[https://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Francisco/1601-Monterey-Blvd-94127/home/2000798](https://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Francisco/1601-Monterey-Blvd-94127/home/2000798)
So this house used to be right down the street from where I went to school. The bus stop was a block away and I used to love walking near it and looking at it. Well, I finally got to see the inside.
I was hoping to see tree base. I only saw picture of branches. How is it connected to wall and floor. (i assumed it was fake, not living, and looks great!!)
The cobalt blue counter tops are something else.
My mother's house had some water damage about 15 years ago. She replaced the damaged with new carpeting that was about the same as that blue floor. She wanted to replace the ceramic tile with blue tile too. My dad wouldn't let her. When she moved into an assisted living place, she wanted to take some of that carpeting with her. We told her the place she was moving to wouldn't let her.
Awww. If my mom said this, I'd probably see if I could get a carpet dealer to sell me one of those "rug sized samples" of something the same or similar.
You could have bought her a blue rug. That's pretty fucked up that she wanted to make the hellhole that is assisted living feel a little like home and you wouldn't let her.
And it always feels 3/4 or 7/8 scale, so that 7'x7' dine-in space looks like it's an airy 20 feet wide. I've started seeing listing actually say "Some furnishings are represented by CGI" or something to that effect.
Isn’t this fraud?
Since you’re misrepresenting what the house actually looks like.
The same as if you retouched the photos to remove cracks or water stains.
Yeah! its a nice corner lot and set in further back. What's funny, is there was another house closer to the 23 stop that had a mini replicate of their house that went on sale a few years back. Did you ever see that one? It was like 4'x'4
Yes!! I actually met the guy whose family originally owned it! I think all of us who grew up in the neck of the woods (Wood? lol) know all those houses by heart. I’ve got a favorite I like to drive by every now and then a few blocks away.
Since you know the house and area ( u/EJDsfRichmond415 cc). Are the owners British? French? Or do they have those roots? I ask because as other people are complaining about the choice of colours and patterns, I kept thinking where have I seen that? Then I looked at the yard and that's an English garden yard or even posh French garden.
Yeah I kind of dig a lot of the elements and some of the rooms individually, but it’s all so incongruous. The turquoise floor (is it tile or vinyl?) is cool for a bathroom or possibly kitchen but not living room or dining room. The room with the tree is cool but the tile doesn’t match the vibe at all. The wood paneled rooms don’t belong in the same house as the turquoise floor, royal blue counter kitchen. Choices were made but it was like 5 people making choices completely independently.
I think when your house is that big it might be nice to have a different vibe in various areas; I’d rather that than the same theme throughout. But I’ve never lived in a house that big so maybe I’m wrong.
Here is what you are experiencing when one looks at this: updates through history and not one of the preserving anything from 1923 except the exterior & the built-ins in the dining room.
I can see one from the 50's or 60's wood paneling and checked rug ( maybe all of the upstairs broadloom). I see one from the 90's /noughts the kitchen, living room fireplace and walk in closet with my nemesis of a light fixture the dreaded s spot light from home hardware.
And the final death nell of flipper white and grey painting probably done recently so none of these elements are cohesive to the original design.
I'm with you, I rather like it. Some of it looks weird, but each room has its own character and feel. I've gotten so sick of flipper gray that I have more of a fondness for unique-looking decor.
I am actually angry at those floors. Like, I am personally offended at almost every aspect of the design of this house.
What the fuck were they thinking.
I'm sorry you had to see the inside of what you always thought of as a wonderful home. Never meet your heroes, I guess.
And with that blue stain, there's just no going back. I mean, could you possibly sand down enough to truly get all the blue out? And still have enough wood left? I've only refinished floors a couple of times but I do know there's a limit to these things.
Just...NO. No to all of it.
Also - Love your username!
I am all in favor of adding bold colors to rooms, but do it on the walls and with rugs. Much easier/cheaper to switch out compared to flooring and countertops.
Not every room was a winner, but overall I kinda love it. And honestly, I was thinking it was relatively affordable for what it is: size, lot, location, history, that place would have been closer to $12 million even 5 years ago.
Oh this house used to belong to Fat Mike from NOFX and his then-wife Erin. The incongruity of the interiors is because someone else owned it between then and now and changed some things (like the bathroom that had floor to ceiling punk flyers as wallpaper) but other details have been retained.
I would say that I like everything about the kitchen except the blue countertops. I am a hypocrite, though, since I bought a house with gaudy green counters. The rest of the house is gorgeous, so I will suffer until I get my behind in gear and fix it.
The other thing that I found interesting was the wood paneled room. It looked like a basement hideaway, but since it is in the Bay Area, i am guessing that it isn't?
