In the early aughts, families of a certain tax bracket traded humble ranch-style one-stories for vaguely Italianate McMansions that were about 1,000 square feet too big, outfitted with statues, stone, and archways flanked by structurally useless pillars. ‘Tuscan revival,’ we recall.
The interior trend sounds grand, but compared to today’s sleeker, increasingly soulless wealth codes, it oozed an unapologetic opulence that, somehow, felt warmer. Living rooms beckoned with aged wood, terracotta, and acres of button-tufted brown leather. Kitchens were sprawling, anchored by self-sustaining salt-and-pepper granite islands where well-to-do teens gathered after school, blissfully pre-social media, under the amber glow of an oversized, non-LED forged iron chandelier. Subtle, it was not. But it worked.
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