That's shockingly awful.@tommyhuerter Money and taste don’t always go hand in hand #interiordesign #homedecor #realestate ♬ original sound - Tommy Landen Huerter
Looking expensive... such a sad idea.
March 11, 2026
"Today's ultra-wealthy are not chic at all..."
Says Tommy Huerter on TikTok, looking at Mark Zuckerberg's new house, which is, he says, best described as "luxury slop." It looks like a hotel, and "there's no real design direction other than make this look expensive."
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Is worth saying twice
The wealthy have shit taste
Cause they focus on price
This does not look like a home, does not look like a place to rasie a family.
If you are going to criticism someone for poor design shouldn’t you put some effort into the design of your video?
Tommy Huerter doesn't have to live there, right?
Problem solved.
One more point. Isn’t Zuckerberg the guy who just married the woman who looks like a cheap hooker? Why would we expect his home to look classy when he clearly values cheap?
Tech dudes think like tech dudes (i.e., autistic and nerdy), not like gay designers or fashion divas. There is no accounting for taste in homes or spouses.
Bill Gates built a house with a underground basketball court that converted into a garage for his car collection. Upon trying to raise a family there, they complained about the long walkways between rooms -- too big.
Human body shapes and sizes are not correlated with wealth. Ego showplaces are.
I think it maybe needs a ballroom.
The rooms he showed look like the sets of rich peoples' homes in old movies.
Not impressed with Tommy nor his presentation.
Mar-a-Lago -- now there's some class!
Who is the dope that made the video? I didn't watch it, because he's not worth my attention, just another click-farmer. I've never heard of him, so he can't be that famous. I've heard of Zuckerberg before, though. He doesn't get my attention, either. I suspect he won't be spending much time in Florida, if he owns most of a Hawaiian island.
Trump would like it but probably feels it could be improved by adding more Gold.
So what is the counterpart to this? That one home Brad Pritt bought several years ago that Althouse posted about here?
Bezos married the boob lady. Zuck married a nice looking woman of chinese ancestry. Zuck learned mandarin to impress Grandma…
Wish a zillionaire could be happy with a classy 5 million dollar Tudor.
I wouldn’t make too much of his taste. It’s a place to land for a California refugee. Bet they don’t stay there…
It sounds like Zukabug bought the place unfinished. How far along was it at the time? How much input did Zukabug have to the design?
Usually the wife makes most design decisions when it comes to the home. Did Priscilla Chan squeal with delight? If so, then it's a great design.
How many homes has this guy designed? I'm sure there is someone out there that could garner clicks by saying how wonderful it is too. If nobody wants it, I take it. I think it's beautiful.
Scott Adams once gave a tour of his house. It was so much smaller than this - but still felt too big. Too big and sterile as well.
I don't like that so many of the tech giants and other industry giants have moved to Florida, albeit all on the Southeast Coastal area. Most of these guys are the same ones that funded the policies that killed California. And now that California is toxic to live in or do business in, they've moved here?
Not sure I want that here. It's enough that we have to contend with masses from New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maryland moving here. In time, Florida will turn blue, Michigan will have turned red, and we'll have to go house hunting back up north again.
I'm not ready for this.
Not very homey, but I disagree with him on the star ceiling in the home theater. That's pretty cool.
If I had stupid amounts of money, my house would be in two parts--the part where my family lives and the part where I entertain. So it would be comfortable and right-sized, but someone could also make a video just like this about it.
Better Florida than Austin, Temujin.
On X today, someone posted a photo of Elon's kitchen in Texas, allegedly. Very plain, Ikea-grade.
If I wasn't so cheap, my house would look like much more like that, and I'd have people to keep it that way. Someone who considers me old and in the way will get that opportunity, but I'm not capable of being that person. I actually wish I was.
"If you are going to criticism someone for poor design shouldn’t you put some effort into the design of your video?"
What he's doing is the opposite of looking expensive: It looks cheap. And it is cheap.
I'm going to assume Zuckerberg is building a private hotel for his guests. Who wouldn't go and populate the place for him? Reminds me of what Epstein did (not counting the criminal part).
What does real elegance and style look like? I'm sure Jill Biden had a designer or many of them to help her at the White House but I thought it was all expensively tacky. She lacked something which Melania Trump has. I guess the word is style" but I think we've forgotten what that really is. "Melania," which is on Amazon Prime right now shows what that word really can mean. Maybe the guys wouldn't care but I think most women would find the whole thing fascinatng. What gives it some depth is the time period which is the twenty days before Trump's second inauguration. There is the sense of danger from the TDSers. There is a visit from an Israeli hostage, Mrs Seigel, whose husband, at that time, was still being held. (Trump got him back after the ceasefire.) There is the sense that this beautiful, wealthy, stylish woman has to go forward into a second term, realizing, this time, that she will encounter the most vicious, despicable, treacherous, lying group ever to crawl like slugs across American politics and she will be one of their targets. Yet she holds on and creates something beautiful, not the noisy, confused filth which is the style of the left.
