I'm not much for animal prints, but I think it's fun and subtle enough that I could live with it. In the distant shot it looks almost like nubbly sand to me, esp with the plants as they are.

I'm with YOU, Jim! I often like it very much as area rugs, but an acre of it in one room is too much, IMO. Maybe if the furniture related to it in some way, but it doesn't.

Is that in Vegas?

Nope, vintage condo on the north side of Chicago

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/320-W-Oakdale-Ave-60657/unit-1901/home/13370573

It looks like a game room with the pool table and the ad mentions multiple-level living spaces. If that's what it is, okay because if you spilled something, you wouldn't see the spots! LOL

That is way too much floor to have in animal print.

HOA Dues $2,337/month - this is what I find offensive, not the animal print carpet. The HOA dues are more than half of a mortgage payment.

The carpet would bother me only if there is a repeat that is extremely obvious and creates an additional geometric pattern. As long as it looks random, I like it. I agree that it is appropriate for a game room/casual living area.

I like carpet like this, but this room is under-furnished so it's hard to tell what it would look like if it actually had furniture.

The red accents seem so...tacky. Otherwise I could work with the carpet.

The white pool table needs to be hit with a different gallon of latex, too. Poor thing.

I don't know if it is the photography angle or the acres of leopard print but all the furniture looks like it is floating. Nothing in the room is grounded.

The kitchen is quite the time warp.

Based on some of the photos, I suspect the owners are ancient and/or eccentric. I would have loved to see it before the stager blew through.

Well, there's a reason Mother Nature put spots a on middling size cat and not on a huge elephant ...

Carpet? What carpet? The view! (So why are the two lonely chairs facing the room's entrance, not the view?

I’m surprised at myself that I like it and I think the space can carry it. An antelope print would have been my choice were this my place but this is fine the way it is.

I'm confused. It's a duplex, but I see 3 floors? Or is the animal print floor remodeled/staged for sale?

at least it would hide spots...LOL

Reading through everyone else's posts, I agree with Anglo that it is underfurnished (giving rise to my "too much floor" comment), and what furniture there is seems strangely arranged. The animal print is a lesser problem.

I've seem worse prints in carpets. That is a HUGE area and quite a commitment. I would likely go more neutral and maybe layer with a rug if I needed something more.

WOW! Now that I've looked at the listing pics, that carpet doesn't surprise me. It's furnished eclectically all over. And Jim knows that being a 'country girl', I much prefer a Green Acres type view than a city one. :-)

i think room looks twice as bigger as actually is, due to photography angle, and the furnishings are spare and don't give this carpet any justice. so might be too big-and might be not, just not taken sensitively into account. in short, i personally might try to work with it, just in a very different way

haven't seen the rest of the listing yet

(what I don't get is how they have 2 kitchens..)

I'm excited to see this - not for the animal print but because I recognize the building! Used to live in the 500 block of Oakdale (a couple blocks from this one) and 600 block of Wellington. Sigh... what a fun time that was.

Anyway, I'd rather see the animal print as an area rug.

And about those HOA dues... yes, that's what held me back from buying a kick-a$$ top floor unit in The Brewster many many years ago. I ended up buying a cool loft instead, but I still think about that other unit and that building.

You guys, is some of this furniture virtual, added via computer? It looks so strange!

they'd do something nicer, more space-relatable when using computer, or so i believe

their strangeness makes it kinda real:)

aprilneverends

(what I don't get is how they have 2 kitchens..)

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2 units(one above another) were combined and they left a kitchen.

That room with the carpeting is 29 x 14, so it is a good size to start

Re; HOA

From seeing other listings in vintage buildings--this bldg is 61 yrs old, it's in the ballpark.

One way to view it, nearly a third (or more) would normally go out for heat, air, cable, internet, gas, scavenger(trash) anyway

Here's a video about another unit,http://www.chicagomag.com/Radar/Deal-Estate/October-2012/Afloat-Over-Lake-View-in-a-Milton-Schwartz-Penthouse/

This unit is on the 19th and 20th floors and looks to be a combined unit as it has 2 kitchens, one on each floor.

It’s not the penthouse. Those are on the 21st floor.

The listing says its the only duplex in the building.

It has floor to ceiling windows with east and south views.

I won’t go into the description of the two kitchens, because, well, everyone should check it out for themselves.

The unit has some hardwood floors as well as wood paneling with moldings.

It has central air, in-unit washer/dryer and one covered parking space.

The listing says this is the first time this unit has been on the market. If they moved in right away, that would be 61 years.

The owners in this building seem very loyal.

In 2012, Chicago Magazine had a story about the two penthouses and
talked to Schwartz’s widow who still lived in one. You can read it and
see the pictures here.

This unit has been under contract once already.

It’s been reduced $24,100 since May.

Who’s ready to take on this project?

Amanda McMillan at @Properties has the listing. See the pictures here.

Unit #1901: 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, duplex

• First time on the market since 1956
• Originally listed in May 2017 for $799,900
• Reduced
• Currently listed at $775,000 (includes one covered parking spot)
• Assessments of $2337 a month (includes heat, a/c, cable, Internet, exterior maintenance, lawn care, scavenger and snow removal)
• Taxes of $11,885
• Central Air
• Washer/Dryer in the unit
• Wet bar
• Bedroom #1: 29×14 (main level)
• Bedroom #2: 15×14 (second floor)
• Bedroom #3: 14×11 (second floor)
• Bedroom #4: 15×11 (second floor)
• Foyer: 18×7
• Study: 15×11 (main level)
• 2 kitchens (one on each level)

I don't even notice the carpeting. My eyes are too busy bouncing from one orange accent to another - follow the bouncing orange. .

(my monitor reads orange accents, not red). MAybe they own a carpet store?