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40 comments:

Aaron's Library said...

Maybe it is a garage for really small airplanes, or helicopters

Kay Sindre said...

first

Andrew M Riley said...

Model homes are often created without driveways and in place of the driveway... plants and/or grass.

Here's another example: http://www.badgerstateauction.com/henry/index.htm

Ms. Pants said...

I agree with Andrew. This might very well be a model home, or the model home/office for a new development. They do this so it looks pretty, and when the development is all sold, rip out the flowers and pour in a driveway. I lived in a development that did this for a couple of years.

nico said...

The fact that many people do model homes like that doesn't make it less stupid...

Adrian said...

The photo is also (probably) reversed--unless doors with handles on the wrong side are the norm for no-driveway houses.

Antony C. said...

It doesn't make it less stupid...but it's still not a PS disaster.

Jill Elizabeth said...

Oh, come now. This isn't a PsD. The garages are for HOVERCARS. You don't need a driveway for a hovercar. Honestly.

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Karla said...

My door has a handle on that side...?

lizng said...

@ adrian, doors often swing like that when there is a sidelite. Swinging it from the other side wouldn't make sense

And yes, model homes don't always have driveways even though I think that is dumb.

waldobaby said...

If it wasn't specified otherwise, I'd put the door in like that. It's ME who don't swing like that.

And I agree that plants look "nicer" than concrete to a prospect.

Request for Insanity said...

Maybe it's like the Bat-cave and the bushes fold down when the car approaches! Oh wait, who's old enough to remember that on TV! Nevermind... it's a model home for hovercraft pilots.

waldobaby said...

Also, the house is artless to the point of awkwardness. Note the four different and clashing arches for one. The window with a full view of cockroach-heavy (oops, "palmetto bugs") palm fronds is two. Fake shutters on only one window is three and four. The sidewalk that will have to be pulled out along with the shrubbery when adding a drive is five. And so on.

As an aside the "artiste" who did this should have his/her font certificate revoked! The first line alone would garner an "F" in a first year junior college intro course! The second line is almost illiterate! What idiot uses three exclamation marks in a row?

Scott Hargis said...

Not a PSD. Model homes don't usually have driveways, and the garage is typically a showroom with tile and carpet samples, etc. The developer usually landscapes in front of the garage door to "soften" the curb appeal.

Why no driveway, you ask? They don't want cars parked there, blocking the view of their pristine model.

Kathy said...

Ha! I always try to find the disaster before reading the comment/title. This one actually took me a while.

ibnsuleiman said...

You'd still have to live in somewhere called Ocoee.

CJ said...

Here in Arizona, developers often put landscaping in front of the garage in a model. To me (A real estate professional), it has always looked utterly moronic, and to see it in an ad makes it doubly so. If a client of mine did this, I'd hide my head in shame.

The reason developers do this is because it makes the homes look nicer (to some) than having driveways. My counter to that is that they must have mind-numbingly stupid customers for that to work. It would make as much sense to leave off the roof so the model home feels more open inside...

I don't know if this ad is a photoshop disaster, per se, but it is surely an advertising disaster.

Donna said...

Can we maybe agree that the exterior shutters above the driveway-less garage were photoshopped in? When closed, they would not cover the window entirely. (Or is this also a typical attribute of model homes?)

doka said...

Those shutters sure do soften the window-appeal.

Jonn Wood said...

Hang on, hang on, that's jumpting to conclusions. Maybe they drive a TARDIS. Hmm? Think of that, Mr. Smarty-Pants?

/joke

ewaffle said...

Text needs moar exclamation points!!!

!!!! = Big Sales!

Cosmo--that should be: drv ovr flrbeds to get out.

Oh, Lula said...

I barely speak English, so I tried to read the comment in aloud voice. I started laughing at the end of the sentence... Thanks for making me laugh, I'll never "ununsubscriberizing", hahahahahaha!

Lauria said...

