No thanks. What's with the silver sofas and the horse??? Egads.

And why do people need three, four, five…sitting rooms nowadays?

Here's the property linked

Here is a link that might be useful: A carousel horse for extra seating

Oh my. What a sad thing to do to a house with such a lovely exterior. That is what HGTV hosts call "taste specific."

This is vintage South Jersey. There are usually a number of properties on the market of this sort at any given time. This house appears to have the flashiest variety of several eras of decorating going on inside.

Is this vinyl?

I have to admit I expected much much worse before opening the link. I really don't find it bad at all. I guess what they say is true. You can take the girl out of jersey but you can't take the jersey out of the girl. :) (I am a NNJ girl though, not southern)

Thanks for the link, it's very entertaining.

Whew, NJ sure has high property taxes.

There must have been a sale on white paint.

It's different, and not really in a good way. The house sure doesn't have any sort of flow. Love love the exterior, but sad to see the interior.

I do like the upholstered dining chairs. I wonder where they were purchased?

Holy macaroli, those property taxes would give me a heart attack. Fifty three thousand a year? You've got to be kidding me!

I couldn't even get through the slide show. That may be the worst example of "professional" decorating I've ever seen.

I didn't look through slide show, but I bet the clients love it. Unless designing for a showcase home - technically no client - a "good" designer designs FOR the client, incorporating their wants and their sense of 'style', such as it is, into the space. Whether or not that suits any one else's sensibilities is beside the point. You deliver what the client wants.

Unless you are a very big name in the design world, most designers can't afford to pick and choose clients who's aesthetic only matches their own. Money talks!

I think it is "taste specific" - to the circus. Some of the rooms are really pretty - and tastefully decorated - and others are terribly garish. Perhaps it's a Ringling Bros. summer home?

Oh my...you can't unsee some of those rooms! Circus indeed. All that was missing was the trapeze over the master bed!

I've been looking for a Chesterfield sofa --- hm, hadn't thought of silver....

Re: Property Taxes. They are unbearably high--and getting worse yearly. Certain townships are worse than others--depends on the public schools. If you want good schools, you pay for them. And then, pretty much, downsize as quickly as possible once the kids are gone. For those of us who want to stay in the house we have "developed", it is really a burden. Ten percent of my take home pay goes to property taxes. I know, I should move. Don't want to.

I think there is a painting of a chicken without a head in the entrance hall. And the stone walls in the entrance. So inviting!

Lots of tripping hazards and circus art.

I actually like some of it. Not the draping, or the silver sofa room (eek!). But the entrance and the living room are kinda cool.

My major problem with it, is taking a traditionally designed home and fudging it with white shiny stuff to make it "modern." I much prefer homes to be decorated with some sense of connection to the style of the home's architecture over all.

395 days on Zillow...it must be those silver sofas.

Interesting about the taxes. I was curious though, the tax assessment amount is so much higher than the (un)sales price. Could it qualify for an adjustment, or is that only done at set intervals? I also noticed that the taxes have gone up, even though the assessment has gone down in recent years. Double ouch!

There are a number of successful interior designers in the Philadelphia/Cherry Hill area for whom this type of thing is their stock in trade. It's a much more common look in some suburban areas than others. Not common overall but enough to keep designers of this bent busy. A lot of it is also expensive to execute.

I have no words to describe that debacle. That's definitely a house that should be shown empty.

It was built in 1987, and I would have guessed the 70s because of the amount and type of paneling and the way the laundry room was done. I just can't believe that's 1987, maybe that was when it was last remodeled /added onto? It was purchased by the current owner just before the bust in 2007 for $2,200,000; and they are asking $1,350,000 for it now. Ouch, and you can't say the decorating inflated the price. But basically, that means they paid about $10,000 a month rent for the privilege of living there, not including upkeep, utilities, decor, remodeling, etc. And still the house has been on the market for over a year (maybe more?).

It looks like it was decorated when they bought it in 2007 (the all white room, 70's retro accents, orange & blue were on trend then.) I love the house and these rooms, but much of what they did is tear-that-out and that-has-to go for me.

why do people need three, four, five…sitting rooms nowadays?

They want a bigger house to compete with everyone at work, but don't want that many bedrooms, so the huge main floor if it's an open plan becomes an airport hanger, or if it's broken into rooms, becomes thus many sitting rooms. If you don't want a home office, or sun room, or library -sitting rooms is what you're left with to fill up 16,000 sq ft.

The all black and white rooms are dramatic enough and might have been a big 'wow' with these owners' friends back in the day. But, I cringe when I see all that wood just painted over. That is probably a patent leather bar. They were doing patent leather walls and floors at that time so you gotta wonder why these folks stopped at just the bar? I guess they do have some restraint?

The marble chunk walls and FP don't do it for me. If they were going to go that direction I would steer them toward something more Palm Springs or Brasília, like polished carrara marble slabs. Something more classic modernism, that would last.

I bet the orange chairs and silver couch comes with the house (who can afford these and then decides 7 years later to take them with them when they move?) But I wonder if the dinning room was the most recent update in the house?

All that white, in such gigantic rooms anyway, is like a series of individual airport hangers. Yes, an interior decorator is suppose to apply the clients tastes, not their own. But when the client says they must have an all white airport hanger, that's when you either put your foot down as a designer, or gracefully bow out of the project and suggest they find some one else, you know, like those folks who have a hard time finding a doctor to perform a 10th Rhinoplasty, where the tip starts pealing like Michael Jackson's.

I love the master bath, even the gaudy marble, but not that wood. Who knows how they had it decorated, but it would be a jungle very quickly if I moved in.

It looks like they had a lot of fun in this house, maybe a huge family, there's so much seating, and extra seating in the den. And that big brown lazy boy throne as atrocious as it is because the surrounding furniture seems to mock it, I gotta believe it was the most important seat in the house. Hey, yous saw me comin, why do I always gotta tell yous to get outta my chair?

I think this house is a classic example of where you can't just paint everything white and think it's going to look updated. You can tell what the kitchen cabinets used to look like based on the laundry room cabinets.

Too much white for that style house. The staircase in particular. The railing should have been left stained to give some contrast - I hate white railings! Just not my taste, but I'm sure someone will find it exceptionally lovely!