Groovy glamour. Fabulously frightening. Textile trauma. My eyes hurt.
Tasteful Friends: An extraordinary Palm Springs time capsule.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | January 28, 2023 10:20 PM |
Holy crap. This place is so bad...it's actually GOOD.
You can tell this place was THE SHIT in its day. And it's remarkably very clean and well kept. It really looks like this place was fully decorated yesterday. I'm amazed. Would make a great AirBnB and the outdoor area is fairly nice as well.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 24, 2023 5:00 AM |
Difficult color, green.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 24, 2023 5:08 AM |
It's the place you wish your childhood friend's parents had had when you were a child. The parents drank, smoked like chimneys (so many large chunky glass ashtrays), were loud, loved parties, hosted parties, didn't turn their backs to the reemergence of cocaine among the Middle Class, were always away and generally turned a blind eye to anything their kids did.
The house was crazy even when new in 1969 and certainly stood out ever since. They had maid in every day. The maid would bring her sister after the parents had hosted a party (the things they would find in those wide cushion gaps in the mile-long gold sofa.)
Your friend was deeply embarrassed by the parents. You almost wished your parents were more like them. Almost.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 24, 2023 5:40 AM |
So warm and cozy š¤
by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 24, 2023 5:48 AM |
What r1 said. This house is so tacky and so over the top I love it. It would be a fun place to stay for a few days, and pretend that you're in the glamorous Rat Pack-era Palm Springs.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 24, 2023 6:12 AM |
Elvis would've loved this.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | January 24, 2023 6:17 AM |
A tremendous place to drop acid!
by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 24, 2023 6:44 AM |
I love it. I absolutely love it.
The hilariously ugly nude in the kitchen needs to be burned to a crisp, though.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 24, 2023 9:49 AM |
I love the living room and the breakfast nook. I wouldn't want to touch those.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 24, 2023 9:50 AM |
I canāt stop looking at the photos. The colors are normally hideous (to me, or anyone with functioning eyeballs), yet itās so well done: clean, well maintained, not too cluttered. Part of my brain keeps saying, āShhhhhā¦just enjoy it.ā So I am.
Thanks for posting this OP. Itās a rare gem. It brings out the part of me that secretly wants to smoke, day drink, lounge around all day by the pool, and have a large group of creative, fun friends who pop in for spontaneous parties. I fucking love it!
by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 24, 2023 9:59 AM |
The interior is a perfect heinosity.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 24, 2023 10:12 AM |
Wow, that owner was very dedicated to the chosen color scheme in each room.
The house itself is beautiful, though.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 24, 2023 10:19 AM |
Dust mites GALORE!!!
by Anonymous | reply 14 | January 24, 2023 10:26 AM |
[quote]My eyes hurt.
As well they should.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | January 24, 2023 10:35 AM |
OMG we have discussed this house at least 6 times in the past year.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | January 24, 2023 10:40 AM |
Some queen OD'd during the 'tone-on-tone' discussion. Matchy matchy.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | January 24, 2023 10:42 AM |
Iād fall and hurt myself in that bi-level bedroom!
by Anonymous | reply 18 | January 24, 2023 12:11 PM |
Did colored people live there? Or perhaps homosexuals?
by Anonymous | reply 19 | January 24, 2023 3:01 PM |
[quote]It brings out the part of me that secretly wants to smoke, day drink, lounge around all day by the pool, and have a large group of creative, fun friends who pop in for spontaneous parties.
It makes me want to gobble Black Beauties and 'Ludes and wash them down with Harvey's Bristol Cream.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | January 24, 2023 3:06 PM |
I feel like we've has a Tasteful Friends thread on this house before, but nevertheless I still love it. Especially the cozy knotty pine den and the glorious kitchen!
by Anonymous | reply 21 | January 24, 2023 3:10 PM |
The kitchen and casual dining (yellow) room are the only places I wouldn't immediately set on fire.
But R1 nailed it. You can tell this WAS quite something for its day.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | January 24, 2023 3:31 PM |
Of any Tasteful Friends home cries out for a caftan, this one does.
It really could contain many of the DLās favorite products. Surely that bedroom has a Blackglama mink in the closet, and that kitchen must have a jar of High Point coffee. Even the den coffee table looks ready to be laid with a Red Dragon cheese platter.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | January 24, 2023 4:49 PM |
Imagine all the swingers' parties that must've been hosted there. I bet you can still smell the cum.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | January 24, 2023 4:51 PM |
The bones of the house are not cheesy or tacky, IMO. The only room that I think needs major work is the primary bathroom with all of that overhead lighting (encased) over the sink.
