Both.

Both. It looks like a waiting room that is trying to be 'shabby chic"?

Both. It's obviously set up so buyers can make their way to the windows to take in the views.

Looks like stock furnishings are just there to provide a spot to sit to discuss the listing.

If you put all the furniture in a different style house with a different wall color and a different rug it could work.

Maybe one part of a couple moved some of her stuff into the partners existing modern pad?

For me, with this room, the view is the selling point. Furnishings are not important at all. (I bet an ultra-wide lens was used by the photographer).

That floral chair looks so out of place it is painful.

Maddielee's right. Those ultra-wide lenses are horribly distorting. I'd like to see what this really looks like, as I'm sure the photos are skewed terribly.

maddielee

For
me, with this room, the view is the selling point. Furnishings are not
important at all. (I bet an ultra-wide lens was used by the
photographer).

I don't think so, the listing said the LR is 21 x 16 which is a very decent size IMO

Here's the listing: https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/3430-N-Lake-Shore-Dr-60657/unit-14P/home/13375838

I don't get why there is a candelabra sitting on the floor. But love the rug and wood floor. With that view in Chicago, who cares though! ;)

Somebody certain likes gray. A lot.

Definitely distorted due to camera. 2 chairs in living room appear wider in some pics compared to others. Distorted tea kettle, toilet, flowered chair, rug, etc,.

(I actually LOL'd at the oblong tea kettle! ;-D)

Both, but the staging is particularly bad, and it emphasizes how low the ceiling is.

In a city that's often gray and dismal when you're outside, why would you want to bring that feeling inside too? There are so many ways that this could be made to look warm and friendly and still have it be stylish.

In one bathroom you would have to be very tall to see yourself in the mirror. While the mirror appears to be centered on the wall, it looks odd being so far to the right of the sink.

Someone decided everything needed to be on the rug. I hope it wasn't an ID.

Both!

IMO the color/pattern of the floral chair and big mirror were big misses.

I dont think it is so bad, I have seen a lot worse. The floral chair definitely looks out of place but these would not be a deal breaker for me. When I go house hunting I look at the flow of the home and room sizes not the decorating.

I think that there is to much furniture in the room. Remove the floral chair, the white table behind the floral chair, and the table against the window wall. Move one of the brown leather chairs directly across from the other as it is now. There's adequate space to move around, and the large size of the room shows, not like before, when it seemed very crowded and uncomfortable.

k sissy it's a real estate listing, not one of our homes.

Sorry, didn't read close enough. Just skimmed.

always beat me to it. I think if you took out the mirror and bigger chair, and then moved the two chairs differently, it wouldn't be "so bad".

ETA: and K Sissy, I agree with that assessment. Obviously!

Back in the day, that color was known as "Battleship Gray". IE, not a good thing....

What furniture? It's about the lake.

jk. I think they are getting ready to buff the floors, and just moveds much as they could to one place.

The furniture doesn't matter. There's the lake and it's within walking distance to Wrigley.

Sorry, I'm late to this one, but this reads to me "bachelor got hitched, wife moved in with favorite chair, now needs to move to make wife and daughter happy -- will miss Wrigley Field and runs at the lake". It makes us left coasters sad to see a nice 2BR lakeview condo near Wringley at the price of income-qualified studio in a bad section of SF. The unit seems great, with a terrific view (those winters, though....). I think a nice silvery blue would have worked to help frame and highlight the view, and made the unit seem larger and taller.