#bizarre decor

Attic Design & Decor, 1968

This decorated home in San Diego, California appears to have 4 interconnected themes: Tributes to NASA, the Pirates of the Caribbean, veterans, and the San Diego Padres baseball team (At least that’s what I think it is). There’s a nod to NASA, as they’re flying the flag proudly.

Here it says Pirates of the Caribbean, but I only see a carousel scene. 

Gorilla with wings in his granny pj’s and an old flower pot for a fez. The doll is holding a flag and a mallet (WTH does that mean?). 

The baseball player is wielding a stick, which probably represents a bat?

This display in the trees and on the ground looks like a Tribute to both the Pirates of the Caribbean and the San Diego Padres. 

At another Pirate display, there’s a “thank you for your service” sign and the pirates are saluting. Notice the “Trespassers Die!” sign, also. 

On the garage roof is a lioness and a frog or gnome (?) riding a tiny horse. 

Here, 2 blue aliens and a gray baby traveled all the way here to see the Padres play. A lot going on, here.

I have never seen an apt. like Valentine’s. I don’t even know what to call it- is it Goth? Anyway, Valentine says she’s livin’ the dream. 

She left a journalism career to open a bar called “Elvis and I,” as a tribute to her favorite singer.

Her dark little apartment, as she describes it, is a temple of self-expression that connects death, kitsch and Christianity and wraps them in dark Gothic packaging.

Skulls and skeletons have always fascinated her and she collects them. She also has some cool thrift shop pieces of furniture.

The kitchen has interesting cabinets- they look like spray-painted mid-century modern. I’ve never seen a kitchen like this.

Valentine stores not only death in the apartment, but also a considerable amount of clothing and shoes. She loves clothes and collects them, too.

Her bedroom has a zebra motif and is filled with lots of bizarre things. 

I wonder where she finds some of this stuff. 

And, finally, the bathroom. I could never understand why some people put religious things in the bathroom.