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Green house in California
A genuine time capsule house decorated in floor-to-ceiling green, untouched and almost uninhabited since the Seventies, has come on the market.
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Green house in California
The three-bedroom, three-bathroom house is in Ramona, California.
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Green house in California
It was bought as a new-build holiday home for a California family back in 1974.
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Green house in California
Although the family never spent much time in the holiday home, they hired an interior designer to help them decorate, with the current vendor’s mother requesting all furnishings be in her favourite colour – green.
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Green house in California
The decorator followed through…
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Green house in California
Almost everything from the shag pile carpet to the plates and pillowcases a zinging lime green.
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Green house in California
“I was not expecting a green house”, says Nancy Maranan of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties.
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Green house in California
Even the kitchen worktops are on theme.
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Green house in California
The dishes and linen are all green, too.
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Green house in California
“They didn’t leave an inch of wall uncovered with wallpaper,” says Maranan.
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Green house in California
The wallpaper, curtains and bedding all match.
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Green house in California
The distinctively decorated property has garnered a huge amount of attention from potential buyers.
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Green house in California
It has already secured a solid offer from a woman who is intending to keep the house exactly as it is.
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Green house in California
The property even has a back-up buyer, who flew in from San Francisco especially to view the it and is ready to swoop in should the current sale fall through.
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Green house in California
One of the bedrooms has some blue accents.
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Green house in California
These follow through into the bathroom.
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Green house in California
Maranan estimates that if the condo were in the vintage paradise Palm Springs it could fetch a significantly higher price than it’s currently being offered at.
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Green house in California
There is no hint of the green explosion inside the house from the beige exterior.
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Green house in California
It is set on a golf course with views of the green from most of the rooms.
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Green house in California
There is an outdoor patio.
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Green house in California
The property is in the countryside area of Ramona, near San Diego.
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Green house in California
It is on the market for £294,000 ($375,000) through Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties.
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More time capsule homes: Untouched Islington house
A ‘time capsule’ house that has been lived in by generations of the same family for more than 100 years is for sale on one of Islington’s most prized streets.
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Untouched Islington house
The property is in Malvern Terrace, a picturesque cobbled street of only 11 homes in the Barnsbury conservation area, where former Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre once lived around the corner from ex-Labour leader Tony Blair and residents are so proud of their gardens they host an annual open day to show them off.
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Untouched Islington house
Ernest Smith was born in 1929 in the house that’s now for sale and lived there until he died this year.
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Untouched Islington house
He bought the double-fronted Georgian house from his aunt in the Fifties for about £1,000. His wife has now put it on the market with Savills Islington for £2.25 million.
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Untouched Islington house
The couple’s son, John Smith, who was born in 1958 and was brought up in the four-bedroom house with his four younger siblings, said: “My father bought the leasehold from his aunt for roughly £400 in 1952 and then bought the freehold from the Thornhill Estate for about the same sum a few years later.”
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Untouched Islington house
John’s grandparents remained living on the top floor of the house, while the young family lived on the ground floor.
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Untouched Islington house
Aside from Ernest’s general home improvements, the house has barely changed in the ensuing decades and was Grade II listed 25 years ago, with some original features from when it was first built, including Georgian fireplaces.
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Yorkshire Art Deco mansion
A virtually untouched Art Deco home, that was the height of luxury when it was built in the Thirties, is for sale for only the second time in its history.
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Yorkshire Art Deco mansion
The house has most of its original interiors and furniture still intact.
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Yorkshire Art Deco mansion
The house had one of the first private telephones in Bridlington, which is still in situ in a specially designed, wood-panelled nook under the main stairs and uses the original telephone number – Bridlington 78.
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Yorkshire Art Deco mansion
Since Richard and Paulene Wilcock moved in almost 20 years ago they have made some changes to Cragg Hill, but many things remain as they always have been.
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Yorkshire Art Deco mansion
Most of the original furniture – much of which is still on display in the house – was bought from the Ideal Home Exhibition of 1932.
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Yorkshire Art Deco mansion
It includes bespoke pieces in everything from Tudor-style wood to sleek, Modernist chrome by Ernest Gomme, the go-to furniture designer for well-to-do homeowners at the time.
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Yorkshire Art Deco mansion
The kitchen has been brought up to date but the layout and fitted cupboards are the same.
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Yorkshire Art Deco mansion
In the kitchen is one of the first Agas, installed in 1951 and recently refurbished by the Wilcocks.
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Yorkshire Art Deco mansion
There are electric servants’ bells still in complete working order, including one directly above the dining table.
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Yorkshire Art Deco mansion
Well-known local architects Blackmore Sykes were commissioned to design the five-bedroom house with a Lutyens-style Arts and Crafts look.
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Yorkshire Art Deco mansion
Some of the furniture is still in the same spot as it was 87 years ago.
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Yorkshire Art Deco mansion
The house’s original owners slept in separate bedrooms, both with Art Deco twin beds. Mr Blackstone’s furniture was made from limed oak with moth-repelling cedar wood carcasses.
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Yorkshire Art Deco mansion
The Art Deco bathrooms are virtually unchanged with their original tiling, cast iron baths and unusually shaped chrome taps.
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Yorkshire Art Deco mansion
“The beds in Mrs Blackstone’s room had the original mattresses on when we bought the house,” says Richard Wilcock. “One bed had clearly been slept in a lot and the other was pristine and looked unused.”
