What looks like a normal 1950’s Silver Lake home reveals itself to be the equivalent of a spilled package of Skittle candies on the inside. It's admittedly a bit over the top use of colour, but it's also its assured and committed audacious use of vibrant interior paints that remind us why we love living east of the 101 freeway. A few more photos under the jump...
[photos and listing: TheMLS.com]
Great deal at terrific price! Step back to the grand 1950’s with this lively one story home decked out in friendly, bright colors. Flower filled yard, just waiting for a possible pool or expansion. Open plan perfect for parties. Have breakfast in the kitchen, snooze in the oversized den. This is a great deal at a terrific price! Stop by and have lunch Tuesday 4/29 from 11-2 pm.
CurbedLA listed this under their ongoing "That's Rather Hideous" category. But we think it has a sort of PeeWee's Playhouse personality that sidesteps it from being just horrible. The question we're left asking is where were these people during last year's Fall Colors Contest?
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Whoever's-Grandma lives there must be one cool lady...
view bepsf's profile
I love the colors, but at $699K it's overpriced. Funky colors do not overcome a dated kitchen and tired exterior.
view Li's profile
The colors are too overwhelming! The first thought I had when I saw them was...YIKES! I agree with Li in that it's also overpriced.
view suzy8track's profile
Those colors have to be photo-enhanced...don't they?
view Cassis's profile
This place is for sale?! Those colors will take a good 10% off the price. Has a lot of curb appeal, at least.
view farmhousemoderne's profile
I luv all the hanging light fixtures...very groovy.
view sarah nin's profile
My corneas! It burns! It burns!
view darcidoodle's profile
the bathroom is my favorite!
view Kat1's profile
Yeah, maybe the colors are a little over the top, but I hope to heaven that someone who appreciates vintage buys the place! That bathroom is gorgeous! If I were house-shopping and came across a bathroom like that, I'd overlook a multitude of other sins.
And all that "outdated" kitchen needs is a coat of paint. If they've taken care of it, even the formica might still be good. I am SO tired of all the brand new McMansion kitchens with their particleboard and granite. They all look alike, and I've only seen one out of a couple thousand that have any soul. This house, at least, has character.
view parhelia's profile
I don't like McMansion kitchens either, but those appliances are old (not vintage, old) and the kitchen is poorly laid out and doesn't look very functional. I adore vintage, but at $699 the place has to be better maintained than this, esp. in this market. I saw a three bedroom foreclosure in Silverlake listed at $499 and it was in much better shape.
view Li's profile
OOOOHHH my...and I thought I liked colors.
view danze's profile
Hard to say, I'd wager the oven is pretty recent, can't tell about the cooktop nor the range hood and the dishwasher looks more recent too, though neither are brand new, but recent as in within the past 10 years I'm guessing.
the layout of the kitchen is a long in that it appears the fridge is just beyond the dishwasher, to the left of the photographer and thus will require several steps to get to but it otherwise doesn't look too bad overall.
However, I love, love the fact that much of the original fixtures and the bath and kitchen have NOT been updated/replaced, however non of the furniture looks to fit the period and the colors, oh lordy.
I don't think they are 50's era colors (save the bathroom tile) but the colors i the images may well have been saturated because even the tile, if indeed original is more intense that I think was originaly installed.
Still, a very cool house that needs a little love, subtle redoing of it's interior colorwise and voila, you will have a house that can step back in time with ease.
view ciddyguy's profile
awesome. but then i have that same green in my bathroom.
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