So… much… wood paneling. Do you think it’s structural?
Check this out:
Man, that stereo system is state-of-the-art circa 1968. But I do not judge – my stereo (as I call it, for I am old) is hooked up to the speakers my parents bought just around that same time. The screen on them is gold. And they still work. Thank you, Consumer Reports, for recommending that particular set of speakers; they’ve held up well for over four decades, even as they’ve irritated various audiophile housemates. My point being that this might be a perfect acceptable stereo system, so long as you still have your records and reel-to-reel tapes.
More wood. How much more wood can the house take? And why didn’t they do the ceiling? Slackers.
Tee hee. The house is on Pine Street. Tee hee. Lookee! There, in the corner! More wood, just waiting for you to move in and put it somewhere. The windows? The floors? Your car? Have at it, kids.
Found by: Giordana
P.S. I’ll be putting up the contest winner just as soon as the babysitter gets here and I — uh, I mean the panel of judges — has a chance to read all the entries.
Loveliest comment, by Cellar Door: It’s like a pedal steel guitarists convention in there.
(Every steel guitar player has a picture of himself in front of wood paneling. It’s a mystery why, but it’s true.)
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I think the house is on We Used to Have Pines Street
Not the best home for a pet beaver. Well, the beaver might think so!
I love wood, but have to admit, this is a little over the top.
Old stereo equipment is great, though. Nowadays they build this stuff to fail in 2-3 years, with the thought that you’ll want to buy the latest-and-greatest technology anyway. My parents still have huge old speakers from the 60s or 70s, I think, that still sound great.
Yup the stereo is awesome! I’d guess it might even be a tube set from the early 60s. If so it should sound really nice. Gorgeous.
Wood paneling EVERYWHERE!
Judging by the stereo equipment, I bet the wiring in the house is circa 1968 as well (cloth insulation and all). Just in case that wasn’t a big enough fire hazard, lets just throw in a fireplace with a hearth that just barely meets the 1968 state regulation length. Put some loose hanging curtains near the fiiirree…PERFECT!
LOL! They even have a woodshop next to the water heater!!!
1968 wiring likely wouldn’t have cloth insulation but it might be, and likely is, aluminum, which presents hazards of its own:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum_wire
Wow, you really think highly of yourself. Of course I’m sure your home looks better. The house has been there all of these years and the fireplace has had many fires and guess what? It diidn’t burn down. I bow to your incompetence.
“Heh heh…that house has wood, Beavis.”
“Yeah…wood! Heh…heh…wait, I don’t get it.”
I’m cruising for the original listing, and I came across some other street names from Hyde Park, MA that seem to apply. I wonder how far this house is from the intersection of Wood Avenue and Deforest St?
That map they linked to looks a lot like Colorado. Perhaps the house is best seen from afar…very afar.
Termite heaven.
Wow. Haven’t seen that particular Sound System since I was in High School. We actually had the exact same system in our house. It dates to 1958. And includes speakers in each room that can also be used as an intercom. Our house also had mucho panelling but was in Indiana.
Ah, memories.
It wood be kind of hard to live there.
Sorry, that’s all I’ve got this morning.
The exterior shape of the house looks like its just a built up double wide.
Man i wish I had kept those old records.
I’m in love with the in the wall stereo system! ME WANT!
THIS IS SPARTANNNNNNNN!!!
What, no hardwood flooring?
This is almost the clone of our house = wood walls, the same kitchen and yes – WOODEN FLOORS. And yes, it is on Pine Road in PA. Sometimes its like living in a cigar box. But then, when you don’t have to paint for over ten years, you realise it is not so dumb. In my kitchen, I have one of the original incounter blenders from the fifties,complete with pink blender on top. It still works.
I know — it was quite disappointing to see the floors appear to be linoleum. But not to worry — I’m sure it’s the authentic kind with asbestos!
The best thing about a house like that though, is no matter what floor you’re on, you feel like you’re in a basement. So if for some reason, you are actually living in the basement, cheer up — it’s just as oppressively dark and dank upstairs in the malachite green vinyl bathroom!
