[AnAmericanMother]

Our current house is "Wright-ish" in that respect too -- all the wood is that dark walnut color, including the exposed beams in the living room. Unfortunately not real walnut . . . we could lighten that up. It's all white wood and pine stained black walnut, and a hard lacquer on top of the stain, which makes it the very devil to refinish. We are picking away at it, but more important things (lethal cracked furnace, water in the crawlspace, leaky roof, gutters falling off) have demanded our attention first.

But Wright would never have painted the dining room MAUVE. Ugh.

Our problem is, once you have built your own place, you're never satisfied living in a house somebody else built. This was a custom architect-designed home, and it looks very much like the one we built before that we outgrew (that's one of the reasons we bought it - that, and it had been vacant and neglected for 2+ years . . . the only reason we could afford it). But nothing is exactly where I would have put it . . .

. . . and, oh, yeah, the master bedroom is PINK . . . and the guest bathroom has op-art blue and red wallpaper with silver bows all over it.

Our predecessors had either NO taste, or the worst possible taste. My kids refer to the former owner as "Mr. Toad."

[SuziQ]

My kids refer to the former owner as "Mr. Toad."

ROTFL! Yeah, there's no accounting for taste, is there? We like finding those nasty looking houses; you can get them for a good price because everyone else sees them as major work and don't want to bother, so they sit, and sit.