Model home includes messy teen's room

Published: Jan. 12, 2009 at 5:38 PM
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OLD CATTON, England, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- British developer Abel Homes said the model home at its latest development comes with one very realistic detail -- a messy teenager's room.

Maggie Abel, director of Abel Homes, said she based the teenager's room at the Old Catton, England, model home on her own son's room when he was a teen 10 years ago, The Daily Mail reported Monday.

"I've always found show homes are a bit bland and unreal, so we decided to create something that was more true to life," Abel said. "I just thought it would be totally unrealistic to have a teenage boy's bedroom looking pristine and perfect, so we deliberately made it as messy as possible."

"I managed to find a fake pizza, a plastic sandwich and an apple and made it look as if they had just been dumped under the bed to rot," she said. "I also covered the walls in posters and flags and spread around some old T-shirts and a pair of trainers belonging to the 15-year-old son of a woman I work with."


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