Unsellables | FULL Episode | Gothic Cathedral

[@dianneedwards2491]

His girlfriend better realize that he is not going to change from that style when they get married. All of that stuff is going into the new house. Listen he is telling you what he like.

[@luvsupreme]

For some reason, I don't think her taste is far from his.

[@windygirl2342]

@@luvsupreme they said she didn't want to live with that style. She's in for a big surprise. Too bad they don't do a follow-up show!

[@donettegibson]

Exactly. Poor girl. They might have been better off to keep both houses.

[@teacherverina]

If she doesn't want him, he can share my home. I'd love to share a space with someone who has the same tastes as me.

[@jk3253]

Ironically because this show was filmed over 10 years ago, the “after” versions sometimes look more dated than the “before”

[@2cgus]

I agree! Most of what they did would have to be redone. If the house has classic lines, stay within that framework.

[@E.C.Animation]

@@2cgus Absolutely! Stays cohesive and preserves the history! Versus a 'modern' look that goes out of style in less than 5 years.

[@mayram4598]

@@E.C.Animation unfortunately that doesn’t always work. It’s all about the trends when people buy or build new houses. And no two people have the same taste.

[@sasamafrass]

My least favorite"after" for sure

[@momobunny1234]

@@sasamafrass Yeah, for real, they took out all of the personality that could have been perfect for the right buyer. Instead, they turned it into a generic mess.. really sad. I loved the before, honestly.

[@dhoward5757]

Come on, a year on the market and he is still holding out for " the best offer". He doesn't want to sell that house.

[@barnabyaprobert5159]

If he sells it then he has to grow up. She should realize that, too.

[@vaderladyl]

@@barnabyaprobert5159 Grow up? In what sense?

[@gemini1971jln]

Every sense.

[@pamjarvis2771]

He has to grow up and learn to compromise in relationship. It is not just only about his own preference in relationship when living together or marriage.

[@roccosisto8196]

He doesn’t want to get married

[@butwhytho4858]

Feel like this episode should be called “Dracula in Love” 😂

[@Mangovideono]

good one

[@narnia1233]

Genius

[@og6920]

Gorgeous home. That library alone was what would have sold me.

[@elizabeths4371]

I'm not convinced that neutering his obviously quirky home to appear as generic as produced, was the best solution. Gothic done right would have been far more interesting than Gothic with Ikea.

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

But then you're waiting for that one unique buyer to purchase the house and he's already had it on the market for a year.

[@QueenBee-gx4rp]

Why don’t they live in his house?

[@skellymom]

I agree. All they really needed to do was paint the walls the light colors like they did, use most of the original furniture that fit the motif, and scale down HEAVILY on the highly decorative wall hangings. Also, simplify the curtains. Think Gothic mixed with classic Victorian and English garden flourishes.

[@IMChrysalis]

They need to advertise in the Society for Creative Anachronisms... it would sell in a heartbeat!

[@sugakookie6303]

It’s not pre 1600 looking though...

[@hazelmeldrum5860]

How many arguments are they going to have when he wants to introduce his stuff into her house

[@phyllisarrington7436]

she'll lose that battle. should just resign herself to being Motisha Addams

[@shirleypena4133]

+Phyllis Arrington I agree! When you live with someone who's taste is-to put it politely- over the top then it's always a miserable battle of styles! I had a friend of mine move into my home twice (when he was evicted) and each time I had to fight to keep him from turning my home (as my friend put it) into a "chamber of horrors." He was only there long enough to save enough money to find another place, it wasn't even his PERMANENT home, yet he fought to impose HIS style over mine. Since the house is HER house she is likely under the assumption that he is just gonna accept her current decor...WRONG! This guy clearly has a strong, "take charge" personality and it's clear his taste for the bizarre hasn't changed one bit. I have my serious doubts that any kind of an "in between" compromise is gonna be reached once he moves into her home and it becomes THEIR home. Either she accepts him turning her home into a carbon copy of what he formerly had, or I give this relationship no more than six months.