What I don't get is why are the garage doors such different sizes. Is that a real thing too??

Michael Bray said...

@Lauria: the smaller garage is a 3rd-bay extension - I have the same on my home.

@Donna: those shutters aren't real, they are decorative, and permanent, unlike the landscaping. I also have the same on my house.

BTW, I live in a community just about 10 miles north of this one, and all of the styling of this house is common in this area (FL)

waldobaby said...

...aaand that smaller garage bay can (on a differently designed house) double as optional huge-closet space off a master bedroom.

wouldn't Florida (this is Florida, innit?) mandate workable shutters in the same way they mandate other heavy wind storm construction?

finally, it looks like that walkway is floating as it approaches the front door.

@CJ: at least they then often get a fully finished livable-under-air garage.

MojoMama said...

The comments here are unreal - shutters wouldn't cover the windows?? Really? 3 car garage is totally confusing? And door handles are on the wrong side? My front door opens the exact same way, and the handle is in the same spot. Where in the hell do you people live? Don't they have HOUSES there? This isn't a photoshop disaster, it's a "perspective to the actual world outside your computer" disaster.

doka said...

Actually, I live under a mushroom.

I seriously think you should unsubscribe...you are taking this way too seriously.

Jonny Dade said...

You've all missed the point by miles, the bushes look too edible, the sky is screaming 'justice' and the path leading to the house isn't made of stone - looks more like a polyester/stainless steel composite (which is SO 1972) let's face it guys, this is where roadrunner practices painting fake doors onto walls, in the hope of tricking coyote into running into them. Which he always does, he never learns... HE NEVER LEARNS!

Rob said...

I'm having trouble working out whether this is a real photo of a very badly designed house, a badly retouched photo of a moderately badly designed house, or a completely CGI rendering of a house that ought never to leave the design stage.

The ground and landcaping looks as if it might exist in the real world somewhere, but the upper storey of the house looks like a bad matte painting or (as someone else said) a Warner Bros cartoon backdrop.


WV: subrifo (the type of mortgage you need to takke out to buy this place)

Rogério said...

In my opinion, you're a disaster in Photoshop. Just who try make a mistake. If you never fail, is because you don't know how to do =)

Tony said...

I am close to this market; it is quite common for model homes to not have drives and lots of useless concrete connecting driveway-less homes together. It's because 2/3rds of the the hideous front elevation would be concrete drive if it was installed.

Also, the "trend" in new homes is to see how schizophrenic they can make the exterior. Shutters here, stucco there, copper here, Mediterranean roof tiles there. The thing that upsets me the most is the fake "keystone" in the non-arched window header...while the shuttered arch has none. This is just modern house design, not necessarily by architects, but by "house designers" that specialize in template homes that will fit on most subdivision lots.

Christie said...

People, you've got it ALL wrong. This house is designed specifically for people with agorophobia. They won't leave the house anyway, so why not put plants in front of the garage?

Also, about the shutters . . . Ocoee is in central Florida near Orlando. Not hurricane territory.

Christie said...

pardon my spelling, that's "agoraphobia."

Christa said...

I gotta say, I posted this photo on my WTF Friday because the entire postcard was a visual disaster. The callouts, the house (sans driveway), the whole leave bad credit behind you (which buying a house has a bad track record of NOT doing so far...)

I'm not sure if I would categorize as a photoshop disaster, but it for sure made me chuckle as a marketer when I saw it. #fail

Miranda said...

Hahahahahaha!!!

Sebo said...
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GiAnjos said...

you think so small people..
this looks exactly like my garage.. and I have a flying car.. so..
this works perfectly for me!

:P

liiga said...

Okay fine, some flowers instead of driveway that can be replaced. I could understand that.

Now, some flowers, a whole palmtree and a pathway that takes extra care to make a turn to go exactly in front of the garage? THAT I'm not entirely ready to buy.

It may be up for debate exactly *what* it is a disaster of, but it's definitely a disaster.

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