I can spend hours looking at houses online. I always search in the New Orleans area. The only requirements I put in are 2 bedrooms, one bathroom, and a fireplace. After that, the sky's the limit. No financial restraints, because honestly. That would take all the fun out of it. Sometimes I do spend hours doing this. There are some simply amazing houses out there, especially in New Orleans. The old Arts and Crafts cottages that people have loved into glory. The classic Victorians with their huge porches and dormer windows and turrets.
But rich people have very bad taste when it comes to decorating.
There's one house in the French Quarter area that has fake animal skin rugs in every room and the master bedroom's headboard has a tiny deer skull with antlers sticking out it. WHO MADE THIS TRENDY??? It is so tacky and so terrible a thing to do to an amazing old house that it makes me cringe. I take it personally. There's another that is nicely restored except for the pink satin master bedroom. Oh heavens. That is just NOT ok.
And while I think baby grand pianos are a lovely decorating tool, it is just pretentious to have them in your main foyer. Also, I don't play and that just makes it uppity beyond words to have a baby grand.
Owning an old home means you decorate in an old school way. And by that I mean antique, classic. This modern crap does not go well in an old home and when I see stuff like that, it makes me want to rescue the house and beat the owners. "Modernism" is definitely not my fav and it has no place in classic architecture. If you have modern tastes, buy a modern house.
More of the world according to Alex. If more people lived by my rules, we might live in a classier, more tasteful society.
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