1970s San Antonio house well preseerved

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Look at the terrazzo flooring in the house. That is one of the best floors to have. Easy up keep on it and never wears out.
 
This must be located in a nice part of San Antonio, given the size of the house and the many upscale features.
 
I saw this same Yahoo! article yesterday.  As others have stated, there's no reason to change anything, other than the granny furnishings for a more compatible modern look and perhaps take the same action with some of the window coverings.

 

I'm pretty sure those are indeed acoustical tiles in the great room ceiling.  As the owner of a home with a 12" beamed ceiling in the living room, I can appreciate not having to paint the most tedious and treacherous surface in there.
 
I can't believe though that those tiles were there originally but who knows. I've never seen it done before, not in our house or any others around here. I could see it maybe if their had been some problem with the plaster or drywall ceiling maybe.
 
Hans, I was sort of thinking the same thing. What about those sinks in the bathroom as well with the metal trim around the edges. Those to me look earlier.. we have them in this house built in 58
 
Acoustic Tiles

My sister and BIL live in an upscale 'hood where all the houses are of the same vintage as this one. Most of them have this in the family room and rec room. When they moved in, lots of avocado/orange/seafoam green. It's all history now.

Beautiful home, BTW. Sending those drapes out must cost a small fortune!
 
This is a pretty typical upscale Texas home. You see a lot of these in Austin, Dallas and Houston too. Those custom entry doors can get pretty wild and cost some serious $$$$.

All that laminate! It looks like all that wood looking stuff is high gloss laminate.
From the wall paneling in the den to the cabinets in the kitchen. The place is clean and orderly but for some reason I smell old people.
 
I'm thinking its late 50's-early 60's also. Those bathroom sinks look to be Crane, and I don't think they were still making that model in the 70's. Of course, the owners may have started buying materials well before they built the place. I have neighbors who bought bathroom fixtures a piece at a time as they could afford them. It was nearly ten years later when they finally put them in.
 
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.
 

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