Idle curiosity: weirdest part of your house?

larrygaga · November 2014

I have a very normal single bedroom apartment. However my closet has a little door that is sealed shut. It looks like it used to go into the neighbors closet. It's on the floor and I would have to squeeze to get through it on my hands and knees.

beethery · November 2014

luckya23 said:

That looks slippery, @beethery!
Adorable puppy, though!

It is. If your shoes or feet are wet and you try to walk on those tiles, you will bust your ass. I have a few times.

amelisha · November 2014

I had a teal bathroom in my second rental house. Bright teal toilet and everything. It was almost as good as these pink ones!

[Deleted User] · November 2014

jenna8984 I think it was built in the mid 60's, someone flipped it and modernized a lot of it before we bought it a few years ago, but apparently didn't feel the need to add in an outlet! YES! Super annoying.

Ooh also, our living room had no lighting (like no ceiling light at all), and its a pretty big sized room so we had to get like 3 lamps and bright ass light bulbs.

amelisha · November 2014

larrygaga said:
I have a very normal single bedroom apartment. However my closet has a little door that is sealed shut. It looks like it used to go into the neighbors closet. It's on the floor and I would have to squeeze to get through it on my hands and knees.

We have something like that in our second bath- it's from where there was a big leak from the apartment above and they had to cut into the wall to clean it up.

luckya23 · November 2014

amelisha said:

I had a teal bathroom in my second rental house. Bright teal toilet and everything. It was almost as good as these pink ones!

I would KILL for a teal bathroom!

My pink one is crazy to a lot of people, but I love it, and it's what sold me on the house!

KatWAG · November 2014

luckya23 said:

I have a curtained toilet in my garage... looking directly at the electrical panel.

I would make my H use that.

luckya23 · November 2014

KatWAG said:

luckya23 said:

I have a curtained toilet in my garage... looking directly at the electrical panel.

I would make my H use that.

It has come in handy in some emergency situations and I've been very glad to have a random second toilet in the house... but it doesn't flush terribly well! No solids!

themuffinman16 · November 2014

luckya23 said:

photokitty said:

I have since redone the bathroom but it was hands down my bathtub.
There was no spigot! No one noticed until eh home inspector pointed it out, but I wasn't going to pullout over a spigot...but seriously - NO SPIGOT???
The shower head would swing down if you wanted to fill the tub.
The shower head was only 5'10 tall.
It was banana pants!

Looks like my salmon tiles!

OMG!! My twin sis and I had a bathroom like that at our old apartment. It was salmon pink and black. Pink sink, pink toilet. There was no saving it, so we turned it into the flamingo lounge. We had a shower curtain with creepy flamingos on it. We had a flamingo neon sign and flamingo string lights. People always bought us flamingo crap for holidays, like shirts and pjs.... nope. We are just into flamingos because of that crazy bathroom. Lol

...Oh, and our walls were painted black to cover the mold. Which just made the pink seem brighter

SmileDamnit · November 2014

Oh, it's definitely our back yard. Pretty sure who ever landscaped it was smoking crack. First, they did an outside "border" of rocks, next an insider "border" of dirt, then a "border" around the tiny grass part. And what's with the random stone path into the tree?? So bizarre, and such a waste of a decent sized yard!

themuffinman16 · November 2014

SmileDamnit said:

Oh, it's definitely our back yard. Pretty sure who ever landscaped it was smoking crack. First, they did an outside "border" of rocks, next an insider "border" of dirt, then a "border" around the tiny grass part. And what's with the random stone path into the tree?? So bizarre, and such a waste of a decent sized yard!

Maybe the Berenstein Bears live there?

jenna8984 · November 2014

@beethery Stayed at a few different private residences in Greece and all the floors from the porch to the bathroom were marble. At first I was like "This is so gorgeous!" Then I found out wet marble is the fucking devil. Especially since they don't have shower curtains.

amelisha · November 2014

SmileDamnit said:

Oh, it's definitely our back yard. Pretty sure who ever landscaped it was smoking crack. First, they did an outside "border" of rocks, next an insider "border" of dirt, then a "border" around the tiny grass part. And what's with the random stone path into the tree?? So bizarre, and such a waste of a decent sized yard!