I miss the days when I used to live in the woods. I think I’ve finally found a house that will let me relive that experience.
Problem is, this house has more of a Unabomber living-in-the-woods feel than a Thoreau living-in-the-woods feel. Which is amazing when you realize it’s in Massachusetts and not Montana.
I love it! To live there though I would feel like I would need to have a wife who would greet me at the door with a dry martini as I came home from my ulcer inducing job at an advertising agency. I think the house’s dress code would also require me to wear a narrow lapelled suit and she would have to be dressed in pearls and high heels all the time.
I’ll bet there’s a year’s supply of Benzedrine in the yellow bathroom cabinet.
The dream home for Ed from “Shawn of the Dead”
It’s like a pedal steel guitarists convention in there.
(Every steel guitar player has a picture of himself in front of wood paneling. It’s a mystery why, but it’s true.)
Finally, an answer to “Why do the have ovens in the living room?” from MST3K’s version of Eegah. I never knew such stereo equipment existed, but I actually think it’s really cool.
How many innocent trees had to die for this abomination?
A moment of silence, please.
I wonder how many trees had to die for a bunch of poorly written childrens books? A moment of silence, please.
How many innocent trees had to die for the wasteful family photographs hanging all over my walls?
Nope. I’m going to have to pass. I specifically told my agent that I require TWO turntables and a microphone.
They obviously ran out of wood. They likely removed all wood from Massachusetts and the neighboring states in order to line this house with wood.
Too bad they fell short of wood before their project of an all wood lined house was completed.
As for the stereo, they can’t remove it because they have no more wood!
The only thing I actually dislike about this one is it’s location: theres what, three or four feet between it and the next house?!?
I’d say eight or nine feet. The letters on the window-shutters are a nice touch – I don’t know if it’s P for Pine or whether a cheerleader lived there.
I still have TONS of records that I can still play on my [inherited from my mother] Emerson “stereo” … all the kids are jealous. But I don’t have pull-down turntables.
I’ll bet this is REAL wood paneling, too, unlike the stuff we got in our house in Louisiana that was plywood with a PHOTOGRAPH of wood-grain on it. That was classy, man.
All this talk of deforestation reminded me of a joke, or actually a skit from some TV show. I have no idea what show it was, but i do seem to recall that it involved Martin Mull and maybe Tom Poston.
Martin Mull is seated on a riding mower that he has been riding across the United States. Tom Poston is interviewing him about his journey and asks him about what has been the most difficult part of his trip so far.
Mull explains that the worst part of the trip so far has been his ride through the Mojave Forest. Poston responds, “Surely you must mean the Mojave Desert.”
To which Mull replies, “Well sure, now!”
Maybe you had to be there.
My first thought was “well, you could always paint!” and then i got exhausted just thinking about it.
what?
….faints from the idea of covering good wood with paint instead of restaining…….
Let’s be clear on this, people: Not all wood is GOOD wood. You don’t want to cover good wood with paint; however, most of the wood in these photos looks inexpensive and fairly mediocre. It’s no sin to cover up a lot that with paint.
An example of good wood vs. not so good wood: Along with the “before” photos, a neighbor proudly showed me his kitchen cabinets which he lovingly stripped several layers of paint from, then varnished so the natural wood is on display. He grumbled about people who cover “good wood” with paint. Only those cabinets are cheap a** pine – plywood subflooring, if I’m not mistaken – and despite his hard work, they looked 100% better painted. Yes, I was smart enough not to point that out. And I’ll be painting MY cheap a** pine kitchen cabinets over the summer.
My high-school used a reel tape deck and record player just like that. Mostly it was used too teach country dancing. Every three weeks, they’d get a new tape with an announcer listing all the requests for that month following by the music. Wonder if that room was a dance hall?
fyi: the reason the ceilings are not wood in the kitchen & the room adjacent is because building code prohibits wood ceiling in kitchens & bathrooms because of moisture & heat. gypsum (sheet rock) is less flammable & absorbent.
“Eagahhhhh…..”
“Shtimlo….”
Finally, a place for me to park my woody! Just let me pack up my reels of Don Ho…