In today\u2019s story<\/a>, one artist is in this situation, but she has a few friends who help her make some big changes before she moves out.<\/p>\nLet\u2019s see what they did.<\/p>\n
There was a house in our area that was known for having really cool murals inside done by the previous tenant.<\/p>\n
Outside was pretty tame she has a pre built facade to make the house look like a cottage, inside all hand done murals of Disney movies and fairy tales.<\/p>\n
The lady was a art teacher when she was younger and later she started one of those paint with wine type business which she did well before fully retiring to just doing paint commissions and furniture decorating.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s always been nice to everyone even when I\u2019ve been mean to her when she complained about the truck being loud or speeding, we worked that out and been friends since.<\/p>\n
It didn\u2019t work out the way the artist had hoped.<\/p>\n
She had an agreement with the original landlord about the art since it wasn\u2019t outside it wasn\u2019t going to be a problem, she\u2019s been living in that house since the mid 80s with promises of getting the house in time.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately he passed before anything was signed and legitimized and his kids took over.<\/p>\n
One of the sons visited the house to inspect it with his daughter and apparently they fell in love and wanted the art house for his daughter.<\/p>\n
My neighbor didn\u2019t have a lease which made the fight harder and they used the art on the walls as an excuse to kick her out.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t the end of the world. Some friends were there to help.<\/p>\n
She was devastated but she was able to buy a property that fits her needs at the last minute in another state that had a full art studio area on the first floor.<\/p>\n
She originally wanted to leave the house as is without the cottage looking front but my friend offered to restore the house to \u201cRebecca standards\u201d for free since he needed to figure out how to use powered paint sprayers.<\/p>\n
He also had a friend that did landscaping to help her wirh the front of the house.<\/p>\n
She agreed and we moved all her furniture out to storage units and my friend let her stay in his guest house free of charge if she did a mural on the living room wall.<\/p>\n
She had the house cleaned out in a week.<\/p>\n
Bye, bye murals!<\/p>\n
On the second week they buffed all the walls with sanders.<\/p>\n
All the murals from the front to back were gone it just looked like blotches of colors.<\/p>\n
My friend being the ever diligent painter that he is masked anything that wasn\u2019t paint and sprayed kilz primer everywhere with his new toy sprayer, this thing was pretty awesome you can spray a whole wall in 4 passes.<\/p>\n
After the paint dried he used his \u201cRebecca\u201d collection of colors to essentially kill the character of the house.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what they mean by \u201cRebecca\u201d condition.<\/p>\n
Rebecca condition is what we call flipper houses it\u2019s always the same colors white with greys all over the house and the darktone pergo flooring.<\/p>\n
The floors were tile so he left it alone but the walls were white semi gloss.<\/p>\n
The wood panelling walls, trim, switch covers, outlet covers, counters and cabinets were sprayed in the most depressing shade of grey.<\/p>\n
The house looked dead inside when I went in to check it out. It was weird not seeing all the murals.<\/p>\n
It didn\u2019t work out the way the daughter had expected either.<\/p>\n
The front of the house was the last project she agreed to give his landscaping friend the bushes in exchange for the labor of removing the cottage facade without breaking it.<\/p>\n
The landscapper basically ripped everything out and just dumped gravel and sand with a boulder for decoration.<\/p>\n
This weekend i went to fix some problems at a old neighbors house and noticed the house was still empty and asked the neighbor if had seen anyone move in.<\/p>\n
He said earlier in the week there was some U-Haul\u2019s there but none of them were unloaded and that was the last time they remember seeing anyone there.<\/p>\n
Bet that daughter was in for a surprise when she saw the house get turned into a basic hell hole.<\/p>\n
She wasn\u2019t obligated to leave the murals. That was the perfect revenge.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s see how Reddit reacted to this story.<\/p>\n
They should have paid her.<\/p>\n
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Here\u2019s a similar comment.<\/p>\n
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This person thinks the revenge goes beyond petty.<\/p>\n
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An artist weighs in.<\/p>\n
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The landlord was really cruel.<\/p>\n
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They got what they wanted\u2026kind of.<\/p>\n
If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a daughter who invited herself to her parents\u2019 40th anniversary vacation for all the wrong reasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shutterstock\/Reddit Imagine being an artist and painting murals all over the walls of your home. If you were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[2273,1484,307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,18374,18375,18376,7191,18377,18378,689],"class_list":{"0":"post-20746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-art","9":"tag-artist","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-arts-and-design","12":"tag-artsanddesign","13":"tag-artsdesign","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-mural","19":"tag-petty-revenge","20":"tag-picture","21":"tag-reddit","22":"tag-rental","23":"tag-renter","24":"tag-top"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}