What their backyard actually looks like…
Found By: Anon, and written by Discount Bob
Loveliest comment, by EL Fay: The inside actually looks pretty decent – except for Chair’s companion, Mr. Outdoor Table, being placed in the family room.
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Their backyard is actually an abstract of the bathroom… in place of the curtain itself, they have a blue tarp in the backyard.
The inside actually looks pretty decent – except for Chair’s companion, Mr. Outdoor Table, being placed in the family room.
I think the patio table in the living room is my favourite part of the listing. I guess they really do want their outdoors in…
This post nicely captures something about California (cf. Santa Cruz), that my lizard brain was always dimly aware of and uneasily trying to recalibrate. It’s not that the backyard (or the curtain) is so bad in itself, it’s just how they’re almost, but not quite, entirely unlike each other.
Thanks for crystallizing that weird off resonance.
Aww, yay to them for having a dream. Good luck to the next owners in pursuing it.
It reminds me of my office… four gray tank walls that I’ve decorated as much as possible, to my boss’s bemusement, with a white trellis and a fake climbing flower vine and a poster much like that shower curtain (tropical rainforest, waterfalls, dolphins). Sure it’s unconventional… some would undoubtedly say tacky and unprofessional… but I can’t live without sunlight and beauty and dreams.
Looking at this house, I come away with two thoughts:
1.Why oh why do they have that blue canopy in the driveway front of the garage? Do they have so much junk squished in there that it’s about to burst out?
2.Considering the dirt yard, the driveway canopy, the tarp in the backyard, the bondage hoops or whatever it is on the frontyard tree, and the weird enclosed protrusion in the front of the house, the neighbors must be praying for somebody, ANYBODY, else to move in.
Fan palm-cum-rat’s-nest. Time for a tree service!
Wow, I was sure that was Florida; specifically, St. Lucy County where I used to live in an old Florida neighborhood that looked just like that. Blue tarps, piles of things everywhere, palm trees and even the bathroom looks just like that 1950s Florida bathroom I had. Except it is sewer connected (we had a septic tank).
No mirror in the bathroom. Not ideal. And, isn’t that Chair or his cousins out in the back yard? You would think he’d be enjoying the curtains in the bathroom or hanging out in the living room with Table.
I think my favourite thing is when you click on the image so that the whole advert is opened, the estate agent has writted ‘updated bathroom’ OMG what on Gods green earth did it look like BEFORE they UPDATED it?!!! :0
Is it bad that I not only identified this as East San Diego, but also correctly identified the neighborhood? We’ve been looking at an awful lot of properties in the area… some more awful than others. This one didn’t make our visit list. But the backyard is bigger and more landscaped than some others we’ve seen, maybe it’s worth a shot!