SOCK IT TO ME baby: Thanks to Frank for sending us this 1965 time capsule in Palm Springs. All the furniture comes with the house, which is for sale for $796,000. –>
The more I do this blog, which started with a fondness for 50s and early 60s interiors…the more I slide oh so easily right into the 70s…which seems to have been born in 1965. In. This. House.
Here’s the appropriately sauve prose from the listing:
Smashing, Splendid, Brave, Daring and Unspoiled describes this masterpiece of seventies decor – Plus Offered Turnkey Furnished! Visually stunning custom velvet walls with vibrant colors of reds, pinks, fuschias and oranges.A unique and wholly functional residence in impeccable condition set up for full time living but with all the enchantment, allure and fantasy of a Moroccan palace. Bedrooms are canopied, swagged, with gold vein mirrored walls, ceiling to floor drapes creating an exotic and opulent atmosphere. The furnishings are custom in matching materials and colors,the pool is gorgeous, the grounds are impeccable, and the piece de resistence, a Pink Princess telephone in the master bedroom!….
Thanks, too, to real estate agent Diane Flaherty for giving me permission to feature a few photos.
That 70s house: A Palm Springs time capsule 
On butterfly roofs, xeroscaping, diamond-pattern concrete block and more: Palm Springs Stephan gives us a tour of mid century modern Palm Springs 
1952 time capsule kitchen…70s time capsule bathroom…and more 
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Wow! Elvis IS still alive – I knew it! LOL! That’s really something…and I mean that in a GOOD way. I hope the new owner keeps it the way it is. Ah, I wanna put on my bell bottom jeans and take out my pocket comb so I can neaten up my Farrah haircut! : )
Holy cr@p!
Idea: Let’s everybody chip in, I’ll buy the house, and we’ll use it as a time share.
PARTY TIME!
if you can’t party in that house, you’re dead
Count me in!LOVE IT!
Holy Headboards, Batman!
I like orange, a lot, but…
oh wow! ok although there are so many interior colour disasters in this house it’s actually pretty cool, sort of reminds me of the set on the boogie nights movie…
The kitchen in this house and exterior i love (pics seen on the agent’s site), but they are almost under-whelming when looking at the rest of the decor.
Well, I like the looks of the outside. That’s it for me, though. What I want to know is WHO could live in that — and for 40+ years, no less, it seems?
WOW! The only word that comes to mind is: shagadelic!
Ah, memories! I distinctly recall seeing mirrored and flocked wallpaper when I was in my grandparents’ friends’ houses in the desert. Even as a child I remember thinking “whoa!”
Too, too much! I adore it (in an I-probably-couldn’t-live-there-but-I’m-sure-glad-it-exists kind of way.) Love your idea for a time-share, Pam: I’m in!
This had to be the inspiration for Barbie houses/furniture in the 1970s!
Pam, I’m in! Hey, this could be a sort of bed & breakfast….
I like the time share idea, the orange sectional is my favorite
It’s the Yo Gabba Gabba House!
(I have a three year old)
I have such trouble imagining why anyone would decorate a house in the desert using so much velvet. Our high temperature here today is supposed to be 99 degrees! And it’s only May! Imagine sitting or laying on all that velvet in July and August when it is over 110 every day!
This “lovely” (hideous!) treasure is within walking distance of my own place. I will watch for a real estate agent’s Open House sign and drop by to get some details on who owned the house.
As you can tell by the listing price, it is in a posh neighborhood, called Deepwell Ranch Estates. The subdivision was built on land that had once been the Deep Well Ranch and Guest Hotel, a kind of “dude ranch” during the 1930s popularized by the cowboy and western movie industry. Many of the old westerns were filmed in the Palm Springs area, so the stars and crews of those movies stayed at Deep Well, neighboring Smoketree Ranch (part of which still exists), or Gene Autry’s ranch further east (now the five-star Parker Hotel).
During the Palm Springs tourism boom of the 1950s and 1960s, Deep Well Ranch was redeveloped as Deepwell Ranch Estates. The area became home to the likes of Liberace, Jerry Lewis, Jack Webb (Dragnet’s “Sgt Joe Friday”), William Holden, Gavin “LoveBoat” McLeod, the famous Mid Century Modern architect Donald Wexler (who still lives there), and Paul “Pee Wee Herman” Reubens.
If I can get any more information on this explosion of velvet, I will post it here. I will also send some more photos, if I can get them.
I’m with YOU Stephan, this decor is a desert COPD/Asthma/Choking nightmare. I live here too, 33 years. We’re in the No Fabric Zone for sure and somebody should tell the newbies. We have outstanding 30′s – 60′s homes, and tons of them. They were all built mostly not for year round residents, but second home winter escapes from L.A. > Smaller kitchens (by today’s standards), lack of storage, often a bar larger than the kitchen and you can throw a back yard party and seat 150 people around the pool. Somebody went bonkers here with the idea … 60′s Vacation Rental? None of this is original decor. Original ‘decor’ deteriorated… long, long ago.
@frankieswife – totally true. Amazing.
omg i want it.
Palm Springs Steven makes a good point, velvet in the desert? I want to rip out all my carpeting every summer here in Australia so I know that the reality wouldn’t work for me. But the dream… the perfect Diva hideaway!
I’m in on the time share. And I’ll come in the off season when it’s cooler and my skin won’t stick to the velvet.
Somewhere, Austin Powers is smiling……
Did Liberace live here?
I lived in Palm Springs for 7 years and only DREAMED of something that awesome (tile in 100 degree weather is the way to go), but I did have a friend there whose house could rival that, but on green and silver. It was glorious.
No, Mer, one of Liberace’s many Palm Springs houses was in the same neighborhood, but on a different street.
Like, oh wow man, the colors! I can easily visualize a fondue party with Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow playing on the stereo!
Wow Pam, I don’t think I could live in most of those room
tracy
these is beautiful
why cant I see the pix? nothing buts maps for me…because Im using Chrome?
sorry peg, i do not know – can you see photos on the rest of my site?
Save it, but use it as a museum…nobody in her right mind would want the hassle of trying to live in and clean what is clearly a riot of velvet. We need not forget the past, but perhaps we need to memorialize this particular venue by selling tickets and letting people gape. Well, except as I know remember, they closed the Liberace museum…so this poor house may be out of luck. I do like the stuff you put up from the 50s & 60s, but this is gaudy and garish, no matter what decade. Just my opinion.
I must be doing something wrong. When I click the link I get a property description and google map, but no photos or link to photos.
Never mind. I just realized how old this is. For some reason it showed up in my feed as new.
Oh … sorry, Kirsten, yes, this is an old post. Since we were talking about time capsules today I posted the link on facebook. A “re-run”, if you will!
Wow.
It needs to be a museum, or a great residence for the blind.
wow, i hadn’t seen this!! it looks close to my idea of heaven. SO very cool!
Oh….my…..freaking…..God! I love love love the orange bedspread!!!! If anyone knows where I can buy one of those, let me know in another comment ASAP!!!