Oh no! The weight of the butterflies caused the house sink into the ground until only the roof remained visible. How tragic.
Found by: Aliza
Loveliest comment, by jim-bob: This house is located in Gulf Breeze, Florida. Now, for those of you who have never heard of it, it was the location of a rash of UFO sightings a few years ago. An A frame is sort of like a pyramid, so this house was obviously built and furnished by aliens looking to use it’s pyramidal shape and butterfly wallpaper to induce a mind control vortex and take over the local population. Sadly, the aliens did not have the greatest of credit due to their lack of employment history on this planet, and ended up getting a sub-prime loan with an adjustable rate. it wound up getting foreclosed on by a force greater than their technology- the collapse of the US economy. Thus we see it offered here, waiting to be used by a new owner in their quest for world domination.
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That wallpaper wouldn’t be so bad if it was just on one accent wall, but it’s way too “heavy” and overwhelming to be on all four, especially with a gabled ceiling and a mirror. Augh! Save us from distortions in the space-time continuum!
That sink, on the other hand, is just ugly. In particular, that color should never be set into wood. In a plain white counter in an ultra-”modern” black-and-white bathroom…. ok, maybe, though not to my taste. In THAT bathroom… no way.
Aaaaand my comment is again awaiting moderation. Sara, your blog hates me.
I’m sorry, Vivian! I gave it a stern talking to, yet it still acts up. I don’t see anything in the spam filters that’s obviously connected, and my LOLcat overlords don’t know what it is, either.
It’s ok, I’ll cope.
Maybe your spam filter is secretly a Democratic lobbyist paid to discourage folks like me from participating… my troubles seemed to start around the time of the infamous Limbaugh Lovely Listing.
*just in case anybody didn’t get that, I’m joking*
*blacklists Vivian*
That brings back memories. Dad once repainted the bathroom walls in Summer and left the windows open to help the paint dry. We came back to find a good few number of butterflies stuck all over the walls.
Somewhere, there is a really scary storm brewing, and the clouds are a nice 70′s plaid.
What misterious odour could led more butterflies to a bathroom than to a flowery garden..???
It’s like a f**king magic eye painting. I can’t stop looking!
I’m pretty sure it was the orange sink that attracted them.
But is there a pod shower that matches? Because there would be in Norway!
I wonder how much it would cost to get a Norwegian Crayola Shower imported to the US.
I’ve tried to research it, but putting “Norwegian” and “shower” into a search engine garners some… interesting results.
why is this house in Florida and not Minnesota or Alaska?
I can see it belongs more where snows are heavier. than a non-snow state.
by the way. I live in Minn and want to move to Alaska.
that sink should have been a pale green or blue. not a 70s heavy red. or at least a white to match the toilet.
Pyramid power protects you from hurricanes.
I wonder about that, seriously. Would an A-frame roof be more or less likely to rip in 150 mph winds? Sounds like a job for the Mythbusters!!
(They already tested one hurricane myth using a machine called the Medusa that simulates a Cat 2 storm.)
you are better off in a cement dome home than a A frame
It’s in the Garden of Eden, honey.
Well, Clarice – have the lambs stopped screaming?
Okay, this gets my vote for best comment. Esp. w/ that avatar–*perfect*!
The sink is far, far, FAR worse than the wallpaper. *shudders* That sink violates the laws of nature.
Quick! To the Bat Sink!
Worse than the sink is the toilet seat. You think they could have replaced that, or at least closed the lid?
We used to have an A-frame house over the road when I was growing up … I so wanted to live in that house!!!
(perhaps not with butterflies, though …)
An A-frame! Holy 60′s, Batman! (Well, that’s when I first became aware of them.) I actually love this house, could even see myself living there. Hey, I could do a lot with a bathroom with a red sink! But I agree, the butterflies would have to go. I like butterflies, really I do, but these have the heft and weight of… well, as you so aptly said, Sara.
One thought, realtor-wise, on the listing. The house shows beautifully, very pristine, but the garage pic is an off note. Looking carefully, I see that it is extremely neat and organized, and all that stuff probably belongs to the excellent workmen who made the house look so good (except for, well, you know) but it’s still a jarring note after all the clean pics. I think I would have mentioned the deep garage in the specs but not included a pic. What do y’all think?
Holy cow, did anybody else use the scroll wheel on this post in Google Reader? The bathroom photo is TOTALLY PULSATING AND TRIPPY. MY MIND IS BLOWN.
OK, the wallpaper is a bit much, and the orange sink would have to go, but otherwise I kind of think this house is awesome. When I was a kid, one of the houses my parents looked at was an A-frame house. I was so disappointed that they didn’t buy it. As it turned out, they didn’t move out of my childhood home until well after I had left home.
Ah yes, the A frame house. There was one near my kindergarten in California, I thought it was the coolest house EVER, never got to see the inside of it though.
And my opinion changed when I was a few years older and one of the guys in my neighbourhood started building a ‘ball house’ (not sure what the technical term is for it). He had the frame in this parking lot behind my house, and he’d let us play on it. So cool.
Geodesic dome?
This house is located in Gulf Breeze, Florida. Now, for those of you who have never heard of it, it was the location of a rash of UFO sightings a few years ago. An A frame is sort of like a pyramid, so this house was obviously built and furnished by aliens looking to use it’s pyramidal shape and butterfly wallpaper to induce a mind control vortex and take over the local population. Sadly, the aliens did not have the greatest of credit due to their lack of employment history on this planet, and ended up getting a sub-prime loan with an adjustable rate. it wound up getting foreclosed on by a force greater than their technology- the collapse of the US economy. Thus we see it offered here, waiting to be used by a new owner in their quest for world domination.
FTW!
Aliens? Pyramids? Where is the Stargate?
World Domination?
In-a-Gadda-da-Vida, honneyh,
Are ya gonna shower, too?
In-a-Gadda-da-Vida, honneyh,
Gotta go! Will ya ever be through-hoo?
*drum solo*
i wonder if you could do this in cob for the walls.
as in sand, straw, clay with a lime overcoat to protect the walls.
TINY kitchen, fridge door opens wrong way….
Claustrolepidopterophobia…the fear of this wallpaper.
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