1970s San Antonio house well preseerved

[appnut]

but for some reason I smell old people.

Hello, I DID mention the walking cane in the master bedroom next to the dresser. I suspect the owners are I assisted living or additional care environment and wanting to sell the house for $$$. My family room furniture is the "newest" furniture I have, bought in late 1970s. Some of the furnishings in the rooms are reminiscent of it. In a lot of ways, this house is a mixture of late 1950s/early 1960s and early 1970s. But it's big and beautiful (especially for its day). Was an expensive house when new. I wish they'd shown pictures of the laundry room and other 2nd tier rooms. Bit big open spaces. And as whirlcool says, we see a lot of these types of homes in Austin, Dallas, Houston. For San Antonio, this was quite an elaborate house in its day. Our neighbors who had the two LK Combos moved there in 1967. Still had the small town feel to it. San Antonio didn't really come into it own until the 1980s, always the big city wanna-be step child.

As a few have mentioned, there was something about the house that just didn't seem quite 1970s in some ways. Who knows. But at 5:30 am I couldn't quite put my finger n what I was feeling in my gut.

 

[whirlcool]

You see whole neighborhoods made up of these kinds of homes in the Memorial Section of Houston. Just west of 610 along Woodway Drive. These houses are huge. I've even seen one where they added a full size indoor swimming pool in a pool room on the back of a house.

 

[tolivac]

VERY NICE!!!So nice you don't want to use it!EVERYTHING is like new-like the things there were NEVER used!-and no garish wallpaper or floor coverings.But the oven and intercom look older than 70's.The intercom in the desk nook with the pencil sharpener is something!!!Put your computer there!Like that place!!Wish I could carefully live there.

 

[davey7]

Acoustic Tile

Acoustic tile ceilings were pretty "upscale" and modern for a while and they do kill noise, especially in a rumpus room.

 

[combo52]

Cool House

But I agree with Hans, that house is 1961-64, NOT 1972.

It always amazes me that everyone knows what year their car is but often have no good idea when their house was built, LOL, including so called professionals like real estate agents and home inspectors.

 

[retropia]

It is interesting that this house was built at a time when people still felt they needed a formal living room, or parlor, for company. If I owned this house, I'd be tempted to turn that area into a home office, perhaps separated from the rest of the house with french doors.

 

[whirlcool]

Our last house here had what is known as "formals". It had a formal living room and dining room. In the 12 years we lived there I think I once read a Sunday paper in the living room and we used the formal dining room about a dozen times or so for dinner parties. Worst thing was we spent some good money on nice furniture for those rooms and they were hardly ever used.

This house has no formal anything. The den is the living room and the kitchen is eat in. We don't entertain as much as we used to. We agree this house is a little too small for us (1500 sq ft) but we've learned to live with it and external storage lockers too.

 

[hydralique]

Agreed with Hans, Petek and others that this house doesn't look '70s at all but rather early '60s. It's usually easy to check the County Assessor's office for the original date of construction so don't know why more people don't do this.

 

At present I'm involved in a down to the studs remodel of a mid-century modern built in '71, but when I first visited the house would have sworn it was no later than '67 given the details, design and layout. Most likely the original owner's taste was already a bit dated; that could be the case here if it is in fact from the '70s.

 

[davey7]

Formal Rooms

I don't even have informal living space. I have a large living room for company adjoining a formal dining room. I just use a bedroom for the TV and lounging (it's a corner room with balcony access, so really nice).