I usually really love the O'Shea homes, but from a decor standpoint, that house was a bit of a cold mess once you got out of the lovely kitchen. (Backsplash was awesome too, IMO.) Or at least what you could see of it since the combination of low wattage light bulbs and walls painted black weren't exactly great for visibility. And then they staged with, IIRC fairly dark linens in the bedrooms to contribute to the kind of Southern gothic gloom. And it was like they realized they had taken it a little bit too edgy at the end. (I couldn't stop cracking up at the charging rhino oil painting right across from the bed in the master bedroom, and was puzzled by the flashing wall light sculpture in the designated sullen teenager suite.) But instead of putting in better light bulbs, which would have helped, they put the $%*! scented vanilla candles in every room to try to soften it up and make people think 'cookies' instead of 'rock concert afterparty avec groupies', and the perfesser, who is sensitive to such things, had to bail on me early to get some fresh air.
Darn it, I wanted to really like this one because the builder usually does such wonderful and interesting things, and they did such a nice job of keeping the trees in front of the house, but it just didn't work for me.
But at least it didn't hit total hot mess threshold like the one on the bay in Destin did. 12 different bad black columns in the living-dining area alone, the strange shower on the second floor where there was no way not to flash passing boaters, the LED fireplace in the master bathroom... Mattie Kelly needs to get her incorporeal ass out of the adjoining masoleum and haunt their rears for not only turning out what was supposed to be a nature preserve into a subdivision, but for then putting up something so tacky on top of it all. (And yes, that one generated our and probably only first midget joke of this year's Parade. The other homes this year are far too tasteful for that.)
And less you think I'm a total jealous grump about these kinds of thing, I'll say that I loved this year's Watercolor house. But then I don't thing I've ever disliked a house I've seen out there- their building standards require so many fussy details that other developments don't. (and consequently builders don't include when they build the 'same' house elsewhere.)