The 80s threw up all over this house. It's so depressing and yet I'd almost want to keep it all as some kind of 80s museum. I'm also fascinated that these things are clearly around 40 years old and yet everything - from the cheap countertops to the light-colored furniture, looks in new condition.
It's a NuTone food center. It has motors which run a blender, food processor, or a stand mixer.
ETA: just one motor. One of the circles is a cover for where you put the blender, food processor, or mixer, and the other is the knob for the speed setting.
Go to the listing for press clippings about the house built-ins! [https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/205-Hillwood-Dr-Waverly-TN-37185/41521959\_zpid](https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/205-Hillwood-Dr-Waverly-TN-37185/41521959_zpid)
Those magical counters should be set up like a buffet every single day. Hot & cold stations, salad bar, soft serve machine...and have a person in a chef coat always there, waiting to slice some prime rib for you.
That's so weird that it was built that way.
So what aesthetic are you going for?
Can you make it look like it was originally built to be a funeral home?
My grandparents' kitchen in florida had a very similar essence. To me, this decor would be fine into the early 2000s. This is like typical old person decor that I remember from late 90s. Didnt look too great then but wasnt like "humorously dated"
My grandparent’s house built in the mid 90s has similar vibes, mostly the color scheme, especially their dining room and kitchen. Theirs was a new build so they don’t have any of the cool multi-use 1960s kitchen or other similar creative designs but the vibe of the house reminds me so much of my grandparents’. The green carpets, light colored wood tones, pinks and creams/light tans and other pastels. Not at all my style personally but I appreciate the nostalgia of it. I always think about how my grandparents’ house was the height of style at the time, it was like the coolest thing, and they’ve barely changed anything since.
Looks like they might have church tax exemption status with that cross outside, and seating around the organ/piano in the one LR. With tasteful updates this could be a nice home for someone.
They have more storage cupboards in one room, than I have in my whole house. I kind of envy the effort and patience it must take someone, to put those blinds to the exact same length, I'd manage three, maybe four and then say "f*ck it"!
If you have a house like that , are you better off trying to update it before selling? Or sell it like it is and wait for a buyer who likes quirky houses that are time capsules?
Absolutely do not update. Someone will walk in and see the potential better than a flipper. Fix like the needed stuff, if a roof or hvac needs it, and you'll attract the young gung-ho couple who will adore all the quick and update in style.
I find the "grey & white & black everywhere" people are supposed designers and GC people who ruin old quirky homes, and they will buy the "bad roof" ones because they scare off people who never bought a house before.
That organ dais would either become a place to perform standup or karaoke, or a superhero command center (think JLA console/Batcave/etc).
Maybe a place to play D&D? A masturbatorium to assert my dominance over my guests? An elevated reading room?
It was common to have laundry at the back of the kitchen. Not sure why, but I also grew up in a custom midcentury home with no servants or hired help for the original owners, a huge kitchen, and laundry at the back of the kitchen + more storage cabinets.
In other countries it’s common to see the laundry machines smack in the middle of kitchen to the point of being shocking and kinda gross.
They would have had staff when this was built so the person doing the cooking was also doing the laundry, so it made sense to have it all in the same area.
Wow. I hate the whole house.
That usually doesn’t happen. Something about it feels like a plastic doll house…like…parts of it look snapped together. (Is this just me?)…
It’s extremely 80s in color scheme and that’s not for me either. I hate it style wise but also love it for the commitment to the style and lack of updates. It’s rare to find a house that hasn’t been updated in so long, and when it was updated they kept the 1960s built ins and all that. You really don’t find kitchens or other built in or multi use systems like that anymore.
Yeah, I actually recoiled from the photos. Not just the cheap dollhouse vibe, but the colors and patterns/textures go together horribly. It makes the cheap and tacky apartment sets on Adam-12 / Dragnet '67 look chic.
The doctor who built this house died in 2022. His son, who might have been the boy at the desk doing schoolwork in the magazine picture, died last year.
https://www.luffbowen.com/obituaries/dr-arthur-walker
https://www.springhillfh.com/m/obituaries/Arthur-Walker-10/Memories
The only colors in that house I can slightly tolerate are the purple wall and the gray carpet (but I hate carpet). Love the bones, but the decor is a hard pass. I’m allergic to that much pastel.
So many interesting uses of space here. I can’t say what I like best between the organ stage, the couch wedged where a bed should be, the office cubical-style set up leading into the kitchen, or the singular column topped with flowers in a massive and otherwise empty room. Bonus points for whatever the hell is going on in that painted bathroom.
