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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:fascinating 80's contemporary take on prairie style. this house is just a weird blender mess of 20th century american domestic architecture I don't care how isolated your house is, I'm not comfortable with giant picture windows facing the bed.
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:fascinating 80's contemporary take on prairie style. this house is just a weird blender mess of 20th century american domestic architecture All 3 of those are in fact Good & Cool Houses  This however is a bad house https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6-Hoyt-Rd-Sherman-CT-06784/92435195_zpid/ quote:Welcome to Black Dog Farm, the entrancing treasure of artist Elaine Voghelle. One-of-a-kind, exquisite rebuilt and curated storybook estate. "Beyond renovated” 1803 Antique Eyebrow Colonial Farmhouse. 
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Youth Decay posted:All 3 of those are in fact Good & Cool Houses They'd fall under the Weird category, I suppose.
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Youth Decay posted:All 3 of those are in fact Good & Cool Houses This house is so busy with junk that I'd be afraid to walk into it lest I knock everything over somehow with one wrong movement I really have to wonder how many of these houses are actually lived in versus just used as a vacation home or short term rental property. So many of these super upscale houses are filled to the brim with decorations but there are no personal touches to any of it; no personal belongings, no consumer goods like food or cleaners, and just tiring to look at for any period of time. These are houses built to impress, not to be lived in.
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Simsmagic posted:I really have to wonder how many of these houses are actually lived in versus just used as a vacation home or short term rental property. So many of these super upscale houses are filled to the brim with decorations but there are no personal touches to any of it; no personal belongings, no consumer goods like food or cleaners, and just tiring to look at for any period of time. These are houses built to impress, not to be lived in. when looking at real estate listings, you always have to consider staging. for a big expensive house where the agents commission on sale will be tens of thousands of dollars, it makes financial sense to move in a bunch of furniture so that the house looks lived in and not totally empty. a residence completely empty of house stuff looks less inviting, but this is less of a problem when the residence is an apartment for rent or something which will sell quickly anyway versus the decision to buy a big expensive house that may linger on the market - the sales trick is to fill it with furniture to 'stage' it as one would stage a theatrical play one minor thing when looking at real estate listings as a hobby is when you notice a problem with the listing itself. usually this means that the realtor's photography is terrible, or when the staging is weird - just a random assortment of furniture which was done because that is what the agent had at hand, or the house was filled hastily with lightweight or mismatched furniture. things to keep an eye out for are just a jumbled assortment of armchairs, wicker furniture indoors, That One Eames Chair, a shelf filled with little sculptures and vases and stuff but no pictures of people, and so on. "is this house the residence of undercover aliens, or is it just staged poorly?" is a viable question when hunting for weird houses on zillow the house totally filled with junk (and do they have a loving bobcat for a pet?) is more on the "space aliens" side of the spectrum, what the gently caress e: here's an example of poor staging, notice that most of the house is empty but for some rooms we decided to put a chair or a dining set in there to fill a little space. or the very telling two (2) bottles of wine on a rack https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7112-State-Road-1-Spencerville-IN-46788/112577894_zpid/ and here's an example of dogshit photography https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/104-Meadowbrook-Ln-Saint-Marys-OH-45885/51309412_zpid/ Mr. Fall Down Terror has a new favorite as of 15:30 on Apr 25, 2022 |
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:when looking at real estate listings, you always have to consider staging. for a big expensive house where the agents commission on sale will be tens of thousands of dollars, it makes financial sense to move in a bunch of furniture so that the house looks lived in and not totally empty. a residence completely empty of house stuff looks less inviting, but this is less of a problem when the residence is an apartment for rent or something which will sell quickly anyway versus the decision to buy a big expensive house that may linger on the market - the sales trick is to fill it with furniture to 'stage' it as one would stage a theatrical play I have seen enough Eames Lounge Chairs in houses that were very clearly not staged that either a) a lot of people actually own the Chair or its cheaper copies, b) Chairs just spontaneously generate from modernist houses, or c) every real estate photographer travels with a Chair and plunks them down in a random room as a joke, on me, specifically.
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For a while I kept track of how often That Chair showed up in Youth Decay's posts in the other design thread, but I finally had to give up because I couldn't keep up.
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I was very fond of the gently caress Your Noguchi Coffee Table tumblr, back in the day.
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Tobermory posted:Everything about this house is just..... misguided. It's amazing how long I spent laughing at this. I couldn't find it at first, until I'm like "it... can't be that thing sticking up, right?" I lost it, I made my wife roll over to look at it as they told me, "ok, honey, breathe..." Every time I tried to explain, I cracked up again, I'm chuckling now. loving that thing up was more work than doing it right, and I'm glad they did, I needed that laugh.
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DicktheCat posted:loving that thing up was more work than doing it right Thread title contender here
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:oh well if we're posting the classics Pretty sure I owned this Caboodle.
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welcome to house2.wad https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/133-Pine-Valley-Loop-Houston-AR-72070/90896512_zpid/ i did lol at this one with the monumental two story scale of the living room and there's just this dinky little gas fireplace in there  https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3329-Northwood-Dr-Milford-KS-66514/77204537_zpid/ *whispering* what the gently caress  https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5559-Clover-Leaf-Dr-Greenville-OH-45331/115862254_zpid/
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:
This one is hilarious for how goddamn big the living room is and how small every other room is.
