L@@K! Photos from Real Estate Listings (see remarks)

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I know what you're thinking: House like this is going to look like a steak house on the inside, right?

http://i.imgur.com/KwizWJz.jpg

You would be absolutely correct.

pplains, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 02:51 (nine years ago) link

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Nothing puts me more in my comfort zone than sitting on this folding chair, working at my awkward desk, breathing in fumes from the clothes dyer on a crisp winter's night.

pplains, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 02:52 (nine years ago) link

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"Get the fuck out of here, this used to be the garage?"

pplains, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 02:57 (nine years ago) link

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"So hows long it been since you got made? Huh? Oh no..."

pplains, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 02:57 (nine years ago) link

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Now let's see, 'When You Can't See God's Hand, Trust –––" WHA AAAAAHH! HOLY FUCK MY LEG!"

pplains, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 02:57 (nine years ago) link

I should post some from my area. The latest in Russian tryhard decor.

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 03:48 (nine years ago) link

Please do. This is an Open House.

pplains, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 04:37 (nine years ago) link

Who puts slogans on their wall like that? It looks like a nursing home.

I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 04:48 (nine years ago) link

Also, I love this shit so much. Gotta go find some corkers.

I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 04:48 (nine years ago) link

when we were househunting we looked at a place that was just like that converted garage, it was like there had been a terrible murder & they had just done a fly by night carpet/paint job.

oh and: no acoustics. completely dead sound. creeeeeeeepy as fuck.

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 06:09 (nine years ago) link

There were a lot more fish in that barrel than I imagined last night when I started clicking around the local realtors map.

pplains, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 14:17 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/lGxucgj.jpg

FOR SALE: The slightly worn set used by the short-lived cooking show "Food Times".

pplains, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link

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"Oh, don't mind me here, Irvin. You just go ahead and watch your football game."

pplains, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link

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"I did it! I meditated and travelled back to 1974 to meet my true love!"

sees remote control on coffee table

"Nooooooooooo!!!"

pplains, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link

http://photos1.zillowstatic.com/p_f/IS1fcmx9hqs3b81000000000.jpg

After a long day at the office, I like to kick off my flip flops, snuggle up under a sleeping bag in my favorite lawn chair, and listen to a CD."

how's life, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 15:48 (nine years ago) link

Whoops. Don't forget to turn on the spotlights.

pplains, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link

It's hard to reach the light switch when the earth is tilting like that.

how's life, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link

lol the harp photo

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link

I don't know if this goes here or on the your terrible ideas thread.

But browsing through the Memphis listings, decided there really should be an Eggleston Realty Co.

http://i.imgur.com/8em8sM5.jpg

pplains, Thursday, 17 December 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link

"It's a fixer-upper, but you do get free Web access."

http://i.imgur.com/EDyjtXF.jpg

pplains, Thursday, 17 December 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link

"This property's great, I just have to talk to my husband about – wait, is that someone playing a Peter Gabriel song?"

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pplains, Thursday, 17 December 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link

"Just picture relaxing in your office, listening to the dryer tumble and smelling its fabric softener scented fumes. Can't picture it? Well, here..."

http://i.imgur.com/voX5sp4.jpg

pplains, Thursday, 17 December 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link

Who puts slogans on their wall like that? It looks like a nursing home.

― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 04:48 (Yesterday) Permalink

House painters and interior design mags convince people to do all kinds of stupid shit, often because it costs more and/or will seem tired in a few years. Painters convinced us to do a stupid-looking two-tone thing in our eat-in kitchen that I really regret. Walls really don't need to be two colors.

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 17 December 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link

The place in that pic costs $200 a week people. Melbourne is an expensive hell.

I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Thursday, 17 December 2015 22:44 (nine years ago) link

What is that room? And down here, what's going on with the mirrored top in front of the mirror with the ... air hockey puck on it?

http://i.imgur.com/72Mf62F.jpg

pplains, Friday, 18 December 2015 01:26 (nine years ago) link

Anyway. Melbourne might be expensive, but blue paint sure ain't.

pplains, Friday, 18 December 2015 01:30 (nine years ago) link

Ha, right? I think thats just a living room, with a laundry off it because that makes sense? Actually, tbf the ad was for a bungalow behind a house, so its probably only 2 rooms all told.

