Comments on: Home frontin’.

By: notaclue

notaclue — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:40:53 +0000

OMG, that is so disgusting. Either previous occupants were lazy or stupid but probably both.

By: Anne Arky

Anne Arky — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:11:17 +0000

notaclue,
No daisy stickers, or even peace symbols, but there was a whole wall of feather painting, a phenomenon I have never seen before or since. The idea is, you stick a feather into paint, place it on the surface and twirl it. They had the black and brown version of that in the bathroom, too. The kitchen wall on which this was done had been painted after a grease fire, and I found out the hard way they didn’t clean it up before they painted over it — I leaned against the wall to reach up into a high shelf of the cabinetry, and I slid down the wall! ICK!

By: notaclue

notaclue — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:35:23 +0000

ibeejd, I didn’t even know my mother was selling her house!!! She must’ve been cleaning tho with only three steaming piles.

AnnArky, but were there ‘daisy’ stickers?

Untitled, congrats on selling the house! Here’s hoping that closing goes smoothly.

By: Anne Arky

Anne Arky — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:19:18 +0000

My ex-husband and I once lived in a house whose kitchen had to have been painted by color-blind hippies on the wildest drug trip imaginable. We had just spent a lot of time and effort on the previous rental house, only to be summarily evicted so that the owner could move in when she and her husband split up, and having done all of that, we had committed to spending little or no money or time on the new place, but we soon changed our minds. The buttercup yellow cabinets, neon orange window frame and garden hose green backsplash (with that same color combination spread in bizarre ways around the rest of the kitchen) were enough to convince us that what we spent in paint, we’d save on Pepto Bismol. Orange is even my favorite color, and I couldn’t wait to get it all covered — with uber-cosmic beige. (What can I say — I’m a conservative closet hippie.)

Congrats on selling untitled house!

Anne

By: rose

rose — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 01:04:03 +0000

Congrats, untitled! Now, pick up those bathroom rugs and start packin’.

ibeejd, you had me at pumpkin orange counters.

By: SilverSeraphim

SilverSeraphim — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:24:44 +0000

Congrats on selling your house, untitled!

It is amazing what people will think is OK when it comes to selling their house. Dark green paint? Orange backsplash? Their realtor must have been color-blind along with having a defective sense of smell…

By: ibeejd

ibeejd — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:35:49 +0000

The stank landmines made me laugh….

True story:
We were attending an “open house” a few weeks ago. Home looked wonderful on the outside. We thought that we had a steal here. Upon entering the livingroom and seeing the DARK forest green paint we were a little disturbed. It wasnt something so bad that paint (LOTS!) couldnt fix. The on to the kitchen….Pumpkin Orange counters and back splash ICK! There was so much cheap clutter I felt like I was visiting a Salvation Army store in Compton. Things were going down hill fast but not quite as fast as when we entered the basement that had been finished and used as an office. There were 3…count them…THREE steaming piles of poop. Needless to say were streamlined it outta the basement and out the door.

By: V-Grrrl

V-Grrrl — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:27:38 +0000

“I just kept repeating our terms like Rainman.” Classic.

Glad the house is sold. You’re on your way to the Big House!