Today’s home brings us to a place I don’t think we’ve ever been to on Hometasrophes… Maryland! It’s a small, but mighty state -with a home that seemed to raid the paint store.

Why? Because there’s so many different shades of colors inside, that (I imagine) they probably flew some swatches in from over state lines.  

Built in 1978, this single-family residence has 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, and 2.3k sqft of space. Sitting on a nearly 1.6 acre lot, the property is valued at $525,000. 

How do I know that we’re in for a treat? Well, for starters, the front door is a bold, saturated red. And the garage door is an earthy pale green. In your “typical” home, a red or green door would be more muted or basic -but these are playing with color theory beautifully.

Prepare yourself… what you’re about to see isn’t in everyone’s taste.

Inside, we’re bombarded with in-your-face wallpapers of florals and vertical stripes. The dominant color is blue, but it’s speckled with varying shades, a bit of orange, and a dark flooring to accentuate the zebra-print cabinet. 

Down the hall, we reach the first living room:

First Offense: I don’t love this baby blue all over the walls. The lining of the corner with bookshelves looks nice… but I can’t bear to look at the rest of the room. Something about this space feels subdued to compensate for the walls. 

On the flip-side, the dining room makes blue (actually, aquamarine) into the accent color. The dining chairs being the centerpiece against the orange-lined, cheetah-print wallpaper. 

Typically, I’m not a huge animal print fan. But something about the staging with the chairs and bust of a man’s head make it kinda regal.

We’ve completely changed decades, in the kitchen. 

If anything, the bland white kitchen makes this a space built for creation. It’s a blank slate to cook a colorful meal. Luckily, the colors of the 70s/80s are close by. There’s a brick cutout for storage and wallpaper that looks like brick.  

Oh my… this secondary living room is something.

I actually feel good about moving on from this space, if you are? Cool. Okay, let’s move on…

“Dated” is the word I’d use to describe this primary bedroom. Yeah, it fits the aesthetic of the rest of the home… but when you slap it on a bed, you’ve got a whole different thing going on.

What’s even crazier is when you turn around and see the PURPLE version of the same cheetah print! THEN you’re lead through a beige and boring walk-through closet. It’s very disjointed. 

Attached to the bedroom, this bathroom looks like a stall you’d find in a diner. That mosaic tiling is just… very old. With that said, it’s very cute! I just wish this eccentric styling was used in the bedroom as well.

For the other bedrooms and bathroom, they have a more subdued approach to the home’s theming. They’re primarily white, but with bold pops of color: a rainbow shower curtain, orange curtains, and a blue bottle of shampoo.

All of the colors we’ve seen culminate in the home-office:

Here, the speckled coloring makes for an imaginative space that’s perfect for ideating. There’s a long bookshelf full of vibrant book spines, a curtain of color blocking, and that same darn blue from the first living room we saw…

Let’s go outside!

Yeah, there’s a pool here. I was saving it as a surprise. While those photos were evidently taken during an off-season, the scale of the pool and its surrounding area are still impressive. You get an eating nook, a lounging area, and even a diving board.

Don’t forget the grassy space of the backyard! It’s for a lot of that too:

Whatever you wanna do in this backyard is possible -the limit is your imagination.

So… yeah, this little home used a lot of paint and printer ink. Sometimes it stepped a bit too far into crazy-territory. But at least it dared to be something unique. And I’ll always celebrate that.

Sarah @Hometastrophes