So you might be thinking this is bad trompe l’oeil in the photo above. It is not bad trompe l’oeel. It is good tromp l’oil. Here, from a house on the other side of the globe, is bad trampe l’ouil:
Yes, it’s realistic, but is it desirable? No, it is not, and that is why it is bad tromp l’oull.
At least I hope it’s tromp l’oeil. Because if it isn’t, it means that somebody is actually selling a house that looks like that… nah. That’s crazy talk. Tramp l’oil it is!
P.S. Because I am nothing if not helpful: tromp looey.
Found by: Nina
Loveliest comment, by Stuart: I think what amazes me the most about these is that the roadrunner can go right through them yet the coyote always gets his face smashed.
Found by: Taya
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“The house is getting a little tired but could be made liveable by the energetic purchaser.” I guess it *is* tired… that poor little section of wall just couldn’t keep its eyes open any longer. I can definitively say that I don’t have enough energy to wake up that house.
On the first one… like! Sneer if you like, but that’s a happy wall.
In the listing, they appear to have taken down the photo of sleepy wall. I like the photo of the dining room, though, with Desk and Dining Set cowering in awe of Gigantic Hutch.
The photos are from two different listings. Sleepy Wall is in listing #2. It’s still there.
Oh, I should make that clearer. I’ll put something in…
I just looked at listing #2. Yikes!
“…did we mention it was cheap?…”
I think what amazes me the most about these is that the roadrunner can go right through them yet the coyote always gets his face smashed.
*snortrofl*
Yea that second one is a unique fixer upper that could really use the help of a can of gas and some matches!
Did you say “tramp l’ol”?
“the house is getting a little tired” That house looks like it got up early, ran a half marathon, played a game of soccer, hit the gym, took some recreational drugs and stayed up till 4 in the morn at a club shaking its thang and waving glow sticks.
*stifles rofl at work*
BTW, good clarification, Sara. Thanks.
i’m not sure which creeps me out more: the open door in the hallway on the left of the bottom photo or the woman’s portrait on the right in the first one. and neither curtain is comforting.
did anyone else notice that “trompe l’oeil” was spelled increasingly worse throughout this post?
Re: the second listing–do the picture of the dog’s butt sticking out of the shrubbery and the picture of the brown thing floating in the toilet go together? Is this the tromp doh-lay? Or whatever? (sorry, I learned German in high school.)
the first house the storage units in that one bedroom is kinda neat.
That wallpaper that has the ocean view is actually the same wallpaper in my hairdresser’s salon. I don’t go there anymore.