And note, as a bonus for you personally, there is a tentacle starting to come through the ceiling by the window. You know, for that extra touch of skeeviness.
I actually live in a house that had the bulging basement when I was a kid. I'm still mad at Dad for making us live there....but I'm not bitter or anything.
My oh my. Where does one begin to fix the foundation? You are right that this one goes from cute to catastrophe in only a few photos. Brrr (nervous shudder)
August 28, 2008 at 1:05 PM
Anonymous said...
"Here's a project for you!"
How honest can one get? And that's a huge project by the way..
okay, we don't have the bulging basement (thank goodness!!) but I shudder to think that our house really did look like some of the worst of this house's pics while we were working on it... shoot me now, because until I got to the basement pics I was ready to move to NE and roll up my sleeves (or my husband's sleeves)...
But, I really liked how cute the house was from the outside. I was thinking, oh, for the age of the house it's not bad. The problems with the plaster are to be expected, and the floors need to be refinished, and oh look the bathroom has its fixtures still (unlike most cheap homes) and hasn't been gutted for copper pipe, and the backyard just looks a little overgrown, etc. Maybe it's worth the repair expense to own such a cute place.
Yeah, then I saw there were multiple bulging walls in the basement. And the siding outside where it was apparently replaced (?) between two windows. Makes you wonder about this house's story.
I'll have you know that the cask of Amontillado behind that wall is just amazing.
August 28, 2008 at 2:15 PM
Anonymous said...
What good is a newer furnace and roof, if it looks like the foundation is about to collapse?
Better enjoyed from the exterior. Safer too.
August 28, 2008 at 2:52 PM
Anonymous said...
Wasn't this that cabin in the Blair Witch Project? If they had photographed this from a different angle there would have been a guy standing in the corner and a video camera lying on the ground...
August 28, 2008 at 3:32 PM
Anonymous said...
The cask of Amontillado reference! YES! I will use that from now on every time I show one of these treasures.
I can just see Angel and Buffy ready to jump in...
August 28, 2008 at 7:21 PM
Anonymous said...
I'm with Christy, I find the house oddly...attractive...compelling...I am being drawn to it...
Aaaaaah...
I love all those builtins and it looks so much like the flat I was living in when my husband and I fell in love. (We were roommates first, then we got to know each other.) Man, we loved that place. Nostalgia can be expensive, I'll have to be careful.
Mary: do you ever show any non-scary houses? I'm contemplating moving to Omaha, and I'm not sure whether I should try to get in touch with you or run away while I still can.
And I would give a great deal for those built-ins too. And for the windows, in case I need replacements (they're identical to the ones in my house).
August 30, 2008 at 12:31 AM
Anonymous said...
This worries me - I showed this house to my husband, and he said that if he lived in NE, he'd be very tempted to buy it and fix it up.
He mentioned something about lifting the house up and putting in a new basement (apparently a trivial maneuver - who knew?), and then refinishing those lovely floors and woodwork. Oh, and bathroom and kitchen - but definitely resell at a profit.
Quick! Call for reinforcements. They've got a battering ram. And they're breaking in! T
September 2, 2008 at 6:32 PM
Anonymous said...
Oh, what a shame -- the rest of the house looks like it could be fabulous when fixed up; all that woodwork and those built-ins! But, yeah...collapsing foundation...
September 9, 2008 at 9:56 AM
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Mary the Nebraska Realtor found this house. The listing is one of those "slowly growing dread" ones. It starts out with a cute-as-a-button bungalow, then the interiors become more and more trashed, and finally we end up in the basement where -- if I'm seeing this correctly -- a bulging Hellmouth is about to open and bring forth the end of the world. Tra la la.
"But it's a _cheap_ Hellmouth"
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And note, as a bonus for you personally, there is a tentacle starting to come through the ceiling by the window. You know, for that extra touch of skeeviness.
August 28, 2008 at 12:50 PM
I actually live in a house that had the bulging basement when I was a kid. I'm still mad at Dad for making us live there....but I'm not bitter or anything.
