Except I would go a little more Moderne in the LR, with something like Kroehler:

Amazing condition. Your choices are perfect. Wish there were photos of the home before they removed the furnishings.

I would find that house depressing no matter how it was furnished.

My husband's apartment in Sweden was all cinder block, it's hard to have an appreciation for drywall until you've tried to drill a hole into concrete :c) (oh the stories he's told me!)

I actually like this house and think it could have potential.

It doesn't look bad (no kitchen pix?) and the setting is nice. It's not slapped together like the cinderblock house my grandfather made. Someone actually got the rounded blocks for corners and stuff. Nobody bothers with those little details these days.

The painted blocks look at least as nice as the faux stone veneer and fake bricks on new houses.

The kitchen had only one not-so-good picture and it's the one thing it looks like someone updated by putting ceramic mosaic tile on the counters. You couldn't tell how it was laid out or anything, it was a sort of close up picture. However the upper cabinets over what was probably the main sink were slanted out toward the top.

The glass block corner window, is an interesting architectural detail I wouldn't have expected to find in this otherwise utilitarian house. I didn't see an interior pic of the glass block.

Here's a listing for the house: https://www.redfin.com/WA/Camas/2312-NE-Everett-St-98607/home/14654841

The kitchen is also interesting. Is it just me, or is the cabinet on the right angled? Deeper at the top than the bottom. I don't think it's just an optical illusion.

I grew up in an area with lots of modest ranch homes, many of them cinder block. As such things go, this is remarkably interesting.

Wow, those floors take me back.

My grade school opened in Sept 1951 and had floors like this in various patterns and although it's no longer a school the floors are still there.

In the early '60's at Holloman AFB all the housing had floors like that. We had a large ranch that had fabulous MCM features. Two large glass sliding doors opening to patios on opposite walls, a galley kitchen with a loooong wood accordion door that when open created a pass through from the kitchen to the living room.

I have a very happy memory of laying a beige color of this same flooring with my Dad once in the house I grew up in.

Arcy beat me to it: this reminds me very much of base housing for officers -- probably O4 and up. I'll bet the original owner/builder was military or retired military. Probably an engineer.

I'm a bit confused by this thread. Other than the floor, which would have been wood or terrazzo down here, and the heatilator, that house looks like practically every house built in S FL from 1950 to 1970, although here it would have begun life with a flat cement tile roof.

But otherwise I see nothing odd or remarkable about it, to be honest.

I think because most utilitarian concrete block houses I've seen look like crap. They were not all that well finished to begin with and they've never been well maintained, and they are usually in distressed condition with all the tile loosened up and other damage. (in the private sector anyway, I am not seeing military housing in real estate listings).

This one caught my eye because although it is exceedingly homely, it appears to be carefully constructed for what it is and it appears to be in near brand new condition despite being nearly 70 years old. (The kitchen is a disappointing exception)

It's not that homely is it? It's got weird floors for sure, and isn't fancy, but it has nice windows and high ceilings and a cheerful kitchen. Spacious, bright laundry room? I don't see anything unpleasant about it.

It IS remarkably well-preserved and that makes sense when you look at the materials used.

I think because most utilitarian concrete block houses I've seen look like crap.

Well, yes I think this is mostly true. Beginning in the late 70s in S FL people began trying to soften up the look of these houses to go along with the trend towards more ornament. But it usually didn't work too well.

Here is the house I grew up in, which was built in 1960. When we lived in it, it had a white flat cement tile roof, a carport (no garage), and the window openings didn't have the hurricane shutters to give them definition. It also didn't have a security grille on the plain wood front door, but it did have a great deal more landscaping. The breeze block screen was meant as a backdrop for a large bed of dracaena, mexican heather, etc. But it's basically just a box of CBS, although the interior was extremely well laid out, especially the kitchen:

The odd jogs in the roof line are courtesy of google maps. I have to say I had to count houses to be sure it was ours. The house used to be starker (and better maintained!), but the landscaping was much more lush. I wonder why they chopped down all the trees.

I don't think the house itself is ugly, it's just very plain, so homely in that sense. It reminds me of the Checker Marathon, which had a small market as a private car (when most were Checker cabs). This is the 1969 model. Sturdy, made to drive 24 hours a day, but not really something that was going for esthetics first.

Heh. Even the people in the ad aren't sexy.

My boss's old assistant used to drive a Checker Marathon, and she had it painted black, but it still looked like a cab. I don't remember how old hers was, but it looked a lot like your photo, although she told me it was originally an actual cab. It was huge and somewhat resembled my boss's Bentley.

Cinder blocks do remind me of 1950s school rooms, but they were also a building material of choice in Guatemala when I went there in 1978. Unfortunately, there they did not reinforce the cinder blocks with steel rebar, and so they would collapse during an earthquake, bringing down heavy roofs that killed a lot of people. I saw a lot of destroyed cinder block houses when I was there, and that was sad.

For a house in general, I think it makes more sense in a sunny and warm climate. If they have enough windows, I think they can be nice, but the proportions are very important.

Here's one in northern Mexico, hopefully away from fault line.

My house is mostly concrete block with metal lath and plaster directly on the side party walls and furring strips and plasterboard on the front and back walls. No insulation originally .

Most houses built in the late 1940's/early 1950's were expressly built to be utilitarian. Post WWII servicemen came home from the war, fell in love, got married, and started their families. My Grandfather built the suburb I grew up in after those war years. He and two friends, one the banker, and the other the lawyer started with much nicer, larger homes. When attending a Builder's conference of some importance on the east coast he was given counsel in the demographics and finances of the state of the area where he was building. They told him that he was building houses too large and too expensive for the era and area. His next houses were small ranches with no basements! The house I grew up in had a walk-out basement, huge yard, three bedrooms, one full bathroom, but no formal dining room. We could all play with décor and furniture that would look good in the house, but it would be more fun to take a poll of all of the 1950's children on GW/Houzz to see if anyone recognizes any of those iconic items. Not me. :-)

It's an interesting house, in a location that is now a bedroom community for Portland, so it will sell fast. The listing says vinyl flooring but it looks like linoleum tile to me - asbestos? Probably. And it says vinyl windows, which would be replacements - they look like aluminum to me, so could be original. I've seen that era of home with mosaic tile, so that kitchen could be original. eta, on 3rd look, I guess they are vinyl windows. Those doors are gorgeous...mahogany?

I actually like the looks of the exterior, but concrete block in the damp, cold winter PNW? Nope, not for me. I don't know how they'd keep the musty smell out.

The house "would have been" a very normal everyday home found in my neck of the woods. However, since all the flip shows on TV it's a rarity to find something like this that hasn't been cheaply muddled over lately. There is a neiborhood just south of me where a young man and his art bar and art threater was single handily... slowly shifting a transitional neighbor hood for the better. But, the flippers are out in full Force. The few interesting things these mid to mid low range 50's homes had going for them are gone. Dead. Zip. Flatlined. I actually think it's reached a point where they have destroyed the incremental progress. The hipsters are not coming in in droves. it's a shame. I have been keeping my eye on the area and it's mis-stepping.

i wonder if there will be a show in the future, something like , how HGTV and flippers destroyed whole neighborhoods.

That flooring has to be all asbestos. I'm twitching just looking at it.

Probably, but with a floor in that condition, it's not a problem. You'd get more exposure by removing it, even by proper methods.

It does overall like a fairly flame-retardant house. :)