[@barnabyaprobert5159]

@@phyllisarrington7436 *Morticia

[@vaderladyl]

I don't think she hates his style, she just wants it more subdued. Besides, when you are a couple, there has to be a compromise and you will have to find a happy medium. It is only fair.

[@pamjarvis2771]

Either accept , leave or he learns to compromise with her.

[@johnmccoy8058]

I would have purchased this house just the way it showed by Mark's design. I would want the furniture and decorations to stay.

[@Bhilithinn]

Me too! And I want that green man door knocker.

[@vaderladyl]

Yes it is lovely and with personality.

[@krawlb4walking802]

Different strokes for different folks.

[@melissabaker6527]

Yes too funny

[@rachelpadilla9368]

No you wouldn't...

[@cathyblackhall3448]

I hate the gouged out plaster and mottled yellow that looked like tobacco stains but I loved the house and it was nice to see an American house that wasn’t brown and cream.Surely the sort of buyer who is attracted to the Gothic outside would expect a Gothic style on the inside?

[@margaretalbert69]

That's not Venetian plaster walls.

[@nataliaturner4845]

Ha! "brown and cream" is sort of what I was thinking to make it sell LoL :) Remove all the carpets and replace with one continuous wood floor, paint all of the walls off white, and all of the trim and baseboards should be wood toned like they are in the entry room. Maybe update a few things like fireplace and kitchen/bath fixtures, and remove the frilly millwork on the exterior, but otherwise leave it be. Show it with no furnishings to make it as much of a blank canvas as possible. If they were to show off just the bones of the house, without the mishmash of patterns and colors, I think it would appeal to more ppl.

[@jelle3248]

I HATE beige. I don't know what's up with us Americans. I tore out all of the beige in my house as soon as I could.

[@mayram4598]

@@jelle3248 it’s a safe color, It’s the new White. People complained that white was to sterile so they went to beige or cream as the new safe color.

[@inspiredby624]

@@jelle3248 The penchant for beige walls in North America has always completely baffled me. It's an incredibly plain and boring color yet at the same time it isn't actually as neutral and inoffensive a color as people claim. Where I live the norm is to simply paint the walls white when selling a house/moving out of an apartment (usually required per rental agreement) and the next person will repaint with whatever color they like and I have to say I much prefer this method. I always wonder if there's actually people who truly love the color beige or if they just don't care about colors as long as it isn't too garish.

[@MegaCarolyn1234]

I love the character. I’d only change the wall colours, the odd carpet and kitchen. I love his furniture and decor items, If people don’t like it they should just buy a new beige box

[@barbarahaines7661]

Agree from wow to tired.

[@doloresreynolds8145]

Some people value good taste over eccentricity and eclecticism.

[@mulligatawnysoup9281]

@@doloresreynolds8145 But what she did really isn´t good taste. It looks mixed and matched and very dated.

[@vaderladyl]

Totally.

[@vaderladyl]

@@mulligatawnysoup9281 It is an old show anyway.

[@Jeanniebeannie2]

I loved the house! It had character. I hate the boring beige boxes they all have nowadays.

[@savvyroca]

If he had put the same amount of money and energy into renovating the kitchen (and even adding a bathroom) as the decor...this house could have sold for half a mil...easy

[@risingrat5491]

Wow loved his house.. it has a soul.. maybe look for someone specific to buy it was better choice than to turn it into another modern box

[@ginagina4164]

maybe he has the wrong girlfriend....just saying

[@risingrat5491]

@@ginagina4164 i was guessing why she didn’t move in with him, if she accepts or share his sense of beauty..

[@misst.e.a.187]

What kind of soul (or spirit)? They both make me think of witches and warlocks.

[@risingrat5491]

@@misst.e.a.187 that IS the soul😂

[@barnabyaprobert5159]

Well, it's been on the market for a YEAR, so...

