I've driven by this 1988 "Tuscan-style" house in Beverly Hills many times and, admittedly, admired its commanding situation, on the raised triangular intersection of Linden and Whittier Drives.
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For starters, the entry hall is a crude, disproportionate affair that, with its tawdry furnishings, immediately sets an amateur, DIY tone and makes me suspect that the owners designed the place themselves with no input from a trained architect, much less any real knowledge of architectural precedent.
The carpeted staircase is fit for a suburban townhouse condo, and the cheap white glazed tile continues throughout major sections of the ground floor.

The downstairs space is confusingly laid out and contains rooms of dubious utility, not to mention appalling ugliness.

Continuing upstairs, the master bedroom is a vacant, ill-proportioned shell of a room with oppressively high ceilings made worse by the lack of crown molding—perhaps the most uncozy sleeping quarters I've ever seen. (I will spare you the several children's chambers.)

And the façade, for all its imposing symmetry, is hardly more than an anemic affectation of a Tuscan villa.

Egads! The exterior didn't look so bad, other than the smallish windows and the cheap entry door, but that door should have been left closed!
ReplyDeleteThe entry reminds me of a Holiday Inn Express. That ceiling in the office looks like it's going to crush its occupants. Almost forgot the "tuscan" can lights drilled into the "wood".
I thought it wouldn't get any worse until I checked out the website. I was wrong. You spared us the bordello powder room with the floating golden chandelier.
It would take a mil (at least) to remove all of the ugly.
*shudder*
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