Can't tell if this is deliberate super cool retro decor - or a deceased old lady?

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Hipsters. Orla Kiely towel in one of the bedroom shots. No granny who hadn't updated anything else in the last 40 years would have shelled out for that.

I do love quite a lot of it though.

My god I LOVE it!

I think, very cool old lady. It's fabulous. I would love aho use like that.

That's been Kirsty Allsop'ed that has. Utterly grim.

I lived through the seventies.
that stuff wasn't hip then and it's just hideous now.
there is a reason the seventies are known as the decade that taste forgot.

Definitely authentic and/or old lady - those rugs hanging on the walls, the "system" shelfing with ugly tracks, the lack of underlay in the bedroom carpet and the vile curtains are all a dead giveaway. As are the flat as a pancake cushions and the tartan travel rug on the arm of the sofa. The tiny tvs just confirm it. I suspect the bedding comprises bri-nylon sheets and gives off electric shocks.

This place wouldn't look out of place as a set on Sale of the Century.

Old but well off. I reckon it's original stuff that's been well looked after. Orla Kiely towels can be easily explained as gifts.

A house that size in London would never have been cheap, even before prices got silly.

Deliberate and new. It's all in too good nick to be original.

I bloody love it

The agent wouldn't dare describe it as 'in need of modernisation' if had been done by a Hipster.

I love it, especially the bathroom walls in pic 11.

I love it, life is too short to have a dull home

It is old but would appeal to young cool hip I like a lot of it and the quality is I bet far superior to modern equivalents

Old but wealthy and extravagant.

The single bed is the giveaway

It's old deffo. But what an amazing property. Its STC though.

We had style back then, I would not choose now ,what is in that house,the comment about the house being too untidy is plain nasty. I know my house is very tidy and most people I know of my age ditto . We didn't live on microwaved cardboard food either. People dressed with a bit of style and didn't throw their guts onto the pavement after a shandy either. That house shows individuality and that's why I give it a seven out of ten.

It was all achieved without having our face glued to a mobile phone too 24/7

I like it too - seems authentic to me. I love the light airy bedroom too.

But the price

How do you afford to eat if you live in London?!

I absolutely love (most of ) it!

I might paint some of the walls though...

I'm with Bartlebee. Retro done on the cheap, where possible.

Love the wallpaper in picture 10. It would give me a headache in own house, but is really pretty in small doses.

I love that one, May09 and want that greige floral carpet. It looks so perfectly crumb proof without being headache inducing. And that little bedroom door in picture 16 is gorgeous, especially with the ditsy wallpaper. If the wardrobe wasn't so obviously falling apart MFI, I think I'd want to keep that room as it is.

There is no way this is "hipsters". The bedding is really old and tatty in a couple of the pictures and the carpets are all rucked up. If it were done deliberately, it would be sharper.

Hipster. Or younger generation living with granny and only changing some bits.

The bathroom has very modern taps. The kitchen doors are gloss. Even the red tiled countertop is very much more recent than 70s. Modern spotlights secured under shelving.

Someone has spent money on this recently but kept (added?) the wallpaper, so either granny didn't want it to go, or it's hipsters who want it like this.

Even the red tiled countertop is very much more recent than 70s

I disagree. It's unlikely to be any more recent than the 80s.

I think the kitchen carpet would have gone with hipsters. I still think wealthy, slightly bohemian old lady.

Mind you, is there any reason granny can't be a hipster? (Unless by hipster one means fake?)

I'm going with old lady.

Then again, it looks like one of those retro houses on apartmenttherapy.com that everyone swoons over and says 'It looks so lived in and real'.

I hate it, it's hideous. (And I love a lot of character/period stuff, just not '70s or MCM).