#624

I don’t get why they haven’t shown any of the bedrooms. I mean they’re there on the floorplan but there’s no sign of them in the pictures.

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#625

Gross :frowning: (taxidermy and LOTS of it)

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#626

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#627

And an elephant tusk, too.

What’s up with the room full of christmas teddy bears as well?

#628

Ach, ya beat me to it.

I like that they did a visualisation of it being empty, in case your mind simply can’t get past the taxidermy extravaganza.

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#629

Stunning house. That lakefront looks chefs kiss

#630

Is it just me who finds 90% of American kitchens really unappealing? They all look massively dated for some reason I’ve never quite understood.

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#631

But how am I supposed to judge scale of the rooms without a stuffed giraffe for height reference?

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#632

Just so much varnish

#633

It’s a general thing with US-centric Vs Euro product design innit.

They largely dig stuff that’s perceived as being muscly, beefy, substantial, etc. Even if it’s entirely redundant. Gotta be the biggest and best.

Europe has strong Scandi/Italian/German elements, which are tied into sleekness and modernism largely related to best use of materials and resources. Japanese design has similar things going on.

Cars are the shorthand example. US muscle cars and hummers. EU/Japanese sporty hatchbacks, etc. Obviously, we’ve bought into the SUV thing, but often in a miniaturised form compared to the US.

tl;dr US design = big and brash, with minimal consideration for any type of constraint.

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#634

Among many baffling details, I can’t get away from the shitty office/school ceiling panels in a load of the rooms. What a mysterious house.

#635

Lots of 50s influence as well. Like they peaked in the post war years and have stuck with that design aesthetic.

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#636

For interiors, I think that a lot of US homes are stuck in the 80s/90s, especially in the kitchens - proper family sitcom style stuff with big fridges and waste disposal units etc.

I don’t think that 1950s/60s-style design looks that dated at the moment, conversely, as it’s much more pared back.

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#637

The Americans can design their products bigger on general can’t they as their middle class, suburban housing generally has much more space than here and on continental Europe.

It explains huge amounts of design choices, from fridges the size of cars stood on end, to board games that need tables the size of our rooms, to massive mcmansions. Big and chunky = affluent.

It’s a shame they ditched the sleek and interesting raygun gothic in favour of just big and bulky really.

#638

It’s the combination of being big, but also over-fussy that looks odd to british eyes, I think, like it’s a hangover from the Reagan years.

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#639

Yep. In case no-one has this covered, I’d note that the 50s/60s style design doesn’t look all that deatched from what we’re used to. More understated. Compared to later consumerism, which has notably crossed the Atlantic post-Reagan with not just SUVs, but also “those american fridges, y’know, the ones with an ice-maker”, which often just end up being incongruously big for British homes.

#640

Not a listing but definitely weird and in a house:

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#641

You could convert this into your own crystal maze.

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#642

AMAZING RESULTS!

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#643

If you’re into pirates this could be your dream home …