A mum was left with a lot more work to do than she expected after moving into her new home and discovering the previous owners had taken some serious shortcuts.
Posting on a home decor page, the UK-based mum explained that the previous owners had painted the living room a striking dark grey.
But instead of moving the furniture to do the job properly, they just painted around it and left it like that.
When they moved out they took their things and left huge white stains on the walls.
“Obviously we need to redecorate, but we will never find a painting that matches this painting,” he said.
A mum was left furious after moving into her new home and discovered the previous owner’s shortcuts.
He continued asking for wallpaper recommendations so he wouldn’t have to match or cover up the dodgy paint job, but people were too distracted debating the paint job to help.
‘What the hell, who does that?’ one woman asked, garnering 7,500 likes.
“Lazy people who want to sell their house quickly,” said another.
“My friend painted around the light switch plate and I was floored… but this is next level,” added a third.
Some suggested the paint job should have been disclosed in the house contract.
“I’d get back to the agent real quick,” one said.
“It’s not classy to sell a house without mentioning something like this,” said another.
Others defended the efforts of the home’s last owner.
“Older people can’t move furniture,” one person said.
‘We’ve had to do this (and we’re definitely not lazy, that’s for sure) we have cabinets that have been so well fitted out that if we take them apart to paint behind there is a good chance of damaging them and not getting them back. correctly,” one person said.
Another explained that they had done the same thing at home, on the recommendation of their stylist.
Dozens of people commented that they had moved into properties in similar conditions.
“We moved into an almost million pound house that had a couple of bookcases that we thought would be taken… when we moved in, they were there and didn’t go with our furniture, so my husband removed them and didn’t” “When we painted it we had a big patch of deep green and the rest of the wall was taupe,” one woman said.
“I moved into a place and you could see where all the furniture was, from the fridge to the TV, it was so annoying,” said another.
‘My cousin bought a house where people had rugs around the furniture. I didn’t know until they moved. Absolutely strange,” said another.