I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Friday, 18 December 2015 02:54 (nine years ago) link

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They'll give you 15, but you'll only need five!

pplains, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 03:04 (nine years ago) link

Ugh I fucking hate how narrow OFI windows are. And at such useless times, too, who has time to get off work and make to an opening at 5 if they work til 5.

I miss the days when you could just walk into an agents, pick up the keys for a bunch of properties and leave a fiddy for each one in deposit.

I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 03:15 (nine years ago) link

I've tried to understand what's going on with Australian real estate, but it's hopeless.

For example, in the States, you hold an auction only if it's a foreclosure or it's a shitty property that no one wants. Apparently down there, it's the opposite - you take the photos and show your home, then wait for the big auction day where you'll likely get more than you asked for.

(Well, in Sydney, at least.)

pplains, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 03:22 (nine years ago) link

Yeah sale by auction is something that crept in maybe 15-20 years back and seems ubiquitous now. And its precisely so they can make as much money as possible (a la ebay auctions I guess). I've been priced completely out of home ownership because I need $80k just for the *downpayment* and I just cannot get that sort of money together. Its insane.

I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 05:07 (nine years ago) link

yes they listed with swastika graffiti intact http://www.movoto.com/quilcene-wa/411-sea-home-rd-quilcene-wa-98376-501_320196/
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alomar lines, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 05:15 (nine years ago) link

Geez.

I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 05:17 (nine years ago) link

I was thinking thats a lot of money for a shitshack but its on 7 acres of waterfront, that'd go for like 3 jillion here :(

I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 05:18 (nine years ago) link

"Yah, you can look at it that way, but didja know that in some cultures, it's a symbol of luck?"

pplains, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 05:32 (nine years ago) link

its a banksy

am0n, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link

three months pass...

I feel IA at the shape of the living room in this luxury condo in my neighborhood that also sells for nearly 3x the price of a nearly equivalent co-op apartment.

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human life won't become a cat (man alive), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 15:34 (eight years ago) link

You don't like that it ends at a point?

Look! You get that nifty little reading nook because of it. If it was flat, the nook would directly face the rest of the room.

pplains, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:06 (eight years ago) link

IDK why it annoys me so much, partly just because it's so narrow compared to typical apartments in my neighborhood, which are mostly very spacious due to having been built in the 40s/50s. The point is awkward to me though, like it doesn't really look comfy as a nook, but it also doesn't interact with the rest of the room.

human life won't become a cat (man alive), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:09 (eight years ago) link

but it also doesn't interact with the rest of the room.

http://i.imgur.com/MobN7iy.jpg

Could that be the point?

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It does look narrow, but hey, isn't that life in the big city?

pplains, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:27 (eight years ago) link

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"Can I get you anything? Perhaps some Pringles?"

pplains, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:32 (eight years ago) link

xp, IDK it just looks like an awkward layout resulting from an awkwardly shaped building resulting from an effort to put the maximum # of apartments on an awkwardly shaped lot to me. And it's absurdly expensive for the area, although the terrace has a "bar pergola."

human life won't become a cat (man alive), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:33 (eight years ago) link

three weeks pass...

http://i.imgur.com/NmT5hLR.jpg

pplains, Friday, 29 April 2016 02:36 (eight years ago) link

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"You may think that sign is corny, but you should've read what the original one said."

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- "Hey, Judy! Can you get me another beer?"

- "Sorry! I can't hear you! I'm in the kitchen!"

http://i.imgur.com/NJlddBA.jpg

- "I can't see very well in here. Does that say 'Haunted'?"

- "No, of course not. That would be silly. It says 'Wanted'."

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"Well let me ask you something else: Are you a fan of Duke basketball? How about Israel?"