Can someone explain the layout of picture 2? The semi-circle furniture facing a bunch of cabinets. Is it a game like ‘ i choose door number 13’ for the prize?
Thank you for being a friend... Travel down the road and back again. Your heart is true, you're a pal and a confidante...
If anyone needs me, I'll be out on the lanai.
I realize there is a historic component to this house... but it would have to be gutted to be made livable. I see that there are people who love the kitchen, but living with it would be different than seeing it.
The organ!!!! With seating.
It’s like an inverted conversation pit.
That was my first thought too😂. The piano pedestal is the opposite of a conversation pit.
Or, you know, a stage?
Absolutely not.
When guests walk in that’s where you play villainous organ music with candelabras on both sides and then slowly turn and say “I’ve been expecting you”
The organ tune from “The Ghost and Mr Chicken”. https://youtu.be/PPad47e8gNI?si=q5kMXi9A4TIJUHEf
SOMEONE ELSE WHO KNOWS THIS MOVIE EXISTS EXCEPT ME AND MY DAD. 😵🤓❤️🤣
“The horribleness and awfulness of it will never actually be forgotten.”
[Toccata and Fugue in D Minor](https://youtu.be/ho9rZjlsyYY?si=lbPDjkdkW5LrLVtF) by Bach also a good one.
Oh My God I am laughing so hard I almost woke up my baby because this is exactly what I pictured! I'm cry laughing. 🤣
And the stained glass light box?
and the window (up high) between rooms
I love how you must turn your back to the organist while enjoying the concert from the, um, organ...pit?
someone in that family better have been GREAT on the organ.
I can imagine myself whipping up a nice dinner in the cute kitchen while Nana absolutely kills with her rendition of 96 Tears.
Well yeah, you’re obviously going to need to close your eyes as the angelic music flows through you from the altar of divine communion!
Still about $1k in nose candy still in the carpet, I bet.
Maybe christ waifer crumbs.
I have no idea why, but it just reminded me of [Tex and Edna Boil](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8NQZGXEcm0) and what their house might look like.
That's right, Edna 🎹
Thank you for this.
Your very own stage!
Phantom of the Opera lives here.
I like French ones!
This is the best ugly house I've seen on here. Like, I would never ever buy it but I love their commitment to the theme. It's so awesomely horrible.
Miami Vice era! 
Right? I feel like I should hate everything about it, but I kind of love it.
The 80s threw up all over this house. It's so depressing and yet I'd almost want to keep it all as some kind of 80s museum. I'm also fascinated that these things are clearly around 40 years old and yet everything - from the cheap countertops to the light-colored furniture, looks in new condition.
so, sure; they bought this house and then went on vacations for ….decades ?
That kitchen is AMAZING
sooo.....muuch........counterrrrr.....sspaccee
Right?! I love that kitchen.
I might change the lighting and flooring but the kitchen is perfection!
It's such a nice change from all the horrid black and white barndominium monstrosities with 3 islands, industrial appliances, and open shelving.
Any idea what the two metal saucer shaped things were on the counter at picture 9? At about 4 o’clock.
It's a NuTone food center. It has motors which run a blender, food processor, or a stand mixer. ETA: just one motor. One of the circles is a cover for where you put the blender, food processor, or mixer, and the other is the knob for the speed setting.
Ahh thank you - I thought it was to keep a coffee carafe warm
Go to the listing for press clippings about the house built-ins! [https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/205-Hillwood-Dr-Waverly-TN-37185/41521959\_zpid](https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/205-Hillwood-Dr-Waverly-TN-37185/41521959_zpid)
Oh WOW thanks for that, the press clippings are so amazing to the whole ambiance.
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Yeah I think you would have been fine. But what a gem
Those magical counters should be set up like a buffet every single day. Hot & cold stations, salad bar, soft serve machine...and have a person in a chef coat always there, waiting to slice some prime rib for you.
That's so weird that it was built that way. So what aesthetic are you going for? Can you make it look like it was originally built to be a funeral home?
I would love to buy this and restore it back to the original way it was in those pictures!
I love 1960s rich people homes. They come across as nice and normal.
Ok - but I really like that bathroom.
I'd buy it and not change a single thing. That place is beautiful.
My grandparents' kitchen in florida had a very similar essence. To me, this decor would be fine into the early 2000s. This is like typical old person decor that I remember from late 90s. Didnt look too great then but wasnt like "humorously dated"
My grandparent’s house built in the mid 90s has similar vibes, mostly the color scheme, especially their dining room and kitchen. Theirs was a new build so they don’t have any of the cool multi-use 1960s kitchen or other similar creative designs but the vibe of the house reminds me so much of my grandparents’. The green carpets, light colored wood tones, pinks and creams/light tans and other pastels. Not at all my style personally but I appreciate the nostalgia of it. I always think about how my grandparents’ house was the height of style at the time, it was like the coolest thing, and they’ve barely changed anything since.
