"Partly Perfect" Home of the Week by Erma Thrask

Salutations!   Mr Goliath has asked me, as a special favor to come back and comment on "Home of the Week".  http://www.courier-journal.com/article/2010312240057 My goodness gracious!  Goliath is heartbroken.  He says he pleads with me to make a 'special comment' because this week's "Home of the Week" actually features a home Goliath himself, at one time, considered purchasing!



Ah yes...I remember it well.  It was 2003 and Goliath asked me to come look at a broken down sad looking home on Cherokee Road in Louisville!  I can tell you that it was in quite a state of disrepair.  The owners wanted
$400,000 for the house.  Goliath commented that this was the sort of house you could put $100,000 in over time and then sell the house for nearly twice what you had in it.  Further,  it was in the beginning of the real estate
bubble.  There were still four good years of expanding real estate prices at that point.

Goliath's head began to spin (which is dangerous for him) and he began to speak of  're-doing the kitchen' and
refitting the bathrooms.   Alas! Was not to be.  Sheba El-Al put her foot down and refused to authorize Goliath's expenditure of funds.

So, now, friends, Goliath was almost in tears as he saw what the two actual purchasers of this home had done to it.!  And, I must say  I quite agree. This is a fantastic house with its four french doors leading out the front to a portico terrace.  

This house was(is) really something special.  The entry way is a foyer that runs the depth of the house.  So,  to Goliath's (and my) way of thinking, its too bad that the current owners feel compelled to 'over decorate'.   The over the top flourishes  and decorating accents are simply not
needed if the house itself is graceful and well designed and built.  There is really no need for this... Can we say, 'decorator gone wild'?

Not convinced,  then try this....

As a good Christian woman,  I am obliged to try and say nothing at all if I have nothing good to say.  Perhaps
Oscar Wilde would have  ADORED this house as it is now.  But its all a bit rich for our simple tastes.   What
a shame. What a treasure this house COULD have been.   Not a bible in sight!

-Erma Thrask