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

"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

hahaha

Why aren't they "His" and "Her" pillowcases? Why aren't they "She" and "He" pillowcases?

it took me a minute but..

https://consequenceofsound.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/she-and-him.jpg

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.

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

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?

2.) The vent near the middle of the sliding-glass door. Why?

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.

wall-to-wall carpeting pretty normal in many parts of the world

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.

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)

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.

who puts a cold-air vent in the floor tho

The perspective of that photo makes it look like a dollhouse.

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..."

It's very dollhouse looking furniture too.

The perspective definitely isn't helping matters.

who puts a cold-air vent in the floor tho

1.) Welcome to the American South.

2.) You can't have a vent dangling from the pitched ceiling rafters.

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.

Makes no sense though. That cold air isn't going to rise.

Those vents in the floor are so prevalent I can feel it on my feet as I walk on it.

My parents had huge rugs over wall to wall carpeting. I think they thought it was saving the carpeting from wear.

This room is the one adjacent to 237

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!"

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

- what is so bad out the window that it was preferable to have the janky curtain closed for the photo?

I don't know, but please allow me to vent just one more time:

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

What's the symbolism of yellow roses on freshly vaccuumed w2w carpeting?

I don't know but those vacuuming patterns, it's like they're mowing the outfield at Wrigley

You can see Bob hiding behind the chair

They should do nutshell study photoshopped crime scene composites with these creepy real estate pics.

i will rep wall to wall carpeting 4 lyfe

O do you now, crüt.

https://i.imgur.com/7h82JzQ.jpg

i've lived in some weird w2w apartments

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

i would sit on those carpeted stairs, maybe sprawl out a little. v inviting

That's an air return vent to the right of the "stairs"*. Bet there's dust still there from 1991.

* When do "steps" turn into "stairs"?

@5

they're just dinky old steps if they're bare but if you put carpeting on them they become a complete staircase

the lighting is very Twin Peaksian
p sure bob is behind that curtain

I like how if you trip and fall on the carpeted steps the brick planters are there to soften your landing

Remember that Jeff Foxworthy joke about "If your NEW TV sits on top of your OLD TV...."?

https://i.imgur.com/B8M8UCE.jpg

the horror

Picture in picture taken to extremes

I'm overly cynical about many things, but I do admit to sometimes getting charmed by a real estate agent's perverse sense of optimism.

https://i.imgur.com/F579yfk.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/hKxx5OT.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/776kIwX.jpg

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

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

harvest gold appliances are on their way back

Yeah, yeah. Let me know when I can sink my sweat equity into some paneled walls.

place looks dope imo

Still has its antenna, I'll give you that.

https://i.imgur.com/0iSPKT8.jpg

I get the same reaction from this being described as FRESH OUT OF A TIME MACHINE as I do when I see an '87 Tercel with antique car tags.