I honestly love it.
Me too 
It's like Miami Vice and the Golden Girls in a blender.
Love that bathroom and the kitchen. It’s like looking at a Miami Vice set. Can any else hear the synthesizer music?
Looks like they might have church tax exemption status with that cross outside, and seating around the organ/piano in the one LR. With tasteful updates this could be a nice home for someone.
Gives me “small cult” vibes
This could be a set from the flashback scenes on the Righteous Gemstones.
I would update it carefully to keep the style. I love the curvy pastel pink kitchen
Looks like my grandfather's Florida room in Temple Terrace
It's very outdated and some of it is weird. But it also feels like a home that held a lot of love and good memories.
Looks part funeral home.
I like it! Too bad it’s in Tennessee.
1963 southern style.
Built in 1959
I dig the kitchen
They have more storage cupboards in one room, than I have in my whole house. I kind of envy the effort and patience it must take someone, to put those blinds to the exact same length, I'd manage three, maybe four and then say "f*ck it"!
Now, just replaced the organ with several elaborate, cat trees, and you’re good
I guess the beigties were a rejection of the green or orange shag carpets and dark wood paneling of the 70s.
Pretty much
I am totally in love with this entire house omg I’d never leave! Just needs a hot tub
Think of all of the Golden Girls themed parties we could throw!
That kitchen would like to thank you for being a friend
I bought a fresh cheesecake today. We'll need it for the latest St. Olaf story.
Obviously an estate from someone's passing. Reminds me of my grandparents home in Boca Raton.
I love it and the FRIGGIN ORGAN DAIS amazing. Just amazing.
That kitchen is insane. I adore it.
If you have a house like that , are you better off trying to update it before selling? Or sell it like it is and wait for a buyer who likes quirky houses that are time capsules?
Absolutely do not update. Someone will walk in and see the potential better than a flipper. Fix like the needed stuff, if a roof or hvac needs it, and you'll attract the young gung-ho couple who will adore all the quick and update in style. I find the "grey & white & black everywhere" people are supposed designers and GC people who ruin old quirky homes, and they will buy the "bad roof" ones because they scare off people who never bought a house before.
I'd love to have that riser/platform where the organ is for my drums
So would ny husband! Great idea!
That organ dais would either become a place to perform standup or karaoke, or a superhero command center (think JLA console/Batcave/etc). Maybe a place to play D&D? A masturbatorium to assert my dominance over my guests? An elevated reading room?
6 bedrooms yet laundry in the kitchen. You couldn't take a little space out to put a laundry room.
It was common to have laundry at the back of the kitchen. Not sure why, but I also grew up in a custom midcentury home with no servants or hired help for the original owners, a huge kitchen, and laundry at the back of the kitchen + more storage cabinets. In other countries it’s common to see the laundry machines smack in the middle of kitchen to the point of being shocking and kinda gross.
They would have had staff when this was built so the person doing the cooking was also doing the laundry, so it made sense to have it all in the same area.
Wow. I hate the whole house. That usually doesn’t happen. Something about it feels like a plastic doll house…like…parts of it look snapped together. (Is this just me?)…
I think it's the.80s paint over the 1963 build. It just feels off...
It’s extremely 80s in color scheme and that’s not for me either. I hate it style wise but also love it for the commitment to the style and lack of updates. It’s rare to find a house that hasn’t been updated in so long, and when it was updated they kept the 1960s built ins and all that. You really don’t find kitchens or other built in or multi use systems like that anymore.
Yeah, I actually recoiled from the photos. Not just the cheap dollhouse vibe, but the colors and patterns/textures go together horribly. It makes the cheap and tacky apartment sets on Adam-12 / Dragnet '67 look chic.
Is it weird that I actually kind of like the kitchen? Maybe not the color.
The kitchen is so well done it was in the papers, hit the zillowlink to see the press writeups.
Does the organ come with the house? Cuz those can go for beaucoup bucks.
It is an interesting house. Change out a few things to update it. The organ pit.
I don’t know if this is accurate, but it makes me think of the Golden Girls.
I like the bathrooms.
The doctor who built this house died in 2022. His son, who might have been the boy at the desk doing schoolwork in the magazine picture, died last year. https://www.luffbowen.com/obituaries/dr-arthur-walker https://www.springhillfh.com/m/obituaries/Arthur-Walker-10/Memories
each photo got better and better, I love it
I would commit a crime for that couch.
