Ugly House Photos

What a fun brown paint color.

You can paint the window panes too.

You can paint the kitchen cabinets.

You can paint geometric shapes on the wall.

You can stencil vines on the walls.

You can sponge paint the walls.

Someone stole a black diamond.

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Tigers!

Pandas!

Matchy matchy.

More matchy matchy.

Bright red and flowery in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Very colorful bedspread in Texarkana, Arkansas.  Tie die sheet in the window.  Groovy.

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No need to clean up the back yard.  Let the new buyer do it.

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Tell me why there’s a photo of insulation on the floor?  Phoenix.

Tell me why there’s a close-up photo of a cabinet that’s probably not staying with the house.  Phoenix.

Tell me why there’s a photo of stuff that’s probably not staying with the house?  Pensacola, Florida.

Tell me why there’s a photo of a space heater on top of ugly old carpet? Pensacola, Florida.

Tell me why there’s a fly strip in the photo?  Buffalo, New York.

Yes, these are actual photos used to market the sale of these homes.

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Add a little zest to your home by installing wood paneling on an angle.

Herringbone pattern is ultra chic.

Herringbone pattern on a wider/larger scale.

All different angles in this bathroom.

Throw in some mirror strips for real excitement.

These Pensacola, Florida owners went against normal convention and installed their wood paneling on the horizontal instead of the tradition vertical.  Actually looks interesting this way.

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If we park our trucks in the driveway, buyers can’t see our house.  Maybe they won’t want to stop by.  Then we won’t have to make the beds and tidy up the house.

You shall not pass.

I’m selling the car, not the house, silly.

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Pensacola, Florida office.  Why bother taking the photo?  It shows nothing about the room to the buyer.

The stuff’s really packed in and piled high in this Phoenix home office.  No wonder they need medication.

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Palm tree, supposedly.

Inchworm!  A bee!  And flowers!

Flowers and some kind of blue blob.

Escape to your private courtyard with fountain.

The beach is right outside your home past the rose trellis.

Dining lakeside in Sun City, Arizona.

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Life Is Just a Chair of Bowlies is a book written by Mary Engelbreit.  It’s supposed to lift your spirits.  I kept thinking, “What’s a bowlie?!” then realized it’s a play on words: bowl of cherries, chair of bowlies.  Amazon has 120 of these books for sale for one penny to $2.

The seller put the book’s title on the backs of her chairs to match the sunflowers and wallpaper.

The range hood says “Home is where the heart is.”  Do you like the wallpaper?

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Two homes in need of landscaping assistance.

How about we trim up the mesquite tree?

How about we pull up the weeds?  Why take a photo of ugly gravel?

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