Entries from May 2011
Three homes with too many family photos on display.
Dozens of family photos, but what really got our attention were the dirty walls! Don’t the kids ever wash their hands? Did mom ever wash the walls?

Please pack them away before selling. The photos, that is.

Perhaps the little girl could put down her toy and help mom put away the photos.
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Tags: Staging · Clutter · Phoenix Homes · Family Photos · Dirt, Dust, & Filth
Sometimes old kitchens have a lot of charm and are worth preserving. We’re not sure about these two kitchens.
Built in 1955. Time for an update. Tiny oven; forget a turkey, you’d be lucky to fit a cornish game hen in it.

Built in 1959. Looks sad.
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Tags: Kitchen · Phoenix Homes
Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep, but she found a few deer in the yard.
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Tags: Staging · Mesa, AZ Homes · Back Yard
This dark, dreary, dusty wet bar was probably created in the 1980s and untouched ever since.
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Tags: 1980s · Wet Bar
Tell me what these four home sellers were thinking.
Tell me why there’s a skeleton in the photo.

Tell me why there’s a copy machine box in the shower. Doesn’t look very Sharp.

Tell me why there’s a Pepsi soda machine on the patio. Overkill? Product placement?

Tell me why they put yellow stone throughout the entire home (yes, every room has this stone; there are photos of it in the kitchen, hall, bedrooms, bathrooms, etc.)
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Tags: Staging · Flooring · Bathroom · What Were They Thinking?!?! · Patio · Phoenix Homes · Peoria, AZ Homes
Think saloon doors will ever come back in home design?
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Tags: Phoenix Homes · Dining Room
Gallup, New Mexico. Is it a family room, a dining room, or a crafts room?

St. Louis, Missouri. Is it a living room, a Christmas card display room, or a storage room?

Nebraska Cornhusker fan in Billings, Montana.
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Tags: Staging · Living Room · Clutter · Office/Den · Wallpaper · Other US Cities
Sent in by one of our readers. She was really impressed by this New Jersey’s home’s tiger/lion/elephant painting and the two cats sitting behind the assistive toilet/potty chair.
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Tags: Staging · Living Room · Other US Cities
What is this world coming to? Totally disgusting unsanitary unhealthy unsafe living conditions in a London flat. Someone actually lived there. This is the bathroom.

A cleaning crew was hired to handle this messy bathroom. Imagine the smell.

The clean up job is amazing. Too bad the floor was ruined from filth & neglect.
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Tags: Bathroom · Safety Issue · Garbage and/or Junk · Dirt, Dust, & Filth · Hall of Shame - Messy · Other International Cities
Rusty power pole right in the front yard of a Phoenix home.

Rusty roof in Pensacola, Florida.

Bright yellow & green paint colors on a Rochester, New York home. Might appeal to University of Oregon alumni. Go, Ducks!

The broken fence gate won’t excite many buyers at this Phoenix home.
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Tags: Roof · Curb Appeal · Paint · Phoenix Homes · Fence or Wall · Other US Cities