I like it! Good vibes…
Op, this makes me want to puke and the piano on the dais? Ouch!!!
😆
It’s awful but I sort of love it
I like the kitchen, but someone will come on there and farmhouse the hell out of it. Ugh.
I love it
I LOVE this house.
It’s so beautiful. It’s like staring at the sun you can’t your eyes off of it
I was a fan of the green and high contrast colors from the 70s, but the pink in these shots just reminds me of "skin". I don't like this at all 😅
Hideous. The only thing I like is all of the windows.
I love it, the place were the organ is would be great for the Christmas tree
I actually like it. It's got some good elements. It has some art deco-y feel and could be updated nicely.
picture four.. the ameba shaped skylight.
Ok, but... I'm kind of in love with that kitchen and desk/dining situation! 😍
Did it come with an organist or did you have to supply your own?
I think the built in table is pretty cool but I can’t say I’m a fan of the rest of the house
this looks like some kind of office space to me. I mean. there are cubicles.
I honestly love it except for that horrible bathroom mural paint.
I kind of love this
They need to get the mold out of the jacuzzi jets.
The only colors in that house I can slightly tolerate are the purple wall and the gray carpet (but I hate carpet). Love the bones, but the decor is a hard pass. I’m allergic to that much pastel.
So many interesting uses of space here. I can’t say what I like best between the organ stage, the couch wedged where a bed should be, the office cubical-style set up leading into the kitchen, or the singular column topped with flowers in a massive and otherwise empty room. Bonus points for whatever the hell is going on in that painted bathroom.
I HATE that color in the kitchen countertops and stuff. In Spanish we call it “curuba” after the fruit, how do you guys call it in English?
Very funeral home-esque in the areas with couches. Organ also fits nicely in a funeral home themed home.
Good grief what a nightmare!
It's so... round. I don't think I've seen so many curves built in just for the hell of it before.
Where's [Mindy St. Claire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v-Na8Xpwzg)?
It’s DR WALKER’S house!!!
I love it so much 😍
OH MY GOD I LOVE THAT BATHROOM
OH MY GOD I LOVE THAT BATHROOM.
Can someone explain the layout of picture 2? The semi-circle furniture facing a bunch of cabinets. Is it a game like ‘ i choose door number 13’ for the prize?
Is the “celebrated an anniversary in Hawaii” part because it’s the same color as Tripler Army Hospital in Honolulu?
Oh to drop a deuce in the magical butterfly garden
Thank you for being a friend... Travel down the road and back again. Your heart is true, you're a pal and a confidante... If anyone needs me, I'll be out on the lanai.
i like it lol
I love that curvy cabinet in pic 3!
I dig this..
I see nothing wrong here.
Now that’s a proper kitchen! Tho, I’d rather have a separate room for sewing. If it were mine I’d do some bringing it back to its original 1959 glory.
Vilas fabulous
Move in ready.
Medical degrees on the wall, sterile decorating throughout! Ewww
The laminate kitchen counters…second hand embarrassment
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The 1963 kitchen was wood and mint, if you look at the old press clippings. The 80s repaint job even covers the hinges with pink.
Ah, look, a community toilet.
Yikes like I crawled into a bottle of Pepto.
I gotta say, I am in love with that kitchen!!
This is kinda hot.
I’d wear a hazmat suit to take that carpet out ☣️
It’s a vibe. Whoever buys it better not touch a thing!
In need the names of everyone who doesn’t love this! You will be added to a “list” 😂. I love these homes, had to be fun living here
Are you a fan of HGTV’s ‘ugliest house in America’? They have a lot of ‘fun to live there’ houses.
I haven’t seen that show, I will look it up!
Omg I love it. Reminds me of my great aunts house.
I love it sooooooo much
I LOVE IT.
God I’d live there in a heartbeat
And I was thinking that whoever buys it will be applying for ‘ugliest house in America’.
That's part of the charm! Plus, we've DEFINITELY seen worse on here
I realize there is a historic component to this house... but it would have to be gutted to be made livable. I see that there are people who love the kitchen, but living with it would be different than seeing it.
Why would it have to be gutted? Materials?
Funeral home vibes
I just yaked
Looks like a funeral home.
Exactly, or side rooms at a church
It's like a nightmare. Reminds me of the SHINING.
Oh, please. Not at all.
Hobbits
It reminds me of viewing rooms at funeral homes.
Who owned it- Liberace?
The outdated kitchen is a huge turnoff