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Hmm. Maybe there's good reason why it's the loneliest number.

pplains, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 15:04 (eight years ago) link

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"Pressure-washer gathering dust? Have we got the house for you!"

how's life, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 15:11 (eight years ago) link

That one hits a little too close to home.

pplains, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link

As in, that is my home - how did you find it.

pplains, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link

i am truley sorry for your lots

how's life, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link

i didn't notice at first, it was just little buckets of water each time, but then I went for a dive and found out the hard way there was no pool left

earosmith (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 August 2023 17:43 (one year ago) link

Atlas and his Four Horsemen struke again

actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 21 August 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link

is this house in lino lakes?

ꙮ (map), Monday, 21 August 2023 17:58 (one year ago) link

Reliquary of Tone

actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 21 August 2023 19:11 (one year ago) link

three weeks pass...

I just need to make a new thread devoted to television sets in the wrong places.

https://i.imgur.com/enMZIU0.png

Bad enough that the set in the center is not just behind the door, but also appearing to stick out further than the stopper, but also that there's another television set located six feet away.

Anyway. Feel free to say hi to Lou and Kenny while you're here.

pplains, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 19:58 (one year ago) link

two weeks pass...

Rare example of getting married AND keeping your beer sign.

https://i.imgur.com/OWc1qI8.png

pplains, Thursday, 28 September 2023 21:07 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/140779604#/?channel=RES_BUY

koogs, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 14:51 (one year ago) link

OK wow

mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 15:09 (one year ago) link

reminds me of the “womb chairs” they had at my undergraduate institution

butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 20:59 (one year ago) link

I love those kind of slideshows.

Ok? Ok? Ok? Ok? Ok? Ok? Um. What? Wait. Ok? What? WHAT?

pplains, Thursday, 9 November 2023 03:20 (one year ago) link

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I too fight this battle, but you can't surrender to your pets like this.

pplains, Monday, 13 November 2023 21:39 (one year ago) link

Bet that dude's always singing "I Talk to the Wind" in the shower, amirite.

pplains, Monday, 13 November 2023 21:42 (one year ago) link

eight months pass...

Scrolling through this listing, seeing this one, thinking, "ha, yeah, a little cozy, but I bet the 14-year-old would be right at home here."

https://i.imgur.com/fgyqBZV.png

But then I come around the corner and hit this one. Suddenly, a theme emerges.

https://i.imgur.com/xtluOfu.png

What in the fuck is happening here? Is the bed really bolted to two walls and hung from the ceiling by a chain? That's it, even for a kid?

And they sell ladders that, you know, reach the top bunk. Trying to picture how this all works without knocking holes into the wall.

Haven't even mentioned the swing yet.

pplains, Thursday, 18 July 2024 21:46 (six months ago) link

"Be the girl who decided to GO FOR IT" — WHAM!

pplains, Thursday, 18 July 2024 21:46 (six months ago) link

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Here's another view of the room, but I'm telling you, we get more questions than answers from it.

Maybe she doesn't even use the ladder? Just a swing and a jump each night?

pplains, Thursday, 18 July 2024 21:47 (six months ago) link

And yes, there is a third child.

https://i.imgur.com/KPKXDzr.png

This one may be the youngest, but already, she's mastered the art of the long jump and doesn't even need a stupid ladder.

pplains, Thursday, 18 July 2024 21:48 (six months ago) link

How did they find a solid beam that was straight up from the corners like that?

pplains, Thursday, 18 July 2024 21:49 (six months ago) link

I bet they didn’t

Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 18 July 2024 23:19 (six months ago) link

in the uk attic joists are 400mm apart, about 16 inches. you might get lucky.

koogs, Friday, 19 July 2024 03:44 (six months ago) link

I'm no engineer, but I kinda feel like that support chain from the ceiling ain't doing shit

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 19 July 2024 04:48 (six months ago) link

That set up is probably fine if you have the platform nailed to each of the studs and the chain ties into a ceiling joist.

il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 19 July 2024 11:48 (six months ago) link

=I'm sure there is a structurally sound way to do it. But also like why? And why no rails and why not a ladder that attaches to the bed?

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 19 July 2024 13:52 (six months ago) link

Yeah, the ladder thing is very weird.

il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 19 July 2024 14:53 (six months ago) link

Should be a trebuchet to launch the kids into the bed.

il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 19 July 2024 14:53 (six months ago) link

suppose the tour is confusing until you reach the garage to see a giant lever below the sign "FLOOR VOLTAGE" with "0V" and "20,000 V" at each end

145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 19 July 2024 18:08 (six months ago) link

There's just a little part of me that sees that and wonders "Do you like your kids?"

