The exterior alone is like night and day, but wait until you see the inside.
Are you a borderline hoarder? The line between collecting and hoarding can be thin and often blurred. Hoarding is not merely a habit but a complex issue.
This garbage-filled hoarder house is now a jaw-dropping serene home.
How do I clear a hoarders house? We provide a rapid, effective, sympathetic and highly confidential solution
The Julian Price Mansion - A look at a hoarder's house restored to it's former glory.
Photographer Arnaud Chochon spent a year with Jean, a 60-year-old hoarder whose house is cleaned out once a year, for health and safety reasons.
You know it’s bad when you can’t find the toilet any more. Following last week’s photos of an abandoned record warehouse, we stumbled upon these images of another abandoned property, stuffed to the seams with records. Owned by a 68-year old collector, the two story house was jammed with a quarter of a million records […]
Photographer and miniature-sculptor Carrie M. Becker re-imagines what Barbie’s Dream House might look like following a painful divorce from Ken. I can’t get over the teeny tiny Wired and Nylon magazines thrown about the rooms. It’s a Dream Home nightmare! You can view Carrie’s work here. (via Super Punch)
Don’t blame us if you end up daydreaming about the perfect home all afternoon, Pandas.
Rob and Andrew Gray snapped up the squalid dump in Brisbane for $750,000 earlier this year and have already sold it after giving the property a remarkable makeover.
The incredible shots reveal what was left behind when the home and business was inexplicably abandoned
The Julian Price Mansion - A look at a hoarder's house restored to it's former glory.
A hoarder house is a dwelling that has been overfilled by the tenant or homeowner with excessive personal items.
My mom embroidered this picture for my grandparents back in 1980 for their anniversary. I love it so much. I've shared several posts here at Fabric Mutt about my grandmother who passed away a few months ago. While I loved her very much, there was, sadly, a dark side to it all. Despite our many attempts over the years to change the situation, my grandmother was a hoarder. Who can say what really started it -- her childhood during the Depression, her obsession with antiques, her refusal to throw anything away. Whatever the cause, by the time we moved her into an assisted living apartment and were faced with the task of cleaning out her house, it was an absolute disaster. The front bedroom in my grandmother's house -- after my sister had cleared a path down the center. Grandma didn't live in a large home, but she managed to fill the two-bedroom house, basement, garage, and attached studio apartment/laundry room to the brim with decades worth of junk and treasure. There were layers of dust and grime, bug infestations, and even exploded cans of food hidden among the layers of objects and memories. It was enough to make us sit down and cry to look at it. My sister started working on the house last December, and just last week we finally finished going through it all. I wanted to share some advice for those of you who may face a similar situation in the years ahead (and I seriously hope you don't have to). Here are a few things we learned along the way... My brother-in-law, sister, me, and my husband on that glorious last day of work. 1. Get help. Don't even think about tackling something like this by yourself. Find friends and family members you can trust who are willing to help you go through items. Do some research and choose a nearby estate sale group to assist you like the one we found. Realize that this is not a job that you can finish in a weekend; it takes time, patience, and much coordinating of schedules to get it done. Also be aware of your own limits. My mother knew that she would struggle emotionally with going through some of the items at the house. We worked out a system where other family members tackled those things so that she didn't have to. Those blue rubber gloves were my best friends, even when holding treasures like these. 2. Use caution. A hoarder's house can be a very dangerous place, and you have to arm yourself accordingly to clean it out. We rented several dumpsters and had them emptied as often as necessary to deal with the mounds of garbage that needed to be removed from the property. All of us wore rubber gloves to protect our hands while we worked. When the dust levels got bad, we put on masks to spare our lungs -- especially important for my sister and husband who both have asthma. Be sure that everyone is up on their tetanus shots. My sister was stabbed by an old needle, and I had a run-in with a rusty circular saw blade. Keep first aid supplies close at hand in case you need them. Anything looks gorgeous in jadite bowls, vaseline glass containers, and vintage measuring cups. 3. Be picky. Have a goal in mind when you go through the house. Our plan was to remove important or meaningful family mementos (photos, letters, pieces of my mom's needlework, etc.), legal or financial documents, and money (my grandmother loved to hide it in odd places all around her house). Everything else was left for the estate people to go through. As we worked, we set