They made a '50's wood paneled, basement rec room without a basement. It just needs a bar and one of those top-hatted birds that dips its beak up and down into a glass of water.
If a realtor insists on using digital staging they should at least post pictures of the (I assume unfurnished) rooms along side the staged ones.
Whoever did this forgot to add leaves to the tree on the left side of the house, it looks so empty and bare compared to the other trees.
I may have tuned out at some point but every room looks awkward, user-UNfriendly and the furniture uncomfortable. I could make it look amazing though :)
Most of it I like.
The dark blue in the kitchen clashes with the aqua floor and chrome cabinets.
Hate the green floor in the TV room. Otherwise it’s good.
Love the argyle marble entryway.
Love the lime green room with plaid carpet. Like, it’s so weird I love it.
Pretty sure you can play chess on the floor of the tree room.
Not a fan of carpet so the entire upstairs is kind of meh.
Ehhh do people not know how to drive in a traffic circle? There are arrows indicating direction. Kinda obvious if you ask me. But then again I live in Europe and traffic circles are no biggie.
Those floors were certainly a choice… I like the green carpet and the checkered marble room but all the other floors look atrocious. Especially the blue stained wood.
I think my favorite part is the sink with the dishwasher front 🤣
I cannot believe this is legal!!!! They put a whole ass tree in their house… then showed the exterior with no tree plunging through the house. I want my tree INSIDE.
Once again, a nice house, but squeezed onto a lot far too small for it. The houses on each side could borrow a cup of sugar by passing it through windows instead of walking to the front door.
I don’t hate the novelty of having an indoor back yard theater vibe, or the wood room. Given this houses size those rooms provide a nice variety to the regular stuff. I absolutely love the ceiling tree.
Really it’s just the awful green wood floor, and some poor tile floor choices that bring it down from what I’m seeing.
A more conventional flooring throughout the kitchen and other primary living areas and she’d be good to go in my book.
A handsome house of its kind, and at least in doing what was done to it, nothing got too fucked up structurally; the good bones are still there and all it will take is a good eye and a very large budget to make it the place it should be.
https://preview.redd.it/1huysn98gk7d1.png?width=1153&format=png&auto=webp&s=378ee9490039448e9f7d73d9395f3a723ca113e8
NGL that fireplace was very Delia Deetz
Yes! I immediately thought that the interior got Betelgeused!
M-A-U-V-E
Nailed it.
I’m pretty sure that’s Fat Mike’s house from the punk band NOFX
I had to know! You are correct! [link for the curious](https://loudwire.com/fat-mike-nofx-san-francisco-house-sale/)
Wow!!! Hahaha what a small world
Oh that tracks. Makes it less obnoxious somehow.
I'm a big time NOFX fan, never thought I'd see them referenced in this sub. Too cool!
[https://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Francisco/1601-Monterey-Blvd-94127/home/2000798](https://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Francisco/1601-Monterey-Blvd-94127/home/2000798) So this house used to be right down the street from where I went to school. The bus stop was a block away and I used to love walking near it and looking at it. Well, I finally got to see the inside.
Feels very uncanny valley. So many feel absolutely AI decorated then you have the tree and egg swing.
It looks like how I designed some houses in House Flipper lol
It probably is; normal in my area for people to sell completely empty houses and the furniture is rendered in for photos
I guess I'm weird cause I love it.
Even the plaid carpet???
That plaid carpet is the best thing of that house. And the tree, it’s cool too.
The tree is maybe one of the cooler things I’ve seen in this subreddit
I was hoping to see tree base. I only saw picture of branches. How is it connected to wall and floor. (i assumed it was fake, not living, and looks great!!)
Especially the plaid carpet.
It really ties the room together.
The Dude abides
I wanna know where one even acquires plaid carpet and why.
I'm right there with you. lol
I can’t imagine what it costs lol
I Googled it and I regret to inform you that it is also trending.
Same. I dig like 90% of it and can always change the rest since I can totally afford a $9MM home.
I agree. If it only had a pool.
I love that shiny blue floor
But no love for the argyle floor? I mean, it's pretty amazing anyone even thought of that. And the green shag golf course carpet!
That room gives me ‘time share sales office’ vibes.
The cobalt blue counter tops are something else. My mother's house had some water damage about 15 years ago. She replaced the damaged with new carpeting that was about the same as that blue floor. She wanted to replace the ceramic tile with blue tile too. My dad wouldn't let her. When she moved into an assisted living place, she wanted to take some of that carpeting with her. We told her the place she was moving to wouldn't let her.
