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NFSWednesday: Play us a Song, You’re the Piano House

Apr. 13, 2011

funny real estate - China Brings the Music

No! You may not move into Piano House, for today is Wednesday and this house is Not For Sale. And perhaps not even a house, as I’m having problems tracking down information about it. More (not much more) here. Original story here. Amusing but awesome if you stop to think about it translation here.

Then I was curious about Huainan, the Chinese town where this building is located, so I went to a local site here, and learned that Huainan hosts this:

Imagine the stage is a boat, a boat full of joy and happiness down the wind and in full sail, at the time, this boat is drifting towards our energy resources city—Huainan, a place full of vitality and hope, as well as the earth abundant in treasures and experiencing the shift of four seasons. Who bears the weight of this boat? Its nearly 20 thousand live audiences, who are inspired by passion, and its Huainan people with the population of over 2.40 million who are confident of the future, meanwhile, it’s the 3000 guests in and abroad, and its over 500 business merchants, and the last but not the least, is the Chinese Bean-curd Cultural Festival.

Bean-curd Cultural Festival! Buildings shaped vaguely like musical instruments! Sounds like my kinda place! Or so I thought until I kept on clicking along through the website of the People’s Government of Huainan, as one does, and came to this:

I may have accidentally stumbled on to some web equivalent of a numbers station. I think it’s best if we all just slowly close our browser windows and pretend we saw nothing.

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NFSWednesday: Home is Where You Hang Your Hat

Apr. 6, 2011

funny real estate - Home is Where You Hang Your Hat

Remember: no matter where you move to, there you are.

 

Loveliest comment, by JMixx: “New from Romco! Now you never have to tell your guests to take off their hats! It happens automatically, with Hat Magnets!”

*zoop*

“Thank you, Hat Magnet!”

*Now available in Derby Doffer model. Coming soon, Trilby Tamer, Top-hat Taker, Fedora Filer, and Hood Hanger.

Found by: Lindsay

Via: Apartmenttherapy.com

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NFSWednesday: Kids? What Kids? I Just Got More Space in My Manhattan Apartment!

Mar. 16, 2011

funny real estate - Kids? What Kids? I Just Got More Space in My Manhattan Apartment!

This woman built a frikkin’ indoor treehouse for her daughter’s first bed. My daughter? Her first bed — and this is absolutely true — was a cardboard box from Costco.

Parenting: I’m doing it wrong. But hey, we emptied the box first. And recycled it when she outgrew it.

Found by: Unknown

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NFSWednesday: Hobbes on a Limb

Mar. 9, 2011

funny real estate - Hobbes on a Limb

Know what? My kids were teeny babies once, too, and I also thought Calvin and Hobbes made fine reading material. They laugh, I laugh, everybody’s happy.

And then the teeny babies grow up a bit. And then suddenly comics about hyperactive six-year-olds who are in constant trouble at school, cause hundreds of dollars of damage to the house in a single day, are notorious throughout the neighborhood, and seem to live in a slightly different (albeit much better) reality than you do just aren’t quite as funny as they once were.

Enjoy it while you can, guys.

Found by: Unknown

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NFSWednesday: Way to Fertilize That Tube Plant

Mar. 2, 2011

funny real estate - Way to Fertilize that Tube Plant

Welcome to another Not For Sale Wednesday! Here we see the powder room of a woman who greatly enjoys a video game I believe you young people call “Mario Brothers.” But I am middle-aged and barely understand the reference. I don’t like being left out, so here, I’ll dust off my excellent Photoshop skills and offer a bathroom for people old enough to have gotten pretty darn excited about the Bicentennial:

Sadly, this is actually my bathroom.

Loveliest comment, by mudslicker: Is Princess Peach supposed to be rescued somewhere under that lid?

Found by: Unknown

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Chairturday! Chair Explores the Simpler Life

Feb. 26, 2011

funny real estate - Chair Explores the Simpler Life

Hurray! Chair is coming with me! We got a little convoy, blogging through the night…

Found by: Robyn

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NFSWednesday: Pixilated People, Unite

Feb. 23, 2011

funny real estate - Just Think, You Could Be That Pixelated Blur!

Who could live here? you ask. Who would be drawn in by such an odd photo? Well, the answer is… me. I don’t like to talk about it, but I guess it’s time for me to come clean. In truth, I look like this:

I’m so happy to see there’s finally architects making apartments for people like me. Too bad today is Wednesday and this is Not For Sale.

Found by: Paul

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