How Long Did It Take To Find Containers To Match The Trim?
Submitted By: Chad T
Favorite Comment: Fixer Daniel says, “The key to accessorizing with patterns is to draw in more than one color from the surroundings. Notice how not only the green of the bins matches the shutters but also the rust matches the rust on the roof. I bet the grey on the rats living in the bins is also the same as the grey in the rats in the house. Tastefully done.”
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Just in time for it to collapse
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It was always that way
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Just in time for the recyclng craze
Mailbox on steroids
I think your rapid replies are on steroids.
Matches the roof design
I’m still looking for the witches shoes under this mess…
recently refurbished and now with extra storage place…it’s a bargain!
Well they had to do something. The column was sold on Craigslist last week.
I drive by this at least once a week, to the point I don’t even think about it anymore. It’s been like this for a number of years.
Despite their evident effort in getting the asthetics just so, their actual ability to get the roof to stay up properly is nevertheless piss-poor. Just look at it! Did they want a ski slope as well!?
“Paging This Old House! Your dumpsters are already in place for this rehab!”
(Actually, it does have lovely bones, but obviously has experienced less than normal TLC.)
This is really a a second floor fire-escape “WIN!”
That is unless the dumpsters are filled with gasoline.
I’m bettin theres nuclear waste in those things.
Obviously an unoccupied work in progress. Good creative use of materials on hand. Good Kludge
Placement under windows would certainly lend itself to dumpster diving! Matches the upper shutters too!
I’ll bet they used that newfangled lazer color-matching system. I had no idea those things were so accurate….impressive!
One thing’s for sure- it’s difficult to prop up a sagging real estate market that’s going to the dumps.
The ghostbusters stopped by and hooked up there big ghost sucking machine on that haunted house
It held up the developers just as long as this porch.
Just the perfect accessory if you’re going for that “creepy haunted house in the middle of nowhere” look.
They’re going to need more dumpsters. They’ll never fit all that house in those.
The key to accessorizing with patterns is to draw in more than one color from the surroundings. Notice how not only the green of the bins matches the shutters but also the rust matches the rust on the roof. I bet the grey on the rats living in the bins is also the same as the grey in the rats in the house. Tastefully done.
Yeah, and the maggots match the trim!
Dumpsters were more convenient to prop up the over hang then random lengths of wood?
This place was featured on the last page of ‘Dis Ole Crib’ last month. Norm gave it a triple star value package.
How Long Did It Take To Find Containers To Match The Trim?
Too long
You’ve got it all wrong… The trim was painted to match the containers–the first floor shutters are white; they haven’t been painted yet.
Those are containers that the army uses to ship engines around in. The bottom one is for 2 1/2 ton truck engines. It weighs more than 1500 lbs.
This house is also for sale if anybody wants it. Definately a fixer-upper. Or crash-and-burner.
Looks like a ming played “Garry’s Mod”.
Oh how I love Detroit!
This house sits beside a barn that has been pictured in numerous coffee table books. The brick mason who built the gable end of the barn near the beginning of the last century was known for the interesting graphics he created by omitting bricks to leave blank spaces in the wall. Barns need to breath to dry the hay stored inside, so there is great variety in the designs utilized by old barn builders.
The owner of this barn fancied himself a horseman, and he had a design of a man on a horse incorporated at the very top of the wall. He made the mistake of flaunting his self importance upon the barn builder when the wall was about chest high on the figure of the horse rider. Following his display of bad manners he went on a trip. He returned to find himself immortalized in brickwork at the top of the barn wall riding a mule and wearing a dunce hat.
What the hell are you talking about? I’m sending that to ‘e-mails from crazy people’!
Hilarious. I drive by this on my way to work (between Greencastle, PA and Mercersburg, PA on Route 16) all the time and have always wanted to take a picture of it, but never stopped to do it…
Hey hifiFixer tell TheAntiCat that I’m not a crazy person. Look at the top of the barn wall next time you drive by and tell us if there isn’t an image of a guy riding a donkey wearing a dunce hat in the brickwork.
I recognized this house as well (across from lizzys restaurant I think it’s called). Right outside of greencastle, pa.