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Yorkshire Art Deco mansion
The Wilcocks themselves are avid Art Deco collectors and have added some of their own furniture to the house.
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Yorkshire Art Deco mansion
Art Deco features include geometrically tiled fireplaces, panelled glass windows and original Thirties light fittings
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Yorkshire Art Deco mansion
From the hand-carved wood-panelled double staircase to the imported American flooring and high tech (for the time) touches, the successful local businessman spared no expense in designing and decorating his family home to the highest standards.
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Yorkshire Art Deco mansion
One of the first things the Wilcocks tackled when they moved into the house was the elaborately designed but wildly overgrown garden, which had been landscaped in the English woodland style made popular by the Queen Mother at Frogmore House in Windsor with York stone beds and a sunken area.
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Yorkshire Art Deco mansion
“Once we cleared away all the brambles all these amazing original plants like blue geraniums revived and came back to life like something from a fairytale,” says Richard.
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Back to the future in Highgate
On one of London’s top A-list streets, where Kate Moss, Jude Law and Jamie Oliver live alongside former homes of George Michael and Sting, stands a “time capsule” house — a glimpse back to an era before the rich and famous moved in.
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Back to the future in Highgate
The house in The Grove, Highgate, dating back to just after the Second World War and virtually unchanged since, is on the market for the first time since it was built.
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Back to the future in Highgate
The house still has its original mint green kitchen with fold-down seats and five buttons that light up in warning if the garage door is unlocked or there’s something blocking the post hatch.
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Back to the future in Highgate
The local GP who built the property designed most of the house and interiors himself, including the coat cupboard and mirror and light fitting in the hall.
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Back to the future in Highgate
This period piece could be lost to history when the house is sold: the modern Highgate buyer tends to favour 21st-century tech, modern kitchens and bathrooms and neutral decor.
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Back to the future in Highgate
The original pink-tiled bathroom.
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Back to the future in Highgate
Today, the property cuts a modest picture next to some of its flashier neighbours. But when it was built for a local GP and his wife almost 65 years ago, it was at the forefront of modern design.
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Back to the future in Highgate
The GP played table tennis every Friday evening until he died in this room, with parquet flooring and eight light fittings. At the time the only furniture was the table and a cupboard for chocolate.
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Back to the future in Highgate
The £2.5 million property is crammed with unique features that were hi-tech for its time.
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Back to the future in Highgate
A centralised radio system — a sort of early Sonos — is wired throughout the two-storey property, so the residents can listen to music in any room, including in the garage and on the balcony.
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Back to the future in Highgate
A cupboard between the living room, bedroom and balcony was once home to a large Sixties box television, installed on a turntable so that it could be spun around and watched in the living room, in bed, or even from the balcony.
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Maida Vale mews
This house on Pindock Mews in London’s Maida Vale is for sale for £2.5m.
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Maida Vale mews
Little has been done to the property for a number of years. It’s a dream renovation project for DIY enthusiasts.
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Maida Vale mews
The street used to be home to Boy George, Janet Street-Porter and Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen.
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Sunspan house
An Art Deco house — one of only 15 of its kind — is for sale for the first time since it was built and remains virtually untouched since the Thirties. The four-bedroom house in Chadwell St Mary in Essex is a rare example of a Sunspan home.
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Sunspan house
Sunspan houses were designed by David Pleydell-Bouverie and Wells Coates, the pioneering architect behind the famous Isokon building. The original bathroom, with curved wall and once state-of-the-art fittings, remains.
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Sunspan house
Winifred Skinner, Andrew’s grandmother, front centre, and aunt, Binky, behind her.
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Sunspan house
The Second World War air raid shelter in the garden was used as storage in later years.
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Sunspan house
The Skinners were fond of holidaying in Spain, so built this courtyard in the garden, inspired by their travels.
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Surrey time warp
This rare 1960s home has been listed for sale for the first time in nearly 50 years and it looks just as retro on the inside as it does from the outside…
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Surrey time warp
The copper fireplace was installed when the late owners bought the place as new. The wood-panelled ceilings were added in the Eighties…
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Surrey time warp
….as was this glass-walled dining room that makes the most of the stunning views across the Surrey hotspot of Guildford.
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Art Deco in Enfield
This three-bedroom home in Enfield was built as part of a Thirties housing boom. Its decor has remained true to the fashions of the time.
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Art Deco in Enfield
Original features, from the geometric mantelpieces to the bathroom basin, are littered throughout the property, which has had only two owners since it was built.
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Art Deco in Enfield
The property is one of the last houses on the estate to retain the stunning, wide Crittall windows with their distinctive modernist curve.
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Art Deco in Enfield
The kitchen was handmade by a carpenter and there is a 1955 Main cooker, which still works. The owner was stunned to discover at a recent photographic exhibition of the Rolling Stones that Mick Jagger once had the very same model in his flat.
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Art Deco in Enfield
The owner is hoping to sell it for £550,000, ideally to an Art Deco enthusiast who can restore it with some period-friendly TLC.
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Kent renovation
If you are after even more of a renovation project, look to this detached four-bedroom modernist property in popular Bromley, Kent, on the market for £1million.
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Kent renovation
The open-plan living space with its clashing mint carpet and terracotta curtains, flat-to-the-wall fireplace and wood pannelled ceiling is as authentic as time warp interiors come…
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Kent renovation
…as is the baby blue kitchen with its fitted units.
