Tasteful Friends: Fred MacMurray's Farmhouse outside Healdsburg, CA, Houzz

Here's a video tour featuring Kate MacMurray (daughter of Fred); she has a very relaxing voice. Check it out if you have a moment.

I watched that video last night, and yeah her voice is so soothing.

The daughter did a nice tribute to him on TCM. It's on the TCM Facebook page, which DL won't allow me to link to.

Wasn't MacMurray regarded as the cheapest bitch in Hollywood?

It's a great place. I dream of having something similar someday.

When are they coming out with the porn version of My Three Sons?

Here's the kitchen.

Other side of kitchen (sorry about the photo quality).

Living room.

I've been there. It's quite something. I was a corporate guest of Gallo, so my group got the royal treatment there. Interesting aside: Fred MacMurray built a smaller guesthouse for his pal, John Wayne.

Nice house! Like a large, comfy farmhouse, that desperately needs the floral wallpaper and curtains ripped out, but which is otherwise good to go for someone's comfy life as a gentleman farmer.

FYI Healdsburg is a nice filthy rich little country town, with a small downtown that has excellent restaurants and lovely little boutiques, the sort of place that rich people think of as "the simple life". And it's been edged by some big wildfires in recent years, so the fire insurance on that place is going to cost an unholy fortune.

I like the China.

It looks more museum piece inside than really cozy. I wonder if the appliances work at this late date. The 2 buildings really do not go together, in terms of the exteriors and the newer one takes away from the older one.

A tad dated, no?

I remember interiors like that.

Watched the video the other night and I would buy that place in a heartbeat if I was rich...adorable.

Sonoma County is gorgeous but prone to fires and floods on the Russian River.

In the photo of Fred and June and the cow.....June is on the right and the cow is in the middle - so you won't get confused.....

How much is it? Where are the listing details?

When I saw the first photos, my first reaction was "that wallpaper has to go". Then I read the entire article, about how some of the wallpaper needed to be reproduced, and that detail with the kitchen sink and how it was made to allow dishes to drain (I admitted on another thread that I've never had a dishwasher), and I started getting verklempt. Maybe I'm under the influence of the news. But I wouldn't change a thing.

I agree, R19. It's so refreshing to see a home that has been preserved as it was, after all the modernized abominations we've seen here in Tasteful Friends.

Utterly charming. Wouldn't change a thing.