I use a picture of Elvis's porcelain monkey, that I took during the tour, as an avatar.
A few years back I was passing through Memphis and decided to visit Graceland. I was struck by what I saw in either the living room or sitting room (can’t recall which).The furnishings,etc were clearly expensive but they looked exactly like stuff that a piece of white trash would have bought just after having won the lottery.
“I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.”
― Steve Martin
When Elvis bought Graceland he gave his mother free reign to decorate the entire place. That probably explains what you saw because Mama Presley had been dirt poor her whole life until Elvis hit it big.
The saddest day of his life was when his Mama died. Elvis was a Mama’s boy.
A few years later his dad remarried and while Elvis was away, either on tour or shooting a movie, Papa let his new wife redecorate the place to her liking.
When Elvis returned home he literally exploded. He grabbed his daddy and daddy’s wife by the collars and threw both of them out of the house.
Fortunately for Elvis a couple of the boys in the Memphis Mafia had put everything in storage and paid for it themselves. Elvis took everything that had been put in the house while he was gone and gave it to charity. He got his guys to bring back everything his Mama had bought and put it right back where it had been.
So what you saw was Mama Presley’s decorations.
Graceland is still furnished the way Mama Presley did it so long ago.
I use a picture of Elvis's porcelain monkey, that I took during the tour, as an avatar.