[@は私です彼の名前]

Wow, this woman deserves a medal for diplomacy! Bless her soul. That house was still very scary after the make-over....that back room...YIKES!

[@Jane5720]

She does deserve a medal because she actually hates this house

[@doloresreynolds8145]

Too much gothic. Arched doors, windows, and yet craftsman touches on the outside. Yikes. It still looks like a rectory office inside, though.

[@ithacacomments4811]

She is going to have fun teaching that old dog new tricks !

[@beenwandering]

my dude had THE coolest house on the block, bland staging furniture doesn't take away from the amazing architectural details. I actually think the lighter paint changes were the biggest helpful difference.

[@embr4065]

I am not sure what churches people go to nowadays, but this house does NOT look like a church to me at all!!!

[@Jen-lc5yc]

Can we just take a moment and acknowledge how cute the dog is? 🐕

[@lordphoenix316]

I may be weird, but I would have bought the house as is and just repainted lighter colors. I dig the uniqueness of the door shapes and fixtures. The shape of the outside doors doesnt go with the interior.

[@yvonneredgrove4435]

I agree it is easy to lighten it.

[@krawlb4walking802]

I think this homeowner is along the lines of the theatrical/ Phantom of the Opera type interior designer. 🧐 **Also, I’m curious as to what his girlfriend’s style of decorating is ...and will the two worlds collide?

[@luvsupreme]

Off topic but, I like the way this couple holds hands. It's cute. 🙂

[@kellyanne7225]

Does anyone remember the Trading Spaces episode where Hilde Santos Tomas plastered the walls with straw? That is what his walls look like, unfortunately.

[@eccentricityxoxo5378]

That show was a joke ,the designer ppl just terrible

[@TheHungarianchick]

She also did feathers. She was nuts.

[@eccentricityxoxo5378]

@@TheHungarianchick I remember!

[@EMA616yo]

It’s funny because this episode reminded me that Doug Wilson’s design on Trading Spaces is where I first saw Venetian plaster.

[@michellebrown5566]

Lol!

[@amethystrain2513]

I absolutely love the green man door knocker and door knobs.

[@Raxx777]

I liked his style, but it was too dark, a happy medium of the two would be my taste. Lighter walls, a foyer that acts as one and a bit less odd-n-ends.

[@janonthemtn]

This house needs at least 1 additional bathroom.

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

YES! Hell to the no am I living in a house with multiple occupants and there's just one bathroom. Nope, did that most of my life growing up, but no more! Nothing worse than waking up from sleep really needing to pee and someone's in the shower or they're using the toilet themselves. Even a half bath would make a load of difference. And I'm going to guess that others are thinking the exact same thing and that's adding to the long sell time. I don't care how nice the house is, if the amount of bathrooms to bedrooms is off, I'm not buying. 3 bedrooms and up should, in my opinion, always have a half bath at least. A lot of older homes don't but that should be something to add on to bring more value for if you ever sell it.

[@janonthemtn]

@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley 💗

[@56music64]

what a lovely job the owner had done, but in his own specific taste. It looked clean and perfectly staged for a castle. Better than most I would say. Anyway, yes he needed to update to sell it. Well done to the team on the transformation

[@sowhat8307]

I have been binge watching this and she decorated with blue and green a lot. I like it though. I will introduce some green with my blue in the spring

[@kebert2thumbsup]

They are calming, soothing colors

[@cindyvining7866]

Sage is the color of the year for 2020

[@anniehovsepian6173]

The vine tian plaster is gorgeous, leave it alone. The fireplace is beautiful and unique.

[@cherrybarb4651]

You can make your own home as extreme as you like but don't expect everyone else to love it. This place has a lot of unique, interesting features - I love the doors and the fireplace, etc, but I find it dark and oppressive. I wonder if those two can stop holding hands long enough to eat?

