Back To The Drawing Board: a house log

Here is a little behind the scenes Friday bid-ness. Remember us saying how we lately debated how to best share our house hunting experience while still respecting the privacy of the sellers’ homes we were critiquing? And how we at last opted to share only a doctored image of the exterior, like this one below?

Well, we in fact came to that solution only after this sad first attempt to disguise each home occurred:

I enjoy my wife. And I think she’s quite talented. Truly. Especially with her cute drawings of our home’s floor plan and our lot (both of which came out truly well). Which is why it was not straightforward to look her in the eye and tell her that I did not think her crooked colored-pencil “interpretations” were, uh, the way to go.

Luckily for me, Sherry took one more look at them and cracked up. Then we turned to our trusty friend (you may know him as Photoshop) for the job. Oh and we used the Paint Daubs filter to work our blur magic. As for how it all went so terribly wrong, Sherry blames Danielle Staub (she was catching up on some Real Housewives reruns while getting her colored pencil on). That beeyotch ruins everything.

So that is our little behind the scenes Friday outtake for you. Have any of you had to resort to Plan B after Plan A was an epic fail?