Know what’s really bothering me about this? The more I stare at it? It’s almost symmetrical… but then not quite. It’s bugging me, really bugging me, that they’re short a witch over on the right side. How could they take the look this far and then just quit?
Oh yeah plus I’m bothered by the whole freaking thing and they have Chucky dolls all over their house including the kid’s room and I just don’t get it but whatever, it’s NOT SYMMETRICAL.
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773: Picture 4 on the main listing page – is that a cryogenic suspension unit?
CarmenT: Yes, but only for lettuce and milk and small fowl.
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When you look at the listing there are more jarring notes around the house. One bedroom has a bedspread with assorted sea life (jellies, coral, etc) on it – and a cordless power screwdriver on the bedside stand. The kitchen has what looks like a huge green turnip plushie with a face and ANTLERS on it above the cabinets, as well as what look like skeletons hanging off the cabinet handles.
Odd that.
What you use a corded drill in your bedroom?
the chuckies and other small figures are awesome articulated repros by Sideshow Collectibles. Everyday is Halloween!
For what it’ worth, the witches’ levitation spell seems to be working pretty well on the Freddy Kruger (or is that Wolverine?) action figure.
…or is it David Hasselhoff? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8
Oh, thanks for that. Now I know what I’ll be dreaming for the rest of the week. The man clearly has not one ounce of shame.
well if you’re gonna post that one, at least include the literal video version too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztHAcNbHKF0
My first instinct was that it was Superman. Upon another look, I think it’s Freddy.
I must be the odd duck out, because I thought it looked like Darth Maul. Definitely not what I’d tack up over the mantel… 0_o
I think it is Stevie Nicks….
Picture 4 on the main listing page – is that a cryogenic suspension unit?
Yes, but only for lettuce and milk and small fowl.
I’ve seen corner curios and corner TV cabinets, but I’ve never seen a corner refrigerator.
and…lol at Carmen’s reply.
So is that a photo on the fridge, or a window showing us the child of the previous owner who was too quick to believe the dwarf psychic woman when she said “this house is clean…”
PS -Just don’t turn on the TV.
Never mind the picture of he kid. Are those bullet holes in the fridge?
They are clearly doing the “almost symetrical” thing on purpose to mess with us. The pictures on the fridge … the top one is perfectly centered, top to bottom, side to side, placed with great care, and then that little picture on the bottom is just off to the side. It’s maddening!
Ok… strange juxtapositions…
The 3 main witches are standing in front of a fireplace with no opening.
The brown leather chair and pedestrian oil of a vase and flowers on the left side, the Foosball table, the pile of pink girl’s toys in the corner… and then… of course, the fireplace itself…
And then, no picture of anything that was clearly a child’s room – and the only child that is seen is the boy on the fridge.
The Foosball table looks wrong, too. Is it photoshopped in there? What is it sitting on? Is that a rug, or a red box?
The room with the Guitar Hero equipment and the Batman is a kid’s room. I think that structure on the right is a loft bed.
That room looks so much like my nephews’ room it’s frightening. Kids these days.
Need an edit feature. The foosball table and rug is legit.
You know, what’s weirding me out about this is that most listings, you can get a sense of the bizarre people who live there. This photo… I can’t figure it out. Students? Nerds? Guys? Chicks? Hobbits? All of the above?
Try weird creepy 40 year old virgin.
“We have a bit of a problem with Witches in the fall, but we just put down some traps with small chilidren in them and it usually clears right up by December.”
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Oooh, that’s good too….
I’ve often wondered what life in Tasmania was like. Now I have been “cured” of all further curiosity. Thanks Lovely Listing!
Even the text of the listing is a bit creepy: “WANTED: First Time Homebuyer . . . ” for what purposes, exactly?
To have them for dinner. Erim I mjean, have them OVER for dinner. Really.
With fava beans and a good Chianti…*slurpslurpslurpslurpslurp*
Think carefully about the kind of person who decorates their house like this. Think very carefully. Then ask yourself if you would ever want to live in that house, even after they have (theoretically) moved themselves and their paraphernalia and assorted …erm… visitors, out.
