A view of the front. While some may not like it, it's Mid-century modern house designed by Avriel Shull is very striking!
Another view of the front
Some people really know how to make an entrance!
A spacious living room
Another view in the living room, with what look like some nice views
Love that fireplace
An updated-retro kitchen. Check out that extended island!
Another view of the entrance towards the stairs
There is nothing subtle about the gold hues in this room. A study perhaps?
It might look strange, but the walls are cedar which helps prevent moisture damage to clothes and keeps away moths
Nothing very remarkab.. wow what a sink! But ditch the bathroom carpeting please!
Love the sturdy, MCM stair railing
A bedroom I believe, also with big views
This looks like a kid's room. The built-in shelving is a theme in this house
Love the pink countertops but again, carpet does NOT belong in a bathroom!
A large, full-size basement/rec room with fireplace
... and kitchen area (please don't use that as a stripper pole)
And even a full-size in-ground kidney bean pool!
The other pool area
A view from the back, looking back at the house - what a monument!
Tally Ho! This large Mid-century Modern home transported to us straight from 1972!
Thursday Design AppreciationWould be $2M in my neck of the woods. Awesome house.
Yeah this would be easily 2m near me. Honestly maybe 3m.
6000 sq ft on an acre? 8M around here! Maybe 7M with the "dated" (but beautiful) finishes
There’s a house smaller and older than this on the water by my house for 7.5. Deep water ocean access helps
Laughs in Los Angeles county housing prices.
I love every bit of it and wouldn’t change anytning
Carpet in the bathrooms? You wouldn't change that?
I prefer my piss stains fermented
I loved the bathrooms so much I didn’t even notice the carpet.
This is another one of those houses that doesn't belong in this sub. Sure it needs updating but it's got beautiful bones and a nice yard.
edited to add - it's a Thursday appreciation post and definitely belongs.
The answer is Yes. Yes it does.
Yeah
They do have the charm of Gary. What a lovely little city that you can smell from 5 miles away.
You have a timeshare in Muncie
Jerry's fault! Jerry's fault!
Say hi to Gayle for me
I've thought about it a lot, it doesn't make any sense.
Like does she think he’s a festive hat?
I didn’t even check that man for mumps. I was distracted by the biggest penis I have ever seen.
You mean Gary?
Pretty sure it’s Larry
Indianapolis and Bloomington are OK, I wouldn’t say I like them, but they were tolerable cities to stay in for work.
Everything else about the state, from its two time zones, backwards misogynistic politics, and a landscape somehow more depressing than Nebraska makes it not that great.
You left out the part about it also being full of religious nut cases? 😂
Nebraska checking in; I concur.
And the union-busting that Mike Pence did back in the day when he was governor of Indiana.
I’m convinced that the portal to hell is in Gary
What does it smell like?
The loss of the American working middle class.
Take my working middle class medal🏅
Strippers. Gary Indiana smells like strippers.
the chemical variety of stripper, not the pole kind
That explains the kitchen having a blue stripper pole. I was so confused.
Steel mills and oil refineries.
as long as Gary doesnt live in Gary Indiana hes a great guy.
Hoosier here. Can confirm.
The correct answer
Honestly who cares about the state, if I had a pad like that I wouldn't leave the house. I'd spend all day running around to the theme of TJ Hooker.
😂😂😂Same!! But I’d be jamming to the Bionic Man on the High Five!!
Must be in Pawnee
I’ve been seeing a ton of gorgeous houses outside of Indianapolis being advertised on socials for insanely affordable prices. A lot of mid-century modern that’s been tastefully redone UGH they’re about to get me
Indiana can be bad, Kokomo is far from a destination location, but it's not that bad. But last year's tax estimates were at $500k if you look at the Zillow info. There's some skeleton hiding in the closet there and being in the middle of BFE Indiana can't be the only factor.
That said I absolutely love this style. I'm not sure why but this house is a banger.
