Click on the link. Do it! CLICK ON THE LINK! For it is glorious. Photos worthy of an Australian listing… and, come to think of it, nary a Crayola shower to be seen, which makes me a little suspicious. Do we really know that this is in Norway? No, we do not, not until my ship comes in and I get to start doing field visits.
Do you think it’s all in excellent condition, or does the wallpaper smell of cigarette smoke? Oh I don’t care, I’m moving in immediately.
But wait. I just read the listing. My Norwegian is a bit rusty, so I used one of those webpage translatey thingies. According to it, the basement contains “Gang, laundry / boiler room, wc, storage rooms, barns, and snekkerbod vedbod.” Is that good? That doesn’t sound good. A street gang boiling laundry in a barn in the basement is bad enough, but throw in a snekkerbod vedbod and I’m pretty certain my mortgage company isn’t going to go along with my Move the Lovely Listing HQ to Norway! plan.
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Since I am Norwegian I can tell you there is nothing to worry about
Gang is the same as corridor or entre. Snekkerrom is like a hobbyroom. And vedbod is where you keep your firewood.
Well, if you don’t WANT it, Sara…
Nothing to worry about?? How about constant headaches?
and the alternating epileptic seizures and migraines.
Dibs on the second bedroom! I
love the carpets. I need to live there.
Me, too. This may very well be the best house ever. I’ll paper-rock-scissors you for it? Or maybe we can go splits?
Either way, that had better be carpet on the stairs, because if it’s wallpaper, somebody’s probably going to get hurt.
It gives me vertigo but I like it!
I`m actally from Norway and yes, the house is too.
Snekkerbod is a shed or room where you do carpenting, making spiceracks and other kludges.
Gang is hallway.
I`m also use that same web-page, looking for my first house, although lovevly, its a bit too expensive for me.
that bathroom has appeared in my dreams…except the long hall to the toilet was up a flight of stairs. scary.
I do love all of the seating options available…plenty of spots to curl up with a good book…or just sit down because you’re dizzy.
Snekkerbod = room for carpentry
Vedbod = storage for firewood
=)
Some of the photos in the original listing have fun captions. The rear view of the exterior is called “fasade bakside”, the doorway is an “inngang” and best of all, the bathroom is “bad”.
and the “parkering”: don’t forget the parkering!
These aren’t pictures of a real estate listing, they’re those 3D posters you used to see at the mall!
Ahh, this brings back memories of a dear friend who decorated with a similar flair. His living room had not only the ornate pseudo-french furniture but 9 different wallpapers, none matching in any way. So, a wall could have a lower wall paper, a chair-rail height border, an upper wallpaper and then a different border at the ceiling — four different wallpapers on one wall–not one the least bit related to the others. His whole house was done this way.
He said he liked many different wallpapers and saw no reason he should have to choose one. I’ve often wondered what the reaction was of the listing agent after he died …
I thought the homeowner either sold wallpaper or hated paint. I, too, part Norwegian that I am, feel dizzy. No wonder there are so many chairs! One bed but LOTS of chairs. Lots and lots of chairs… It must be due to the long dark winters they endure. Lots of chairs.
Just when you thought a picture was at its most glorious, the next one is even gloriouser, even if the oeuvre causes an olfactory reaction that brings to mind oatmeal cookies and Habitrails. But what boggles me is, are those gnomes on the sidewalk in picture 2? Seriously, what ARE those?
Yep, those are definitely gnomes. They appear to be in good spirits after celebrating something that gnomes usually celebrate.
They are celebrating the fact that the satellite dish is beaming “forever plaid” into the neighbor’s heads.
Wowee! That’s amazing. You didn’t even put some of the best pictures up!
“Gang” should mean the hallway.
I couldn’t decide which were the best, they were all so good. I might have to put up more.
Put them all up, so that they will be preserved forever once the place is sold and the estate agent page goes down. This place is too good to loose. It is just a festival of wonder. And eye-bleeding.
Snekkerbod is a small shed for woodworking and utilitys and vedbod is the hut or small outhouse where you keep the firewood.
So, the door opens onto the sink in the bedroom. No wonder the door looks beaten. Great design.
