Daily News | Preserving the gloriously kitschy home stylings of bygone eras, one Instagram post at a time
When Sue Liedke began house hunting in South Philadelphia in 2019, she was drawn to homes that seemed frozen in time, portals to a fabulously kitschy past.
where renovated rowhouses regularly sell for $500,000 or far more, according to neighborhood Realtors. At the open houses she visited, Liedke photographed the fading touches real estate agents often tried to brush past: a buttercup-yellow bathroom. A child’s bedroom adorned with a wall-sized mural of the planet Saturn. Shower doors etched with mermaids.Tulip swag lamps, she wrote, were “a moment of perfection in this imperfect world.” A peachy-pink Bella Vista home was where you could live “out your Wes Anderson dreams in peace.
“It’s a mix of familiarity and nostalgia,” Liedke said. “Even if you didn’t grow up here, it feels like someone’s grandmother’s house, in a good way.” A proud longshoreman, her father, Louis Saulin, had decorated a room with harpoons and oars, until it came to look like a “nautical dream cave,” Terri Saulin said.“It made me feel really nostalgic,” she said. “I looked at all the other photos and thought, ‘Oh, God, all these people lived wonderful, kooky lives in these houses.’ It just filled me with sweetness and love for the city and South Philly.
On a recent night, she set out to tour two vintage basement bars. At her first stop, Anthony Bottos, 33, who runs a physical training business in Old City, and his wife, Meredith Bottos, 32, a chemical engineer, were eager to show off the bar that came with the Juniper Street home they bought two years ago.
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