Also not a McMansion.
It’s Thursday appreciation day
Okay good. I was hoping I was missing something.
Thursdays are a soothing balm for the rest of the week!
The taxes were estimated to be $5,000 and the house was assessed by the county assessors at around $500k. Big difference
Yeah I agree on the skeleton in the closet. Either it has a lien or the city infrastructure is crumbling and they’re about to have to triple property taxes or it has some major fault that makes it impossible to insure…
But I’ve seen other houses in towns this size and this rural and really, the location alone puts an insane downward pressure on price. I’ve seen, I’m not kidding, a move in ready (but some renovation needed) 8,000 square foot 4-story mansion for about $250,000 in small town upstate New York, simply because the town was clearly dying.
It's in Kokomo, so yes, sadly. Kokomo thrived on industry, especially the automotive industry. It was basically a little Detroit, and it suffered much the same fate as Detroit. There's still some small industry, and one Chrysler plant, but they're struggling to keep the city afloat.
Ironically, I knew the people who lived in this house (about fifteen years ago). It's a nice house!
Kokomo has 4 Stellantis plants, with two huge Stellantis/Samsung EV battery plants being built as we speak. The industry is booming here, actually, and the surrounding county schools are some of the best in the state.
This particular house is priced shockingly low for the location, square footage, and acreage. There’s a 3 bedroom condo right around the condo for $350k.
House is bomb
It’s fucking incredible. Why are people tiptoeing around it? Think about when you’re old and decide to empty the nest in 2050 and move into something small. You want to leave behind another 25 year old remodel like everyone else, or do you want the chance to preserve mint condition vintage?
I could go without preserving the mint condition drop ceiling... It's a little too "church basement" for me
Absolutely! So thankful I can afford my HCOL town lol
I’ve heard of Gary
I just rewatched Music Man recently and could hardly wait for that song!
He was so darned adorable and what a great child actor he was.
even Gary has very nice, even expensive, homes along the beach
This is the first positive thing I’ve ever heard about Gary
youd be surprised
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8301-Lake-Shore-Dr-Gary-IN-46403/73342336\_zpid/
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1024-N-County-Line-Rd-Gary-IN-46403/112199283_zpid/
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1134-Putman-St-Gary-IN-46403/99188989_zpid/
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1052-N-County-Line-Rd-Gary-IN-46403/112199284_zpid/
Gary is famously a Rust Belt industrial city, but that means there were factory owners and managers that got rich back before we called it the Rust Belt.
a lot of this stuff is actually newer construction though. i guess my point is, you could do a lot worse for yourself than living on the lakefront. the Indiana Dunes are right there and a major attraction (now technically a national park). if i was retired or something i sure wouldnt mind it. nice clean air, woods, and sand.
I like the first one. The fireplace in the last house is awesome in a hideous way
Damn only $299K? Im finna move
Didn’t even check the price. My area has townhouses and condos that go for way more than that. So crazy to wrap my head around.
Alabama with snow, if Walmart was a state etc
More like Arkansas, Walmart reference and all.
Same, it would need some renovation, but I like the uniqueness and space. Has a lot of charm and potential
Must be in that shithole, Pawnee. That house would be $5M in Eagleton.
It’s because Eagleton sits on top of a hot spring, which creates its own little microclimate. It’s why they can have palm trees there in the middle of Indiana. That really drives up the real estate prices. I lived there for a few years, working for the city in the Infinity Pool Designs department, before transferring to Department of Dressage.
I wish I could add a Parks GIF so bad. 🤭
I can only speak on Kokomo. I lived there for 9 months.
Yes, it really did suck.
What’s bad about it? It’s on a river, not far from highways. Looks like the middle of f’ing nowhere and finding a job looks like it’d suck but it looks like a lot of America.
the middle of f’ing nowhere and finding a job looks like it’d suck
Pretty much why it sucked.
