The site helped woo the O’Shaughnessys: The home is situated on a sloping acre of land with trees and open space for the couple’s three sons-all under the age of seven-to enjoy. “Even so, we fell in love with the house,” Emily says. As if that weren’t enough, the previous owners’ affinity for storage space led to some awkward use of square footage-for instance, no fewer than nine closets lined the walls in the main bedroom. A tiny, walled-off kitchen felt dated and dwarfed by the home’s large footprint, and frumpy green carpeting covered the floor of the sunken living room.
#House of glam cracked
The outdoor patio was a sea of cracked salmon-pink concrete.
A long driveway led guests to the back of the property, where entering the house “felt like walking into a dungeon,” she says. “When we first saw this house, it was a hot mess,” Emily says of her 1950s-era home in Polo Club that hadn’t been updated for nearly five decades. OK, the majority of us probably don’t have that kind of laser-focused vision when we’re house-hunting, but Blake and Emily O’Shaughnessy seem to have a sixth sense for design potential. Sometimes, you see a house and you just know it’s meant to be yours-even when its floorplan, decor, and color palette are pulled directly from the lowest design moments of the 1970s. The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado.
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