Cheap Old Houses: House in IL's neighborhood maybe?

[iris lilies]

I couldn't imagine living in such a large place, but it's nice eye candy that sure harkens back to the days of large families and cold rooms. Curious that a person would put what looks like a labor of love into it's restoration only to up and leave when it's finished. Maybe to get back to less home maintenance.

Seems like it would cost half again the price to furnish properly, though it's hard to picture?

By “cost half again as much to furnish properly” do you mean they sink $450,000 into furnishings? No I don’t think so. I like their art, though, a lot. I will have to stay away from their sale. Probably they’ll give it to an auction house anyway.

I think it’s great that they’re getting away from their big money suck of a house to have an adventure at their young age. They don’t have children. Of course thry will miss that house as well as the neighborhood, we all miss it when we leave.

[Rogar]

By “cost half again as much to furnish properly” do you mean they sink $450,000 into furnishings? No I don’t think so.

What I was thinking, but I have little concept of such. Other than the Keno Brothers on Roadshow say brown furniture is out and going for cheap.

[iris lilies]

What I was thinking, but I have little concept of such. Other than the Keno Brothers on Roadshow say brown furniture is out and going for cheap.

It is! Old brown furniture is extremely unpopular so that means people like me can buy by 18th century furniture where 20 years ago I could only afford 19th century furniture.

[rosarugosa]

It is a magnificent house, but it has quite a formal feel about it. If I lived there, I would feel like the house was disappointed by me in my Vista Camp pants and my hoodies, lol. I'm sorry there were no pictures of the garden.
Everyone might already know this, but I'll share, since I recently discovered it by accident. On Realtor.com, if you click on the map view, it takes you to a page with the headings "Photos, Street View, Map." If you click on "Photos," you can scroll down through the photos instead of tediously clicking through the slide-show format. I hate slide shows.

[jp1]

The parrot painting in the dining room and the dogs painting over the white dresser in the secondary bedroom look very much like Charlie Houska paintings. He’s a St Louis artist who is good friends with a longtime friend of SO’s. We have a painting of our former kitties done by him that I commissioned as a Christmas gift for SO many years ago.

https://www.houska.com/home-1

[iris lilies]

The parrot painting in the dining room and the dogs painting over the white dresser in the secondary bedroom look very much like Charlie Houska paintings. He’s a St Louis artist who is good friends with a longtime friend of SO’s. We have a painting of our former kitties done by him that I commissioned as a Christmas gift for SO many years ago.

https://www.houska.com/home-1

yes I think those are Houska items.

I like the Green Eggs and Ham print in the dining room.

[jp1]

This is the Houska painting I commissioned of our former kitties.

charlie.jpg

[catherine]

This is the Houska painting I commissioned of our former kitties.

charlie.jpg

Love it!

[jp1]

Love it!

Thank you. I do too! And I love Charlie Houska. We met him when he came with SO's mutual friend and a whole crowd of other family/friends from St Louis for a long weekend in Napa 8 or 9 years ago and we joined them. Such a sweet sweet human being. I was happy to be able to hire him to memorialize our cats this way. This year we're in the midst of a bathroom renovation so i've convinced SO that we don't need to spend any more money on each other for christmas but next year I may reach out to Charlie and commission him to do a painting of our current lady kitties.

[iris lilies]

This is the Houska painting I commissioned of our former kitties.

charlie.jpg

Very nice kitties, really cute.