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:*whispering* what the gently caress So many awfully photoshopped pictures. It makes me wonder what was in the original pictures that they wanted to hide. Let's see what $10M will buy here... looks like the world's worst faux-Tudor color combination and a surprise server farm!  https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/488-West-Rd-New-Canaan-CT-06840/57325215_zpid/ Cichlidae has a new favorite as of 02:04 on Apr 27, 2022 |
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Cichlidae posted:So many awfully photoshopped pictures. It makes me wonder what was in the original pictures that they wanted to hide. I don't hate it, the inside is boring, but it does have a dank treehouse:  
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It's like they accidentally select-dragged part of the blueprints and decided to just roll with it.
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not often you get a funny floorplan https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/935-Potters-Rd-Newton-NJ-07860/39956931_zpid/ this house is so ugly it wraps back around to being good. and TWO pianos!  https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/415-Edgewood-Dr-Sarver-PA-16055/75192474_zpid/
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In contrast, the architecture of Betty White's house (which just went on the market) is very much of its era, but timelessly done.
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:not often you get a funny floorplan What's up with the clinical space?
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Soul Dentist posted:Barn-entering-hyperspace-rear end house  I know we can basically just post this account but: https://twitter.com/zillowgonewild/status/1518252709681451008 Although I suppose it's less "weird house" as much as "weird loving life situation."
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Heath posted:What's up with the clinical space? If you glance at the pics it seems to be a high end dentist/orthodontics clinic for someone who already has a customer-base and just wants to stop travelling downtown or wherever.
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Trabant posted:
I'm gonna pivot off into the weeds and guess their wife has got hidden cameras to watch you live with their ex-husband day-to-day as a shared kink thing between them. It's Florida, after all.
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Dare ye peruse the Beaverton Mystery Shack™️?? https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/11639-SW-Champlin-Ln-Beaverton-OR-97007/80926175_zpid/
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Trabant posted:
man, so like house prices straight doubled in the last few years or am I missing something...no loving way that shitbox house should cost that much. e, yeah, in the nice part of houston you can get a similar house for half that: 
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Yes but that house doesn't come with an ex husband.
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:Dare ye peruse the Beaverton Mystery Shack™️?? Gotta say, I've never seen a property actually for sale listed with "Price Unknown."
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Gotta say, I've never seen a property actually for sale listed with "Price Unknown." That's the mystery.
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That and the entire inside of the shack
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Gotta say, I've never seen a property actually for sale listed with "Price Unknown." its a foreclosure. whoever owns the place can't afford the mortgage or taxes and it is being auctioned off. there is no price because whoever took the title on lack of payment is auctioning the house off to see how much they can get for it. normally, when a house is voluntarily listed the seller sets an asking price as a target. there are no pictures of the interior because the resident refused to allow anyone inside. the price is going to be determined by the buyer making a guess as to how much they can sell the house for, minus the cost of evicting the current resident and dealing with whatever repairs and such may be necessary when you don't know what the inside looks like let alone what condition it is in, because you can't get the structure inspected it happens sometimes, whenever you see something like "house is occupied" or "resident on property" that usually means a foreclosure, and "we did not want to fight the angry person inside this house to take pictures"
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ever seen a neotudor half timbered indoor pool? well, you have now https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2944-Yellow-Creek-Rd-Akron-OH-44333/319921216_zpid/ i wondered why the photographer elected to show the house from this really awkward angle, then i saw the facade. it just stops at the portico, like an interrupted scream. weird massing, all to support this huge interior living room  https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1552-Johnson-Rd-Gainesville-GA-30504/14844886_zpid/ more weird external geometry to support massive interior volumes except this house kinda fucks  https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/51-Hoagland-Rd-Blairstown-NJ-07825/88945089_zpid/
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I wanna snap that last one up and let nature destroy that stupid lawn, completely swallowing the cool house whole so there's no external evidence
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This one's weird but interesting. Owned by the Beat poet Ruth Weiss, and designed to her individual preferences. No idea what you do with a house most of whose floorspace is a "studio" with little natural light. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/32115-Albion-Ridge-Rd-Albion-CA-95410/19215913_zpid/
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:ever seen a neotudor half timbered indoor pool? well, you have now I love to just sit down and watch TV by the fireplace in the same room as my giant pool
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:ever seen a neotudor half timbered indoor pool? well, you have now Wanna see a production of the Henriad staged in that pool. There's enough room for it.
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LifeSunDeath posted:man, so like house prices straight doubled in the last few years or am I missing something...no loving way that shitbox house should cost that much.
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Trabant posted:
Hell yeah that's a steal. Comes with a whole rear end dude who just... lives in your house with you. It's like an incentive. For content, check this out. https://www.realtor.com/news/unique-homes/florida-mansion-star-wars-themed-bedroom-family-fun/ Fuckin baby yoda just chilling on a weird shelf
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Uncle ShortyB posted:Hell yeah that's a steal. Comes with a whole rear end dude who just... lives in your house with you. It's like an incentive. I get the whole Star Wars dream home thing, that's fine, but why would you decide on "Battle Droid Assembly Line" for your bedroom aesthetic? 
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I get the whole Star Wars dream home thing, that's fine, but why would you decide on "Battle Droid Assembly Line" for your bedroom aesthetic? 
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