I suspect this is the maid’s quarters… but for the opportunity to enjoy such surroundings, I might apply. ;D
amazing!! i love it. although now i will have the English Beat song “mirror in the bathroom” stuck in my head all day. awesome.
now if I could only buy the one listed on Aug 27, 2010. and get some of the wallpaper from this one. i’d be one happy sahm……
I like the little pink flower sticker they put on the toilet tank to help it blend in with the wallpaper. Didn’t work though – needed about 500 more to accomplish that task!
Well, I am HIGHLY disappointed in that shower.
Wow. It’s like the Anti-IKEA. Like the owner got beaten up by Swedes and vowed never to have anything to do with anything Swedish again.
OMG. You have won the thread. I laughed so hard my stomach hurts.
Agreed.
ANTI-IKEA!
LOL
I adore the simplicity of Danish Modern, as do these homeowners, apparently.
I love that the water lines in the bathroom leading to the sink and toilet are wallpapered to match also. (Or painted, is it possible to wallpaper water pipes?) Now that’s some serious dedication to wallpaper.
That is very sweet. You wouldn’t want pipe-coloured pipes now would you? I think they’re wallpapered, because if you painted it they’d match the bit behind and they don’t, they’re just the same pattern but off-set. But what are the wallpapered panels in one room? Are they vinyl padded walls underneath?
Clearly a serious competitor in the Most Patterns Found in a Single Photo contest, as well as the Most Patterns Found in a Single Residence contest. Unfortunately, they may never win since the judges keep dropping out due to that pesky eye-bleeding problem.
Looking at those pictures, I kind of feel like I’m trying to keep barf down.
It looks like something the Laura Ashley warehouse sicked up
After a month of living there, they’d have to haul me off in a straightjacket.
A month? All I did was look at the pictures on the home page here and I’ve already got a call into my psychiatrist …. I must be hallucinating. I’m seeing things that can’t *possibly* be real. And they’re all dark and brown and now the walls are moving with things crawling on them and Ativan! I NEED ATIVAN!
I think that this is why the house is up for sale, the current owners have been carted off to the booby hatch already. I certainly would be
The prize of the house is actually $838296.58, according to an online currency calculator I found.
“Bad” is the same word as “Bath”.
This is actually a house in a pretty expensive part of that city.
A newspaper interviewed the daughter of the lady who did the decorating and who is selling the property together with her brother, and she felt a bit overwhelmed about the attention and ridicule the house had gotten. She said that her mother picked the wallpapers in the 70′s and that her father and brother put them up. When you’re proud that the insides of the kitchen cupboards have expensive Velour wallpaper like the mother of the seller was, there’s something special about you.
Another funny thing was that she said that her parents belonged to “The War Generation” and grew up in poverty during the war.
So did my father, and we have actually had some redecorating projects in my parents house and gotten rid of some wallpapers now and then. On the other hand, rust red wallpaper is a bit more timeless than the wallpaper inferno there.
Well, nevermind the patterns, the father and brother at least did a good job on the installation. Some of those corners and crevices must have been tricky.
All my life I have craved a snekkerbod, and never knew.
Snickers just didn’t satisfy.
Wait…is the view from that house the same as the view from the house in Goonies? Because I was looking for a little girl chanting “I want my bike I want my bike” as soon as I got to that picture.
Also I am going to redecorate with florals. It is awe-inspiring.
This is beautiful + ugly. So much so that it rips a hols in the space time continuum.
They must sit up to sleep in all those chairs, because the only bed I saw was the small single in what looked like the maid’s room (as it had no gold mirrors and overstuffed chairs)…
Well, what I’ve discovered is the ‘locationx3′ thing is real. Unless you buy a mobile home, the ONE thing that can’t be fixed in a home is where it’s at (and if it IS a mobile home, nothing can be fixed).
If it’s located inconveniently, you can’t walk anywhere, the neighborhood sucks, etc., it doesn’t matter how tastefully decorated the house is. If it’s perfectly located, some sins can be forgiven.
This place would have to be REALLY well located.
I suppose if you can afford an $800,000 house, and it’s ‘perfect’ in every other way, then twenty or thirty grand more to rip all that POO off the walls, floors and ceilings, and texture/paint somewhat more… conventionally, it could be worth it.
It reminds me of hearing the words ‘Good Bones’ from my real estate agent. That’s apparently real estate agent code for ‘Tear it down to the studs and start over’.
The house is in one of the most expensive areas of a city with a population of 243000. It’s full of expensive houses built in the 1920′s.
