Anonymous wrote:I know what you mean.... I saw an old movie recently from the 90s called "the Ice Storm"... don't watch it; it's totally depressing. But it has that whole midcentury key party thing you are describing.

I think key parties were more a part of the seventies, which isn't MCM at all. Just so you're hating the appropriate house style.

Anonymous wrote:I posted much earlier that I like the contrast between traditional interiors and modern furniture. It takes the best of clean-lined Mid-C pieces and makes good use of the light and height (and brightened ornamentation) of period buildings. This is how I like it done:

Hate this. Looks like Wallpaper Magazine circa 1999. Just give me the apartment.

Anonymous wrote:@9:44. The thing is, with those magnificent architectural 'bones' you could toss just about anything in that room and it would still look gorgeous. The windows, the moulding, the floors, the scale are unusually outstanding.

Real mastery in interior design, IMO, is obvious when you take a standard white box in a 1980s apartment and can make it look stunning.

I don't think you could toss just anything into this room. You couldn't put heavy Belfort/Haverty's crap in there, and I would even like it much less with any kind of traditional treatment because there would be just too much ornament. The original design of this room probably wouldn't have suited my eye at all. The modern furniture and whitening cleans up the space, pares down the unnecessary clutter, and allows the built-in ornament to shine.

There's nothing you can do for a 1980s apartment. You can make it more pleasant, but it can never "shine", unless you replace/add enough details that it's not recognizable as '80s architecture anymore...

@9:44. The thing is, with those magnificent architectural 'bones' you could toss just about anything in that room and it would still look gorgeous. The windows, the moulding, the floors, the scale are unusually outstanding.

Real mastery in interior design, IMO, is obvious when you take a standard white box in a 1980s apartment and can make it look stunning.

I posted much earlier that I like the contrast between traditional interiors and modern furniture. It takes the best of clean-lined Mid-C pieces and makes good use of the light and height (and brightened ornamentation) of period buildings. This is how I like it done:

PP -so you would only buy new construction?

Love this thread, for revealing how neurotic DCUMers are as a group. Helps put in perspective why so little that's posted on any thread should be taken too seriously.

Personally, I can't look at a house in AU Park without worrying that I'd find a bunch of worn-out undergarments and puzzles with missing pieces in the closets. It's reassuring to know so many of us feel exactly the same way. Or at least one of us does.

The anonymous directly above is me, Julie. I should also say that I too grew up in the 60's and 70's - born in 1964 and in California. Didn't know anyone with an MCC home but even standard tract homes had some aspects of MCCs.

I was just remembering a movie called "Go Ask Alice" (a 1973 movie of the week.) I was older when I saw it, but as it was about a teenage drug addict, it goes along with the vibe. I googled some stills from the movie.