Sometimes you just have to say NO to more wallpaper...

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ipoplaya_IHB

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OMG, this is one of the fugliest houses on the inside that I have ever seen...

One example, the dining room that just makes me want to lose my lunch:

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Pretty unbelievable. I'm sure the agent must have at least tried to get the seller to have the walls painted before listing, right? Anyone know the agent?
 
Seriously I killed several of your spies the last couple of days. A lot of bugs started to come up from the ground. I think the bugs could sense the pre-earthquake tremors.
 
This house is a riot! There is different wallpaper in every single room! And it's all atrocious! It does have potential to be a nice house - just gotta be prepared to rip down a LOT of paper.
 
ipoplaya said:
One example, the dining room that just makes me want to lose my lunch:
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I think you mis-typed that. What you meant to type was: LOL, this is what happened when I got really bad food poisoning and lost my breakfast, lunch, and dinner all over the walls. Eh... good thing it was BK's place and not mine.
 
graphrix said:
ipoplaya said:
One example, the dining room that just makes me want to lose my lunch:
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I think you mis-typed that. What you meant to type was: LOL, this is what happened when I got really bad food poisoning and lost my breakfast, lunch, and dinner all over the walls. Eh... good thing it was BK's place and not mine.
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Stop making fun of my house. I went to the Home Depot DIY wall paper symposium and I bought the 10 gallon wall paper paste and I just do not want to waste it. I got really good at it so I kept going. I wanted to wall paper my toilet too but another better idea came to my head.

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biscuitninja said:
It needs at lest 50k in rework.... Seriously were they "shroomin" when picked out the colors and designs?

-bix
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I got the wallpaper at the remnant clearance bin. When I didn't have enough to do the whole room I just did the fireplace.
 
Personally, I think they worked really hard....I mean, look at the attention to detail....with the bird wings carefully cut out and pasted above the doorway...this is quality stuff bk !

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and thanks for the belly laugh ipo ! That "roach cam" is classic !
 
I think you all must be confused... The wallpaper is actually holding the house up! If you start stripping the walls, I'm afraid you would find an instant "tear down remodel"... ;-)
 
tmare said:
Pretty unbelievable. I'm sure the agent must have at least tried to get the seller to have the walls painted before listing, right? Anyone know the agent?
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You'd think so wouldn't you? But after having a conversation with an agent hosting an open house in RSM last weekend... I wonder.

I commented on the fact that the house appeared to have builder grade everything; from worn carpet, to tile counters, to ugly brass light fixtures, etc. I also mentioned that when we sold our house a year or so ago we upgraded, updated, and turned it into an HGTV worthy showplace before listing.

The REA's reply was that since sellers are not likely to recoup the cost of fixing up in this market; as long as a house is clean, she has a hard time suggesting they spend much $$$ doing so.

Ummm OK, the house we were in at the time was purchased in 1995 for $350,000 and the asking price was over a million dollars! Even the NAR doesn't claim that RE values TRIPLE in slightly over ten years just because.

I think the owners could have spent a substantial sum fixing up and still considered that money re-couped if they got anywhere near their asking price.

I assume what the REA really meant was they wouldn't re-coup the cost of upgrading/updating if they compare current selling prices to what they could have gotten at the height of the frenzy. I hope her attitude doesn't become prevalent... I fear it might.

BTW, we bought "the wallpaper house" once. I would have to get a HUGE discount off current market values and still think long and hard before I'd ever do that again.
 
I looked at a house like that when we were looking on Merritt Island in

'95-96. However, they had wall papered the ceiling in the dining room too.

As I recall, they had added on in such a way that there were no windows

in the dining room either.

The house we did find had obnoxious wall paper also. Which we pulled

off/painted over. It wasn't everywhere. We got a really good price due

to the seller's bad taste. Every surface had to be painted, recarpeted,etc.

That was ok, because the house we were selling had been rebuilt after

Andrew and everything was completely to my taste. We looked at several

houses, with good layouts, where the realtor had instructed the seller

to paint/carpet everything in beige. I would have felt guilty about ripping

out perfectly new beige carpeting. Especially beige on stairs, which this

had. Unless you have a stair cleaning slave, keeping beige stairs clean

is very hard to impossible.

A LOT of people have bad taste. That house might really be liked by

somebody.

And the view with the different wallpapers through the halls and other

rooms was so very grotesque that I kinda liked it. It had a bizarro

forestly kind of feel. Not I am sure, what was intended. The dining

room, as pointed out, is strictly barf city. Wall paper, to me, is really

hard to pick out. It's hard to imagine what it will look like on an entire

wall.

I seldom use wall paper. I do like really gaudy wallpaper on a bathroom

wall, with matching commode, etc.
 
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