http://i.imgur.com/AiwOUIW.jpg
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 (three years ago) Permalink
http://i.imgur.com/MJTABtU.jpg
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 (three years ago) Permalink
http://i.imgur.com/UWQNY8Y.jpg
"Get the fuck out of here, this used to be the garage?"
― pplains, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 02:57 (three years ago) Permalink
http://i.imgur.com/RCL5xL2.jpg
"So hows long it been since you got made? Huh? Oh no..."
http://i.imgur.com/HzQgMh3.jpg
Now let's see, 'When You Can't See God's Hand, Trust –––" WHA AAAAAHH! HOLY FUCK MY LEG!"
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 (three years ago) Permalink
Please do. This is an Open House.
― pplains, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 04:37 (three years ago) Permalink
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 (three years ago) Permalink
Also, I love this shit so much. Gotta go find some corkers.
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 (three years ago) Permalink
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 (three years ago) Permalink
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 (three years ago) Permalink
http://i.imgur.com/5K1rFTf.jpg
"Oh, don't mind me here, Irvin. You just go ahead and watch your football game."
― pplains, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 15:38 (three years ago) Permalink
http://i.imgur.com/PGjSjlX.jpg
"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 (three years ago) Permalink
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 (three years ago) Permalink
Whoops. Don't forget to turn on the spotlights.
― pplains, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 15:49 (three years ago) Permalink
It's hard to reach the light switch when the earth is tilting like that.
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 15:50 (three years ago) Permalink
lol the harp photo
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 15:52 (three years ago) Permalink
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 (three years ago) Permalink
"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 (three years ago) Permalink
"This property's great, I just have to talk to my husband about – wait, is that someone playing a Peter Gabriel song?"
http://i.imgur.com/ki2KezG.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 17 December 2015 15:51 (three years ago) Permalink
"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 (three years ago) Permalink
― 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 (three years ago) Permalink
http://i3.au.reastatic.net/800x600/536fb89fbb581e49c8faa4924f7db6be6b0d7c2fad95f0eb90057b039be871ac/image3.jpg
Horror House II: the Stalking Sink.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Thursday, 17 December 2015 22:44 (three years ago) Permalink
The place in that pic costs $200 a week people. Melbourne is an expensive hell.
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 (three years ago) Permalink
Anyway. Melbourne might be expensive, but blue paint sure ain't.
― pplains, Friday, 18 December 2015 01:30 (three years ago) Permalink
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 (three years ago) Permalink
Now thats how you sell a bedroom ... ? :|
http://i1.au.reastatic.net/800x600/cac680e2c76c8585c7998bd1abf0a11e11d88499575c3e531f6ed1163234aee2/image5.jpg
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 02:16 (three years ago) Permalink
http://i.imgur.com/IV8btMU.png
They'll give you 15, but you'll only need five!
― pplains, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 03:04 (three years ago) Permalink
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 (three years ago) Permalink
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 (three years ago) Permalink
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 (three years ago) Permalink
yes they listed with swastika graffiti intact http://www.movoto.com/quilcene-wa/411-sea-home-rd-quilcene-wa-98376-501_320196/http://501.mlsimages.movoto.com/096/320196_14.jpg
― alomar lines, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 05:15 (three years ago) Permalink
Geez.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 05:17 (three years ago) Permalink
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 (three years ago) Permalink
"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 (three years ago) Permalink
its a banksy
― am0n, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 16:13 (three years ago) Permalink
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.
https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/79/mbpadded/207/genMid.2841207_2_0.jpghttps://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/79/mbpadded/207/genMid.2841207_3_0.jpg
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 15:34 (three years ago) Permalink
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 (three years ago) Permalink
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 (three years ago) Permalink
but it also doesn't interact with the rest of the room.
http://i.imgur.com/MobN7iy.jpg
Could that be the point?
http://i.imgur.com/btS0Gny.jpg
It does look narrow, but hey, isn't that life in the big city?
― pplains, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:27 (three years ago) Permalink
http://i.imgur.com/IZM4caY.jpg
"Can I get you anything? Perhaps some Pringles?"
― pplains, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:32 (three years ago) Permalink
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 (three years ago) Permalink
http://i.imgur.com/NmT5hLR.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 29 April 2016 02:36 (three years ago) Permalink
http://i.imgur.com/bqI3ItM.jpg
"You may think that sign is corny, but you should've read what the original one said."
http://i.imgur.com/o65F4TB.jpg
- "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'."
http://i.imgur.com/fdjQJbr.jpg
"Well let me ask you something else: Are you a fan of Duke basketball? How about Israel?"
http://i.imgur.com/DtShLKV.jpg
Hmm. Maybe there's good reason why it's the loneliest number.