The primary bedroom - bed on platform, could be OK.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | January 24, 2023 5:10 PM |
I think the kitchen is quite nice.
I'd bring a flamethrower to the rest of it.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | January 24, 2023 5:30 PM |
It's a visual feast. I like the bar/den room. It's too perfect, though. I can't imagine how it would look filled with people and their stuff. It's more a pop art piece than a home.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | January 24, 2023 5:31 PM |
I liked it...until the bedroom.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | January 24, 2023 5:36 PM |
Look at all that shag carpeting! How often do you see that nowadays?
by Anonymous | reply 29 | January 24, 2023 6:07 PM |
R23 It's got FLAVAH!
by Anonymous | reply 30 | January 24, 2023 8:00 PM |
It's remarkably well preserved. Yeah, it's "too much" for me, but I LOVE that it exists. Would love to see some kitschy free spirit to take it over and not change much. Aside from that, the house looks like it has a nice layout and structure for anyone who wants to do a full rehab.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | January 24, 2023 8:09 PM |
I'm with the others who think it's so tacky and over the top I can't help but be drawn to it. Not that I'd want to live in it but fun to visit. The house itself is lovely. I can picture glammed up couples with martinis and cigarettes.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | January 24, 2023 8:17 PM |
I would make a wonderful DataLounge Welcome Center in Palm Springs!
by Anonymous | reply 33 | January 24, 2023 11:41 PM |
This is the glamourous lifestyle that all gays should aspire to!
by Anonymous | reply 34 | January 25, 2023 12:51 AM |
If you can see yourself throwing a Key Party, then you've found the right place!
by Anonymous | reply 35 | January 25, 2023 12:52 AM |
This is where Iād open my free-range dementia daycare - featuring drones equipped with ketamine blow darts.
Private pay only; no formal diagnosis needed!
by Anonymous | reply 36 | January 25, 2023 1:10 AM |
Horrible house for a sex party (at least the interior). That carpet would be infused with sex party runoff - cum, lube, sweat, spit, etc.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | January 25, 2023 1:42 AM |
^ amateur!
by Anonymous | reply 38 | January 25, 2023 1:59 AM |
Itās glorious in itās tackiness, I love it.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | January 25, 2023 2:03 AM |
I don't know that the tasteful friends thread people think we had is this one- I think it was a similarly fantastical fantasy like this. I love it.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | January 25, 2023 2:05 AM |
I can see all of the Gabor Sisters enjoying a cocktail party here.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | January 25, 2023 2:09 AM |
It was this one. It's seared into my eye sockets.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | January 25, 2023 2:10 AM |
I was going to echo RC; I come onto DL every day for too many hours and I have never seen this one before. I've seen another PS listing that was a bit similar in its craptastic 70s look, but it wasn't this one...this one stays with me like Windsong Stays on my Mind.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | January 25, 2023 2:27 AM |
[quote]I can see all of the Gabor Sisters enjoying a cocktail party here.
There's a story that Zsa Zsa slapped a maid and a chauffer here...at the same party!
by Anonymous | reply 44 | January 25, 2023 2:28 AM |
It was this one. And we discussed the fabulous green salon. And there were over 50 perhaps 100 or more posts.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | January 25, 2023 2:30 AM |
Hm, do you have the link r45? I just want to see if I made some drunken comment and that's why I can't recall.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | January 25, 2023 2:33 AM |
I don't. I tried google searches and got bupkis
by Anonymous | reply 47 | January 25, 2023 2:36 AM |
PERFECTION !
by Anonymous | reply 48 | January 25, 2023 2:41 AM |
If you donāt have the Prince Matchabelli crown bottle, yaā got nuttinā !
by Anonymous | reply 49 | January 25, 2023 2:42 AM |
You're right, dear poster. I found one thread from 2021 on this address (in which the OP was chastised because they'd already had multiple threads on this listing) but it was only 15 replies long/thread closed. Didn't see a comment from me, so indeed I missed it. I didn't find any other threads beyond that one though, likely because it didn't include "Palm Springs" in the title search.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | January 25, 2023 2:47 AM |
I really want to spend a week there and soak up all the glamour!
by Anonymous | reply 51 | January 25, 2023 2:52 AM |
Pond scum green then strawberry red followed by getting hit with rocks back to pond scum green and the grand finale of egg yolk yellow.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | January 25, 2023 3:02 AM |
I would move in and keep it exactly as is. Itās so awful that it somehow achieves perfection. Itās the definition of perfectly awful. But Iād need to sleep in the blue bedroom if I hoped to feel peaceful. Guests can have the master.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | January 25, 2023 3:06 AM |
I love it. I just do. No explanation necessary. Itās fucking FABULOUS.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | January 25, 2023 3:18 AM |
Every room made me gasp in horror. Are there matching green Ford Pintos in the garage?
by Anonymous | reply 55 | January 25, 2023 3:29 AM |
They certainly werenāt afraid of color.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | January 25, 2023 4:01 AM |
I can't think of a better excuse to wear a caftan than being in this house.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | January 25, 2023 4:10 AM |
I showed the listing to a pre-teen relative of mine who was over for dinner tonight with family and she gasped at every room.
