Bad Dreams
“Mommy, I keep having this dream that I am about to be attacked by a wolf, then I wake up…”
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Fresh from the Northwoods of Wisconsin
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Antique sewing machine under round quilt- check. Deer antlers (with hats on them and some sort of pink thing hanging)- check. Cast iron stove in foreground- check. Blue curtains-…
Everyone Loves a Rooftop Deck
Rooftop decks are great, whether you live in the city or in the middle of farm fields. Screens keep the bugs at bay and you can easily help your…
Little Known Northwoods Fact: Animals Love Blue Garage Doors
Easy solution: Let’s put some lattice and a tire at the bottom of the door to keep them away. Problem solved.
A Crustic Scavenger Hunt
OK. Let’s try to count the number of Northwoods decor items vs Crustic or Creepy items. GO! If you said “One Northwoods Decor Item” and “Too Many Items and…
It’s a Crustic Miracle!
WOW! It’s a Crustic transformation in progress. Left side= Crustic, Right side= Non-Crustic. Good work!
I Think There’s Plenty of Room for More
Let’s see if we can fit a few more things into that kitchen. And maybe we could add a few more colors and patterns too, to liven things up…
It’s A Bedroom and a Kitchen, It’s A….
Giving new meaning to the “studio” classification of all-in-one living. This in technical real estate terms is now known as a “bitchen,” a combination of bedroom and kitchen. 🙂
Open and Airy
Let’s not clutter this cabin up with things like furniture….or floor coverings.
Please Insert 50 Cents
I don’t know about you, but this feels like those old “shooting gallery” games at State Fair where I can shoot the saloon door or the TV and then…
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
“Now what are we going to do with that church pew? Wait, I have the perfect place for it.” Good work by these folks. Recycling a church pew while…
Privacy Please
Time for bed…can you pull my curtain closed please.
Mommy, Where Are My Clothes?
“In your closet, dear…” “Mommy, I can’t find my closet…” “It’s right there, just pull open the rocky waterfall…”
Nothing Says Relaxing in the Northwoods
More than green chairs and a sofa….”Those are beautiful, what are those, velvet?”
A Textural Showroom
Let’s get as many textures, fabrics, finishes, and pieces of furniture into one room as possible.
Pepe Le Pew
Inclusions: Window coverings, washer, dryer, fridge, stuffed skunk on mantle, water softener, dishwasher…Just the normal stuff.
Let’s Go Outside and Play in the….
Not really a treehouse, not really a playhouse, not really a shed, not really sure what is going on here.
Endorsed by Ben Stiller and Gwyneth Paltrow
Obscure reference, but the minute I saw this “room” I thought of the game room closet from the movie, “The Royal Tenenbaums.”
The Entertainment Center Redefined!
It’s a closet…no, an overhead storage locker…no, an entertainment center….no, a Packer room. It’s all of the above! But wait, there’s more!
Can You Grab the Milk….Or A Cadaver?
For some reason, these fridge doors look like every morgue I have seen in every TV show or movie. Pull on the handle and surprise!
As we searched across the Northwoods of Wisconsin, for for a relaxing cabin in the woods, what we found was the basis for the word we termed as "Crustic." Consider it a healthy amount of crustiness added to a rustic base for a stew of "What were they thinking?" The photos here are from actual real estate listings attempting to sell these treasures.
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