Yikes! Can you imagine living is such surroundings? It's unique you are right about that, but i think the furnishings are for one with 'unique' taste

The B&O (and all other technology for that matter) actually looks out of place, 70's and 80's B&O would have suited this space more natrually...

I agree it would be hard for me to feel comfortable with the furnishings, but then my taste ,is more contemporary and minimalist.  The midwest is not known for contemporary architecture, more traditional but B&O will pop up somewhere, even when you least expect to see it.  

Much like watching movies and noticing B&O I also find myself spying B&O just about everywhere I look these days, it's a sickness, but I'm not seeking treatment just yet😁

Someone's got more money than taste!

Hmmm... I think that is my late father's last wife's house! 😂😂😂

Ever heard one of my fav terms: ungapatchka?

For now... buy the house, and have GOODWILL come pick up everything -less the B&o, of course!

Seriously, I like the house. I would love to see what it would look with the interior done properly... (more like the "Entertainment Room")

burantek wrote:

Hmmm... I think that is my late father's last wife's house! 😂😂😂

Ever heard one of my fav terms: ungapatchka?

For now... buy the house, and have GOODWILL come pick up everything -less the B&o, of course!

 

Seriously, I like the house. I would love to see what it would look with the interior done properly... (more like the "Entertainment Room")

 

They say marriage is an institution.  The outside of the house looks like an institution.

Oh i'm glad i'm not the only one who was thinking - *GROSE!*

linder wrote:

They say marriage is an institution.  The outside of the house looks like an institution.

😂😂

You know what... I think that is part of my problem! I always take a liking to commercial spaces adapted for living... like warehouse/loft redos's. In this instance, I get the same feeling -but the house was built as a house from the start? Whenever I see old buildings, I think: what would that be like as a home? I actually have a plan to adapt a steel warehouse into a home as all new construction!

burantek wrote:

linder wrote:

They say marriage is an institution.  The outside of the house looks like an institution.

😂😂

You know what... I think that is part of my problem! I always take a liking to commercial spaces adapted for living... like warehouse/loft redos's. In this instance, I get the same feeling -but the house was built as a house from the start? Whenever I see old buildings, I think: what would that be like as a home? I actually have a plan to adapt a steel warehouse into a home as all new construction!

The first house looks interesting- and I don't mind a mix of traditional and modern furniture.

The second of Roger's links is difficult to evaluate because the fish-eye lens might be exaggerating relatively small rooms (but probably not relatively small by most UK standards!)

Jeff...... there is certainly a trend in the UK for large houses/ small apartment blocks to be built with steel frames and then clad with brickwork. But this changes almost year by year. Before the current recession steel hit very high prices, and so there was a previous  trend to go for pre-cast reinforced concrete frames. Timber frame (factory assembled) is slowly coming back here for individual / one-off buildings, after having gone through a bad patch with large developers not understanding the tight tolerances needed in the foundations so as not to adversely stress the building skins....and frames now have to be treated against rot (the damp climate and poor maintenance meaning that most UK buildings will at some point go through a period of water entry).

Graham