The thing is – it is decorated. This is how they lived. Except for the deck and that separate gallery type house structure, it looks exactly the way it would have looked when Jackie lived there. That’s old style. Simple – almost monastic. There would have been a few more throw rugs around, but the rooms are furnished just as her family would have had them. It was all about sport then – swimming, sailing, riding and polo. That was their days. At night, one was tired from all the activity, so people just went to bed and got up early the next morning and were active outside again. It’s homey. No sterile, stark minimalism of recent years, but not overblown maximalism either. This was how the wealthy lived in their summer homes. So if you really want to be authentic to the house, it’s ready to go as is, but get rid of that deck! It’s all wrong. But what a lovely home. Not very many left like this one. They’ve all been torn down for mega-mansions that look like hotels.
Beautiful. Such a slice of Presidental history!!!
The thing is – it is decorated. This is how they lived. Except for the deck and that separate gallery type house structure, it looks exactly the way it would have looked when Jackie lived there. That’s old style. Simple – almost monastic. There would have been a few more throw rugs around, but the rooms are furnished just as her family would have had them. It was all about sport then – swimming, sailing, riding and polo. That was their days. At night, one was tired from all the activity, so people just went to bed and got up early the next morning and were active outside again. It’s homey. No sterile, stark minimalism of recent years, but not overblown maximalism either. This was how the wealthy lived in their summer homes. So if you really want to be authentic to the house, it’s ready to go as is, but get rid of that deck! It’s all wrong. But what a lovely home. Not very many left like this one. They’ve all been torn down for mega-mansions that look like hotels.
I agree , that is how they lived. With comfortable furnishings and nothing too elaborate in a summer home.
I will take it !