I wouldn’t.
I realized what this reminds me of. There’s an old novel (1940s) by C.S. Lewis called “That Hideous Strength.” There’s an evil international geopolitical conspiracy called N.I.C.E. (yes, really) that is trying to take over the world. For the people in the “inner circle,” they are put through what’s called “objectivity training” to kill off any residual moral/ instinctual/ aesthetic preferences and make them as dehumanized as possible so that they’re willing to accept any order. This includes spending time in a room that at first glance looks like an ordinary dull conference room, but at second glance has a lot of little things that are “off”– an archway that’s a little off-center, spots on the ceiling that almost form a pattern but don’t quite, etc. The pictures on the walls are of weird things, some religious in nature but twisted and weird.
Creepy.
Hey, I’ve finally found someone else who has read this trilogy…
Yes! I thought of Objectivity Training too – THS is one of my favorite books.
haha, my girlfriend bought that same exact witch with the purple and black dress. Granted it was only for Halloween and has since been put away. I know someone like this who just loves Halloween so much they always had weird crap like that up all the time. They are a little bit off, probably like this person is.
Halloween isn’t even celebrated in Australia, and it’s spring there in October. Which begs the question: why would they even have all of those autumnal witchy/scarecrow decorations?
I’m starting to realize that some of the rules of staging are actually good things.
Particularly in Australia. I mean, rock on them, if their house makes them happy. It’s quite clean, probably well cared for, when you get right down to it. Between things like the witches, and the boy in the fridge, as well as the parade of family pictures looming over what appears to be the parents bedroom it seems that removing things that are “too taste specific” is a good thing.
It’s just that I’m not even focusing on the actual house, just whatever odd thing happens to be in the room. It’s really obscuring the worth of the house.
I can ignore almost everything about this house… except the fact that the knob on the exterior door is set so damn high. Now THAT’s creepy.
Haha. I used to consider doing that as a form of baby-proofing when my older son learned to get the baby proof locks off in under 10 seconds.
I was wondering just how much shampoo does one family need? There are at least ten bottles in that one small shower.
There are really big frogs in Tasmania, and one is splatted above the kitchen cabinets.
I think I read about this room in an H. P. Lovecraft story.
Another creepy impression: the fireplace with no opening reminds me of that awful scene in The Matrix where skin grows over Neo’s mouth. Ugh.
Storing gasoline powered transportation inside the house is pretty strange, too, even if it is in a sunroom or closed in porch. Maybe the fumes from that caused them to think the witches are good decor in a real estate ad?
I actually think the last witch is probably there. You wouldn’t see it from the angle the photo was taken, though. Then again, maybe she’s hovering behind the photographer…
Relax, Sara. If you look closely att the “witch-picture”, you’ll see that the “extra” witch on the left, is arond the corner from the others. They probably have one on the right side too, it’s just obscured by the angle.
Yeah. Pay no attention to the witch hiding around the corner behind the curtain.
LOL that house is about five minutes away from me, I drive past it each time I go to Northgate (shopping centre), most of those houses are owned by older people who have been living there for years. The covered in fireplace is not unusual in what was once a Housing Department home, my previous house also had a covered in fireplace, wood is not cheap here, so it’s easier to block the fireplaces off and install an electric or gas heater.
I tell you what, it’s not a bad price for the area and if I had that sort of money and didn’t mind living on a very busy main access road, I’d buy it
At midnight, the Foosball Army comes to attention under the command of the Stick Witches, and they stage a war against the Chucky Brigade. The previous “first-time homebuyers” got caught in the crossfire, and are on the mantel.
Do NOT get out of your bed, children. Not for ANY REASON.
They have a highchair and baby photos, so I’m going to assume they have a baby that is mobile or soon to be mobile.
Yikes! I wouldn’t want to be keeping a baby away from all that stuff
I still find this way less creepy than the house with the clown and zombie girl
Glenorchy. There’s your answer right there.
I just find this house depressing for some reason.
Actually, now that I think about it – why is there a Foosball table, a pileup of children’s toys, and tacky Halloween decorations in what appears to be the most formal room of the house? Now that’s odd!