Ugly House Photos

Pot rack in your face!

Pot rack in your way.

Pot rack blocking the view of the cabinets.

Rustic pot rack adds to the dark, dusty feel of the kitchen.

Pot rack blocks your view out the window.

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Today is my birthday and several home sellers are celebrating.

Happy Birthday from Mesa, Arizona.  They even included an unnecessary pot rack just for me!

Happy Birthday from Camden, New Jersey.

Happy Birthday from Elkhart, Indiana.

Happy Birthday from Peoria, Arizona.

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Pot racks are a visual distraction in real estate promotional photos.

They can ruin the photo.

I see two tall cabinets and lower cabinets.  So why the pot rack?

This looks a million times better.  Clear off the pot rack when selling.

The critics panned this laundry room photo.

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The pot rack dominates the kitchen.  Does it really need to be there?  [Chandler, Arizona]

The pot rack blocks the view of the kitchen.  Are you pushing the pot rack or the kitchen?  [New River, Arizona]

Here’s a suggestion:  remove all the pots and pans from the pot rack as seen here.  That way, buyers can see the entire kitchen.  Also, please remove the cat from the photo.  Thanks, Lisa, for noticing the dog’s face in the lower right corner.  [Apache Junction, Arizona]

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Need a q-tip?

He’s a monitor monitor, keeping an eye on that old computer monitor, just in case any dust falls on the plastic cover.

It looks exactly like a kitchen from Naples, Italy!!

We posted this Westwego, Louisiana home in late August 2008 and wished them well before Hurricane Gustav arrived.  We hope it’s still standing after Hurricane Isaac blew through this year.

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This Cadillac, Michigan seller hangs her pots all in a row (thank you) and not over the sink or middle of the kitchen (thank you).

“We want to block the view out the window.”  [Elmira, New York]  You could take the pots down for the photo, you know.  Looks like a very nice, clean kitchen otherwise.

These Peoria, Arizona sellers like to hang plastic grapes and other stuff from their pot rack.

Not a bad idea.  A strip of wood and some nails.  At least you don’t hit your head on the pots and pans.

Kudos to these Glendale, Arizona sellers.  Seriously.  Great job!  They still include the pot rack (with handy built-in lights too) in the spotless kitchen photo, but no stupid pots to clutter up the photo.  This is how you present a pot rack to buyers.

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Strings of garlic are a surefire way to keep vampires from your home.  Oh, and never invite them into your home either.

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It’s never too early to begin planning a career in real estate.  Most states have a minimum age of 18 to become a real estate agent.

She’s watching & studying all of those home buying/selling and staging shows on HGTV.

They decorated their room based on episodes of Trading Spaces.

“Buy this house.  It features vaulted ceilings, a handy kitchen island, and large dining area.”

He’s figuring out mortgage payments on his financial calculator.  [Note to self: do not sit on this dirty-diaper-touched sofa]

“Aaaaaaaaaay.  This kitchen features a killer pot rack!”  [Dillon, Montana]

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When you’ve filled up the horizontal spaces and brought in more furniture and filled it up too, then it’s time to go vertical.  Install a pot rack so you can fill it up too!

In the next home, they’ve filled up the living room, filled up the kitchen island, so then installed a pot rack to dry their coffee mugs.

Another home, another pot rack.  Note how it blocks the nice cabinets in the photo.

From a different angle, we can see that the pot rack was not hung over the kitchen counter.  It’s about 2 feet away from the counter.  Would you want to sit underneath that?

And one more angle.  This house clearly has a dishwasher and yet there is a rack of dishes above it.  Please note the pool table in the background.  From the earlier photo, there was a food dish and a water dish for the family cat.

At least the pots and pans match in this home.

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Tiki look at these hand-carved stools!  The one is sticking out its tongue because there’s an ugly pot rack.

Clutter?  Yuk.

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