apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

The terrace is lovely -
- but the apartment and it's furnishings are ghastly.

I looked at an apt there when house hunting in DC with an ex -- mostly out of curiosity -- the interior halls were ghastly with pseudo-colonial decor (so damned ubiquitous in the DC area . . . ) -- and very long, curving halls, more like a yutzy hotel. The unit was a duplex with a terrace off the upper room -- but the circular stair to the room took up half the floor space. It's a very badly designed building.

My first reaction was expensive hotel lobby. Impersonal, yet trying hard to justify the outragious price that they charge, by selling a fantasy.
A sort of "Versailles de la Schmatte"

The Watergate looks like a third world monstrosity.
-DC resident.

One of these mornings that guy's dog is going to fly right through that railing.

Two excellent examples that having money does not result in having good taste...so unfortunate

Many of the buildings hallways have been redecorated with more modern furnishings (Watergate East, anyway -- don't know about South or West). Everything does curve so it made re-doing our kitchen a challenge! (I think our remodel is a bit more down-to-earth than this, although I doubt we'd ever get into home & garden)

One of these mornings that guy's dog is going to fly right through that railing.

Yeah, just to escape that tacky decor!

Oh yes YoJess, the exterior is awful.

I thought the Watergate was a co-op... maybe just part of it?

That interior is horrible. Whoever said "trying too hard", you were right.