Not to mention the internet is either garbage or non-existent in rural Indiana. I get a whole 5Mb!
The entryway tile is beyond gorgeous.
Agree. I gasped.
Me TOO!! It's stunning. Mid-Century Modern isn't really my thing (probably cause I grew up with it, my mom loved that style) but this house has some really incredible and unique designs to it. I cannot believe that it is priced so cheap!!
Location, location, location. 😝
The masonry work in general is incredible. My great uncle was a mason from that era and did that kind of work. His house had a similar style of fire place and entry way. We always would try to “rock climb” it when we were kids.
I hope no one ever paints over that stone, as it will last forever.
Love it! My grandparents’ house had a very similar entrance- ornate door opening to a rock wall but solid color marble floors.
Some “small town rich” kids had a great childhood in this house.
I'm guessing local doctor.
💯
Wrote prescriptions, made friends.
Handicap index was 6.
Also had a lake house with a Master Craft on a covered boat lift.
Down on Barbee or Tippecanoe?
Probably up north in Michigan or Wisconsin. This person had taste after all.
Basement was def a sleepover paradise
I love this house so much.
This is basically my dream house. Tons of light, MCM, walkout rancher, indoor pool. Amazing
I would only change the carpet. I cant with old carpet 🫤
Yeah like OP said I'd pull the carpet out of the bathrooms, but I'd also pull it out of the study as well and go with hardwood. Maybe I'd do something about the children's room wall paper, but that's it.
Side note, there's not much you can do about it, but it's a shame those big beautiful bedroom windows just look straight out at your neighbors house. I would definitely be keeping those curtains down 😅
Carpet in the KITCHEN???!!!! 💀
Honestly that's the only change I would absolutely need to make day one. I might eventually get around to better shelves in the closet but that is not nearly as urgent as kitchen carpet.
Everyone knows if you have two kitchens, one of them needs to be carpeted. How else will you tell them apart?
I'd change the drop ceilings too. Those are OK for some spaces but not as many or where they have them.
I LOVE the light fixtures in the kitchen. I mean, I love it all but I'd love to find one of those for my own house.
EDITED TO ADD:
FOUND THE LIGHT!
Or one that's close enough, they even have it in green.
Ceiling tiles are a little sad
That is the basement. I assume there are mechanicals under that ceiling that might need to be accessed. Pipes, shutoffs, etc.
Carpet in that second kitchen is a BOLD touch.
Carpet, take out the carpet and replace with hard surface flooring and you've got a winner.
The problem is where it's located, and the carpet.
Carpet can be fixed. Indiana, unfortunately, cannot.
I wish I had an award to give you🏅
Same. Saw someone say it needs renovation. Hell nah. I love this so much. If it were near me, I’d snag it up. Looking for a home anyway.
It's like MCM mixed with Craftsman, love the entryway.
The raw cedar in the huge closet. Man this house is the shit.
Yeah that's amazing. I've never seen cedar in a closet close to that size.
I would buy this Beauty in a heart beat if Indiana wasn’t the armpit of America.
I couldn’t move out of Indiana fast enough, that was over 30 years ago. Indiana hasn’t gotten any better but for that house I might think about it. There got to be something wrong with that house. Was there a mass murder there? Is there a toxic dump across the street? What’s wrong with it.
What's wrong with it is it's in Indiana
Hahaha. I was born and raised there in Indiana. I know how bad Indiana is.
I had the same thought, the price index dropped from 500k to 300k in under 2 years. Something must have happened there. That's just too much house for the money. Also looks like it got swiped up already. It's pending.
What is so bad about Kokomo that it’s this cheap ?!
Brian Wilson always creeping around.
the commute is especially difficult since you get there faster if you take it slow
Is that where I want to go?
At night, softly, in the distance, you hear "Be My Baby"
And John Stamos and those creepy twins.
Tiny city in the middle of Indiana. No big career opportunities local, and too far to commute to say Chicago. Indiana kinda sucks in general.