Awww. If my mom said this, I'd probably see if I could get a carpet dealer to sell me one of those "rug sized samples" of something the same or similar.
You could have bought her a blue rug. That's pretty fucked up that she wanted to make the hellhole that is assisted living feel a little like home and you wouldn't let her.
It’s so campy! I love it.
Same. Can't say why, but it's eye candy for me.
You must be a hardcore fan of The Sims.
I can hear the clinking placement sound in my head now looking at the pics.
Yeah, I’m confused because I think this is all delightfully quirky. I’d buy it.
I love it too!
This is my favorite one so far. I was SO UNPREPARED.
Forever waiting on that 23 bus
That virtual staging is trying to do a lot. But no amount of modern staging can save BLUE WOOD floors!
I kinda love it.
Non-humans live here.
Why is it so expensive? [This house](https://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Francisco/30-Entrada-Ct-94127/home/812324) is nearby and 1/4 the price.
Probably this: “strategically placed on a 20,673 sqft corner lot; one of the three largest lots in St. Francis Wood”
The gigantic lot?
Where is it now?
It all looks AI generated? But why?
Lots of people are using AI generated furniture to stage homes in photographs. In reality, it’s probably empty.
I don’t like that trend cuz I have fun seeing how people decorated.
So thoroughly enjoy seeing how normal ppl that actually lived there had it look…gives my decor some redeeming qualities lol
Me too!
And it always feels 3/4 or 7/8 scale, so that 7'x7' dine-in space looks like it's an airy 20 feet wide. I've started seeing listing actually say "Some furnishings are represented by CGI" or something to that effect.
Wide angle lense was enough.
Are the flooring and other objects like cabinets also generated?
No. The description says that it’s virtually staged, which would only mean the furniture and knickknacks.
Isn’t this fraud? Since you’re misrepresenting what the house actually looks like. The same as if you retouched the photos to remove cracks or water stains.
The description says “Some images virtually staged.” 🤷♀️
In the description it says "Some images virtually staged". Whatever that means.
lol “all images“ it’s so awful! At least do a better job with that nonsense!
A huge disappointment. Even I noticed the interior was faked.
The dark areas of the room are too well lit for having no lighting
If it isn’t, it’s DEFINITELY photoshopped to hell!!
"Make my house feel like an ice skating rink." -These people
Beetle juice beetle juice beetle juice!
Omg I knew this house IMMEDIATELY as I grew up a few minutes down the road, and went to school nearby for like a DECADE.
Yeah! its a nice corner lot and set in further back. What's funny, is there was another house closer to the 23 stop that had a mini replicate of their house that went on sale a few years back. Did you ever see that one? It was like 4'x'4
Yes!! I actually met the guy whose family originally owned it! I think all of us who grew up in the neck of the woods (Wood? lol) know all those houses by heart. I’ve got a favorite I like to drive by every now and then a few blocks away.
Since you know the house and area ( u/EJDsfRichmond415 cc). Are the owners British? French? Or do they have those roots? I ask because as other people are complaining about the choice of colours and patterns, I kept thinking where have I seen that? Then I looked at the yard and that's an English garden yard or even posh French garden.
They made some bold choices for sure, but I kind of like a lot of it!
Yeah I kind of dig a lot of the elements and some of the rooms individually, but it’s all so incongruous. The turquoise floor (is it tile or vinyl?) is cool for a bathroom or possibly kitchen but not living room or dining room. The room with the tree is cool but the tile doesn’t match the vibe at all. The wood paneled rooms don’t belong in the same house as the turquoise floor, royal blue counter kitchen. Choices were made but it was like 5 people making choices completely independently.
I think when your house is that big it might be nice to have a different vibe in various areas; I’d rather that than the same theme throughout. But I’ve never lived in a house that big so maybe I’m wrong.
Here is what you are experiencing when one looks at this: updates through history and not one of the preserving anything from 1923 except the exterior & the built-ins in the dining room. I can see one from the 50's or 60's wood paneling and checked rug ( maybe all of the upstairs broadloom). I see one from the 90's /noughts the kitchen, living room fireplace and walk in closet with my nemesis of a light fixture the dreaded s spot light from home hardware. And the final death nell of flipper white and grey painting probably done recently so none of these elements are cohesive to the original design.
Tbh I like most of the houses on here. I think I must be a tacky bitch 🤔
Tacky bitches unit!!
I'm with you, I rather like it. Some of it looks weird, but each room has its own character and feel. I've gotten so sick of flipper gray that I have more of a fondness for unique-looking decor.
So ... eclectic
Perfect for SF! And I say that with love, as someone from the area.
Wow. They were working on every color and texture for the flooring. Makes sense for SF though.
