Critics bashed the decor of Bethenny Frankel’s Florida home. Her clapback
If you’re at all familiar with Bethenny Frankel, you know that if you come for her, she’ll bite back 10 times harder.
Case in point: Trolls made the mistake of criticizing her Boca Raton home that was recently featured in Architectural Digest.
The magazine teased the article featuring pictures from the spread, with the caption, “In Florida, she finds calm in spareness, clean lines, and a neutral palette.”
Commenters went to town on the post, griping about the plain decor accented by retro chevron walls, a coffee table that resembled a “croissant” and faux-fur upholstery. Adjectives ranged from “underwhelming,” and “generic” to “gross.”
“Not even bad taste, just an absence of taste.”
“Is this an early April Fool’s joke?”
“This looks like it could be an Airbnb outside of Vegas.”
So, Frankel, who can dish it out and take it like the best of them, raced to her own Instagram to clap back.
“Let me give you a little education on architecture, on real estate and on business,” Frankel began Monday’s video. “I design homes with a very specific intention: as an investment. Now I love to live there and then make them exactly what I want them to be, but they’re designed as investments.”
Frankel went on to reveal how much she’d made from flips in the last five years or so, including places in Tribeca, the Hamptons and Greenwich, Connecticut.
As for the five-bedroom home, Frankel explains she got a great deal on it, paying $4.2 million, about a $1 million discount because it was going into foreclosure. The real estate investor anticipates the split-level crib will be worth almost double when she decides to sell it in three years when her daughter Bryn goes to college.
As for the lack of color and much critiqued neutral tones? 100 percent intentional. The “Real Housewives of NYC” alum says the reason she went with a muted canvas was so potential buyers can see their own vision there.
“I’m not the one who’s going to like, get bone from China and inlay it onto my floor,” the 55-year-old said. “I’m not that b--ch.”
Frankel ends the video with her signature sarcasm:
“So, AD, thank you for featuring me,” she sniped. “And everybody else, when I make my $3 million on this house, maybe I’ll invite you for a latte.”
