How not to stage your billiard room.

[kaylie]

The real estate site I use has a daily feature called "What could you buy in (your area) for $(amount) and you can scroll through to see what's available. Sometimes I like to take a peek at the older homes to see if I can get any ideas.

Today it was $1.2M and I was expecting a serious dose of awesome.

Alas, this is what I found:





Whoa.

[cgpm]

Eww. One deer head, maybe, but this seriously grosses me out.

[awick14]

DH is an avid hunter an he is will only have one head on our wall at a time!

Yikes!!!!

[craftymrs]

wow! I can only imagine how much money was spent on those hunts and then the taxidermy on those things! Good gracious!

[bugaboo]

To paraphrase Ace Ventura: "What a lovely house of death."

[tarheels]

Ok, so if we cut back some (ok, a lot) on the taxidermy, I actually like the room the pool table's in. I think the walls and rug and golden oak (gasp) all work really well together.

[kaylie]

The rest of the house wasn't 'wow' by any means, but if it was, something like this room would keep me from buying. I don't know if those lions are real, but if they are it's a tragedy given the poaching and population issues that are going on in Africa with that species. It's likely that they paid several thousand dollars to hunt them in a confined area where the animal had no chance of escaping (sometimes they also drug them to make the hunt easier). I just find it very off-putting.

[aweilba]

Oh. My. Gosh. It's like a safari in your home. This makes me so sad. The bones of this room are actually awesome, but I hate seeing stuffed animals.

[Deleted]

I don't care if you killed all those animals with your barehands, they shouldn't be in your house. If that is what $1.2 million buys, I'm glad I'm not a millionaire.

[maddiepaddy]

Wow. I can't believe their listing agent didn't make them store that junk before listing and photographing. There's no way I could see past all that to appreciate the house.

[auntie]

That's not in Buckingham is it? My niece used to babysit for a weird kid with weird parents who had that same theme? They ran a Waldorf School in their basement for a time.

[kaylie]

It's in Boyerton: www.zillow.com/homedetails/1014-N-Ironstone-Dr-Boyertown-PA-19512/82196707_zpid/