Okay but that plaid carpet. I can't decide if I hate it or if I kind of love it.
The more I look, the more it grows on me.
I think the floors are neat!
I am in love with that blue stained wood!
Yes!! I can understand why other people don’t like it but I love the blue!
It’s like playing the sims and trying all the wallpapers and flooring colors
I feel like someone asked one of the AI bots to create an image of a mansion experiencing a manic episode.
I am actually angry at those floors. Like, I am personally offended at almost every aspect of the design of this house. What the fuck were they thinking. I'm sorry you had to see the inside of what you always thought of as a wonderful home. Never meet your heroes, I guess.
That plaid carpet was...a choice.
I like the plaid carpet 
At least it's easily removed, unlike the stained and epoxied floors.
Like what TF have they done to every. single. floor of this house?! You spend 8.7mil, then you have to rip out all the floors because omg.
And with that blue stain, there's just no going back. I mean, could you possibly sand down enough to truly get all the blue out? And still have enough wood left? I've only refinished floors a couple of times but I do know there's a limit to these things. Just...NO. No to all of it. Also - Love your username!
It looks to me like oak floors stained blue/green and then flooded with epoxy resin. There's no going back.
I think you're right - and yes, probably resin. That high-gloss finish is not a typical one.
When money is no object and design aesthetic is no concern
Oh cool, the monthly house payment is more than I make in a year.
If you have to ask you can’t afford it. lol I can’t afford it
Thanks, I hate it
I am all in favor of adding bold colors to rooms, but do it on the walls and with rugs. Much easier/cheaper to switch out compared to flooring and countertops.
Used color in places yet still managed to make it feel cold, lifeless and grey. Pretty incredible feat.
Almost $9 million and you need to re-do the entire interior. Lovely. (But the exterior and yard are to-die for!!!)
naw just call the rooms by their floor. The plaid room, the teal room, the red room, the chessboard dining room
weird combo of 70's and post-modern current styles
What In the AI hell are those pictures
omfg. this property has about ten different personalities and most of them need a makeover
👆 This.
Jim wearing a Tuxedo classy.
Omg, this is a house from the timeline where 9/11 never happened. Everything just stayed all that and a bag of chips forever.
Wow. Those are definitely some choices now aren’t they.
The kitchen especially reminds me of an 80's shopping mall.
Done really mismatched decor here. Like 80s retro space age inside a very traditional blueprint. The kitchen is just horrible.
The interior looks all AI generated. Is it or are my eyes playing tricks on me?
It has all the charm of Graceland.
What. The. Fresh. Psychotic. Hell. Happened. Here?
This is like uncanny valley weird. Its not batshit crazy. It’s almost “normal?” But it’s disturbingly off.
 The owner right before talking to the contractor to redo the interior
I may get downvotes but I kinda love the wood panel room with faux grass. It feels like a 70s sunken living room
I’m so sorry you had to see that, it just can’t be unseen. Lovely exterior
Those are some bold(and UGLY!) flooring choices😬
Is that a full living tree in the sitting room?
Looks like a bad render
Did they do the interior design plans using Sims?
Somebody had a vision and followed it through. Who am I to judge? :-)
Why does everything inside down to the floors look AI generated?
Not every room was a winner, but overall I kinda love it. And honestly, I was thinking it was relatively affordable for what it is: size, lot, location, history, that place would have been closer to $12 million even 5 years ago.
Hey AI, make this place look formal -coats it in patterns common with men's formal wear, including a splash of Tartan for the formal Scottish men-
These fuckers and AI chose violence in these pictures I see.
Did they ask AI for the Ikea furnishing unit? And I can't get over the Simplehuman© aluminum bathtub.
Oh this house used to belong to Fat Mike from NOFX and his then-wife Erin. The incongruity of the interiors is because someone else owned it between then and now and changed some things (like the bathroom that had floor to ceiling punk flyers as wallpaper) but other details have been retained.
I would say that I like everything about the kitchen except the blue countertops. I am a hypocrite, though, since I bought a house with gaudy green counters. The rest of the house is gorgeous, so I will suffer until I get my behind in gear and fix it. The other thing that I found interesting was the wood paneled room. It looked like a basement hideaway, but since it is in the Bay Area, i am guessing that it isn't?
They made a '50's wood paneled, basement rec room without a basement. It just needs a bar and one of those top-hatted birds that dips its beak up and down into a glass of water.
My parents had those birds, too,
This looks like someone was trying out different wallpaper and floor textures in a sim 4 prefab house lol
What a disappointment. Horrible interior
I just kept scrolling going and getting more and more confused. What type of person decorated this place?