The entryway is ugly. The lighting from the floor is overdone, but the aquarium is cool. And so is the theater
And btw, Trump has overdone the Oval Office. The perfect amount of gold leaf accents was about 6 months ago
We shouldn't expect elegance from the nouveau riche.
Thing about bing that bothers
I don’t like the curved staircase. And grand entry hall . Unless they throw grand sound of music type ball parties. I doubt.
The thing about the obscenely wealthy that bothers me is their apparent lack of authentic charitable giving.
Enjoy your vast riches … but come on.
I have never and will never criticize someone for not being "chic". I don't really even know what it is, but somehow I know I don't need it. Some apparently do, and they can horde it all with my blessing. If I have any, you are welcome to it. I don't know if you will need a truck to carry it, or if a Ziploc bag will do.
Zuckerberg makes my skin crawl.
Temujin makes a good point. These CA tech giants all knuckled under to the corrupt democrats in every direction. Even pouring money into them.. obeying their diktats. The super wealthy can escape their own ruinous wake… while the rest of us live with the consequences.
Prior to mainstream Woke politics (circa 2015 with Ghostbuster's remake), the tech culture was mainly apolitical and libertarian. I take the acceptance of blue politics as a function of operating out of blue California and having to recruit from the regional employee pool.
Following Bill Gates in the 1990s, tech billionaire politics is mainly an anti-trust defense strategy. When they publicly move from CA it's a very strong statement against CA. The risk of staying is greater than the risk of moving, even though they've got mega-$$$$ tied up in CA.
I thought this one was quite nice and fairly modest
https://www.google.com/search?q=palacio+valladolid&oq=palacio+valladolid&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCQgAEEUYORiABDIICAEQABgWGB4yCAgCEAAYFhgeMggIAxAAGBYYHjIICAQQABgWGB4yCAgFEAAYFhgeMggIBhAAGBYYHjIICAcQABgWGB4yCAgIEAAYFhgeMggICRAAGBYYHjIICAoQABgWGB4yCggLEAAYChgWGB4yCAgMEAAYFhgeMggIDRAAGBYYHjIICA4QABgWGB7SAQkxMDA3OGowajeoAhSwAgHxBcEAPVfx3r4F&client=tablet-android-samsung-ss&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#vhid=58~/g/121dpl3b&vssid=ivPaFe&lpg=cid:CgIgAQ%3D%3D
It’s not my cup of tea, but I’m glad he employed lots of people and factories to make it happen.
For sale now in Sevilla, 4.5 M Euros
https://www.idealista.com/en/inmueble/110015291/
That place is no surprise to anyone who has toured Facebook HQ in Silly Valley.
What is chic today is tacky tomorrow.
A couple of years ago I joked that in 2030 my wife and I could have a nice retirement gig putting back in all the walls that were ripped out to make "open floorplans" and scaling back the "huge islands" that have been the go-tos for all the home improvement shows for the past 8 years.
Unfortunately 2030 looks like it will be too late, since the great re-partitioning seems to have begun already.
It's a mystery to my why there are no architects / builders getting rich as hell building brand-new Second Empire or Queen Anne houses with contemporary materials, floorplans, systems, and amenities.
It is an absolute dogma among architects that you can't "go back" to the forms that people love but instead must make things new even if the new is ugly and functions poorly (see 75% of the buildings put up on college campuses in the past 20 years).
The firm that breaks the dogma will be utterly ostracized by the architecture profession but probably won't notice it because they'll be too busy counting their money.
What Trump likes is not particularly to my taste, but I love his willingness to defy the groupthink and build what he likes and, more importantly, to return to traditions that most people prefer.
There's an Emperor's New Clothes preference cascade waiting to happen in relation to architecture: it's another case of an 80/20 or 90/10 issue in which the corrupt grant-economy has enabled a small minority has managed to impose their groupthink-derived abstractions upon the majority.
Same could be said of the trophy wives. You seen Bezos’? She’s a McMansion without the charm.
Buwaya, I have just always liked the placename Valladolid. I could walk around all day repeating it like Zippy or a Minion. Valladolid! Valladolid! CC, JSM
Why would anyone assume Zuckerberg or any tech zillionaire has "Taste"? Just because you're smart, unethical, and lucky enough to get rich, doesn't mean you can appreciate the finer things in life or have any "taste".
I think all this worship of billionaires is insane. We need to go back to the era where we had the greatest growth, 1935-1975 and jack up the top income tax rate (including capital gains) to 50 percent. It used to 90 percent, btw.
Bill, Republic of Texas said...
"One more point. Isn’t Zuckerberg the guy who just married the woman who looks like a cheap hooker? "
I think you're thinking of Jeff Bezos. Zuckerberg is married to Priscilla Chan, who looks rather normal.
Valladolid is way off the beaten track for tourists, but its got lots of fascinating things, your usual lot of palaces, cathedrals, monasteries, and bits and pieces of the medieval world, lots of nice gargoyles. The profusion of lions is notable, it is their thing. You can certainly spend a few days there.
This, for instance, is quite spectacular inside.
