Why are so many uber expensive properties in London so darned tacky ?

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Cold, soulless, blingy, often with a real masculine decor vibe. Some of the furniture looks like cheap as chips stuff you’d get off your local Facebook basket place shop a la mirrored drawers and industrial style metal coffee tables. The art work weird as hell. And random blow up photos of a glamorous woman. One had an abstract picture of JFK. Appreciate everyone has their own taste but there just seems to be a common theme. Why ?

What's a colonial aesthetic look like? A colonial aesthetic in London?

Colonial is expecting international purchasers to replicate your idea British idea of style in their own homes and determining their own taste tacky.

No I think you've got a bit mixed up. Colonial is when you go to OTHER countries and take them over.

Well it's not what I thought you were going to describe but surely people are allowed to state their opinion on something that is just interior design, it's not political it's just an opinion.

Evidently, they are making a statement about decor choices in Britain i.e that they don't like them as they have chosen the hotel look.

Almost guarantee that people who like their homes decorated like that are not poshos, if you mean by posh the UK upper middle and upper class.
The people who buy them are obviously extremely wealthy but that doesn't equate to posh. They have a tasteless footballer's wife or dodgy Russian/Arab look to them, not posh at all.

Yes, little style or any real taste for that matter, but the furniture is all very expensive and often bespoke, ditto many of the fixtures and fittings. It's all very bland and identikit. The houses have been designed by an interior designer rather than a decorator. There's a vast different between the two. A decorator gives houses an actual personality.

What is scandalous is the number of homes on these parts of London sitting empty!

Forget the dental surgery look, I want to know where’s the traffic in those pics? Were the photos taken in lockdown? Airbrushed out?

Ah why is that then? Because the British upper classes will obviously set what good taste looks like and anyone who doesn’t align to that is tasteless and Nouveau riche I suppose?

Looking at the link posted, I also thought that the decor was definitely B&M 🤔😂

Yeah we still haven’t seen the £25m properties full of b&m or Facebook marketplace stuff as promised 😂

What a pokey cheap looking kitchen for the size of the place. Presumably because you have staff to cook for you and never step foot in the kitchen yourself....

Do the British upper classes have taste preferences that anybody takes any notice of, I doubt it very much. Again, it is just an opinion on something being unpleasing to the eye, it isn't that deep.

I can't find Cornwall Terrace (as pictured in the EA blurb) on google maps. Must be a secret place for spies.

Ah I think it's the mews not the terrace itself. Hidden nicely and incorrect info from the EA.

Edited to clarify for anyone remotely interested. It is on the the Outer Circle. Nothing to do with Cornwall Terrace. I notice these things!

throughlymodernmillie does. This is, after all the problem being identified with the decor or these houses. Because they’re expensive they have to look a certain way
MN is full of bootlickers who think their vision of posh people and their ragamuffin tastes are aspirational

MN is full of bootlickers who think their vision of posh people and their ragamuffin tastes are aspirational

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Almost guarantee that people who like their homes decorated like that are not poshos, if you mean by posh the UK upper middle and upper class.
The people who buy them are obviously extremely wealthy but that doesn't equate to posh

Why is someone who's fortune was passed down from their great great grandad who had slaves "better" than a footballer who grew up
in a council house but likes to label bash?

Just wait until the Gov slap a 100% tax on purchases of property by non British citizens. Just like Spain is contemplating. (But it's only non EU there that may be liable to the tax).

Can you see THAT happening in a Labour run Britain? Ooops I'm getting a bit political 😊

I think that might be the show kitchen as there is a separate service kitchen where the cooking presumably takes place. It's still not very nice though!

Coz bootlicker

seems so!

These houses posted would have had such beautiful and elegant period features. It is so heartbreaking to think of what's been ripped out so it can look like a travel lodge outside Slough.