[@lisa-m-jennings]

This was so disappointing because I literally came to this video to see the “Gothic Cathedral” house. They dismantled everything I loved. It was horrible. I just bought a house and it was a new build “normal” house. We looked for 10 months for something like this. I would have been so happy there. Gah! 🦇🧛‍♀️🖤

[@theL0VERS]

My cousin was the same way when she and her husband were looking. I personally didn't think it looked bad. Everybody else in the comments talking likeit was a house of horror.

[@MustaffaCuppa]

4:49 they even blur the book titles - this guy must have odd tastes.

[@Celtic_Amy]

they have to blur to avoid copywrite issues

[@TheWorldofRobbie]

This is the best house I've seen yet. So cool! Sad not many people are interested in the look.

[@marielucier7982]

Actually that’s some weird Venetian plaster work. Looks like straws everywhere

[@ToxicSunrise132]

Yeah that was the one thing I didn't like. I don't think it was executed very well

[@Doriesep6622]

or raised scars

[@vaderladyl]

I think it is a lovely house with very unique architectural highlights that are not for the majority of the main stream people. I would love to have a house with those doors and windows. He has to depersonalize it to sell it, unfortunately, but he can always duplicate his style somewhere else. I appreciate he likes other things and his girlfriend is not that far off from his taste either, just like things more subdued.

[@robynw6307]

Love the library, and though not a huge fan of the fire surround, I think I could live with it in the updated version. The shape of the windows and doors is so interesting, and I've always dreamed of a full wall of books.

[@kayrussow8517]

The lion 🦁 doorknobs are awesome!

[@jessa.4529]

5:18..she just called him a child lol

[@wr6676]

And he agreed.

[@acaring2440]

SHOCKING !!! What a talented young lady !!!

[@harrymyhero]

I felt like crying when you destroyed that venetian plaster wall. That is so much better than drywall!

[@abcjerilee]

My house, my, my my. Run away! fast!

[@bunny7741]

That poor guy. I wonder if he and that woman are still together. She talked down to him and didn't appreciate his style at all. I know I'd be unhappy in a relationship like that.

[@sungirl2656]

Wish I could find a good contractor that would charge what this one does, great job!!

[@windygirl2342]

I want to know if he has a basement and if so, what the hell is in it?

[@ToxicSunrise132]

Probably where he stashes his coffin

[@daschundloverable]

@@ToxicSunrise132 great comment.

[@candy11401]

I love their house; I would love to see their gothic house and look round xD it looked so good, they really did well with it

[@ithacacomments4811]

The gentleman is going to need a mancave at her home.

[@sharoncox1734]

It wasn't even scary or overly Gothic, just had too many large items of furniture and too many different patterns and textures on all the interior surfaces.

[@Jen-lc5yc]

I was thinking the same thing. I didn't care for the curtains as they obstructed the unique lines of the interior.

[@janicescott7338]

I didn’t care for the makeover. With all the rich details of this house I would of gone with a light, creamy color, not stark white. And the greens in the front room were awful. I love this show and Sofie’s decorating talent’s but this was so disappointing.

[@NYCHeartandSoul]

The green “art” added to the front room was frightening.

[@janicescott7338]

@@NYCHeartandSoul lol it sure was!

[@lottiedah903]

The goth couple from Portlandia would love it!

[@thornbird6768]

This guys own style definitely isn’t most people’s 😆 no wonder it didn’t sell before the makeover !

[@vaderladyl]

Majority might like bland, but not everybody has to.

[@treeoflife7854]

Id LOVE this unique home

[@dreamerofhanuman]

They didn’t show any bedrooms.

[@adeladevere2013]

I guess that's why they have a sofa bed, which was shown being taken out of the house.

[@jipfluffy2143]

Coffins dont show well lol!

[@leslieannvanhumbeck9444]

The house 🏠 is beautiful 😍. Not everyone has the same cookie cutter beige taste.

