Like many people on the internet, you've probably already seen ads for homes adorned with cutesy sayings, like the sign above the bed that reads, “Welcome to Poundtown.” The origins of that sign, as artist and home flipper Lauren Hagenbarth explains in Mel Magazine, are, of course, true.
This $420,000 (LOL) Onalaska, Wisconsin home is a perfect example of what can happen when your obsession with Michael Jackson goes too far. pic.twitter.com/aBDPZ0VnQY
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Hagenbarth knew this was a winner from the start: “Raw and funny” was her goal, and people seem to agree.
Mail Magazine:
“People say I put out too many signs and that I should stop going to Michaels, but I don't go to Michaels,” she says. “If I go to a store it's Hobby Lobby or TJ Maxx, but I make most of my own signs!”
Indeed, of all the signs in the home, there's one that, as ZillowGoneWild puts it, “stands out from the rest”: the “WELCOME TO POUNDTOWN” sign that hovers above the headboard of her and her husband's bed in the master bedroom.
“My husband deployed to New Orleans for 90 days last November, where he helped restore homes for people whose lives were destroyed in the recent hurricane,” Hegenbarth begins. It was around that time that the idea for a new sign in their bedroom began to bubble up. “I saw the OG Poundtown sign in a Facebook group and I was like, 'Oh, that's cool. I have to make one,'” she continues.
For the sake of completeness, “Poundtown” is a euphemism for sexual intercourse, and the sign welcomes visitors to a place where sexual intercourse takes place. “I wanted the sign to look like a run-of-the-mill, cheesy decorative sign, but then you read it and boom! it becomes obscene and hilarious.”