Cold. Uninviting. And ugly.

But I guess we all have different tastes.

Not a thing. I think the ugliest thing is the fireplace. Who would design such a monstrosity?

A decorator I am not. I consider my home to be my refuge. I'm sort of a minimalist so I don't really like to have a lot of things around just to look at. If it doesn't have a purpose, I probably don't want it. It definitely makes it easier to keep clean. Dusting is not fun.

Chances are it is the most expensive. Then pawn it or melt it down.

You knock your knees, you can't stretch your legs... If you want to use the table you are either too far away or you are uncomfortably hunched over.

A stupid waste of space.

When I was in college I visited the home of a college friend. There was actually a room in their house that was roped off. It was pristine. The thing is, it was a very modest farmhouse which housed a fairly large family. They really didn't have the space to spare to have a "museum room", but I suppose it meant something to my friend's mother to have one spot in the house in perfect order at all times.

My cousin's house has one of these right off the foyer. I believe its purpose is you always have a beautiful clean room where you can welcome unexpected guests for tea or coffee without worrying how you want to insulate them from the rest of the house in whatever shape it's in. It ensures your guests aren't walking on legos or finding cat hair on the armrest or seeing your bills and personal effects laid out on the kitchen table anywhere else.

If I had a house and enough rooms, I would totally have one room that always stayed clean and organized and attractive so people could visit and I wouldn't have to aggressively straighten up and vacuum in a panic when someone mentions they are going to casually drop by.

It's just that this family already overwhelmed their little house. My friend said NOBODY ever got to go in that room, so I get the impression that it wasn't used for welcoming guests either.

He must buy that crap in bulk hotel lots. Moved and cleaned cleaned by workers with falsified documentation.

It figures he’d have bad taste like this. As in everything else, it’s like he tries way too hard to make it look like he’s something he’s not.

By the way, where is Melanie?

Bet it doesn't even have a good sound system.

The reflection would cause all kinds of sonic havoc and any music would sound distorted and echo-y.

I wonder, does Trump ever listen to music? Listening requires concentration and thoughtfulness. Those are not among his characteristics.

And so I thought about it. Seriously, marble is one of the hardest substances to fall on. You can sustain bone breaks if you fell on marble but would not break a bone if you fell on a wooden floor.
Never get a marble floor, even if they are within your taste and budget.

because they don't have a comfy place to relax and enjoy anything.

They spend their entire lives comparing "what I have" to "what this other slightly more rich guy has" and trying to get that too only to find that ultimately, it is just the same. Is that why they spend so much time trying to destroy those lower on the economic ladder? Because they can't find contentment in their vast wealth.

I often daydream about being rich...but in my daydreams, I realized recently, we're not rich. In those dreams, we have enough to pay the bills and put some in the bank, we have enough to grocery shop without keeping track of every dollar we're spending, we can go on vacation once a year, have a meal out just becasue we want to, and we can send our kids to college without our daily life suffering too much. OMG...my dream is of truly being middle class.

Baloney would go well, btw, the older the stronger an accent color it would provide.

This room was designed to his taste by architecters and professional decorators, of course. We've all heard the "Trump's a poor man's idea of a rich man" thing. I'd like to see how Trump's tastes played out if he'd been born into the working classes and remained there between incarcerations.

Btw, your post just caused me to cast my mind around and confirm no tape measures are lying around.. Just my husband's old sweatshirt, no socks currently.

My husband did just point out the can of paint waiting 3 days for me to finish the old bookcase I brought home.

The biggest, probably the book with the best stories. Don’t understand the artwork on it, looks like a fighter raising his arms in victory. Probably why he doesn’t read...”Aww com’on mommy, it’s too heavy. I can’t read that.” ....”Don’t you worry lil’donnie, Mabel will read it to you.”

Although I do have to admit I would’ve loved a toy car like that red Mercedes. Plus that place is not well taken care of the front left chair has a spot on its seat cushion. Former carpet and upholstery cleaning company owner, I notice things like that, it’s a curse.

It's probably not noticeable in real life (except to someone like you ), but shows up in photos.

And then he misread Ali’s famous quote, to him it read...”Float like butter, sting a flea.”

That room just looks tacky. Almost like someone trying way too hard to say "I have money!".

Exactly like someone trying too hard - and failing.

He is so crass, crude, common and coarse.

Who is in the framed photo on the coffee table?

and vomited again

With a few minor differences, of course.......

Very boring to look at.

what cartoon character the fireplace reminds me of. The round pictures look like googly eyes and the way the chair blocks the opening looks like a smile. Is it SpongeBob SquarePants?

Looks more St. Petersburg.

I read somewhere that when she was still married to Trump, Ivana called a decorator and asked what she could do to the apartment. The replay was "absolutely nothing." They'd have to gut it and start from scratch.

I'd rather smell a damned high school locker room than that cloying, nasty, mad chemists' concoction called Febreze.

I use the 2nd bottle to cover up the smell of the 1st bottle.