[@jenj1221]

But it was on the market for a year🤷🏽‍♀️ cookie cutter is what sells.

[@Hearth123]

The gothic elements could have beautiful if he'd gone 20% gothic instead of 120% with it

[@teacherverina]

Goths don't half arse anything 😆

[@Citizennumber9]

His style is unique and beautiful. Good for him. Be interesting to walk through his new house and listen to his stories on his objects. Good on you, sir!

[@Citizennumber9]

I bet he does a fantastic Halloween!

[@Metonymy1979]

When was this show done? The guy dresses from 2008. Edit: I was right!

[@amberbaker4842]

I would live here in a heartbeat

[@tinad8561]

Sometimes you have to face that not everything is going to look like a builder spec home, and if you really want builder spec, you should go get it from a builder. As a buyer, I would have loved having that woodwork and that front door in my new old house. I’d have lightened the paint color throughout, pulled out the carpets and drapes, stripped out half the furniture and all the gargoyles, and then probably redone the kitchen because it’s so normcore. This is not a house you can believably Crate & Barrel.

[@vaderladyl]

Yes, I agree. If you wanted cookie cutter McMansion there are a dime a dozen elsewhere. Don't go looking into an older house and expect it to look exactly like a brand new model. with the generic features they all have nowdays.

[@abcjerilee]

Lisa, RUN!

[@lunerwerewolf]

That house was awesome, I'd buy it

[@novallasuter8197]

I love this place. No beige no gray no neutrals.

[@mulligatawnysoup9281]

The kitchen backsplash is really ugly and really dated but the rest does look more sellable

[@69kellygreen]

WOW, that is an amazing makeover!!

[@clownfromclowntown]

That house was so gorgeous on the inside already, Mark truly had a sense of refined style. Then they destroyed it.

[@ShastaAnn]

I've never seen a Venetian plaster wall treatment that literally looks like pieces of straw painted onto the walls. I usually love Venetian plaster walls, but not those!!

[@dreadlocknload]

Lol these "glass tiles" on the backsplash are really stickers from the big box store - like $7 a square foot. Sweet!

[@Hoboelmo23]

Lighter fluid and a match cost less than $5,000.000

[@misst.e.a.187]

It was hideous. And the couple are weird.

[@vaderladyl]

@@misst.e.a.187 No, not really.

[@Sludgedragon]

@@misst.e.a.187 Yeah, you probably don't get Gomez and Morticia, either, lol. I loved most of it before. The new furniture is very vanilla and I could do without the pervasive celery green.

[@DWJazzlover]

I Too Like the original house! I would only change the drapes and wall colors and the rest I like.

[@misst.e.a.187]

Yuk

[@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380]

I loved the house!

[@DivaViews]

I love a vestibule/foyer! More houses should have that!

[@larsedik]

Here in L.A. that house would have been great for Hollywood sets. I used to go to a restaurant on the corner of Centinela and Venice Blvd that looked like that, but it's no longer there. I also went to an Italian restaurant in Palm Springs with a similar decor that is no longer there😥

[@choochoo9506]

I actually LOVE his medieval taste..I'd keep the walls lighter, but it's gorgeous, to me. But not everybody's taste. It would be like me moving into an ultra-modern home, I would hate it.

[@khanysafan1705]

The before house looked like Housewives of New Jersey.

[@69kellygreen]

That carpenter guy is HOT

[@bmell1252]

At least there’s no taxidermy.

[@farvista]

That's an amateur plaster job, with trowel-marks EVERYWHERE. It's plaster, but not Venetian. Venetian plaster has actual marble dust in it, and as used originally, it was burnished to a smooth, hard gloss. It can actually look like marble. (Be careful. It makes your trowel SHARP. I've cut myself pretty badly.) People starting doing weird, technicolor, lumpy things with plaster in the 80s and 90s, and now they think that any ploppy, roughed-up plaster is "Venetian" plaster. The terms "Venetian" and "Tuscan" have been bandied about and abused pretty liberally.

