Kurt Cobain’s childhood home on the block

Kurt Cobain’s childhood home is staged for sale with a guitar, plus the dining room table and hutch that were used when he lived there.  (Elaine Thompson / Associated Press)

The living room of Kurt Cobain’s childhood home, photographed last week for the property listing.  (Elaine Thompson / Associated Press)

The kitchen of Kurt Cobain’s old home. The house is listed for $500,000.   (Elaine Thompson / Associated Press)

Kurt Cobain’s old attic bedroom still has band logos on the walls -- as well as at least one hole he punched in them.  (Elaine Thompson / Associated Press)

A mattress Kurt Cobain slept on in his youth is still in the attic of the family home.  (Elaine Thompson / Associated Press)

Dann Sears, curator of the Aberdeen Museum of History, in the home’s garage. The family is open to having the house become a museum.  (Elaine Thompson / Associated Press)

The attached garage where Kurt Cobain and bandmate Krist Novoselic practiced in the late 1980s before achieving fame with Nirvana.  (Elaine Thompson / Associated Press)