Thursday
Sep292011
Taking a real estate listing to a whole new level
Thu, 29 Sep 2011A big thanks to Nina for sending us a link to a real estate listing for a home in Sweden, and it's not your average listing. The photos have been tweaked with an old-world treatment and the owners (I'm guessing) were asked to pose in several of the photos in costume. Nina thought the listing was lovely, and I did as well when I glanced through them briefly the first time. After a second and third look, my feelings changed towards CREEPY. It sort of reminds me of an old Hitchcock/horror movie where in the next shot all the participants will be sprawled in pools of blood. Am I nuts? What do you guys think?
Reader Comments (43)
I think they are channelling Ingmar Bergman rather than Stephen King... but what a gorgeous place - the stairs, the kitchen, the light fittings, that carved clock.
Me again... Just checked out the website, which is more Grey Ghost than Bergman.... does anyone know the story behind this house? It's full of someone's life, books, etc. Oh there are some beautiful things in there, Im guessing someone who loves it will buy it. I mean its got big cats on the gate and a waterfall....
Are they trying to sell a house or a film set? This gives new meaning to the real estate term "staging."
Love it.. so theatrical. The only thing that horrified me though was that the kitchen looked quite filthy.
so very, very creepy.
I think all of you guys thinking "creepy, not appropriate" are quite wrong. I think "original" is a better word. We should try to be open minded and more accepting. lifestyle and esthetics is not only about living life with a flare. I imagine there are some folk who find such esthetic very appealing and valuable.
PS: I think it's a lovely way to present such an old house.
I'm picking up a heavy kooky vibe running through the creepy. Kind of like if there was an ax murder it would be handled in a very light-hearted Woody Allen meets the Munsters way. It's a genius marketing idea, how many real estate listings for dumpy old houses get international attention?
OMG-definately creepy!!!
I'm baffled by what it is exactly that people find "creepy" about a fully-clothed woman and child ascending a flight of stairs to sit in a sun-filled room and read.
I am bothered by hat on the man. When it was fashionable for men to wear hats protocol required a man to remove his hat when entering a home. To this day I dislike hats worn indoors especially at the table. I think it is rude. The whole old fashioned theme did not ring true for me . . . largely due to the hat!
did anyone notice the guy (whom I find annoying) reading a paper.....in a room with a painting of a man reading a paper?
I find the boy/man annoying - he's that one character every college had - the overly dramatic, into himself and his *feelings*
ook. college was long ago, the character persists!!
Lin - the kid looks overjoyed.
I kind of like it, but I have followed this estate agent's work for a while. This one might be a bit out there, but listings from faboulous frank, the name of there real estate agent in question, in general are a sign of how much focus there is on online listings in Sweden.
From what I have seen from agent's listings around the world, especially for normal, middle-class, flats and houses, most, if not all, other countries have a lot to learn from how Swedish real estate agents work. To begin with Hemnet.se where you can find probably 90% of all Swedish real estate that is for sale at any given time, is something that every country should have, it is definitely one of the things I miss the most, while trying to find a new place to live away from home!
Amityville here I come.
Maybe they wanted to sell "history" since they can not sell well main maintained house...
Why oh why are they wearing their hats inside?
Clearly I'm focused on the important elements.
Why must there always be a little girl in a white dress? If that house wasn't haunted before, it is now, at least in the minds of anyone who has viewed these photos. She chants her nursery rhymes in a sing-song voice as she runs up and down the stairs. Maybe for some, this is a selling point?
But seriously, the house is loaded with potential, and the photos are really fun. Why not?
I don't find it creepy at all, I think its funny, it actually made me laugh. Mind you I never really watch scary/horror films, and I'm not scared of dead people :)
I would definitely check out this house if I were looking for an old home. However I would prefer that the actors had posed with a smile ... I'm sure people were not that dull then.
Thanks for sharing!! love to see what others are doing.