[@ShastaAnn]

Worst "Venetian plaster" job I've ever seen, and I use that term very loosely. The trowel marks look like sticks of straw painted onto the walls.

[@lisaryherd4685]

This doesn’t even look like the same house after they were done with it!!

[@lesliespiers8407]

I do love the cathedral doors & windows. I liked the marble look, but not the gouged out look...Kitchen is too small, and I would have painted out the cabinets, to make it look bigger.

[@kateg7298]

I wonder if they sold it or if people were still put off by the strange gothic windows. I would have been calculating how much it would cost to replace them and to get rid of all of the faux gingerbread on the outside of the house.

[@vaderladyl]

I would love to have had those windows.

[@kateg7298]

@@vaderladyl Everyone has different taste :) I think they might have been striking in a different house.

[@vaderladyl]

@@kateg7298 Yes they are beautiful and putting them in that bland house is a disservice to them, but I wouldn't take them down either.

[@ShastaAnn]

They don't fit the style of the house at all

[@freedomofreligion3248]

I actually loved the original color of the foyer and didn't see where pastel mint green was an improvement. This was a beautiful, interesting house, before Unsellables changed anything.

[@esmereldahipswitch]

pretty funky. Pretty cool but way too dark. It's strange that in that large home is only one bathroom

[@kenshinhimura2322]

I want the angel fireplace.

[@lesliecas2695]

One bathroom for >$400,000? No way!!!

[@rhondablaski6246]

I like it. I would take it in a heartbeat. I hope you are taking gorgeous furniture.

[@plantmom3699]

One bathroom??? Yeah... That's more likely to be the cause. I wouldn't pay 400k+ for 1 bathroom.

[@anniehovsepian6173]

I like the makeover but not the backsplash. I love the wall color. Makes the wood pop.

[@mabinogidrws]

I LOVE the gothic look 🖤🖤🖤

[@katewade9992]

LOL. OMG. What crazy decor! He seems normal tho.

[@nancyomalley9959]

I was living in Lynbrook at that time! What street was that house in?

[@appnzllr]

Mark should work in Hollywood in set decoration

[@jelle3248]

Am I the only one who would have bought the original house as-is?

[@Jane5720]

I would have bought the house if the price was right because I know that I would have to do a lot but the bones are really good

[@youttt27]

Me too! Loved the front door. And those gorgeous windows

[@nancyomalley9959]

Any more Lynbrook episodes?

[@ShastaAnn]

Did they just use plywood to make the two kitchen drawer fronts and cabinet door above? Am I seeing that correctly? Because that's what it looks like. I would've rather seen baskets in the spaces than plywood fronts.

[@zuzilda]

I like (LOVE) the original house (except the kitchen), it had so much character. The "template" remodel killed so much of character and imbalanced the main character of the house. If anyone don't like the uniqueness of the house, who can they just get boxed templated houses already on the market?

[@aadams1006]

The idea is that the house had character, but it was entirely his design and decor. They won't leave it the way it is, they just need to be able to imagine their own stuff and style in there and it was just so overwhelming they couldn't see it.

[@carolynb8816]

I mean, it's easy enough to say, but he couldn't find that perfect buyer who would love the house as much as he did, and couldn't wait any longer to sell. All the people who wanted boring box houses were buying them instead of his house and he needed to sell. Sad? Yes. Necessary? Also yes.

[@jgsmile1331]

I like the updates. Sofie did a great job.

[@marchellabrahams]

I love these programmes, but please, what is half a bathroom??

[@lindacowles756]

G'day, Marchellabrahams! I think it's basically a toilet and sink but no shower or tub.

[@peaceandhonesty3516]

Lovely house!

[@adhc8560]

I"m surprised they could stop holding hands long enough to get anything done.

[@inter-netty5985]

I loved the before house