― pplains, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 15:04 (three years ago) Permalink
http://photos2.zillowstatic.com/p_f/ISphukilm6juxw1000000000.jpg
"Pressure-washer gathering dust? Have we got the house for you!"
― how's life, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 15:11 (three years ago) Permalink
That one hits a little too close to home.
― pplains, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 15:21 (three years ago) Permalink
As in, that is my home - how did you find it.
i am truley sorry for your lots
― how's life, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 16:45 (three years ago) Permalink
my god
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 23:04 (two months ago) Permalink
A historical Texans burial plot is one of those must-have features
― jmm, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 23:04 (two months ago) Permalink
Technically if the Texans buried in the front yard of this house aren't historical that means they would be scrabbling inside their coffins to get out which I can imagine could be off-putting at night
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 23:32 (two months ago) Permalink
Long as they're Texans.
― pplains, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 00:40 (two months ago) Permalink
I'm totally into this woman's demented obsession, except for that weird mid-floor fold-out kitchen unit.
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 01:06 (two months ago) Permalink
incredible find
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 01:31 (two months ago) Permalink
Courtesy of a twitter user fwiw
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 01:38 (two months ago) Permalink
here i sit, buns a-flexinsqueezing out another texan
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 15:54 (two months ago) Permalink
Ok, what am I missing here.
https://i.imgur.com/3f6KetI.jpg
https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Pillowcase-Wedding-Shower/dp/B017RUIWF0
Why aren't they "His" and "Her" pillowcases? Why aren't they "She" and "He" pillowcases?
― pplains, Thursday, 25 April 2019 00:07 (one month ago) Permalink
"Him" and "Her" I mean.
Also, I could compile a weekly tumblr of nothing but real estate photos featuring electronic drum kits.
https://i.imgur.com/EaVjZ4a.jpg
It wouldn't be the most exciting blog ever, but
― pplains, Thursday, 25 April 2019 00:10 (one month ago) Permalink
hahaha
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 25 April 2019 03:33 (one month ago) Permalink
it took me a minute but..
https://consequenceofsound.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/she-and-him.jpg
― buttigieg play the blues (crüt), Thursday, 25 April 2019 04:10 (one month ago) Permalink
What this thread tells me is that Australians spend a lot more money on staging their homes as generic white boxes with awful art that people in other real estate state markets.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 25 April 2019 04:11 (one month ago) Permalink
https://i.imgur.com/EhQWbLv.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 16 May 2019 12:08 (one month ago) Permalink
That isn't one of those "Oh! Haha" kinda pics that I spend too much time looking for online. And yet, it's stayed on my mind for the past 12 hours, since I saw it last night.
1.) The wall-to-wall carpeting.
2.) The vent near the middle of the sliding-glass door. Why?
3.) Note that I said near the middle. Another mark against this.
4.) Curtains in front of a sliding-glass door. Kinda feel it's gotta be vertical pleated blinds or nothing else, including the door.
5.) The space at the top between the curtains and the rod vs the extra slack drooped on the wall-to-wall carpeting.
6.) Each table has part of it folded over to the side. The chairs have minimal arm rests.
7.) The space at the top between the curtains and the rod vs. the space between the rod and what are literally rafters.
8.) The vacuum grooves in the wall-to-wall carpeting that imply that the frilly chair scoots around on its own.
9.) The rug on the wall-to-wall carpeting.
10.) And what's not shown in this photo: What on earth little elevated walkway is happening up here? See that plant on the right? Does it meet each wall and keep forming right angles?
― pplains, Thursday, 16 May 2019 12:17 (one month ago) Permalink
This may have been a thing in the '70s. My first house as a kid had a vent right next to our upstairs porch door. Many mornings I spent camped out over that heat source with the cold winter glass behind my back.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 May 2019 12:21 (one month ago) Permalink
wall-to-wall carpeting pretty normal in many parts of the world
― kinder, Thursday, 16 May 2019 12:26 (one month ago) Permalink
W2WC is indeed everywhere.
I guess it's weird not to see a little tile in front of the door, an engawa to separate the deck from the rest of the house.
Goes along with no tile, but a vent. Lots of condensation on that window, I'd bet.
Curtains must flutter like a ghost.
― pplains, Thursday, 16 May 2019 12:31 (one month ago) Permalink
the vent is to reduce the condensation by keeping the glass warm, so moist interior air doesn't bang into an ice-cold pane of glass and release moisture. (that is not an excuse for lousy design obv)
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 16 May 2019 12:47 (one month ago) Permalink
I'm seeing the reverse of that: ice-cold dry air blowing against a pane of glass with murky warm muggy conditions on the other side of it.
― pplains, Thursday, 16 May 2019 13:13 (one month ago) Permalink
who puts a cold-air vent in the floor tho
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 16 May 2019 13:19 (one month ago) Permalink
The perspective of that photo makes it look like a dollhouse.
