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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB
Wow, so much of their stuff is ugly. And who the hell really has a suit of armor in their house? I think they were trying too hard to look rich...or they just have bad taste.
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ITA. Like so many other things, how much of it is "for show"? Does anyone play that piano or the "faux" marble chess set? Why is everything so ornate? What's with the gilded everything? Shiny, shiny, shiny.
Sorry the pics are so big, I just wanted to give a few examples of how everything is shiny and "gold".
The picture below makes me laugh for two reasons.
A. A suit of armor, usually found in very old homes (castles) where it's a piece of history/antigue or a piece of one's ancestry (or someone that was really into Ren Fairs lol). Why in New Jersey? It's likely a replica, and like many other things in houses like this, serves no other purpose than to try to "look rich".
B. Who is going to use a dart board when there are two fragile-looking candle holders right below it? Darts next to a light switch? Where's the chalk line you are supposed to stand behind. If it's "for show", why a dart board?
(Let me just add that I do have a friend who has a grand piano in her foyer, and when she bought it, her babies were under a year old, and no one in the house played piano. She told me that they had bought it because they needed something to "fill" the foyer.
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