Friday Friends: Some Lovely Kludges
There are times when a kludge is necessary. For example, you’re stuck in the middle of the woods and just tumbled into a ravine and judging from that white bit protruding from your leg, a temporary cast made from a stick and some duct tape will suffice until you either get to help or a bear eats you. Sometimes, a kludge is just easier. Or funnier. But trying to sell your house should not be one of those times. Luckily for us, my friend Sara has a blog to point out that common sense when it comes to real estate is pretty uncommon. Check out these gems:
I’m not entirely sure what the point to this contraption is. Log flume for mice? Sluicing for gold? Hand pump because the indoor plumbing hasn’t worked in twenty odd years?
Nothing says “Vermin Free” home like mosquito netting that’s so well used it must now be sealed shut with clothespins. I’m sure it’s just to give the bedroom that Malarian ambiance everyone is raving about this season.
Realtors aren’t even immune from temporary kludge insanity. Curb appeal not up to par? What prospective buyer could resist the addition of some poorly rendered flowers? Or are those spent .50 caliber bullet casings?
Those flowers remind me of the cheesy alien effects on the original Star Trek.
That first one is probably a grey-water recycling system. They save the wastewater from the shower to feed the toilet.
Look! The O-ring to fix the toilet was right there on the wall the whole time. Boy, is my face red!
If those are spent .50 cal casings, I don’t want to live in a neighborhood where that much firepower is necessary.
The mosquito netting one is almost sane… it looks like they have the netting going under the mattress, probably to keep bedbugs out or something. They then just clip it closed on the top at night.
My one and only experience with mosquito netting as a “decoration” was at my mom’s house. I guess she wanted to give the bed a “fairy-like” feel. Unfortunately for me, I have this horrid fear of spiders and when I touched it in the middle of the night I woke up screaming. Needless to say, the netting came down quickly. *shudder*
I guess this is as good a time as any to yell Photoshop, isn’t it?
that toilet is totally mousetrap
I bet some prancing Unicorns would really help the curb apeal
“Roll ‘em up.”
The third one looks shopped, I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.
This bed looks like a canopy LoL
Looks like there are urine canteens in the sink.. So that kludge probably doesn’t even work. :’(
I’m pretty sure those flowers are a cover-up for dead cats.
Am I the only one thinking the “flowers” are bunches of cigarettes ?
The last one is clearly Photoshop.
r.e. the first pic, yes that red thing on the right side is a hand pumped water well. Rare to have it actually inside the bathroom, but I suppose it keeps it from freezing solid in the winter.
The problem with the third one isn´t that it´s photoshopped (it clearly is, no discussion) – it´s cheap, cheesy, not even beginner PS-Tutorial – Level. Whoever is responsible for this did not even have the faintest idea of what he was doing.