Wednesday WTF

Normal On the Outside, Curious Design Choices On the Inside

By Bethany Erickson / June 6, 2018 /

Before we delve into today’s hot mess of choices that we’ve deemed a true Wednesday WTF, I’d like to address a frequent pearl-clutching reader question. “Does WTF stand for what I think it stands for?” Yes. Maybe. Depends. See, let me explain. In the immortal words of the great fictional Realtor Phil Dunphy, I like…

Yes, You Can Own a Whole Town in Utah for $225K

By Bethany Erickson / May 30, 2018 /

Sometimes, when doing research for another story, you go down a rabbit hole at 3 a.m. and find another listing that sends you down another rabbit hole of WTF in Utah and then suddenly it’s 5 a.m. and your caffeine consumption for the next day puts your heart rate somewhere around hummingbird wings and over-sugared…

Keep Your Shirt On, Because Here’s Abercrombie’s Castle

By Bethany Erickson / May 23, 2018 /

So before we begin with this week’s Wednesday WTF (which features Abercrombie’s castle), I should apologize for being late. But in my defense, it was an election night last night, and I was up late. Like, really late. Like, there was this one race that someone won by a mere 25 votes and those votes…

The Dark Lord is Watching From His North Carolina Tudor

By Bethany Erickson / May 16, 2018 /

So sometimes you find a fixer and you think, “Oh, maybe there’s shiplap,” or “maybe there are hardwoods under that vinyl,” or “maybe Satan lives here.” This week’s Wednesday WTF is a reader-submitted Tudor, and is definitely a contender for a hot new HGTV show called “Beelzebub’s Baseboards.” No? How about “Lucifer and Liens?” “Mephistopheles…

Wednesday WTF: This Time, It’s Personal (and Really Hot)

By Bethany Erickson / May 9, 2018 /

Have y’all seen the forecast? It’s like Beginner’s Hades up in here. For the Wednesday WTF readers who are not from Texas, let me explain: “spring” in Texas is more like a toddler before naptime — blowing hot and cold, irrational, and really inconvenient. And it just so happens that this week will reach the…