Yes, it's true, we are still homeless. Thankfully, my sister and brother-in-law haven't placed us out on the curb yet but I suspect it won't be long. They can only deal with hearing one son cry and cry and cry about the other one spitting in the bathtub for so long. Eventually, all kids crying about spit in a bathtub (when their bare behinds sit in the bathtub without a comment from either) get put out on the curb.
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| My sister's actual curb, which is totally not soft. |
So, we continue to look, since curbs aren't great places to sleep.
In the midst of the stress ("This house has a roof! Can we please just get it already??"), we find ourselves being entertained by learning new terms, such as "water closet" for the toilet in the restroom of the "owner's retreat" and "morning room" for "breakfast room" (or, my least favorite word of all time, "breakfast NOOK"), as well as being entertained by the phrases realtors love to use like:
This kitchen is a chef's dream!
(No matter how plain the kitchen may be...)
Look at this wall of windows!
(I'll give it them. It's a wall. It has windows.)
WOW!!!!!!
(Easy there, lady.)
MUST SEE!!!!!
(Quit bossing me around!.
A PERFECT kitchen for the chef in the family!
(Because every family has at least one graduate from a culinary school who doesn't use a microwave.)
Plenty of natural light in this room!
(Well, I'll be...)
Grand entry with soaring ceilings!!
(Is that a cloud trying to get in through that top window?)
PLENTY of room for a pool!!
(We like this one a lot. Many times the yard is as big as these three dots *** and the website claims a pool will fit inside it easily. WE KNOW BETTER.)
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| Any yard could probably fit this pool inside it, so maybe we should just shut our yapper. |
It is a good thing we try to see the humor in this journey. If it weren't for pictures like the ones below that bring a smile to my face, I might have suggested that we just forget it all, go live in the woods and learn how to cook beetles. My husband actually keeps a folder on his smart phone of his favorite houses and rooms he has seen on HAR, a Houston area real estate website. Here are just a few:
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| I know I am taking a big risk here, since this could actually be your house. It's just, well...that's a lot of pink. Actually, mauve. Mauve. Mauve. Mauve. Green & mauve. Peach & country blue. Those were the big color couples of the 80s. |
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| The owners of the mauve room own this room, too. Green & mauve. Can't have one without the other. Extra bonus points to whoever can name the show they didn't bother turning off on their TV. (I have no clue what show is on their TV, so bonus points will be extra easy to score. Just don't say it's The Cosby Show.) |
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| Compared to other houses we have seen, this one is a little, well, busy. When the realtor told them to de-clutter, they said "How about you de-shutter your mouth and let us be?" |
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| You know what? This room has a Pepto Bismol hue that I quite love. IT EVEN HAS PEPTO BISMOL PINK TILES. I need this realtor's phone number. |
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| Does this horse-y room have more of a Z Gallerie or Godfather feel? I can't decide. All I know is that I am suddenly thirsty for Sprite. |
If you HAD to have one of these exact rooms in your house, which one would you pick?
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25 comments:
Oh, I hope you all can find a great house despite the realtors' hopeful euphemisms. Those rooms- wow. I wonder if Mary Kay Ash herself used to live in some of them. The pink and green are a little too...powerful for me, so I guess I'd choose the teal one.
Even though I don't care for Sprite, I would totally have to go with that last room. Based purely on the fact that there's a lime green marble Trojan horse in it. I have always (ALWAYS!) wanted one of these.
Oh, and the television program? The Muppet Show. Duh!
(P.S. Happy house hunting. Ask your sister if we can come live there when we sell ours, please. Thanks! And thanks for hosting FtheF!)
Okay, these rooms make me feel a little better about my house--which looks like a set from "Murder, She Wrote."
Which one of these rooms would I pick---the curb! Ha!
Does it HAVE to be exact? The Mauve one would be perfectly nice w/o the mauve. That is a LOT of mauve.
I think they are watching Magnum PI or something like that.
I like the white wrought iron gate in the living room, too. I suppose it's to the front door. It makes a nice welcoming statement.
In the next photo I like how the computer cart is right in the middle of the room. Makes for a nice picture. See how open and spacious the room is? You can roll a computer cart where ever you want and still be able to watch T.V.
Good luck.
Wow. Those are some interesting rooms. And, for the record, I'm pretty sure that pool would not fit in my "yard." Or, it would take up the entire yard, and we'd have to swim through it to get to our back door. That could be fun. In the summer. Maybe we could ice skate across it in the winter... Good luck with the house search!
The mauve room kills me. Is there faux marble with gold veining on the wall?? Delightful.
And I can't believe the green room comes with it. Did you notice the white iron gate to the far left. Do they keep a tiger in the backyard?
House hunting is hilarious when it is not soul sucking awful. You're definitely finding the funny in this one.
Ellen
I like the pool picture best. But wow that sprite one looked like a scene from a serial killer movie.
Each time, I thought you couldn't top yourself. And...you did. All of these rooms give me douche-chills.
Back before the internet, I used to work in the foreclosure dept of a big bank. When the file was closed I'd steal all the best - or worst depending on how you looked at it - photos and share them with my friends when we went out drinking.
Kinda pre-blogging now that I think about it.
And I would totally take up residence in the home with the little pool - so much better than no pool!
I found some CRAZY pictures on MLS. One of them had Bill O'Reilly on TV, in the picture. Immediately passed over that one.
I'd definitely opt for the pool!
I'll take the pink as long as I can remove the green runner so I can get the full pepto feel.
Sometimes you just wonder what people were thinking... that last room is hilariously hideous. I love the tiny pool, it's better than no pool haha!
We're tentatively thinking about moving so our realtor has been sending us house listings. I'm shocked how often people post close up pictures of their door knobs. If the door knobs are the impressive feature of the house then that's an automatic pass for me, thank you.
There's something very indoor/outdoor bath tub of the shiny white horse room.
But the crystal chandelier on the mauve room's ceiling makes me want to DANCE.
It's a toss-up.
bahahaha! i thought the same thing when i saw the last pic! sorry you're still homeless, hope y'all find something soon!
I'm going with the Sprite room, as I'm often dehydrated and this might help (couldn't *hurt*).
Happy hunting - you know my house hunters drinking game could help. ;)
I love to go on those sites and look at people's houses. It is like being a peeping tom with no risk.
If I had to pick I would go with the "country green". It seems to be the most normal of all of them.
I love the "Wine" colored room! Xx
I would live in the pool. Or pitch a tent in a backyard.
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