My fellow Americans: you know how Europeans are all “oh, you Yanks, you think a 100-year-old house is old, you are so funny, my aunt lives in a house that was built by the Aurignacians, look at you and your silly screened-in-porches and modern wiring?” Yeah. I’m okay with that.
This listing here shows all all Europeans live. Every. Single. One.
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Loveliest comment, by TacoMagic: I always wanted to live in a giant bread oven. Think of how easy it would be to bake!
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I expect to see the Ghost Hunters team walk around the corner any moment now.
More like the GHI team. But they’re not big on orb sightings. This is more in line with those 3 stooges from Ghost Adventures. They can spot a succubus from 800 kilometers away and still manage to shit their pants.
I was thinking the same thing! Orbs, tons of orbs!!!! It must be proof of ghosts!
Not to mention the really tall headless guy in the bottom picture.
LOL!
So when I hear some snob bragging about their “little place in France”, this is what they really mean? No thanks, no thanks…
That real estate agent looks, mean. Like she’d beat you with a stick if you told her you weren’t interested in living in a 500 year old converted barn.
I was thinking that too… “If you so much as say ONE EFFING WORD against this apartment, I’LL RIP YOUR EFFING HEAD OFF!!!!!”
The whole thing is pretty frightening. It looks more like a horror movie set; but maybe the Euros are more into that kind of thing.
yeah, considering the current state of real estate sales, couldn’t she at least *fake* a smile? or at least less of a snarl?!?
I always wanted to live in a giant bread oven. Think of how easy it would be to bake!
[stalker] Good luck with dealing with the yeast infections. Is that bread baking or are you just happy to see me?[/stalker]
*tossing TM some antibiotics*
antibiotics won’t work against French bread oven/house yeast infections. You have to call in the pillsbury dough boy to clear those up.
This is what happens when you don’t take your French Preventional furniture regularly.
This is the second time i’ve seen someone reference one blog from the comments in the other; I wonder if LL and YSAC have a lot of common readers?
LL and YSAC are deeply in love.
My god. It really does look like an oven. And it’s in a part of Europe that was occupied by the Nazis during WWII. I have a horrible feeling about what this building was used for before it was converted into a house.
It’s a family reunion! I see Aunt Martha, and Uncle Joe, and Great Great Gran Trudy, and look… over there in the corner, it’s Jacob, our cousin three times removed…
The French even got Elvis! (linked to a real estate pic from France) (sob)
wow – I did seriously think for a while that was my parents house in France, same loft, cellar etc. Took me a few minutes to work out that it wasn’t, but the pictures are almost exactly how their house looked about 3 years ago when they first bought it, although they have renovated it now
Most French farmhouses look like this, it’s not unusual, they can’t be bothered to take care of them and usually have a huge farmhouse which is 90% derelict and only live in one downstairs room.
It’s probably more a case of not being able to afford to, than not bothering. Then there is also the problem of selling – under Napoleonic law, every possible inheritee has a fractional share of the property, and you must get their permission before selling. So it just stays in the family, until either everyone can be traced including emigrated relatives. Some sell off the old barns to pay for renovations. Then those buyers realize that they don’t have the time or the money to add such features as floorboards, electricity or loft insulation. Many homes also have the staircase to upstairs as an optional fitted unit, so they have to save up and wait for a craftsman to construct the staircase.
My parents bought a house in Brittany – it was originally owned by someone who used it as a holiday home for his family. The inside looked just like that shack in New Jersey (I’ve still got the original photographs). The only bathroom was in one of the bedrooms, while the bath-tub was in the basement. The upstairs floor consisted of a bedroom and two spare rooms both of which had the fibre-glass insulation hanging off the rafters. The only flooring material was old linoleum on the ground floor and some red plastic sheets on the top floors. Even the fuse-box only had 9 kilowatts, so would trip out when the cooker and washing machine were in use. The basement contained old farming implements as well as jars of white powders that not even the recycling centre would touch.
by the way the bottom pic is a cellar (like the parents have) but they do also have an enormous bread oven as well. The ceiling is much much lower than that.
Okay, I’ll be the weirdo. I want it! I want the nooks and crannies and stone walls and potential black mold infestation…I just want it!
I’ll drink to that. As soon as I have the money . . . both to buy it and to do some remodeling to get rid of the mold . . .
That second picture looks exactly like the armory at Fort McHenry. Which I suppose summates why America is so great — the Europeans consider a moldy, dank, windowless stone chamber a place to call home. We use it to store munitions so we can blow the British back across the Atlantic!
O SAY CAN YOU SEEEEE?
I think it has its charms…
In the attic, there’s a space to the left that looks like a cabinet or cubbyhole. It’s almost the perfect size for a diary!
Where are the monks? Shouldn’t there be a herd of monks included?
Too bad you say all Europeans live like this. I can remember from my 3 years of living in Germany that not that large a percentage of the population there lives like this. They remodel and update their homes. They take care of them so even after several hundred years they look great. Must be a French thing is why it looks like crap.
..all Europeans live like this.. is an all snark, rather than fact, based statement on Sara’s part. Lovely Listing isn’t like the Old Testament where everything should be taken literally*…
*note: this was another statement of snark on my part.
Your avatar really lightened up that comment to a VERY laughable degree.
Is this where one of Charles Dexter Ward’s European acquaintances lived (or lives)?
Thise house was there 400y ago and it will be there for another few centuries.
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oh sweet. It looks like a restaurant that I went to in the Czech Republic. Ah, good times.
So Eddie Izzard was wrong when he said they all live in castles? LOL Oh, just slap a coat of paint on, she’ll be as good as new :-p
And where’s the slaughter room, again?
Where’s that cask of amontillado?
Orbs. Lots and lots of orbs. I just hear Jason and Grant exhaling in weary disgust, “I think what you’ve got there is just some dust.”
Still, I must admit, if there’s a descent kitchen, bathroom, and W/D hookups, I’m game to live in this place. Lots o’character. Needs some Hello Kitty, though.