We need to address the elephant in the room, aka the random dishwasher in the middle of the lounge.
Auckland designer Richard Parry has been cataloguing curiosities within the local rental market in a long-running segment on his Instagram page called Crap Rentals. As a part of Rent Week, Parry has given The Spinoff the keys to his illustrious archive of shocking, uneasy, hilarious and ridiculous rental properties advertised across Aotearoa.
Today, we look at 10 of the weirdest placement of furniture (and other ephemera) in rental ads across the motu.
Is that a massage table or a gurney from a morgue? Either way, this placement does NOT look good for our Saint Nick.
Please be upstanding as this toilet sings the national anthem.
Please be upstanding as this dishwasher joins the patriotic toilet in a moving rendition of ‘Welcome Home’.
Whomst or what is behind that door?
A new collaboration between the folks who brought you ‘Lion in the Meadow’ and ‘Rat in Mi Kitchen’.
You’re really going to want to make sure you go to sleep the right way here…
Basically an overwater bungalow in Bora Bora.
Get you a room that can do both.
Rent Week 2022 runs until October 2. Read all our renting coverage here.
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