What’s Lurking Behind the Shades of a Wall-to-Wallpapered Indian Trails Townhome?

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Despite an assemblage of botanical print wallpapers reflecting (sometimes literally) another interior design era, a 1975 townhome in gated Indian Trails, west of Chimney Rock Rd., also has a few features ahead of their time: like extra high ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows, and double vanities in the bathrooms. A bit camera shy, the corner property has a $1.17 million price tag and keeps its elevation as under wraps as the perimeter windows in the listing photos. Here’s a possible hint why:

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Entry, 5735 Indian Circle, Indian Trails, Houston

Hmmmm . . . those are some interested brick patterns there at the entrance. Lurking behind the more florid decor now found throughout the home, could there be something a bit more . . . midcentury and modern? Oh, the scandal!

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Inside, it’s all or nothing in the wall treatment department; spaces are either all white or papered in intense, intricate patterns — mostly floral. A formal-finished entry with marble floor tiles, for example, tumbles into the blank canvas of the living room:

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Ceiling height is an artsy-airy 14 ft. in the 23 ft.-by- 26 ft. space sited across an open-air atrium (!) from the den, a tangy-toned room delivering the home’s boldest color blast inside and out:

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The set of folding doors (above, at left) opens into the dining room, where a cluster of closets amid the lily pods slim down their double-wide doors with vertical trim:

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Sometimes, the wallpaper enthusiasm extends up and over:

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Below the kitchen’s jardinated ceiling, harlequin-set tile connects the food prep area, matching breakfast room, and back hallway:

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Pleated shades in the breakfast room prevent peeks outside the box:

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Which came first in the powder room, the bold wallpaper or the matching painted Sherle Wagner sink? Or were they in cahoots?

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Garden walls and textiles seem to have taken root in the master bedroom. The (real) natural world unfolds beyond a set of glass panel doors caught without covers:

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Foil and mirror finishes add flash to any splash in the master bathroom, which appears to be sporting a (shhhh!) skylight:

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A soaker tub, split vanities, and 2 closets are part of the room’s flash-forward setup:

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The other full bathroom, vine papered top-to-bottom (above), serves both battened-down secondary bedrooms:

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The single-story home, sized at just over 3,400 sq. ft., has a $6,750 annual maintenance fee.

Garden Variety, or Deeply Closeted?

6 Comment

  • My head hurts from all the clashing patterned wallpaper. Nice location though…

  • so, if wallpaper makes a comeback in a few decades, will everyone on swamplot make fun of my house when I put it on the market with painted walls that I never bothered to update prior to moving of to the old folks home?

  • @Old School.
    Don’t be so outre…..wallpaper is already back. :)

  • Looks like a spread from House Beautiful … I like it!

  • Too regular to be bullet holes in the atrium, but what the hell was hung there?

  • That my grandparents house. Seriously. It is. It seems so normal to me, because they built it and moved in there before I was born. Seeing it in this light is so different. I never really thought it was weird until now. The powder bathroom is amazing! I have the matching tissue holder and trash can in my home now.