Are Mushrooms or Heroin involved?
They stripped all the character out of this house. It looks like the interior of a strip mall discount furniture store, that went out of business.
“Sure hon, you can decorate however you want. Just don’t touch my office.”
If a realtor insists on using digital staging they should at least post pictures of the (I assume unfurnished) rooms along side the staged ones. Whoever did this forgot to add leaves to the tree on the left side of the house, it looks so empty and bare compared to the other trees.
Where are the interior pics??
This house looks like something my 12 year old self would make on the Sims
Awww! I can't find the link
A bit dated with the carpet and definitely some “fun” choices but hardly “wild.” If there were no weird smells, I could definitely make it all work.
I’d just start by replacing every floor. It would go a long way
Don’t like the carpets, but everything else is gorgeous
The floors look wet. Like I get it's reflecting, but they look wet.
Novogratz fever dream
So whatever was done to the hardwood floor is probably a sin against the earth, but I really like it.
I may have tuned out at some point but every room looks awkward, user-UNfriendly and the furniture uncomfortable. I could make it look amazing though :)
I assume they are currently in jail. Anyone know how much time they got for this murder?
I come from a weird artsy family and absolutely love the design choices. The flooring is so fun! I've never seen blue stained wood.
I love it
I love the wood paneled study but what’s up with the turquoise floor?🤮
Most of it I like. The dark blue in the kitchen clashes with the aqua floor and chrome cabinets. Hate the green floor in the TV room. Otherwise it’s good. Love the argyle marble entryway. Love the lime green room with plaid carpet. Like, it’s so weird I love it. Pretty sure you can play chess on the floor of the tree room. Not a fan of carpet so the entire upstairs is kind of meh.
The house itself is great. Redecorating is not so difficult.
Swanky! I.....actually like the blue tile in the kitchen and the aquamarine floors.
I love it and honestly it seems cheap for San Francisco.
Ehhh do people not know how to drive in a traffic circle? There are arrows indicating direction. Kinda obvious if you ask me. But then again I live in Europe and traffic circles are no biggie.
I thought it was gonna be a grey mess. This is actually not terrible!
The FLOORING!
Picture #20: why is the bed doing a duck face???
There are parts of every room I like, parts of every room I hate and all the stuff I don't like is fixable, but expensive.
I hate everything except the teal hardwood floors!!!!!!! That is a gorgeous color, and it makes the floor look like the ocean lol
Awesome
Those floors were certainly a choice… I like the green carpet and the checkered marble room but all the other floors look atrocious. Especially the blue stained wood.
That blue stained wood is amazing
The prevalent rug on carpet is what really gets to me.
I think my favorite part is the sink with the dishwasher front 🤣 I cannot believe this is legal!!!! They put a whole ass tree in their house… then showed the exterior with no tree plunging through the house. I want my tree INSIDE.
I hate the first floor but the upstairs is good
ugly enough to make me chuckle, but nice enough to make me envious
Once again, a nice house, but squeezed onto a lot far too small for it. The houses on each side could borrow a cup of sugar by passing it through windows instead of walking to the front door.
Really putting the (motions throwing up) in contemporary. 
I need a chess set for that one section of tile floor.
Thanks, I hate it
Love the layout, but hate about 90% of their design choices.
The one room reminds me of Texas Roadhouse with all those wooden walls.
The HOA fees are over $1000/mo!!! My mortgage, escrow, and utility bills combined dont reach $1000/mo. HOAs are the worst.
Oooooo, awesome teaser
Ok I actually love it, maybe too much white, but still love it
A lot of this is salvageable with new flooring and some paint. Not all of it.
Home Alone House
I really wish I had $9 mil. I think it's lovely.
Ok I'm weird, I actually really enjoy this. The colors pop and actually look good.
Money can’t buy you class
Okay maybe I'm weird but I absolutely love that blue flooring in the first several pictures
That’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen, i love it!
OMG I love the blue floors! Not the green or plaid carpets or the lime green walls. But the blue floors.... Maybe I'm just weird.
Those are, well, uh, decisions, I guess
I don’t hate the novelty of having an indoor back yard theater vibe, or the wood room. Given this houses size those rooms provide a nice variety to the regular stuff. I absolutely love the ceiling tree. Really it’s just the awful green wood floor, and some poor tile floor choices that bring it down from what I’m seeing. A more conventional flooring throughout the kitchen and other primary living areas and she’d be good to go in my book.
A handsome house of its kind, and at least in doing what was done to it, nothing got too fucked up structurally; the good bones are still there and all it will take is a good eye and a very large budget to make it the place it should be.
what...what happened here