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 19 July 2024 20:03 (six months ago) link

After awhile, I decided that the kids must sleep on the floor.

pplains, Friday, 19 July 2024 20:20 (six months ago) link

My kids would happily sleep on the floor if that meant they never had to make their bed. These rooms are perfect for them.

Cow_Art, Friday, 19 July 2024 20:32 (six months ago) link

three months pass...

I'm going to sound like a snob. I don't mean to be elitist. Hell, I'm not even that much of a sports fan anymore.

pplains, Tuesday, 29 October 2024 19:56 (two months ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/QcSACLU.png

But go inside. Just go inside and watch the game from your living room. You're embarrassing yourself, and you're embarrassing the neighborhood.

pplains, Tuesday, 29 October 2024 19:56 (two months ago) link

I'm going to assume this setup has something to do with the smoker in the corner.

il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 29 October 2024 20:36 (two months ago) link

The surprise is *not* that it’s C$1.5 mil in Halifax (do fishermen make that much)?

Booger Swamp Road (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 14:58 (two months ago) link

> International design touches such as Mexican kitchen tiles, Italian marble in a Roman-style bathroom with “Sicis” mosaics, and Spanish swan faucets elevate this home’s character.

description is missing a few details...

koogs, Tuesday, 12 November 2024 15:22 (two months ago) link

Wait I don't understand, why are we mad at Morris Street? I think it looks incredible, I love it even though admittedly it's over the top in a certain IG-ready aesthetic and I maybe wouldn't have chosen every detail.

Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 16:38 (two months ago) link

The last picture(s) of the attic…not mad just funny to live in a Pharoah’s cursed tomb

Booger Swamp Road (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 16:45 (two months ago) link

Oh I would 100% have chosen the detail where the toilet in the attic is inside a mummy. 100%.

Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 16:46 (two months ago) link

Oh no I missed that!!

Booger Swamp Road (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 17:46 (two months ago) link

the toilet and a shower head

he/him hoo-hah (map), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 17:53 (two months ago) link

Oh yeah! I love that. My issue with the pics is that the images are so blown-out or highly contrasted or whatever is done to make them look super bright and sharp and saturated, that everything almost looks VR/fake.

Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 18:11 (two months ago) link

HDR - a poisonous visual drug to which most realtors are terminally addicted.

assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 22:37 (two months ago) link

although tbf most of those are just "paste in blue sky" on photos which are clearly lit by grey daylight

assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 22:38 (two months ago) link

one month passes...

also look at the google street view

The Whimsical Muse (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 6 January 2025 21:31 (two weeks ago) link

Wait they kept the garbage house and didn’t demolish it??

The Whimsical Muse (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 6 January 2025 21:35 (two weeks ago) link

It might look great when it's eventually swallowed by rising sea levels
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1201-Marble-Way-Boca-Raton-FL-33432/87660584_zpid/?

Backstory equally as bizarre: Owner of Mansion Gutted in a Turkey-Frying Accident Listed Bizarre Owner of Mansion Gutted in a Turkey-Frying Accident Listed Bizarre $25 Million Florida Estate Before Thanksgiving5 Million Florida Estate Before Thanksgiving

For all the money poured into this thing, you think he would have sprung for a full-size pool table? Wuss.

Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 19 January 2025 03:10 (two days ago) link

They might've been able to ask for $35M had it not been for all the crap.

My first impression for three seconds was not "pottery room" when I got to those photos.

pplains, Sunday, 19 January 2025 15:51 (two days ago) link

Not gonna lie, the viking longboat dining table is badass

slouching towards bethesda (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 19 January 2025 17:19 (two days ago) link

Love the Buddha stained glass. You can tell those folks really follow Dharma

Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Sunday, 19 January 2025 18:29 (two days ago) link

ngl that place is amazing. a true labor of love (though assuming both the love and the labor were outsourced). wouldn't mind having an acid trip there.. might not even need any acid

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 21 January 2025 14:43 (one hour ago) link


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