Photo: Hudson Valley Catskill Region MLS, Global MLS, Staten Island Multiple Listing Service, Berkshire Hathaway HomeService

Here at Curbed, we regularly treat ourselves to the pleasure of browsing through housing listings. If you look at enough of them, you'll learn to spot the anomaly and zoom in. Why does this living room work? have two fireplaces? Who built one? Old West style saloon in her palatial Park Avenue apartment? That's why we were excited to find out John WilsonHost and creator of HBOs Instructions with John Wilsonwas also a bit obsessed with listings. To that end, he just published his own book of Zillow finds. Your dream homeout with Sacred Bones Books, and to our great delight he agreed to comment on a small selection of them for us.

When my landlord offered to sell my apartment in 2020, I started comparison shopping to make sure I wasn't being ripped off. It quickly became an addiction, even though I had no intention of pursuing anything else. After a while, certain patterns began to emerge in the images and I thought it would be cool to put them all together in a little book. Here are a few images that stood out.

Photo: Global MLS, Inc.

It's unclear if it was already like this or if they staged it to give you an idea of ​​how much conversation there is in the discussion.

Photo: Columbia County & Northern Dutchess MLS

It looks like a 20-foot tall person lives here.

Photo: Global MLS

I've seen some of these raised toilets and I'm not sure why they need to be so high. Could it be because it's in a basement? If you dare, you can free solo your way up there.

Photo: Hudson Valley Catskill Region MLS

Brave position.

Photo: South Jersey Shore Regional MLS

Photo: South Jersey Shore Regional MLS

I found this while browsing listings in Atlantic City. It's in a beautiful old house right at the entrance to the Tropicana in South Brighton – it looks like a normal kitchen until you notice the “Slave Quarters” sign above the pantry.

Photo: Staten Island Multiple Listing Service

Would love to watch Fun games in this room or something.

Photo: Staten Island Multiple Listing Service Inc.

This is one of the thinnest doors I have ever seen.

Photo: One Key MLS

Sometimes there is no paneling at all and a void is left – it feels like it's a rendering from an architectural design program, but it's actually a real space.

Photo: Columbia Greene Northern Dutchess MLS

Despite all their attempts to create a flattering image, sometimes the problem inside is too big to fix.