This one starts out normal. Then it starts getting weird. Then the ending must be seen to be believed! (But I put a spoiler in the body if you absolutely must see the craziest part first. Don't.)
Egyptian room is certainly a choice, but the rest I'm not mad about? The exposed walls look legit and give the house some character, and the spaces that are renovated are tasteful.
That’s an incredible house. I wouldn’t have the heart to tear out the sarcophagus toilet, even if the place didn’t probably cost more money than I’ll ever have in my lifetime.
Strong vibes that a retired couple currently live there and a property developer will partition it into ten apartments.
This is like the house of my dreams. Not my daydreams, my actual sleeping dreams, where each room is super weird and I can never find my way back to the one room I need to be in.
Considering that it looks to be a very old house, that room may have been decorated in the 1920s, when Ancient Egypt was all the rage. I don't see a problem here.
According to the write-up the house was built in 1859 but the Egyptian suite was painted by Mike Lewis, who appears to be an artist based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Looking him up I found this story from CBC when it was on the market in 2020 and it seems it was commissioned by the then-owner, a historian and filmmaker.
A super white space with a fireplace in every room, then suddenly you're in a bedroom without walls (I guess they ran out of money?), then a horrible marble bathroom, then suddenly it looks like a completely different house with terracotta tiles and feature brickwork everywhere, then a toilet with like... limestone walls? A kitchenette bigger than my actual kitchen in a sitting room where none of the 6+ chairs face the TV. I dig the spoiler room though, that last fuckin toilet got me. I couldn't imagine living in a place like that.
I think it's brick in some areas because that's the converted basement area. The other parts probably already had walls like that and they just painted them.
My next snapped at the sudden shift in decor. It's not like any of those are bad in a vacuum, but it's a pretty bold choice to go from normal midcentury modern to rustic to creepy basement corridor back to modern again and then the egyptian tomb.
I actually really like those bathroom fixtures that look like dragons and serpents. Guilty pleasures.