http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-ozzie-and-harriet-20140908-story.html
http://homes.yahoo.com/news/ozzie-harriet-house-modernized-back-market-225519159.html
Historical vandalism.
All that harsh white eventually ends up feeling oppressive to me.
The new kitchen has way too much marble everyplace to suit me. Something was lost by removing the 1950’s style kitchen cabinets, though I understand, people want to put their own mark on their own property. Whoever redid the Den has made it clear they do not like earth tones. Maybe they thought it looked to ‘masculine’, or like a ‘man cave’ with all the paneling. The new Den was well done, but it is so pale and chalky, as to have the look of a sterile environment. It looks like some kind of clinic or classroom. If Ozzy’s ghost disapproves too much, he will make the new owners just a little uncomfortable. One of his son’s Ricky Nelson, who was one of the first truly big rock and roll stars, might serenade them with ‘Poor Little Fools’.
Who’s that designed for, the guy in “Creepshow” who lives in the completely white apartment?
Well it was cheap to paint. “Give me 200 gallons of white off the shelf. Nothing else. White. Plain white. And a couple of sticks of dynamite.”
This designer and his fancy friends don’t know that real people really prefer a separate, closed kitchen, even if their “staff” is doing the cooking and cleaning, as things need to be cleaned up and put away immediately lest the guests see pans in the sink all the way from the other end of the living room.
This guy measures his accomplishment by how much he changed it, despite his mumbo jumbo about keeping the original character (the outside walls and the foundation?). If you aren’t taking out a wall, you aren’t doing your job as a designer, I guess.
Did the show ever say what Ozzie’s occupation was? I believe Ward Cleaver was in “insurance”.
I loved that show!
I was just a little girl, named “Mary-Lou. I had a huge crush on Ricky.
Imagine my rapture when he used to close the program with “Well, well Hello, Mary-Lou..Goodbye heart!”
((((((((sigh))))))))
Not perfection certainly....but better than what this nation has today.
From the comments, I was expecting some sort of ghastly contemporary re-muddling but it’s actually very nice. Restrained. While I’m not a big fan of marble, the white marble with gray and black marbling sits very well with the original black and white octagonal tile in the baths. It’s a beautiful home, it was then, it is now. I’d be proud to own it if I were able.