Ugliest Wallpaper Award at 33 Fifth Avenue #12A

That's really a shame. Usually you can guess the age of the owner by the wallpaper. Best of luck to the broker on this one.

I don't know, add a couple big wooden tikis and some Martin Denny music and it's a swingin' entryway.

Apparently no one told Ogden about the importance of "staging" apartments ...

Matt -- it looks staged to me. Just curious what you mean? It could be renovated sure, but what's there is neatly presented. Do you mean refurnish the whole place? Looks like the owners actually live there.

West34: I mean remove any strong design elements that might immediately turn people off. Like loud, ugly wallpaper.

"Apparently no one told Ogden about the importance of "staging" apartments"

I would imagine that Ogden explained it to the buyer and left the converstaiton when his face turned blue. For all we know, he might have conviced them to get rid of about 12 pieces of furniture. IMO and I lay a bet on it.

> all those who posted above, can you put pictures of YOUR apartments on this thread so the rest of us can get an idea of your various taste levels (and maybe get a good laugh at the kettle calling the pot black?

A photograph is worth 1000 words but not every word.
Cant completely judge without a live view.
(I would however remove that rug and let that herringbone breathe.)

Shoot me, but i like the wallpaper. It's bold, but used on a fairly small space. I may not have chosen it, but i don't think it's that strange that you can't see the forest for the tree.

I like the wallpaper in the hallway - not there, maybe but it's not ugly. Just doesn't work for the space.

Oh, and A & B make a nice combo. Reasonable floorplan & combined maintenance.

Sexy place
Great place to do a Bond girl
Careful not to break her hip

I also like the wallpaper in the hallway. But of course my tastes differ - I'm more likely to not mind if there's a window in the shower, vs. columbiacounty.

>Apparently no one told Ogden about the importance of "staging" apartments ...

Ogden had to attend two schools to earn 1 degree: "Ogden attended Boston University and Pratt Institute, earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art. "
if you assume that the bachelor is posessive of the degree in fine arts.

I like the wallpaper in the living room, if it did not cover all walls.

300, I'll give you that. It IS nice paper, but only for an accent. Or maybe on the bottom half of the walls, under a chair rail. Doing all the walls floor to ceiling feels coffin-like.

Actually, it looks like some kind of silk type wall covering, which is nice. The problem is lack of interet of anything else on the walls , not many other decorative accents, colors.

" Although raised in Antigua, Bermuda and the Far Hills / Bernardsville area of Somerset County in New Jersey, Ogden has lived in Manhattan for his entire adult life."

yes. poor, sad ogden.

i like that place. real people with interesting taste live there. but seriously, f*ck ogden for not making them mount that tv and doing the cords through a hole in the wall. who still does that???

Ogden is hot.

And, he is very well-mannered, in person.

Ogden's big listing also has some knockout wallpaper while we're on the topic
http://www.bhsusa.com/manhattan/midtown-west/160-central-park-south/condo/1548950#

I've seen worse -- but so what? No one who's serious about buying an apartment will care about the wallpaper.

the wallpaper is pretty and the apartment looks great