The garden and the location is perfect for a family with a kids and a major budget both for getting the house and renovating/refurbishing it. The refurbishment should be made into a tv program…
Ooh, yeah. Make it PPV.
BTW, that living room isn’t ‘rust’ colored. That’s RAW HAMBURGER colored. It looks like something freshly killed and improperly bled coming out of a meat grinder. Maybe still squirming a bit in the grinder.
And the floor… the floor…
Maybe the owner owned a wallpaper/carpet place, and decorated EXCLUSIVELY with remnants.
Man, that first photo caught me unawares when I scrolled down, almost lost my lunch.
After looking at the rest of the photos I think that if I lived there I might start saying strange thi……… ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!!!!
Yiddish has a word for it: ongepatchket. Overdone, fussy, over-the-top ornate. “Your mother-in-law’s Rosh Hashana outfit was so ongepatchket, she looked like the gift-wrap section at Target!” The decorating style also known as Bronx Apartment House Lobby Rococo or Haddassah Baroque.
Can any of the Norwegians here explain that U-shaped cutout in the kitchen sink? I saw a lot of these in Norway and nobody could ever tell me what it was all about, but it seemed to me a great way to get water all over the floor when you try to fill the sink deep enough to wash large pots, or prepare a moose.
Many, many theories about the sinks here: http://lovelylisting.com/2008/12/06/norwegian-sink-contest/
Oy, this is beyond ongepatchket (thanks tho’ for reminding me of my late grandparents, one set of whom did indeed live in a Bronx Apartment … for over 60 years) — it’s meshungenah ongepatchket! I must point out however, that Hadassah Baroque and Target are incompatible. Hadassah Baroque came from Alexanders. Maybe E.J. Korvettes. But never Target.
Aaah, those kitchen sinks…
When running water became common in Norwegian housholds, the only sink in the whole house typically looked something like this:
http://www.norskfolkemuseum.no/Nyebilder/2kj%C3%B8kken.jpg
Not very good lokoking, but convenient for filling up a bucket and emptying it after you had washed the floors. Lot of space between the faucet and the sink and you did not need to lift a bucket very high to empty it.
When kitchen sinks, as we know them today, were installed, they often had this U-shaped sink to give you some of the same advantages. You could still fill a bucket without using the bathtub and empty it without having to lift it all the way the the countertop. These U-shaped sinks were also deep, so you could use them without spilling.
I have not seen one of these installed for at least 20 years.
But… but… why only in Norway? I spent years in almost-neighboring Finland in the 1970s, and don’t remember seeing a single one.
I wish they’d catch on here. I can’t even fill an iron properly in my house.
Aiyyy! Look at all that pattern! It rivals the Amercian Victorian Era. Those folks are not afraid of visual overload. Ummmm. It makes me drool. But I’m afraid that bathroom wall paper would make me feel like I was in Wonderland with Alice.
I feel sad for the kjeller, it seems so forlorn with its peeling paint and total lack of wallpaper and chairs. It must feel so left out. However, it does get to rejoice in being called a kjeller.
This reminds me of the kind of doll’s house I had as a child. Like this one: http://lenasdockhus.webs.com/lundby70tal.htm But with more.. eh, patterned, wallpapers.
The house in this listing is just a bit more psychadelic. But then again, the doll’s house above is Swedish. If it was Norwegian, I’m sure it would look like a miniature version of this listing.
You know your taste is bad when the unfinished basement is the best looking area in the house.
Okay, according to my calculations, there are 48 places to sit down – not including the toilet.
This. Is. Epic. If it came furnished, it would be perfect; it falls into the “go big or go home” category. Want.
My dad’s flat in Russia had a toilet room just that size. Instead of flowers, it had lots of stripes going in various directions. Not a good place to be after a night of drinking.
This place is….. this place….. well, the only way I can describe it is “manically exuberant”!
(Except for that basement: I’m afraid that makes me think “kidnap victims locked in homemade dungeon”.)
What do they mean “photos worthy of an Australian listing”?
For a while it seemed like all the Australian listings had massive HDR photos, like these ones:
http://lovelylisting.com/2009/09/21/engaged-in-epic-siege-warfare/
…so I’ve grown to associate photos like that with Australia (even though my recent fascination with Coober Pedy proved that Australian listings aren’t all like that).
hmm… the walls are a bit mute…add some more detail, like more floral prints..i mean, it’s not like the walls have enough detail already!