It’s aspirational staging! One walk through this house and you’ll be thinking If I lived here, I would shop at Macy’s… and Victoria’s Secret… and some random other stores… and I would buy SO MUCH TISSUE PAPER.
Loveliest comment, by Susan: Can someone explain why you leave a wrapped gift on top of the toilet? That’s not where I usually look for presents!
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No amount of tissue paper can hide what is going on with that bathroom sink, unfortunately
looks like i’d be buying lots of CLR.
I would have put the Macy’s bag directly in the sink!
Let’s hope there are some cleaning supplies in one of those bags!
Is it wrong that it bothers me that the Vickie’s bag is in the bathroom, and not the bedroom? I would have expected a Bath and Bodyworks bag in the bathroom… And the sink is quite icky!
I love the shopping bag look! It would go perfectly with my Crazy Cat Lady decorating theme!
Or crazy Hedgehog Lady decorating theme!
Mudslicker is stalking me, I need an adult!
You’re only gonna be safe in cakewrecks! The insufferable repeatability of those comments makes my nose bleed. There is a point when 240 comments pretty much saying the same thing (“OMG that cake is horrible!”) would get on Jesus’ last nerve.
You need an adult? LOL…how ’bout the mom going to Florida looking for 2 kittens for her teenagers she left at home in Oregon? *count your blessings*
Cheers,
mudsy
I know how you feel. She’s everywhere.
Guess I didn’t need to buy lots of spendy sculptures for decorating….I coulda just used bags and tissue paper!
Can someone explain why you leave a wrapped gift on top of the toilet? That’s not where I usually look for presents!
From the look of things, I’d say someone left a present in the sink, too.
For Toiletmas, the annual holiday where families gather round the toilet and flush away little pieces of paper representing their frustrations and give gifts to celebrate a happy and regular future. Traditionally, gifts consist of high fiber cereals and Maalox, but commercialization means that, much like Christmas, toys and electronics are common, though still with a toilet theme. I remember Toiletmas when I was a kid, waking up at 4 in the morning and rushing to the bathroom, in the hopes of finding what high fiber presents lay under the bowl. I still remember the best one, where I got some all bran and the then new game Diarrhea Dan for my Tandy Color Computer, and we sang songs about the toilets we have known and the exciting new toilets we would see in the future. This year my family is going to save up for a trip to famous bathrooms around the world, though it is a busy season and hotels are booking fast.
“Good morning, sweetheart, I left a present for you in the bathroom…And no, it’s not THAT..”
And what is the sink wearing?
We looked at a house on the market several years ago, and instead of hanging art or photographs on the walls, the walls were covered in shopping bags. At first, we thought it was because the owner liked showing off that they shopped in “upscale” stores. But, then, as you went on, there were bags from cheap stores hanging up there, too.
Someone should tell the realtor that most people don’t “aspire” to have a bathroom sink that looks like someone took a crap in it. Yikes!
I guess the gifts are supposed to have a psychological effect leaving you to think, “This house is a gift.”
The gifts are supposed to highlight the good parts of the house like the fancy double doors.
But, really, what is the going on with that sink? Are the gifts in the bathroom supposed to highlight the filth in the sink? It makes me nauseous.
This thing is four units for $149,000. That’s $37,250 for each. Investment is right.
Seriously, what is in that sink? My first thought was a stain of some sort, but I could swear it has some kind of texture to it, which is extra disturbing.
Just looks like a rust stain to me. Like the pipes corroded, leaked at the base of the faucet, and ran a layer of rust down the porcelin. Yucky but not uber-disgusting.
The house is 94 years old — clearly carved up into apartments at some point — look at the faucets, there are entirely separate cold and hot taps, with separate knobs which isn’t even legal any longer (scalds the hell out of people, as you can’t mix the cold and hot until it is in the basin).
Just saying, that sink is like original to the property. It’s rust, minerals, etc. etc. The bluish haze maybe that it is porcelain over copper/bronze (both of which tarnish that color) and the porcelain has worn thin. That’s the texture you’re seeing, the porcelain has worn away.
We renovated a house from 1912 and a couple of the original things in there nearly scared the life out of us…and basically they were just old.
Ah, that would explain it. It’s such a small job to replace one of those little sinks, (about $100, and a couple of hours of time) it seems like the kind of thing one would do before putting it on the market. Or, maybe that’s just me.
It’s not just you, emmy
And seriously, that’s not up to code, which is probably going to be an issue when it comes to inspection (upon which most financing depends).
So yeah, cough up the one hundred bucks and save yourself the hassle, would also be my advice.
It says a lot about my brain that the first pic is mentally accompanied by a cheery voice asking me if I wish to partake of fries.
“I left you a gift on the toilet!”
Words designed to make the most stalwart of us run for the hills.
And if you run out of tissue paper for the bags, you can always use toilet paper.
(Preferably unused.)
Hey, I give the real estate agent points for trying to add some freaking color to the land that Beige Usurped.
Besides, half the time in listings it looks like agents can’t be bothered to even look before clicking. It’s 149k, for four one bedroom units, as gross as that sink really and truly is, at least whoever is selling the joint painted and cleaned first.
For only 149k in San Antonio it can’t be in a good neighborhood, can it?
Actually, the neighborhood, Beacon Hill, is pretty decent — I live there. It’s very close to the famous Monte Vista and the Riverwalk and Woodlawn Park. The neighborhood has been featured several times in the local newspaper as a great place to live. Yet the neighborhood is still a little bit undiscovered and filled with fixer uppers that are very slow to move off the market.
The price is a bit questionable. It’s not terribly high for the neighborhood, but it would be likely to sell much quicker for about $30,000 off the asking price. The price is a bit high end for the neighborhood and this house is definitely not high end.
OOHHH pretty bags, perfect for taking mind off skid marks in sink for a moment. Works like this – see skid mark WTF!, see bags – ooh pretty, see skid mark – WTF? This goes on and on until you get confused and it turns into see shopping bags WTF?, see skid mark – oooh pretty.
Their home stager needs to spend less time shopping at Victoria’s Secret and more time shopping at a furniture store!
I suspect the bags are for your head. The house would look better if you were wearing one…