I confess I know nothing about Art but I think this is hideous!

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Its on sale in the same area in which I live. Former owner a renowed artist apparently. Its a good price probably cause noone will want it

Am I alone in thinking its hideous? Where would you even start in updating it?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/143676899#/?channel=RES_BUY

Not my taste but I think it's fabulous

I kind of think good on them for having the cottage of their convictions and making their home their own tbh.

Also can’t entirely blame someone living in Glasgow for wanting to pretend they’re in Italy.

Someone put a huge amount of love into that house.
It looks like a probate sale to me.
I hope it has been priced to take into account the work that would be needed to neutralise the decor and update kitchen and bathroom.
I've dabbled with paint effects in my time, too. But painted them all over prior to selling.

I love the round, painted table. I'd have that for sure.

I was thinking "self-desribed @artist" but then read the blurb - people actually paid him for this kind of crime against interior design? It's god-awful and would be a nightmare to strip back. It's like the house that taste and style forgot. Maybe he was being ironic? 😂

Am I the only one who thinks: 115,000 for a 3 bedroom place!!!??? Not sure you can get a beach hut round here for that.

I doubt he was especially renowned given where he was living! I appreciate the effort but it's pretty tacky looking and anyone who knows about art would probably agree.

Me, too! I think the kitchen & bathroom are horrible, and it'd be difficult to get all those mosaic tiles off so I'd probably have to paint them and they'd look weird.

I love the trompe-l'oeil bedroom, very nicely done. And I'd want the painted dining table thrown in, after all they devoted several photos to it 😄

Half tempted to buy it for an Air BnB... (not joking!)

It's feels a bit 'changing rooms'

It's bloody cheap though!

While it’s not to my taste, someone has gone to a great deal of care and effort. It has likely brought them great joy and it is an interesting and unique labour of love. In a way it’s sad that someone is going to come in and put some cheapo version of Farrow and Ball’s Mole’s Breath over the top of it. At £115k for 3 bedrooms it’s a steal though so plenty of scope for someone to come in and greige it..

Ahh, I’ve just looked at it again. It’s the former home of quite a celebrated artist. In that case I’d totally AirBnB it, or rent it out for artist retreats or festivals. It would be quite the talking piece.

Like the stairs

Ah so it's better that you're being unkind about a dead person's home? It's really unpleasant behaviour.

Also it no one not noone, that's not a word.

I quite like the castle/cathedral style bedroom!

The rest of it reminds me of the squat I lived in for a few years in my late teens and early 20s where we all fancied ourselves as amazing artists (particularly when very, very drunk) and had pretty much free rein to 'decorate' our own rooms and any communal areas and furnish it with a hodgepodge of random furniture (which was also then 'decorated') and ornaments we'd picked up from skips etc. That was similarly (ahem) interesting 😅

All the clicks on this thread... the estate agent will be telling the client that there's loads of interest online 😬

The only part of my house that is grey is the carpets because I didn't want beige, black is too dark and white is way too much work (paid for a whole house carpet package so could only have one throughout) and I absolutely hate these try hard houses.

We get it. You're creative. You're unique. You're quirky. Which is great when you're the one living there and maintaining it, but no one wants to live in your shrine.

At least grey home are easy to redo in your own taste. This would be a nightmare to get it back to neutral so you can put your own spin on it.

The bathroom bothers me more. Tiny mosaic tiles, all that grout to clean.

I feel quite sad that the artist clearly passed away or had to sell for whatever reason before finishing their project - I wonder what they had in mind for the second bedroom shown in the video? And that kitchen was surely going to get an overhaul, far too dull for a house like that!

Have seen a lot worse. Not my idea of hideous.

I think you could work with the bedroom with some decent paint skills - Mediterranean rustic or a dark blue/teal gothic palette.
Tiling that bathroom would have me screaming for my life. It must have taken them nine years to finish the space. Not to mention cleaning the grouting.

I think it’s hideous too OP.

The dead person won’t read their house is horrible but maybe their family will.

Funnily enough I saw this article this morning (actually was in the daily fail but I've found it else thankfully)..

https://www.tyla.com/life/fashion-woman-cant-sell-house-decorated-too-colourful-crazy-interiors-20200611

I'm imagining living in it and my feelings are mixed.
The front door is lovely. I really like the sitting room, hallway and the stairs though I would want to paint the wall of the staircase.

Kitchen and bathroom look like they need to be redone, regardless of decoration.

I'm afraid I couldn't live with the bedroom like that, I could live with keeping the ceiling.

If I bought it I would have an open house for anyone to see it one last time before I moved my furniture in and painted some of the rooms.

The plain room with the exercise bike looks really incongruous compared to the rest of the house.