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When realtors try to sell expensive houses, they "stage"
them
-- fill them with tasteful furniture that sells you not just on
the house but on becoming the kind of person that would
own
this kind of furniture.
It gets old. There's only so many tastefully karate-chopped
pillows and color-coordinated
drapes a person can look at.
Throughout 1940s and 1950s, Frances Glessner Lee created
20
dollhouse miniatures of crime scenes, usually composites or
variants of real crime scenes, used to train detectives in
forensics. (I was recently reminded of that when episode 2
of "The 3%" featured a clever twist in a "here's a frozen
scene, tell me what happened" puzzle. That one was life-
sized, though.)
Why not combine the two to draw traffic to a realtor's
website? Among the vases and inoffensive modern art, hide
a
trail of footsteps, blood spatter, spilled vichysoise -- and is
that the torn-out power cable of a toaster I see sticking out
of
the bath tub? Why, I think I know where the body must be!
Give visitors to the website a way of entering their
conclusion
of who did it, where, and with what. Randomly drawn
winner
gets free run of the open house an hour early.
Vox Almanac: Frances Glessner Lee
https://www.youtube...watch?v=9hdT8PgT19w
Video [jutta, May 31 2018]
https://www.google....igC&biw=360&bih=512
[hippo, Jun 01 2018]
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You’ve been keeping that one under wraps for a
while.....{+} |
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Nice. Related to this, it's extraordinary that it's not
possible to buy rugs woven with a chalk corpse
outline
pattern |
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// a chalk corpse outline pattern // |
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// you can’t get red wine stain out // |
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That's because it's blackcurrant juice ... well, maybe blackcurrant juice. Or possibly tomato sauce. Red wine doesn't cause a reddish-brown colour like that. |
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might make for an interesting open house strategy |
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"... and here in the dining room you will find a length of rope, a piece of lead piping, a dagger, a candlestick, a pistol and a spanner, and through there is the conservatory where ... oh, hello Miss Scarlett, I didn't know you were still here ..." |
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Psssst. ' Cleary' sp.. Ha |
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Also, correction: it is possible to buy rugs with a
corpse chalk outline pattern... (see link) |
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I did one of these figure outlines when I was at
college and added an extra arm growing out of the
side of one of the legs. |
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An interesting way to get some open house traffic
for a slow-selling place, that's for sure. |
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// added an extra arm growing out of the side of one of the legs // |
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And after that, you have the unmitigated gall to crticize those lovely altruistic people from Monsanto ? Physician, heal thyself ... |
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Some sort of Escape Room .. Escape Open House? staging
could become a thing as well. |
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Each house should have a children's room
containing a special doll's house. You know the
rest. |
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Sounds interesting. I just wonder about the Venn diagram of Crime puzzlers and money bags wanting homes. Don't Realtors target their market, if their worth their salt? |
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In a similar vein, wouldn't staging something different, maybe a Damien Hirst, spread a wider net? |
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