maybe a nice wreath of poison ivy for the cranky bust over on the right?
P.S. Look! It’s Chair’s Italian-Canadian cousins!
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Loveliest comment, by Linnee: This house is perfect for a Hyacinth Bucket (boo-kay) Indoor-Outdoor Candlelight Supper!
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Yikes I can’t tell if the rooms are small or if all that stuff just makes them claustrophobic, particularly the bathroom.
I guess I need to stop picking on my mom and her predilection for artificial plants. Her house is nowhere near this bad.
Funeral parlor chic–enough said.
I just know if I had dinner in the top picture, the minute I pushed my chair was pushed back, one if not two statues would be knocked over.
That’s actually a really nice house! Too bad about the horrendous decorating.
This house is perfect for a Hyacinth Bucket (boo-kay) Indoor-Outdoor Candlelight Supper!
The Boo-Kay residence, the lady of the house speaking!
sheridan! how nice of you to call mummy!
No, no, that’s BOOKAY! B.U.C.K.E.T.!!!
With Riparian Entertainments, right in the dining room!
This thread of comments gave me a huuuuuge laugh. Thanks!! BTW, the house I bought last year had similar decorations (fortunately, they took them all when they moved). Creepy.
It looks less like a house and more like a business of some type.
Restaurant? Bordello?
I’m not sure.
The realtor calls this “Renaissance themed decor?” Because apparently in 14th to 17th Century Florence they had a massive clearance sale at Michaelangelo’s Arts & Crafts supply in the plastic flower department that Italians just *couldn’t* get enough of!
Ha! Made me spout my coffee.
*snork!*
“Michaelangelo’s Arts & Crafts supply”!
I love the upscale versions of Chair in the sitting room.
Ooo, floral overdrive indeed. Er, whatever is the round pedestal thing that Chair’s cousins are with. Could it be a cage for baby triffids? I hear an usual rattling.
I’ll send them a bouquet of artificial flowers! That would be a nice thought for a Lovely House!
Roidy
…a bouquet of plastic flowers isn’t complete without a bottle of Thunderbird! And maybe one of those mangy teddy bears from the claw machine.
The decor hearkens back to the great Ancient Greco-Roman Roulette Lounge Period.
too.much.stuff!!!! way too much, to busy, too everything! augh!!! drowning in kitsch.
A Triffid fan! And, yes, that would be a welcome addition: “Blind me! Please!”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055894/ for the movie.
I went through a brief but serious John Wyndham phase when I was 11. No idea what that was about.
Yup, it’s “themed” alright.
It’s a beauty of a house without all that stuff. Just imagine what it would be like with the RIGHT stuff in it.
I looked through the listing about 3 times before I could actually notice anything about the house. It’s very nice — but you just can’t see it because of all the fakery around.
And why take pictured CENTERED on the statues that are, presumably, going with the sellers when they move? I swear this site makes me yell, “WHYY???” at my computer more often than any other.
The sellers probably think that this is really nice. Why wouldn’t the realtor tell them to declutter?
Here’s a thought: maybe they did. Maybe this is the “after” version.
The sellers realized that they needed to declutter after four realtors were lost without a trace in the dining room…
rofl!
Eeek!
Everyone pull your chairs up to the tiny table, and we’ll light the votive.
Note that it’s on Tuscany street (which probably isn’t a coincidence).
I had the same reaction. I think they took living in “Tuscany” a leeeetle too seriously.
Ah, faux Jumanji!
Now, Jumanji as a decorating scheme, I could get behind.
I’d need an industrial strength HEPA filter, though. . . .
So this is where Olive Garden goes to pilot its remodeling and expansion plans!
Olive Garden has more taste. Buca di Beppo on the other hand….
You think this house has a Pope Room?
ACHOO!
That is some awfully bad taste.
Ah, but it’s the best kind of bad taste — the sort of bad taste that *imagines* it has really high class taste! You know the owners of this place would just sit back and nod knowingly with us as we turn up our noses at mounted decapitated deer hanging above oak-and-plaid Barcaloungers and snark on garishly wallpapered New Zealand lodgings. THAT, they would agree, is just Bad Taste. But plaster decapitated human heads on faux-stone painted columns surmounted by cheap Chinese silk artificial ivy? That, my friends, is Bad Taste with Class-Climbing Aspirations. It’s a visual demonstration of a Marxist indictment of the Bourgoise. And that makes it a truly Lovely Listing indeed.
I bought a foreclosure home just like this. It was bought very less price.