I dont think even Zuckerberg has the money to get stone carved to this degree.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colegio_de_San_Gregorio
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fvalladolidinquieta.es%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F08%2FMG_9606.jpg&tbnid=Hx5UZC-XUOw1AM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fvalladolidinquieta.es%2Fmuseo-nacional-de-escultura-valladolid%2F&docid=to9j59QJRs9GrM&w=1617&h=1070&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F0&kgs=b6307c23a0b1f968#sv=CAMSXhoyKhBlLUh4NVVaQy1YVU93MUFNMg5IeDVVWkMtWFVPdzFBTToOdG85ajU5UUpSczlHck0gBCokCg5DbVRGWl90aWhKbXgtTRIQZS1IeDVVWkMtWFVPdzFBTRgAMAEYByCrqffbDzABSggQAhgBIAIoAQ
Their yachts are equally ridiculous. I can't imagine they spend much time on them. It's a different kind of impoverishment.
"Looking expensive... such a sad idea."
Well, evidently the guy paying for it disagrees. Here as elsewhere, one size does not fit all. And what's with all the judgment-y 'we're so much better than the trashy rich guy'? Are you really?
$178,000,000!
Judge Engoron says it's worth tree fiddy.
If you are true Hudson Valley Gilder Van Voorhees VII rich it’s just threadbare and dog hair. Scratches, chips, and a 600 lb Sterling Silver tea service on wheels.
Tech bro rich requires colored dinner jackets and disco lighting.
…also keep in mind they aren’t just nouveau rich, they’re nerds. One tech bro client had a big smelly guinea pig habitat running all over the house…
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Bob Boyd had same take as me.
Looks like more like an expensive hooker to me.
Where do you do your hooker shopping? A friend wants to know.
Were the ultra-wealthy ever really chic? They could pay architects, decorators, designers, and stylists to take care of that. Some of the wives were chic. The men -- not so much.
Bezos is the one Bill was thinking of. Zuck is the one whose wife was described as a "Harvard 6."
If I had generational wealth I would make my walls of sawn and polished stone slabs from a mine with visible veins of gold latticing the matrix rock.
I might have to buy it in Australia though, somewhere around Ballarat.
Smaller scale, but check out some of the homes of pro athletes. Their pitiable $25-40 mil a year ain't Zuch bucks, but it can buy a lot of tacky. And leave a guy who earned $200,000,000+ in his career dead broke.
What is chic today is tacky tomorrow.
I built a house twenty years ago for which my wife insisted on black granite and Brazilian cherrywood. We hadn't been in it ten years when she wanted to replace the countertops with white quartz and paint the beautiful cabinetry white. I refused.
We built another house starting three years ago and she got the white kitchen she wanted, complete with an expensive French range and oven of white enamel and brass, but now I'm hearing complaints it looks like every other kitchen on the television remodeling shows. No doubt five years from now it will be back to black granite and cherrywood, or maybe it will be avocado and burnt orange like the 70's, or robin's egg blue like the 50's, or stainless steel and black lacquer and smoked glass like the 90's, or who knows what. I don't care. I'm not changing anything.
She seems not to understand that the "classic" faux French country house vibe she wanted only exists because well-to-do people in the French countryside built it and didn't change anything about it for a hundred and fifty years.
I would happily live in the same house for the rest of my life and not change so much as a rug or chair. Chasing trends in home decor is one of the dumbest wastes of money I can possibly imagine.
If I had stupid amounts of money, my house would be in two parts--the part where my family lives and the part where I entertain.
I would have two kitchens. One out front, all for show, with many picturesque kitchen utensils, copper pots, and crockery on display, but not a single one of them that my wife would allow to be used for actually cooking or eating anything. And her French white enamel and brass range that gives her the vapors every time a pot boils over on a burner.
Then a massive real kitchen in back, with tile floors that can be hosed or mopped into a floor drain in the middle of the room, stainless work tables and sinks, a big range and oven that actually can heat more than two burners at a time and does not need fastidious cleaning after every meal, and every implement bought used from a restaurant supply house and kept readily at hand on magnetic racks. Plus a food processer, blender, mixer, and big cutting boards that live on the countertops and do not have to be carefully stowed away after every meal, lest a visitor find out that we actually use electrical appliances to cook with and we are shamed in the eyes of the whole neighborhood.
And leave a guy who earned $200,000,000+ in his career dead broke.
I've read that 60% of NFL and NBA players file for bankruptcy within 10 years of retirement. At least the lavish homes retain some inherent value. I think much of the financial black hole they fall into is due more to the the entourages of hangers-on they accumulate. Worthless childhood friends and leeching cousins and deadbeat brothers-in-law and thuggish bodyguards and that guy who is kept on the payroll to procure prostitutes and cocaine.
I would have two kitchens. One out front, all for show
This is expected in luxury homes now. The second one is called the chef's kitchen. I've been enjoying realtor Arvin Haddad's humorous critiques of fancy house tours (for sale) on his youtube channel.
It’s not about the design or anything other than ‘keeping score’. Mine is bigger than yours.
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