'Unsellable' Gloucestershire UK cottage

[palta]

i thought it was a traditional british house thing, like the stairs that lead to an attic (we are not used to attics around here) or the tower where they keep their tormented former wives lol

[mrsfawlty]

Feb 27, 2024 19:45:31 GMT Sarzy said:

Prepare your eyes, more photos of it..





                                                                                                                                                        

[sputnik]

Mar 4, 2024 16:50:43 GMT ravenna said:

Feb 29, 2024 23:00:47 GMT dolem said:

I can't believe no one has commented on that abomination of a staircase thing in the room with the rose painted flooring.

The entire house is filled with abominations.  How can we be expected to choose just one to comment on?  I'm not sure I even recognized it as a staircase, lol.

this. i can't make out details in this crayon box explosion of a house.

[waterslide]

I can’t add much to what’s already been said, but if I spent time in here I would probably seize like Kramer always did when he heard Mary Hart’s voice.

[Cartermrc]

Looking at all this again, I wonder if she sees colors differently than the average person. She may see all that orange and turquoise as soft peach and pale blue. My husband and SIL are slightly color blind and certain colors are more muted looking to them.

[czb]

i am pretty color blind (cannot identify any numbers on the color blind tests) but even i can see this house as an atrocity. it's too bad because it's super cute on the outside.

[no1novice]

Wow! Isn't that more rare to be a woman who is colour blind?

The other option is that she has cataracts as apparently that changes colour perception too (cites Money as a source).

[Cartermrc]

^^^ It is rarer for women but besides my SIL I knew a girl in high school who was color blind. She did wear a few odd clothing color combinations.
As for cataracts, they indeed mess with color perception. Happened to me, although the first thing I noticed after the surgery was how much brighter ordinary white was. My same SIL just had the surgery and she says everything isn’t brown anymore.

[sputnik]

I’m colour blind as well. Got tested as a kid in school and then confirmed by my pediatrician who told my mom to buy a lottery ticket but I don’t think it’s that freakishly rare either. I fail all the tests too. But there degrees and I know what cokours I don’t see well - in my case it’s colours that on the border with another colour, like brownish greens or greyish greens, it’s as if my perception of the limit is earlier than it is. But over time I’ve also figured it out and now when I see certain shades that look brown to me I can kind of tell it’s actually green in reality and I’m usually right.

[no1novice]

Fascinating!

I sat next to someone in a meeting & was using a red gell pen on a green pad & they were really angry about it. I didn't realise (until he told me) but he was colour blind.
I wonder if I find it easy to read because despite the colours the tones are less diverse?

[czb]

i don't know too many women who are color blind, sput is the only person i've 'met' who experiences color blindness the same way i do.

i can see primaries with no problem, colors close to primaries on the wheel are mostly ok. but once you get 'further' away from the primaries, i fail. and stuff that is close together on the wheel but far from the primaries is a total no go. so i fail with green/brown, blue/black, etc. pastels are impossible. sometimes i can tell that 2 pastels are different but i don't know what the color is called. i ask for color help when i go shopping and buy mostly primaries because ow my color combos would look bad.

a painting by seurat looks like some figures against a big pastel blob.

some jobs would've been a fail for me - art historian, radiologist, etc.

[sputnik]

^^^^
yeah, i totally get what you mean but i think from reading your description, you're more colour blind than me. i took art lessons and art history for years and it didn't really affect my abilities much, and i can see paintings (including seurat) pretty well and my colour combos aren't bad. but yeah, green/brown can be confusing, and in low light my colour perception suffers even more, and i've had to ask salespeople in clothing shops what colour something is, more than once. and explain why when they look at me like i'm an idiot who doesn't know colours. 

[czb]

i took one art history course in college and i loved it. but i know that i don't see the paintings as they are meant to be seen. there are some color blind correction glasses available but the technology isn't there yet - the glasses are super big and unwieldy so i haven't bought them. there was a gene therapy being tested to treat color blindness but the clinical trial was a fail. i am hoping that some day something will be available, then i can go to the art museum and see paintings as intended.

[beeyotch]

Ooh, well hello. It's fun to look at. Most I'd do is take the prints down a notch. But love all the colors.