Student Houses – Can They Be Cool?

Jeff Awesome — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:40:11 +0000

I was a student, I remember the houses, the dirty broken houses. It wasn’t that my houses were untidy, for the most part they were pretty clean but it was the standard of the house and the furniture that came with it. As a student getting a house with its own furniture is ideal because you don’t have anything and can’t afford to buy anything either but landlords will never buy anything worth more than a packet of monster munch to put in a student house and rightly so it will probably just get trashed. The houses themselves are about the same, the landlord will spend the bare minimum amount to keep the house upright but other than that everything else is a complete mess.

The sofas I had in my last house, no word of a lie, sounded like there was something living in them. When we first turned up we got so worried we took them outside and (shh dont tell the landlord) cut them open. Lets just say if you don’t like spiders you would have hated those sofas! Not only where they awful, uncomfortable and full of spiders, one was a horrible shade of red and the other was bright blue!

Once one of my house mates girlfriends tried to make the place a bit nicer and got some flowers to put above the TV. They had possibly the shortest lifespan of any flowers ever. It was worth a try at least but it was never going to be a happy ending.

When I started writing this post I was trying to find pictures of awesome student houses and I couldn’t actually find one! I know in films they tend to be amazing (case in point Van Wilder) but in reality they just end up looking like this.

[image via Noud!'s Flickr]

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Student Houses – Can They Be Cool?