August 28, 2008 at 12:53 PM
Ah, there's nothing like a good tentacle.
August 28, 2008 at 12:56 PM
My oh my. Where does one begin to fix the foundation? You are right that this one goes from cute to catastrophe in only a few photos. Brrr (nervous shudder)
August 28, 2008 at 1:05 PM
"Here's a project for you!"
How honest can one get? And that's a huge project by the way..
August 28, 2008 at 1:10 PM
Who says there's no affordable housing anymore?
August 28, 2008 at 1:10 PM
okay, we don't have the bulging basement (thank goodness!!) but I shudder to think that our house really did look like some of the worst of this house's pics while we were working on it... shoot me now, because until I got to the basement pics I was ready to move to NE and roll up my sleeves (or my husband's sleeves)...
August 28, 2008 at 1:11 PM
Hellmouth indeed. Who's calling Buffy and Giles?
But, I really liked how cute the house was from the outside. I was thinking, oh, for the age of the house it's not bad. The problems with the plaster are to be expected, and the floors need to be refinished, and oh look the bathroom has its fixtures still (unlike most cheap homes) and hasn't been gutted for copper pipe, and the backyard just looks a little overgrown, etc. Maybe it's worth the repair expense to own such a cute place.
Yeah, then I saw there were multiple bulging walls in the basement. And the siding outside where it was apparently replaced (?) between two windows. Makes you wonder about this house's story.
August 28, 2008 at 2:05 PM
I'll have you know that the cask of Amontillado behind that wall is just amazing.
August 28, 2008 at 2:15 PM
What good is a newer furnace and roof, if it looks like the foundation is about to collapse?
Better enjoyed from the exterior. Safer too.
August 28, 2008 at 2:52 PM
Wasn't this that cabin in the Blair Witch Project? If they had photographed this from a different angle there would have been a guy standing in the corner and a video camera lying on the ground...
August 28, 2008 at 3:32 PM
The cask of Amontillado reference! YES! I will use that from now on every time I show one of these treasures.
August 28, 2008 at 4:59 PM
I can just see Angel and Buffy ready to jump in...
August 28, 2008 at 7:21 PM
I'm with Christy, I find the house oddly...attractive...compelling...I am being drawn to it...
Aaaaaah...
I love all those builtins and it looks so much like the flat I was living in when my husband and I fell in love. (We were roommates first, then we got to know each other.) Man, we loved that place. Nostalgia can be expensive, I'll have to be careful.
August 28, 2008 at 8:44 PM
Dangit I was just about to say Blair Witch...
August 28, 2008 at 8:55 PM
i was thinking.. boy this has a ton of potential. and then i got to the basement pics. and i finished my sentence...to fall down and kill us.
August 28, 2008 at 9:30 PM
Mary: do you ever show any non-scary houses? I'm contemplating moving to Omaha, and I'm not sure whether I should try to get in touch with you or run away while I still can.
August 29, 2008 at 3:10 AM
That's just plain scary!!! I'd take the picture & run afraid it was ready to bust through!!!
August 29, 2008 at 12:13 PM
And I would give a great deal for those built-ins too. And for the windows, in case I need replacements (they're identical to the ones in my house).
August 30, 2008 at 12:31 AM
This worries me - I showed this house to my husband, and he said that if he lived in NE, he'd be very tempted to buy it and fix it up.
He mentioned something about lifting the house up and putting in a new basement (apparently a trivial maneuver - who knew?), and then refinishing those lovely floors and woodwork. Oh, and bathroom and kitchen - but definitely resell at a profit.
Personally, I'm pleased we don't live in NE...
August 30, 2008 at 8:19 AM
Quick! Call for reinforcements. They've got a battering ram. And they're breaking in!
T
September 2, 2008 at 6:32 PM
Oh, what a shame -- the rest of the house looks like it could be fabulous when fixed up; all that woodwork and those built-ins! But, yeah...collapsing foundation...
September 9, 2008 at 9:56 AM