Spoiler image for the super impatient:
spoiler
Is that a toilet?
It’s the royal throne.
Bad real estate? More like amazing real estate. I love it lmao. Well, except for the pricetag.
Valley of the Rings
Toot-and-come-in
Nifertiti
The Bummy
Shatophagus
Cleofartra
A super white space with a fireplace in every room, then suddenly you’re in a bedroom without walls (I guess they ran out of money?), then a horrible marble bathroom, then suddenly it looks like a completely different house with terracotta tiles and feature brickwork everywhere, then a toilet with like… limestone walls? A kitchenette bigger than my actual kitchen in a sitting room where none of the 6+ chairs face the TV. I dig the spoiler room though, that last fuckin toilet got me. I couldn’t imagine living in a place like that.
It’s a very strange house. Most of it is beautiful but not very stylistically consistent, and then boom, sarcophagus toilet.
Lots of effort to make it immaculate but the 3 different types of wood in the downstairs clash horribly, eurgh…
Considering that it looks to be a very old house, that room may have been decorated in the 1920s, when Ancient Egypt was all the rage. I don’t see a problem here.
According to the write-up the house was built in 1859 but the Egyptian suite was painted by Mike Lewis, who appears to be an artist based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Looking him up I found this story from CBC when it was on the market in 2020 and it seems it was commissioned by the then-owner, a historian and filmmaker.
Egyptian room is certainly a choice, but the rest I’m not mad about? The exposed walls look legit and give the house some character, and the spaces that are renovated are tasteful.
My only complaint with the rest is the weird kitchen that’s both gigantic and way too small.
Taste is developed, not bought