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An antidote to all the bland and grey interiors we see ...

55 replies

LindorDoubleChoc · 06/02/2025 13:36

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/68344976/?search_identifier=38724fc9a7e7a019b037920964fbf60ff6ef8437c8ded8f99f240973cb5bf320

Check out this house in Chelsea! I thought, from looking at the pictures, that an eccentric millionaire with mixed family heritage who has travelled all over the world might have lived there for years - but no, it seems to have been interior-designed this way.

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TwigletsAndRadishes · 06/02/2025 15:52

It's too busy for me. I am not against a bit of maximalism but it's hard to pull off and that lacks any cohesion. It's also quite dated. There are some lovely elements in each room, it's just that each room is overdone. I want to go round and removed 30% of the stuff, change some wall colours, remove some of the hideous cushions. All those peach walls are giving me early 90s vibes. It could be lovely with a some strict editing, while still keep its distinctive personality.

SaltyPig · 06/02/2025 15:56

£17million for five bedrooms, the world's gone mad. It has a great GP vibe.

MaryGreenhill · 06/02/2025 16:22

It's a beautiful house and gardens but it's so cheap inside . There's just no class imho .

LindorDoubleChoc · 06/02/2025 16:31

I don't think it has a private garden either? Just direct access to Cadogan Garden. I think the pink wardrobe is a touch too much actually!

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BotterMon · 06/02/2025 16:34

Don't think I'll be hiring Alberto Pinto to do my house 😂

Nellieinthebarn · 06/02/2025 16:38

I love bits of it, some I think some of it is horrible, but hats off to someone who decorates their home how they like it.

Roaminginthegloaming · 06/02/2025 16:43

It looks like something Joan Collins would be living in.

Loafbeginsat60 · 06/02/2025 16:48

Ooft that's awful. Could be made nice though

Sebsaloysius · 06/02/2025 16:57

I unashamedly love it and only wish I was batshit enough to do it and not care a jot!

jay55 · 06/02/2025 17:29

I love it, I couldn't live with it but it's so fun.

Lyn348 · 06/02/2025 17:32

Jesus Christ that is so ugly. The furniture more than anything else is just hideous.

No33 · 06/02/2025 17:46

I adore some elements and hate others, some are meh and some are nice.

I would love to decorate something like that!

RobinEllacotStrike · 06/02/2025 18:50

BigDahliaFan · 06/02/2025 15:15

Love the wallpaper - but there are other bits that I'd have to tone down - the pink walk in wardrobe...no good with a hangover.

I love that dressing room 😄

I could live there no problem

Koulibiak · 06/02/2025 21:15

It’s always a bit sad when a great property looks like it’s been decorated as a job lot. This house doesn’t actually reveal anything at all about the owners - it only bears the stamp of the designer. To me, the mark of good interior design is that it’s personal. This house isn’t. All the patterning is clearly the work of the designer. The art looks like cheap pieces with no intrinsic quality, again assembled together by the designer, as opposed to a collection that has grown organically. There are no objects that reveal anything about where the owners have travelled, their interests, etc.

I think it’s a fair assumption that this is an investment property, the owners probably have many other houses and this is, at most, a very occasional residence. Hence the lack of personality. It looks cartoonish - very “Russian oligarch/Dubai junior prince/Chinese billionaire does London”

I’m fully on board with maximalism and colour (my living room is the same pink as that dressing room - clutch your pearls😊) but not like this.

The problem with houses that have been 100% designed, is that it can be quite hard to change things on a piecemeal basis without breaking the spell. So you’re looking at a multimillion project to redecorate.

Having said all this, I would gladly take it as is, if someone gave it to me…

Youcanttakeanelephantonthebus · 06/02/2025 21:19

Just think about all the spiders on the walls and floor you wouldn't see running towards your hair because of the busy patterns.

WonderingWanda · 06/02/2025 21:24

Cheap Scottish hotel crossed with an art gallery. Looks like a right mish mash and not at all worth any millions.

WonderingWanda · 06/02/2025 21:25

I should clarify I mean Scottish themed hotel interiors...please Scottish mumsnetters don't take offence.

ArcanePond · 07/02/2025 10:58

Youcanttakeanelephantonthebus · 06/02/2025 21:19

Just think about all the spiders on the walls and floor you wouldn't see running towards your hair because of the busy patterns.

That is the funniest justification of minimalism and patternlessness I've ever come across.

Felicityjoy · 07/02/2025 11:01

The kitchen and one of the bedrooms are nice. Apart from that I woukd never feel at ease in a house decorated like that.

SereneCapybara · 07/02/2025 11:01

That screams Interior Designer at Work to me. It's so impersonal. Textbook, unsubtle maximalism - florals with tartans and faux ancestral antlers and pictures. I love maximalism but it needs to have a bit of personal distinction.

pimplebum · 07/02/2025 11:13

Please stop slagging of grey ( or any other fashion trend)
it was a trend that heaps of us leap to
I am sitting here in my entirely grey walled house and want to poke you in your pretentious arse !
we are not able to redecorate on a whim so stop with the grey-ist- ism !!

ArcanePond · 07/02/2025 12:05

pimplebum · 07/02/2025 11:13

Please stop slagging of grey ( or any other fashion trend)
it was a trend that heaps of us leap to
I am sitting here in my entirely grey walled house and want to poke you in your pretentious arse !
we are not able to redecorate on a whim so stop with the grey-ist- ism !!

If you like it, there's no need to be so sensitive about having gone with the bland-and-grey trend, any more than the metro tile trend, the 'paint everything sage green' trend, or the Crittal doors trend.

wipeywipe · 07/02/2025 12:07

Check out this house in Chelsea! I thought, from looking at the pictures, that an eccentric millionaire with mixed family heritage who has travelled all over the world might have lived there for years - but no, it seems to have been interior-designed this way.

That's a very popular interior design aesthetic amongst the rich.

fiorentina · 07/02/2025 12:19

There are elements that I like but overall it’s too much for me! I am not sure I’d fully relax in some rooms due to them being so busy with pattern. I’d take the house on as a project though! 😂