Clearly this is not how things were supposed to be. Let’s look at the box:
Whoops! Looks like we included the wrong set of paints. Sorry about that! We’ll send out a replacement ASAP.
Found By: Lori
Loveliest comment, by KS: Mary Engelbreit called. She wants her house back.
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You could certainly tone down that house by using less… er, striking… colors, but just the sheer number and pattern of different colors would make it stand out regardless. Even the shapes in the architecture say “Look at me!” Someone wanted their home to be memorable.
Interior is interesting too, without being as spectacular as the outside except for the bright red kitchen or whatever it is. The hardwood floors are excellent, if worn, and I’m glad the owners’ desire to paint didn’t extend to them.
If somebody decides to tear this house down I hope they sell it for parts.
It looks a little like it is already *made* of parts, like one of those old beaten up cars where every panel is from a different colour car where they’ve been replaced one by one over the years. The ones where the advert says “bodywork needs a little doing but runs really well”
The exterior paint job evokes Hundertwasser (http://reisserbilder.at/bildergross/Hundertwasser_Haus_Wien_House_Vienna_Spaetsommer_Late_Summer_BH274_g.jpg) even though the house is so scruffy looking. And at least it’s interesting and not some bland tapioca and puke combination that you can see on so many bland, uninteresting houses these days.
Yes yes yes! I love it when people use an actual color. For the record, pay attention rug + house paint people – the aforementioned tapioca/puke as well as cat poop/beige/dull sage/etc are anti colors.
I don’t know what it is about black and white checkerboard but it draws me. I was going to use it to accent my periwinkle and purple trimmed potting shed- just the edges on the hutch shelves- but my honey bunny forstalled me by using old barn boards. *Sweetie! Was that on purpose!?*
There is surely no finer use for Photoshop skillz than reverse-engineered paint-by-numbers.
What? No Colorforms?
Squeee! I love colorforms! Thanks for the memories.
I not only had and loved Colorforms, but I had what I guess can best be described as Felt Colorforms — don’t know the actual name of them. You had a black felt-covered board and a whole ton of different shapes and superbright colors outlining people, trees, animals, etc and through the magic of uh, felt, you could stick them on the board and layer them into pictures. Then later, like Colorforms, you could peel all the pieces back off to reuse again and again. Anyone else here remember them? This house looks like something I “assembled” with the Felt Colorforms.
Ah, flannelgraphs… beloved of Sunday school teachers everywhere. My mom had a set with literally thousands of pieces, designed to illustrate every scene in the Bible. It came not-pre-cut-out so we devoted hours to cutting out all those little tiny pieces of felt; I don’t think we ever completely finished.
But I don’t remember seeing a set that wasn’t Bible-related.
Ah yes! I had a set, not made for Sunday school but I remember them there as well. As I recall they “stuck” longer than the Colorforms (memories!) I’m afraid that we are dating ourselves here. I will come clean and admit that I am, alas, “mid-century.”
Don’t worry, I’m considerably younger and we had them too.
Sadly, though, I think they’ve been replaced by videos and computer-generated graphics for the current generation of kids.
Flannelboards! I’m fully immersed in the world of preschoolers, and trust me — they’re still used all the time.
flannelboards and Colorforms….. sigh: the good old days. MUCH more fun than playing with any computer-generated ‘equivilent’ (ya can’t stick video to Mom’s stove like Colorforms, can ya?!? and if you’re lucky, felt can be fun with a cat…..
Called fuzzyfelts in the UK, or at least in my house. Hours of fun
Clearly they are intending to use the house for crash tests.
Mary Engelbreit called. She wants her house back.
*LOL*
win!
They run out of paint for the back of the house?
It’s reminiscent of the Frederickson house in the movie “Up”…..
It’s almost like the house was decorated by someone with multiple personalities. Each personality with a distinctly different sense of style. Interesting.
Yeah, I see that. Some personalities are heavily manic, others incredibly depressed, as evidenced by the blah-colored rooms. And the storage shed–what happened there?!
I dunno, overall I don’t like this colory one as much as some previous ones. It just looks kindof tired and sad.
If you click on “Home Info” on the listing page, it almost sounds as if the house has been used as a business, rather than a residence for quite some time. It evidently sits on a highway.
So, that at least is part of what is going on, and may explain why the back looks like it hails from a far more depressing universe.
We actually drive right by this house when we go home (from Dallas, TX to Albuquerque, NM) to see my family. If it was being used as a business, I don’t remember it – it’s probably been vacant for a while.
Tattoos and Antiques. It was designed to be eye-catching for business draw.
I think it’s awesome that someone was organised enough to completely color index their entire home. Deep red = kitchen, Green = garden, Orange = driveway, Deep blue = bathroom, Beige = living room. Outdoor walls = black and white. I imagine they have a ring binder folder with colored inserts with an inventory and a list of things to do in each section.
It actually kinda reminds me of B.J’s Roadhouse from the Beetlejuice cartoons. XD
Total win. I hadn’t placed the ‘look a like’ quality, but you nailed it!
Looks as though poor Doors smartly laid down and played dead so as not to be attacked by the mad paintbrush phantom.
“Okay guys, here he comes, act natural…dooh, dum e dum…OK, NOW!” *doors fall to floor in unison*
And we were all excited about The Purple House.
This house looks like it escaped from a MacKenzie-Childs catalogue. Check this out, I’m serious! http://www.mackenzie-childs.com/Decor/
I think there is a scary movie called “The Town That Dreaded Sundown” (if I remember it right) based on some murders that happened in Childress, Texas way back when.
Maybe the house is frantically trying to combat the bad mojo.
ROTFL, Needs to have a Palm Reader sign in the window.