As in, gasping with delight.
She picked out the pink room first as "her" room, then when she saw the blue room, she changed her mind. She especially loved the bar/rumpus room.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | January 25, 2023 4:19 AM |
Is that price high for the niche vintage 70s decor market?
by Anonymous | reply 59 | January 25, 2023 5:21 AM |
Iām confused because it was sold in 2017 and is now on the market again. Itās not like it retained the original owners, which would explain the interiors. So at least two people have owned the house in the last six years and left everything except the kitchen remodel the same (including the matching bed linens and drapes?!).
Whatever. I love it.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | January 25, 2023 9:45 AM |
If it was sold in original state in 2017 by the original owner, that adds up to one subsequent owner leaving it intact. Not two.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | January 25, 2023 9:51 AM |
It's used in photo shoots and films, r60, it says so in the description. That's why they keep it the same, they get production income out of it.
We did have a thread on this back in 2017, r47, back when it was on the market the first time, but all the old threads were recently deleted for reasons unknown.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | January 25, 2023 10:42 AM |
Oh my fucking GAWD! I could feel my epilepsy coming on after viewing that hot pink bedroom, and I'm not even epileptic. Those rooms and that furniture are not nearly as big as they appear. Those photos have all been taken in wide angle mode in order to get as much of the rooms in the photos as possible.
Actually, the place could be turned into a mid century palace, but it would take a good bit of money. Those two huge curved sofas are fabulous but need recovering. Rip out all the gaudy, update all the 70s/80s accouterments and it could be in Architectural Digest.
I'll give the owners one thing though. They've obviously lived there for decades and are the cleanest people on the planet. All that crap looks brand new.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | January 25, 2023 10:57 AM |
R63: Thanks. Didnāt know it was used for filming, now it all makes sense.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | January 25, 2023 5:12 PM |
Who ever designed the interior must have been on acid
by Anonymous | reply 66 | January 25, 2023 5:49 PM |
Perhaps no one ever actually lived in it more than a week a year or so?
by Anonymous | reply 67 | January 25, 2023 6:59 PM |
Itās probably another āCabin In The Woodsā murder house where guests can always choose to drown in the pool OR listen to the ghost of Bibsy Ghetty lll recite the āJoys of Sexā chapter 7.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | January 26, 2023 1:46 AM |
They could stage a revised Clue in that house, where the rooms, not the people, are named for colors.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | January 26, 2023 1:52 AM |
It looks like the Gatehouse of Palm Oil Springs Hell.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | January 26, 2023 2:04 AM |
Dahling, we could have fabulous cocktail parties there if this were the DL Clubhouse in Palm Springs!
by Anonymous | reply 71 | January 26, 2023 9:44 PM |
I've heard that this may be a filming location when they start production on "DataLunge: Pointless Bitchery" the movie.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | January 26, 2023 10:17 PM |
I donāt even have a flowy Gucci silk shirt, my testicles always pop out of super low rise jeans, and I believe my facial features have slid further down my face.
Iāll wait in the car
by Anonymous | reply 73 | January 27, 2023 12:57 AM |
[quote]my testicles always pop out of super low rise jeans
Is your penis particularly small?
by Anonymous | reply 74 | January 27, 2023 1:03 AM |
^ darling we have closets full of beautiful caftans that you may borrow!
by Anonymous | reply 75 | January 27, 2023 10:29 PM |
"my testicles always pop out of super low rise jeans"
I'm having a hard time picturing how that happens š¤... You have some very weird junk š³
by Anonymous | reply 76 | January 28, 2023 8:24 AM |
Couldn't get past the first few pics....even with my sunglasses on! Vomitus green is not my thing.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | January 28, 2023 8:31 AM |
Liberace would have adored this house.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | January 28, 2023 11:32 AM |
Liberaceās motherās house was up for sale in Palm Springs - looked like an anonymous fortress outside with swag & gilt rooms facing a courtyard pool.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | January 28, 2023 8:32 PM |
I want to meet the Queen that lives in this palace!
by Anonymous | reply 80 | January 28, 2023 10:20 PM |