Hello remote work!
If that sounds like your dream location, it's a steal and nice home.
I question your dreams, but who the cuss am I to say anything.
Ngl i absolutely love rural states for this kinda thing. The city gives me a headache, all I want is a nice and small town and a remote job in my life.
keep that to yourself then cause locals will mark the shit up just for you. Ask me how I know.
I have only driven through Indiana as a kid and it gave me the weirdest scary vibes.
I’ve also gone through Indiana numerous times for road trips. Saw a comment one time describing the whole state as one giant liminal space.
And the main strip smells like an automotive factory.
Not true. Samsung is building a massive battery plant in Kokomo.
Chrysler is still there, but Delphi/Delco shuttered about a decade ago, and that killed half the high-paying manufacturing jobs. If you love art glass Kokomo Glass is a really cool niche occupation. Otherwise there's not a whole lot.
I lived there when they imploded the gas tower. Excitement for weeks!
This must be Thursday cos that house is a BEAUT!
Came here from r/all and didn't know about Thursday Design Appreciation. The whole time I was looking at the house I was like "I thought this was supposed to be a reddit for bad architectural design?"
Welcome to Appreciation Thursday!
God that explains so much. This sub just comes across my feed sometimes and I enjoy looking at the awful designs, but this one is cool? And I'd live here?
I need to come here on Thursdays now apparently.
Lol, came her from r/all, and was getting PISSED until i learned about thursday
Though aesthetically yes, the appliances look like they are all pretty new. They even used a wood grain print on the modern fridge
What bums me out is if that house were in my area, it would be bought by some "flipper" who would paint it all white and gray, and put gray wood flooring in and that kitchen would be obliterated.
Designed by noted architect Mike Brady.
This house has immense potential! I am shocked it’s only 300K…you can’t buy a 500 SF condo in the shittiest of suburbs of Vancouver for that price.
I'm not even sure you could get a house for $300K in PG...that's like waaaay up north money.
It looks like the Zillow link didn't post, so, here it is! https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3300-Tally-Ho-Dr-Kokomo-IN-46902/85363610_zpid/
Edit: re the price, the history shows it dropped sharply recently. It feels like a foreclosure, or it was the home of someone who died and an uninterested part just wants to get rid of it. Or maybe the found it was loaded with asbestos and lead lol The original owners are selling it. So under-valued IMO! I wonder what the final sale price will turn out to be
Edit 2: the house is already pending! A local realtor did a tour on tiktok:
part 1: https://www.tiktok.com/@findalottolove/video/7333254638478593322
part 2: https://www.tiktok.com/@findalottolove/video/7333255930135448875
How in the name of God is this only 300k? I know it's Indiana but what the hell
You're driving at least 40 minutes to find something to do.
Well, it is in Kokomo. I'm told you get there fast but then you have to take it slow.
This place doesn't look like it's off the Florida Keys.
It's weird reading this when I have grandparents in Marion who would go to Kokomo just for the sams club. Plus, I'm envious of that 40 minute drive- I live in western South Dakota, where you get a couple things to do locally in the Black Hills, but anything interesting city wise is five hours away in Sioux Falls or six hours away in Denver.
I could entertain myself just fine on this property!
I'm used to driving an hour and a half to get to a city worth being in here in Tennessee, and still have to suffer with houses like this selling for easily 1m+.
Kokomo isn’t exactly the most desirable city in the state
welcome to the midwest
re the price, the history shows it dropped sharply recently.
It didn't "drop" per se, the graph is Zillow's bullshit estimate, it was just put up for sale at $300k.
Zillow's bullshit estimate
... matches property tax history. Also it's clearly the largest house in the area, so they likely listed it low in hopes of starting a bidding war.
I'm guessing flood plain issue.
https://indnr.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=05026dabc2e8461983e196d56a213c1e
or it was the home of someone who die
It looks like the owner died in December 2023 actually. Made his fortune first in the travel trailer business (very Indiana!) and then got into importing exotic animals from overseas. Wow.
