Entries Tagged as 'Entertainment/Media Niche'
This custom built entertainment center has become functionally obsolete since analog TVs are no longer made. Today’s televisions are much larger. The structure appears to have a 2′ x 8′ footprint which means it eats up 16 square feet of valuable floor space.
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Tags: Phoenix Homes · Functional Obsolescence · Entertainment/Media Niche
Looks like a nice living room with nice flooring. Let’s remove the family photos and fake flowers. And the pillows on the windowsills. Could someone please get the kid at the front door? Thanks.

How about waking up the kid on the couch? Gold lamé drapes.

Spiderman!! Pokeman too!

Bad paint job.
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Tags: Paint · Living Room · Bedroom · Clutter · Window Coverings · Phoenix Homes · Ugly Couches/Chairs · Fake Plants & Flowers · Family Photos · People In Photos · Entertainment/Media Niche
These five fireplaces are sure to motivate buyers to purchase.
The wood paneling and mirrors used to excite buyers. Back in 1974.

The tile and window drapes distract you from the goalpost fireplace.

Uninspiring fireplace. Broken mirror. Wood paneling covered in red paint.

Custom tile surround. The entertainment/media niche is dirty and chipped.

Is it even a fireplace? Or just a place to store junk? Shreveport, Louisiana home.
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Tags: Fireplace · Phoenix Homes · Other US Cities · Entertainment/Media Niche
People and their faux painted walls (the aged adobe look and the fake exposed brick). It’s very polarizing, which isn’t good for buyers. Half will like it, half will hate it.

They probably paid someone $5,000 to do this room.
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Tags: Phoenix Homes · Faux Paint & Murals · Entertainment/Media Niche
What were they thinking when they built this entertainment/media niche around the fireplace?

In this home, they built a media niche around a flat panel TV, but the rest of it will just collect dust.
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Tags: Fireplace · Phoenix Homes · Entertainment/Media Niche
Before.

After renovation.
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Tags: Landscaping · Curb Appeal · Phoenix Homes · Before & After · Entertainment/Media Niche
What is it? A cat tower? A TV niche? A fireplace?

If it no longer fits its purpose, it becomes functionally obsolete. TVs today are a bit wider.

Flat panel TVs are popular because they are thin. So why build an entertainment niche that’s 2-3 feet thick and lose all of that floor space?

White paint + dust = visible dirt.
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Tags: Phoenix Homes · Functional Obsolescence · Entertainment/Media Niche
These three media niches should keep you entertained.
Is that a bell in the upper right corner?

Since there’s no dust ever in Phoenix, no need to worry about all of those shelves.

Wasted space. Can’t fit a TV there, can’t put a couch there.
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Tags: Phoenix Homes · Entertainment/Media Niche
Ugly tile, wood paneling, bright green paint, ugly shelves.

More ugly tile in the kitchen.
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Tags: Tile · Kitchen · Phoenix Homes · Wood Paneling · Entertainment/Media Niche
November 23rd, 2009 · 5 Comments
The lodge pole/cabin look.

The stacked stone look.

The angular/stretchy look.

The futuristic look.

The cat tower look.

The high end curvy look.
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Tags: Phoenix Homes · Entertainment/Media Niche