Tasteful Friends: 1975 Time Capsule with Purple Carpet

That’s alot of purple.

Without all of the garbage, it's actually not a terrible property. But it would require quite a bit to renovate after demo.

Wow, I actually quite like it. Post and beam is my favorite style of modern architecture. Just update the bathrooms and tear out the god-awful carpet and you've got a pretty nice lodge-style home for little money. Of course it would have to be in Mike Pence's mid-west hellhole Indiana

I like it too. But it needs new floors and some color. I like the builtins everywhere. I like the raw concrete. I would maybe reinstall the cork walls where it is presently cork.

The view looking down the staircase sets the tone and, for once, it's a somewhat intriguing time capsule house because this one is almost purely about the house without the usual pickled furnishings that usually focus on speculation about the previous owner. This one is nicely stripped bare (except for those odd stools that somehow belong there.)

It's a love-hate house. I like properly old houses, not kitschy vintage houses that usually come off as a bad joke, whether poorly or well told. This is somehow just saved from being one of those bad joke kitsch houses and, rather than hate it, I almost want to own it as a fuck shack in the woods. Just the trees, a Netflix subscription, a cord of firewood, a crate of wine bottles, an industrial sized can of lube, and optional bottle of poppers for three-day weekends of filthy sex all over that shag carpeting (bring a thick, soft blanket to cut down on rug burn.)

You can tell straight away that it's an architect's own house. The exterior is a borderline hideous, yet curious for those crazy windows, but it's really about the interior. The shit brown kitchen and the shit brown paneling on the walls of the bathrooms is kind of dreadful. I'd probably paint the later and call it a day. It's a kitchen for reheating the pizza that cooled on the 25 minute drive from wherever delivers pizza ...actually it's within the city limits, with houses on either side. Again, just ignore the neighbors and get back to fucking.

Ugh 🤮

A Ft. Wayne bidding war! It sold for $161,100, soaring $1200 above asking price.

was a deck torn down? if you open the sliding doors you fall into the forest?

^^ None of the sliders open to anything but air. Not exactly kid or pet friendly

I love the architecture and with some new flooring and paint this will be a great home.

[quote]A Ft. Wayne bidding war!

Don't laugh.

Fort Wayne is the new Scranton.

[quote]That’s alot of purple.

Oh, dear.

Groovy!!

It’s fun. I’d keep it is, add a rotating waterbed, some lava lamps, a disco, and we’re good to go.

^^ Yep, right out of Playboy After Dark...

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Whoever built this was Indian's premier fuck-muffin

^^ Indiana's^^

Looks like the Pences have been priced out of Fort Wayne. What's next, Gary?

........drift past the flowers, that grow so incredibly h-i-g-h .......

That is a house in which to watch the ouevre of Sid and Marty Krofft.

Far out, man. I can dig it.

The "bones" are good on this one. But yes, I'd want to change every surface.

A purply plum is an underappreciated color, but I'd want it on a feature wall in a room with lots of light/Scandanavian wood tones, not as a carpet choking the room.

The flooring would be a difficult call. Tile doesn’t work in that climate - sticky four months of the year and dead looking the rest. Wood is overkill.

Cork might work, but it would have to be lighter without the default yellow finish - more an orange or perhaps a marine green? I miss the scent of cork.

Terrazzo. That could work.

Given the age, I’d be worried about asbestos tile under the carpet.

Carpeting in the kitchen is WEIRD.

You could do wood but I'd actually argue this would be a place NOT to do one of those unifying wood everywhere floors.

I'd do different tones on different levels or in different spaces.

I really like this house. With a deft touch and of course the carpeting issue taken care of, this house could be spectacular. But watch some moron put in a traditional house flipper/HGTV kitchen and fuck it up completely.