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

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.

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.

http://i.imgur.com/UWQNY8Y.jpg

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

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.

Please do. This is an Open House.

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

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.

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

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

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

http://i.imgur.com/5K1rFTf.jpg

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

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!!!"

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."

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

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

lol the harp photo

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

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

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

"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

"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

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.

http://i3.au.reastatic.net/800x600/536fb89fbb581e49c8faa4924f7db6be6b0d7c2fad95f0eb90057b039be871ac/image3.jpg

Horror House II: the Stalking Sink.

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

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

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.

Now thats how you sell a bedroom ... ? :|

http://i1.au.reastatic.net/800x600/cac680e2c76c8585c7998bd1abf0a11e11d88499575c3e531f6ed1163234aee2/image5.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/IV8btMU.png

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

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'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.)

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.

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

Geez.

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 :(

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

its a banksy

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.jpg
https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/79/mbpadded/207/genMid.2841207_3_0.jpg

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.

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.

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?

http://i.imgur.com/IZM4caY.jpg

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

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."

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

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.

http://photos2.zillowstatic.com/p_f/ISphukilm6juxw1000000000.jpg

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

That one hits a little too close to home.

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

i am truley sorry for your lots

Love too make personality flaws my brand

Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarshit_Sharp?wprov=sfti1

look i don't poop m&ms
I don't sugar coat shit
so this thing will kill you
because I'm a bad doctor

Just want to point out that I made that shirt I posted, I'd consider making it for real if that "mouth is not a bakery" quote was more popular... at least I'd never heard of it before, what a clunky thing to say...

Is it a thing?

Just say "I am not a bakery". Why emphasize the mouth? Obviously your opinions come out of it, yes but goes without saying (with your mouth, in case that wasn't clear).

evan please put that on redbubble

In every mouth there's a bakery
And every sugarcoat
Takes me further from heaven

https://i.imgur.com/0o9cJQr.jpg

I've taken this far enough topic, but those cutsey little - memes, folksy sayin's, quaint turns of phrase - whatever you want to call them... where it's just

Obvious set up for joke
The "joke"
another five
or six lines
about how much
the first two lines
can describe you in real life

are so asinine and yet, apparently they're selling off the shelves like funnel cakes!

I'm not a "clown torturer"
Because I don't "suffer fools"
Please respect my space
As I try to do my job
And
Make a living
To support
My family

lmfao

Nothing matches your search for "Clown Torturer T-Shirts".
Don't give up! Check your spelling, clear some filters or try something new.

Is that advice for me, or a new placard?

maybe a fortune cookie

I'm not a pair of slippers

I won't comfort you

I'm more like an avant-garde atonal composer

I won't provide you with resolution

I'm not a toilet

You can't flush me

I'm the paper

I'll clean up your mess

And leave a light coating of fiber dust all over your bathroom floor

https://i.imgur.com/vEM6N5d.jpg

Not a listing but wtf

https://www.instagram.com/p/CeuZfL8u-8e/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

Cursed architecture

Industrial architecture! I'm thinking grain elevator or cotton mill or something like that. The gable-roofed volumes do read as "house" (or "church" looking at the main, basilica-like volume)... but I suspect they're all the way they are for essentially functional reasons. The resulting composition is obviously fabulous though, with the 'houses' telescoping out of each other.

what is cursed about this functional structure

yes it is like the elevators at the quarry i grew up near

obv not "afraid" of these types of buildings but they always give me visions of falling out of that chute. just like i am afraid of grain bins but never have been inside or near one. i mean imagine drowning in corn. ugh.

These are pretty common buildings in non-urban areas?! I get that they’re creepy but also, like, really really common and not weird

obv not "afraid" of these types of buildings but they always give me visions of falling out of that chute. just like i am afraid of grain bins but never have been inside or near one. i mean imagine drowning in corn. ugh.

― towards fungal computer (harbl), Saturday, June 18, 2022 4:09 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lots of these types of buildings around here but for coal, not grain. they're huge. definitely nightmarish.

i grew up near a big steel mill and those structures were also huge and evil-looking.

the steel mill was torn down 15 years ago to be redeveloped into single family real estate.

there's a certain way the mormon realtors around here say "home" - always "home", never "house" - where the 'oh' and the 'm' combine to have this sedative, cocoon-like effect, it's pretty remarkable.

this has actually made me think more about the building because you always drive by them not thinking about the design. of course a lot of them are a simpler metal structure but the house glued to another house glued to a church is pretty interesting. still the ladder and chute gives me "you can die on the job" vibes and i shudder.

Love that photo, looks like a Charles Demuth painting.

These are pretty common buildings in non-urban areas?! I get that they’re creepy but also, like, really really common and not weird

_These are pretty common buildings in non-urban areas?! I get that they’re creepy but also, like, really really common and not weird_

I love it when Ilx gets didactic

“I will post a common building type in an unrelated thread and call it cursed” bro lay off the weed

__These are pretty common buildings in non-urban areas?! I get that they’re creepy but also, like, really really common and not weird_

I love it when Ilx gets didactic_


Eh, I already know yr a miserable asshole, no need to show me again.

no one is being didactic you're being a cloistered weirdo

Can we get this thread back on track, already.

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*Turns straight back around*

*Heads to City Hall Building Permits office*

"Hey, can you help me move an end table upstairs this weekend?"

"An end table? Yeah, sure? How hard can that be?"

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1) thank you for rescuing this thread

2) lol at pulling down the attic ladder, sprucing it up, and calling it a reno!

The, um, "balustrade" is what identifies this as a project of dedication.

Not sure where this goes, I rmember having a conversation with sone of you about this subject:

https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/07/28/should-dcs-empty-office-buildings-get-turned-into-apartments

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

https://i.imgur.com/wFO6naI.png

https://i.imgur.com/Oq2y02f.png

Seriously, every time I see one of these listings, I think of

https://i.imgur.com/h1QmxWW.png

I find it weird that the grey trend hasn't died but instead metastasized into grimmer and grimmer iterations.

Finding it odd that there are still a load of photos from like 6 or whatever years ago still active. Would have thought if they were linked to listings they would be empty small squares instead of photos. Since some of the newer ones are. Did the OP have a site he was copying to or something?

imgur.com

https://infinimata.com/img/dvd/2003/B000AQKUG8-01.jpg

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Nothing like a nice footbath while you take a dump