Pensive lime:
Drawn-to-a-flame lime:
Cleansing lime:
Meal-planning limes:
Aspirational lime:
Lime roasting on an open fire:
Voyeur lime:
Not actually a lime:
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Found by Solvi, Sara, and members of the Facebook group “For oss som fascineres av bildene på Finn.no” which means “Yes we know the URL has ‘Finn’ in it but we’re in Norway and you’ve already made that mistake a few times so knock it off.”
Loveliest comment, by gvh: The lime at the bottom of the stairs is belting out Julie Andrews Climb Ev’ry Mountain.
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Is there some sort of folk wisdom about a lime?
In the house where you place a lime
I swear it will sell in no time!
Stop, honey! The lime is watching!
It’s the “Spot-the-Lime” competition. I’m guessing the realtor bought a second-hand van which was lime in color, got fed of telling everyone they would be the person with the lime-green van, and instead just told everyone they would be the person with the lime.
I am also impressed by the washing machine right next to the shower, thus eliminating the need for a laundry basket.
In Nordic apartments the washer/dryer hookups are usually in the bathroom if there isn’t a separate laundry room. It makes sense: there’s already water and electricity there, plus exterior venting.
When I lived in the UK, on the other hand, I learned that there the washing machine and dryer was usually in the kitchen. I never got ketchup all over my freshly laundered clothing but the possibility was haunting me.
Yeah, that made no sense to me. A bathroom is so obviously where the washing machine belongs, I just don’t understand how someone thought that dirty underwear belongs in the kitchen. Then again, the British occasionally put whole floor carpeting in bathrooms. I should learn not to expect sense.
The worst is a shared kitchen on the first floor with a washer in it when you live on the THIRD floor (stairs only) and no dryer so you just have to hang your clothes in the basement. Norway plz not UK.
These must be some of the most professional photos ever shown on this blog. If you ignore the lime gimmick, these all look like perfectly nice photos of perfectly nice homes. Not so fond of the doubly-plaid kitchen but otherwise everything looks clean, bright and uncluttered.
I agree (and love the limes, too). I think I’ll move to Norway.
Hey, I used to live in the same neighborhood as the doubly-plaid kitchen! That’s Nardo in Trondheim, near the university. I can’t recommend the wallpaper, but Nardo is not a bad place to live.
And hey back at you, flodnak — I know you from somewhere. AFU?
Great, now I’m going to have that song running through my head all day!
I suppose the Crazy Cat Lady realtor has an equivalent in the Crazy Lime Lady realtor!
I think they have just merged their companies.
Have a look at the bedrooms in this apartment:
http://www.finn.no/finn/viewimage?finnkode=19965009
I’m enjoying this game of ‘find the lime’ entirely too much
Oh, that is just charming. Thank you for finding that.
how much tequila do they have that need to have limes in the bathroom and on the stairwell?
Sara, you forgot Lime taking a shower:
http://krogsveen.no/id/6?objectid=1142030627
A little privacy for the lime, please!
‘Limey! Tha lih-ll feller gets around, don’t ‘e?
What is it with the limes in every room? Is there a sale on limes in Norway or is it an inexpensive room/air freshner? I’ll have to google that one!
I googled it and posted in a earlier thread: A large real estate agent company called Krogsveen has “LItt MEr” (a little more/extra) as their slogan. So they use a lime in all their advertising. A customer said that the lime they used in her apartment was mouldy! Perhaps they only have one lime … If _I_ was paying thousands of dollars to a real estate agent I would at least demand a new and fresh lime!
Oh great, now I have the Finn.no jingle stuck in my head. For a while, we used to get the Norwegian feed of some cable channel (I think it was National Geographic), and it’s that much worse for not being able to understand more than a word or two out of any of the ads. Somebody please tell me: what exactly IS Finn.no? I could never figure out just what they were advertising.
Also, I was so sure those listings were from Finland just by looking at them. I guess nordic dwellings are surprisingly similar in design.
Finn means “find” in Norwegian. It’s by far the largest Norwegian web-site for classified ads. You can basically buy, sell and give away almost everything there.
They have sections for real estate (both to by and rent), cars, jobs, travel and miscellaneous (e.g. furniture, sports equipment and clothes). There is also a online dating section.
Sounds pretty much like Craigslist in the U.S.
Well, Finn charge fees for all ads (except free/give away ads). Real estate for sale ads are especially expensive and have until now only been open to real estate agents.
They also approve all ads before they are published so they are much less dodgy than Craigslist.
I think I’ve found the reason for the lime.
The real estate company Krogsveen in Norway has lime in their logo.
So the pics from finn.no are objects seld by Krogsveen.
http://krogsveen.no/
At least this listing doesn’t have scurvy like those other lame limeless listings.
I suppose a lime would be better than a lemon…
These apartments make me long for Norway. They are beautiful.
Would it be fair to say that you’re pining for the fjords?
Nice music/Reservoir Dogs reference, FYI. Now I have that song stuck in my head. ;-P
I wanna see the stuffed kitty (previous listing) playing with the lime. lol
Hmmm…nice, but I think I’d prefer something a little more…classic. You know, limeless.
The second bedroom appears to be under the stairs. Or is that where they keep the hunchback?
Ahhhhhh, bask in the limey goodness. Love the lime. Obey the lime.
I wonder if lime is looking to cash in on chair’s fame. Hmmm….
You might be on to something. Wait a sec — I haven’t seen much of Chair lately…
Lime tossed Chair out of his apartment after it caught him sneaking in a trashy five-piece dinette set.
I want to buy the place in the first photo and make Margaritas every night.
How soon before realtors just break down and start featuring Waldo in all of their pictures?
The lime at the bottom of the stairs is belting out Julie Andrews Climb Ev’ry Mountain.
In my head.
YES.
Cue Johnny Cash: “… I walk the lime…”
I think it’s nice. In some pics, the lime is the only spot of color. It lightens up things a little.
For some reason this reminds me of when I quilt. I always add one yellow piece somewhere on the project. It makes the rest of the colors on the blanket pop. Maybe this is the same concept. You may not notice the lime… but, I know that even that crappy built-in table looks cozy because of that simple splash of green.
You think this is funny, but actually, it’s kinda lime..
This is definitely not the first time I’ve seen staging photos of apartments in Oslo (specifically on the Finn.no site) done like this–usually its a bowl of fruit or a small vase of flowers that gets moved around from area to area during the photography session. Its really silly when you see the whole series of pictures for an apartment and the proverbial Bowl or Vase keeps appearing in each scene.
I viewed the apartment in the top picture (and fire-place and mirror closet pictures, http://www.finn.no/finn/viewimage?finnkode=19935048&reference=8/199/350/48_1639047112.jpg ) today, and there was not a single lime in any of the rooms! This supports the theory that the real estate agent only own 1 lime.
I also went to another apartment sold by Krogsveen and no limes there either.
I call that false advertising …
I would make a crack about the book ‘Anansi Boys’ by Neil Gaiman, but I think it might be too obscure…
To late!
Yes!
That’s the first thing I thought of when I saw these pictures!
I was rolling through the comments to see if it had occurred to anyone else.
The book in general didn’t do a whole lot for me, but I loved the lime.
Does Lime have a blog?
If Lime doesn’t, Lime should.