aside any special items that we wanted to keep. I made a rule for myself that I wouldn't save anything unless I had a pretty good idea of where it was going when it came home with me. Most of the objects I kept will be living in my sewing room: original Ball jars, jadite and milk glass, a typewriter, silk maps that my grandfather carried with him during WWII, a few old wooden soda crates, and so on. I'll use most of them to hold sewing notions or decorate the walls. My new fabric cabinet which once belonged to my great grandfather. It's topped with an old typewriter we found in the studio apartment behind the house. These are by far my two favorite items that I brought home with me. 4. Learn from the past. Anyone who's spent time cleaning the house of a hoarder will have a hard time wanting to ever bring anything into their house again that isn't a consumable item. All of us feel that this experience has taught us to make some better choices in our own homes about what we keep and discard. Now that we've finished going through my grandmother's house, my mom and I have been spending time purging our own home of items that can be thrown away or donated. Hoarding is a sickness, but it doesn't have to be contagious if we're willing to put a stop to it. For the last decade of her life, my grandmother never left her house more than a handful of times. She couldn't leave her treasures unprotected, she said, and it broke our hearts to watch her become a prisoner within the walls of her own home. It could have all been so different. She could have been out spending time with her family, playing with her great grandchildren, and making some wonderful memories during her last years here on earth. Instead, she spent her days guarding dusty mounds of glass, paper, metal, and wood. I have drawn my own line in the sand. It ends here. And may I add that this includes fabric hoarding. It's time to break it all out of the cabinet and start using it. What am I saving it for? Why not enjoy it while I can? I need to stop stashing and start sewing. I'm reminded of an old quote by Jonathan Swift who said, "May you live all the days of your life." How I pray that we do.
Akin to buying homes that have slipped into foreclosure, investing in properties previously owned by hoarders can be a creative way for millennials to achieve homeownership.
Rob and Andrew Gray snapped up the squalid dump in Brisbane for $750,000 earlier this year and have already sold it after giving the property a remarkable makeover.
Let's be fair, living space decor can make or break it when it comes to one's home. Of course, all of us are entitled to our own opinions regarding how we'd like to decorate our houses... but that doesn't necessarily mean that those decisions are great either.
How do I clear a hoarders house? We provide a rapid, effective, sympathetic and highly confidential solution
A teenager on TikTok gets vulnerable about how her "filthy home" and hoarder parents affected her and her siblings.
Forget the great and gaudy Hearst Castle – why don’t they talk about Fonthill Castle? Now that’s a house worth seeing. Some might call him America’s first hoarder, but for any aspiring collector or lover of eclectic arts, Pennsylvania’s most underrated treasure is an astonishing visual treat at every turn, telling the story of a…
This couple found their dream home – but it came with one huge catch.
Here are a few warning signs you might be a hoarder. Find out if you are exhibiting hoarding tendencies so you can deal with the problem.
An 87-year-old pensioner has lost her three-year-battle against eviction from the home she has lived in for 60 years because her lifelong collection of memorabilia has been deemed a fire hazard.
Carrie M/ Becker made a 1/6th scale hoarder's house. I have a love of all things miniature. As a young adult, I collected small Japanese toys from a company called…
HOARDERS: Inside Greensboro, NC’s Restored 1929 Julian Price House 301 Fisher Park Circle, Greensboro, North Carolina, United States A sprawling brick Tudor Revival mansion in Greensboro, North Carolina’s Fisher Park neighbourhood has been brought back to life following an explosive two-hour season finale of Hoarders on A&E. The episode aired in January 2017 and just […]
How to tread the fine line between Hoarder-Chic, and Hoarder
One important question broke the spell of hoarding for Giovanna Walker. She writes about growing up with both parents as hoarders and the realisation she didn't want to follow in their footsteps.
If you’ve ever watched Hoarders, you might have noticed that quite a few of the hoarders are actually living in rental properties. Usually, landlords are unaware that they are renting to a hoarder …
Or otherwise known as, "How to not be a hoarder."
How do I clear a hoarders house? We provide a rapid, effective, sympathetic and highly confidential solution
UPDATE: Benson got adopted and is loving his new life with his forever parents! Tara Kawczynski was scrolling through her Facebook feed, when a post about a three-year-old tabby and white cat who was being given
When a loved one is a hoarder - a case study. What is it like to grow up with a parent who is a compulsive hoarder? Is it hard to keep friends?
