51.   The photos make the place look a bit like Norway.

52.   The place looks like the mother of all yard sales.

53.   The place looks something like a high-tech NASA launch control room.

54.   The place looks sumptuous now, with plum banquettes in the tiny downstairs room and walls done in broad asparagus and celery stripes.

55.   The place would always look better after I was done.

56.   The place actually looks pretty good.

57.   The place looked like a parking lot.

58.   The place looked like it had been hit by an earthquake, which, of course, it had.

59.   The place looked like it was from the Dark Ages.

60.   The place looks abandoned, ruined, dead.