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Does your house spell something?

Annie Deighnaugh

2 years ago

last modified: 2 years ago

Raee posted this on the smiles thread in KT and I thought my decor buds would get a kick out of it...I'd never seen words in a house before, but once you see it, you can't not see it. Something I never considered when we were building.

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arcy_gw
2 years ago
Seems more like someone's mom has the green eyed monster to be so snarky.
artemis_ma
2 years ago
Seen overhead, my house would be the letter J, backwards.
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Jilly
2 years ago
That is funny. I’d have never noticed it, if not pointed out. :D

My current house is L shaped, for Lover. Just kidding, more like Loser.
Oakley
2 years ago
I'm in the Loser club like Jinx. I think the photo has been toyed with.

Arcy, I don't think it's snarky at all, it's kind of funny really. If that house was across the street from you I know you'd point it out to friends. ;)
dedtired
2 years ago
Now I’m going to be driving around looking for words on houses.
jojoco
2 years ago
My house clearly spells out a message
nini804
2 years ago
Gah….should i be concerned how long it took me to see it?!? I was literally about to beg for help when I finally got it. 😂
Kaya
2 years ago
That's hilarious! I don't think it's shopped, but just dependent on the angle of the photo.
palimpsest
2 years ago
I saw it but I have pretty strong pareidolia, anyway, but usually it's seeing faces in everything. It's from the multi-set-back facade and vertical trim overlapping the window trim at an angle, so I don't think it's photoshopped. But the multi-set-back facade of these houses are just One of the factors that do not give me house envy.

My house doesn't say anything. My house looks like what a pre-schooler draws when they are asked to draw a house.
carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b
2 years ago
Not words, but I have always noticed when houses/buildings have faces...

This one is a local church:
woodrose
2 years ago
I wonder if this is two different houses built in the same style. It seems the "poop" only becomes more noticeable on the gray house because of the higher contrast with the white trim when viewed from a certain angle.

My house doesn't spell anything, and I'm very glad of it. When my house starts spelling things, I'm leaving !
LynnNM
2 years ago
These pics are hilarious! No, mine doesn't spell out anything, but from the air it does look like a giant boomerang -LOL! (We had it designed like that to take advantage of the views).
cawaps
2 years ago
My house does not spell out anything but an imaginative mind could see a skull in the facade (a Coco-style happy skull).

Poop is funny; calolb's church that looks like a baby chick is even funnier.
dedtired
2 years ago
Pal, i never knew there was a name for seeing faces everywhere. I do the same thing. Do younremember the old Adam’s Mark logo? i could not look at it without seeig Gumby.
OutsidePlaying
2 years ago
Pal, I never knew there was a name for it either. I used to take a lot of photos of old barns and was always seeing ’Barn Faces’ that were happy, sad, grumpy, funny.
Indigo Rose
2 years ago
carolb - sooooooo funny! And money pit!!!!!!
mtnrdredux_gw
2 years ago
Our house meanders and has an (intentional) added-on to look. When my BFF from middle school showed her son a picture of our house, he asked "which one is theirs?" LOL
mtnrdredux_gw
2 years ago
Ded, OMG yes, I remember the Adam's Mark! City line.
Kswl
2 years ago
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If I could make my house say something I would put these words on my roof as a warning to visiting aliens searching for intelligent life:

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