I can feel the drafts, leaky windows, and lack of insulation just from the pictures. I imagine the electric meter spinning like a top trying to keep this place warm on a cold day.
OTH, this is the height of '70s design and should be preserved exactly as is for posterity.
I bet the drafts, etc., are not bad at all; early 70s homes were built like fortresses.
The really shitty construction didn’t come into play until 80s and 90s builds…
Agreed. We live in a 1971 house just north of the border. The place is built like a fortress. We even have the same sort of stone details in our entryway. After an energy audit the biggest loss of heat was the roof (now has new insulation) and the windows (on our list).
I lived in a house built in 1946 that was little better than clapboard. Shitty construction has always been around, you’re just experiencing survivorship bias.
The oil embargo of 1973 led to immediate interest in better insulation etc. The 1970s was the tipping point in home energy efficiency in the Western world.
It’s actually nice . Does it smells like unfiltered cigarettes? 😂
There’s probably still some traces of cocaine leftover from those 70s key parties.
Gorgeous, except for the carpet 😬
The architect was legit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avriel_Shull
I can smell pic 10.
I love it. It's rare for me to see a house in here I would want and be in my budget, lol. It's a project house for sure, but nothing looks like a 100% requirement to be done premove-in. Biggest thing is a series of inspections for water, foundation, pool, etc problems, if it checks out - I'd pop on that in a hearbeat. Move in, Kitchen 1st, then prioritize between any tile or wood paneling updates. Hire a good decorator to help me find a balence between moden updates and preserving original charm. Pretty sure the pink would have to go once the budget allowed for it tho. That basement had amazing potential for a mancave. Wouldn't have to do much to turn that bsmt kitchen into a sweet bar.
I work from home and generally don't like people, so middle of nowhere is cool with me. Probly a good place to raise kids as well. I'm packing my bags.
If you don’t mind that the groundwater supply has a problem with too high levels of vinyl chloride.
Why is this in McMansion Hell? This looks to be a one off and a beautiful house? What gives?
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Truly love this so much
It looks like the place we would hold our church retreats at
I want this house so that I may comfortably walk around in leisure suits and host swinger’s parties.
The only thing this is missing is a conversation pit
FYI Tally Ho! is a pre WWII thing, a house this age would be groovy or fab
The basement pics are liminal spaces! I swear I’ve been to a hotel or something that looked exactly like that.
A little Brady Bunch-ish.
Not me trying to imagine how easily I could turn that walk-in closet into a greenhouse.
This reminds me of a church
Ok but mid century modern isn't 1972. It's 1950s.
MCM has a disputed date range - some say its the 30s to mid 60s, some say 40s or 50s through early 70s. Regardless this is clearly riding off the MCM high from that era thought it's definitely working in the natural tones which were popular in the 70s. The architect, Avriel Shull, is well known for other MCM designs. She died in 1976 so I bet this is one of her last designs if not the last
Those huge peaked windows. My parents had them in a house in Iowa. When they moved they were somehow surprised they could hear a larger house for less. In fact, I had to do a double take because this looks similar to their old place.
I’m kinda digging it!
We used to have a bathroom like the pink tile one, only blue. I always wished it was pink
Hells to the yeah. When can I move in. Indoor swimming pool???
This is an example of "dated" not being synonymous with "bad" (except bathroom carpet, ewww). This home is both attractive and inviting. Perhaps because the aesthetic reminds me of my great-grandma, who I miss...
I can fix her 😍
Wish I had a reason to live in Kokomo, ID. I would be all in at $300,000!
I wonder what is under the drop ceilings . Love it.
I love it...and I just know they will wind up destroying it.
:(
I'll bet that place has seen some pretty rowdy parties!
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Kinda loving it. Only 299k? Does Indiana suck that much?