All the convenience of a medieval portcullis — now in an HOA-approved white-picket-fence style.
Found By: Jessica
P.S. Happy birthday, mom!
Loveliest comment, by Thrifty Thelma: Oh anthropomorphic house… your eyes say “come in” but your mouth says “go away”
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That’s not a picket fence. It has no pickets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picket_fence
To be completely technical, I don’t think that’s a “picket fence”– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picket_fence
More like the fencing that goes around farms. Except in Kentucky, they paint those fences black because it’s harder for the horses to see (and therefore harder to get a running start to jump over).
At any rate, I’m wondering if this is less of an actual photo and more of an artist’s rendering gone horribly, horribly wrong.
I love that Winston and I both cited wikipedia (independently, without seeing each other’s comments) as the authority on what constitutes a picket fence.
“Beautiful former Quadrant Home Model, never lived in.” – Obviously.
“Enter through your large covered porch into your new home.” – Or don’t.
“Seller will contribute $8,000 towards buyers closing costs.” – Doubtless because (like the garage door) none of the other exterior doors or windows actually open, all that furniture has been bolted to the floor, and all cushions, pictures, and knick-knacks on display have also been permanently affixed in their positions with industrial adhesive.
This is where those “do not disturb occupant” folks are moving… ;D
Oh anthropomorphic house… your eyes say “come in” but your mouth says “go away”.
Ha! Great comment!
It is bender from futurama pretending to be a house again
I would definitely paint in black lines onto the garage door, and put in some globe lamp-shades in the bedrooms.
Yes!
His nervous friend hides behind saying ‘nooooo.’
Hahaha
The fence … that fence …
Other: See the wall made out of LP records?
And finally: Whatever comes with the house, buyers will be paying 36 years of interest on, like all those curtains. What does _that_ add up to?
According to the listing, the only inclusion is the appliances so hopefully it wouldn’t be too bad.
Boy that must be a builder of exceptionally modest production homes. Who puts vinyl flooring in their model home? The entire idea behind a model home is to present the high-end package, to try and get buyers to spend more on extras.
I wonder what their basic model looks like? “Flooring: Packed Dirt”?
Having been recently in the market for a home, I was amazed at just how many model homes and new homes have vinyl floors! My agent thought it was strange that I was turned off by the prospect of lovely kitchens cabinets paired with gross patterned vinyl.
Hey, don’t be hatin’. They probably couldn’t afford a real porticullis, and fifteen rooms of beige paint and never-used IKEA furniture costs money.
Maybe the fence posts are hinged in some way, and you can lift them up and round like a gate?
BTW, What’s the story in the bedroom – the Rock’n'Roll themed bedroom where an entire record collection has been glued to the wall and sealed for eternity under a solid wall of glass?
I remember Hildi doing that on “Trading Spaces” over a decade ago! Guess we know “where she is now.”
Ah, I get it–it’s built GREEN, so you don’t NEED a garage for a car, b/c whoever buys this house doesn’t OWN a car, b/c (s)he is a complete granolahead!
I wonder what the garage is for then. ???
Of course, the garage is for the recycling sorting bins, the sprout growing table, and the solar powered water heater.
I don’t think my car is going to clear that fence. I hope the realtor can throw in a ramp for me!
It is for those gang-banger cars that have hydrolic thingamies that make them hop about. Just think how good the fence is going to look with the black lights you have under your car shining on it as you bounce over. The beige paint is a cunning disguise, a little more subtle than steel plated doors to stop the drug police and thieves getting in
This is not an odd find. It is a model home (it says so in the listing) that has been furnished by the builder. One of the model homes in my neighborhood didn’t even have a driveway until the rest of the lots were sold. I would not be surprised if another model home is next door, and the fence runs along the sidewalk between the two houses.
Yeah, um, we got that, dear. But a fence across the drive is a bit much.
And it would be less odd to have a garage and driveway facing a sidewalk running between two houses? I guess odd is relative (and sometimes relatives are odd!) but in my neighborhood, garages are accessible to the street–paved driveway or not–and not obstructed by fencing.
This “model home” has a wall of vinyl records (and “ROCK” written on the opposite wall), and the removable fence that’s keeping the driveway clean from all the model home visitors’ cars leaking oil is what is considered oddest here???
(sorry improper nesting; I wasn’t actually replying to John)
“Improper nesting”… I’ll have to remember that. Sounds like something the ref would call out at a football game between two teams of penguins.
I keep thinking there might be a railway line running across the garden, and that the picket fence is one of those railway crossing barriers. I can just hear the bells clanging now.
When there’s a few model homes in a row on a street, the builder will fence them in, so the prospective buyers are herded from one home to the next so they see each house before they leave.
Once the home is sold, the fences are removed. There’s nothing strange going on here.
Not to be all boring, but this is a model home, as mentioned earlier. It’s a model home for a KB Homes neighborhood, and the fence is there lest you commit the carnal sin of viewing the home without first going through the sales office where you no doubt pick up a salesperson tagalong.
Why such snark? I gave it the old five-second glance while searching for homes and thought, gee, that’s really weird to have a fence outside of the garage door. Model or not, if you’re selling it, the home should at least appear accessible. Geez. Tough crowd.
P.S. Record wall = amazing.
ahh, I get it! The record wall is load-bearing! or is it loud-bearing? I always mix those up.
NO GARAGE FOR YOU!
They took down the fence and put up a new photo! Whaddya want to bet they heard about making this blog?
im thinking …braces?
Maybe the fence is to keep lookie-loos from actually pulling into the garage and settling in.
The garage is actually a saloon in a dry county in Texas. The patrons can hitch their horses just outside