― Yerac, Thursday, 16 May 2019 13:27 (one month ago) Permalink
Yes! I don't know if it's just because we have a loft conversion with a pitched ceiling where the walls are literally half that height, but I spent a minute staring at it thinking "why is there a strange half-height window flush with the floor? And why are those chairs so tiny..."
― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, 16 May 2019 13:34 (one month ago) Permalink
It's very dollhouse looking furniture too.
― Yerac, Thursday, 16 May 2019 13:36 (one month ago) Permalink
The perspective definitely isn't helping matters.
1.) Welcome to the American South.
2.) You can't have a vent dangling from the pitched ceiling rafters.
― pplains, Thursday, 16 May 2019 13:43 (one month ago) Permalink
ok, i admit i can no longer remember where the vents where when i lived in the south, and actually the only ones i can specifically picture were in the floors.
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 16 May 2019 13:47 (one month ago) Permalink
Makes no sense though. That cold air isn't going to rise.
― Evan, Thursday, 16 May 2019 13:48 (one month ago) Permalink
Those vents in the floor are so prevalent I can feel it on my feet as I walk on it.
― Yerac, Thursday, 16 May 2019 13:51 (one month ago) Permalink
My parents had huge rugs over wall to wall carpeting. I think they thought it was saving the carpeting from wear.
― Yerac, Thursday, 16 May 2019 13:52 (one month ago) Permalink
This room is the one adjacent to 237
― calstars, Thursday, 16 May 2019 14:06 (one month ago) Permalink
Used to work with an energy efficiency expert who hosted his own Saturday morning talk show. "Where's the hottest part of the house in the summer? THE ATTIC! Where does every contractor want to put your air conditioning? IN THE ATTIC!"
― pplains, Thursday, 16 May 2019 14:39 (one month ago) Permalink
the whole curtain situation is extremely DIY - flimsy curtain rod FIXED TO THE MOULDING argh. wrong length because it was just taken out of the package and put up. (if they'd actually fixed the rod where it ought to go it would be exactly the right height!)
i'm imagining the conversation that led to that curtain going up. the swearing involved.
you can see they've pushed the curtain a bit over next to the window to keep it clear of the vent.. i wonder how many times a week they have to do that
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 16 May 2019 14:59 (one month ago) Permalink
- what is so bad out the window that it was preferable to have the janky curtain closed for the photo?
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 16 May 2019 20:47 (one month ago) Permalink
I don't know, but please allow me to vent just one more time:
https://i.imgur.com/vLDnaIK.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 16 May 2019 23:55 (one month ago) Permalink
What's the symbolism of yellow roses on freshly vaccuumed w2w carpeting?
― Yerac, Friday, 17 May 2019 00:03 (one month ago) Permalink
I don't know but those vacuuming patterns, it's like they're mowing the outfield at Wrigley
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 May 2019 00:11 (one month ago) Permalink
You can see Bob hiding behind the chair
― calstars, Friday, 17 May 2019 00:36 (one month ago) Permalink
They should do nutshell study photoshopped crime scene composites with these creepy real estate pics.
― Yerac, Friday, 17 May 2019 01:17 (one month ago) Permalink
i will rep wall to wall carpeting 4 lyfe
― :∵·∴·∵: (crüt), Friday, 17 May 2019 01:37 (one month ago) Permalink
O do you now, crüt.
https://i.imgur.com/7h82JzQ.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 17 May 2019 01:43 (one month ago) Permalink
i've lived in some weird w2w apartments
― ciderpress, Friday, 17 May 2019 01:50 (one month ago) Permalink
And Yerac's OTM about Nutshell scenes. Same would work for those cutout crime scene pix from Helter Skelter.
https://i.imgur.com/AAHxaSs.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 17 May 2019 01:51 (one month ago) Permalink
i would sit on those carpeted stairs, maybe sprawl out a little. v inviting
― :∵·∴·∵: (crüt), Friday, 17 May 2019 02:11 (one month ago) Permalink
That's an air return vent to the right of the "stairs"*. Bet there's dust still there from 1991.
― pplains, Friday, 17 May 2019 02:53 (one month ago) Permalink
* When do "steps" turn into "stairs"?
― pplains, Friday, 17 May 2019 02:54 (one month ago) Permalink
@5
― alomar lines, Friday, 17 May 2019 03:53 (one month ago) Permalink
they're just dinky old steps if they're bare but if you put carpeting on them they become a complete staircase
― :∵·∴·∵: (crüt), Friday, 17 May 2019 04:01 (one month ago) Permalink
the lighting is very Twin Peaksianp sure bob is behind that curtain
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 May 2019 07:12 (one month ago) Permalink
I like how if you trip and fall on the carpeted steps the brick planters are there to soften your landing
― Brad C., Friday, 17 May 2019 19:18 (one month ago) Permalink