Less to mow, though, so I admit I don't hate it. But FI is allergic to grass (...I know) and so all yardwork will forever be my responsibility (and I hate yardwork) so that looks pretty ideal to me.

climbingsingle · November 2014

I have a friend that has a random toilet in her bathroom. No walls around it. Nothing else. Just a toilet in the corner. We nickednamed it the "toilet of desperation" because that's the only way it would get used.

luckya23 · November 2014

themuffinman16 said:

luckya23 said:

photokitty said:

I have since redone the bathroom but it was hands down my bathtub.
There was no spigot! No one noticed until eh home inspector pointed it out, but I wasn't going to pullout over a spigot...but seriously - NO SPIGOT???
The shower head would swing down if you wanted to fill the tub.
The shower head was only 5'10 tall.
It was banana pants!

Looks like my salmon tiles!

OMG!! My twin sis and I had a bathroom like that at our old apartment. It was salmon pink and black. Pink sink, pink toilet. There was no saving it, so we turned it into the flamingo lounge. We had a shower curtain with creepy flamingos on it. We had a flamingo neon sign and flamingo string lights. People always bought us flamingo crap for holidays, like shirts and pjs.... nope. We are just into flamingos because of that crazy bathroom. Lol
...Oh, and our walls were painted black to cover the mold. Which just made the pink seem brighter

As you can partly see, I'm going Full Flamingo with it too!

There's a flamingo picture above the sink and a flamingo light switch cover.

My new shower curtain is a more vintage cotton with embroidered chenille 'mingos!

birdybride2014 · November 2014

These are fun!

FI and I live in a two-story townhouse with stupid stairs like below. Whoever designed this complex only put a cable hookup right underneath the stairs, so our TV cannot go anywhere else downstairs unless we run the wires underneath the carpet. It looks stupid and the setup is ridiculous for many reasons.

Anyways, our dog likes to nap on these stairs because he can see everything through them, and he generally hangs out on them. The other day he peed on our cable box.

lovemyrunner · November 2014

I'm also in a mid 1800s Midwestern farmhouse that my grandparents bought before my mom was born. Add me to the list of poor unfortunate souls with no outlets in the bathroom. And to the list of pink bathrooms. Actually, grandpa did the bathroom himself. It's pink from the floor to midway up the wall. Then there's a black tile border, then it's baby blue. The sink, toliet and tub are all baby blue. There is no shower. It's the one full bath and it's right off the kitchen. Bonus, it has a laundry chute into the basement.

There is also a random free-standing toliet in the basement. The staircase to the basement has a full wall cabinet in front of it, and there is a trap door that you have to put down to be able to reach the cabinet or put the trap door up to use the stairs.

There are two attics, one accessed through the second floor ceiling and the other accessed through a tiny little door in the closet of one of the bedrooms. And the absolute worst part about the house? No duct work to the second floor. It's a sauna in summer and fucking freezing in the winter!

sophhabobopha · November 2014

Our apartment has a thermostat in every seperate room. I've never seen that before, but maybe it's normal?

cupcait927 · November 2014

l9i said:

Also, I'm pretty sure every window in our house is a different size, it's crazy. It's an older house and the windows need replaced but I fear an estimate because I expect a lot of custom sizing....

This is how our living room is. Every window is a different width and they are at different heights on the wall. It was built in 1930 so I'm sure window sizing and placement wasn't much a concern.

Our house is considered to be only 1 3/4 stories. Not 2 stories. The ceilings in our upstairs are really low - like if you're anything over 6 foot, you're going to be ducking down and uncomfortable. I'm only 5'5" and have smacked my hand on the bedroom ceiling so many times when I'm changing my clothes.

I also cannot figure out for the life of me where the original bathroom was in our house. Pretty sure they must've used an outhouse when it was first built. The full bathroom you can tell was added on much later (added to the back of the house when the mudroom was added) and the half bath upstairs was put in by the people we bought the house from. It also has this wonky teeny third bedroom upstairs that used to be an open area. I only know this because at one point, a girl I used to work with lived there when she was younger and told me that her dad built the walls to make it into a bedroom.

luckya23 · November 2014

sophhabobopha said:

Our apartment has a thermostat in every seperate room. I've never seen that before, but maybe it's normal?

Do you have electric heat?

Seems that is the only way that would work!

ShellD13 · November 2014

The random toilets are a sign of future planning (especially if they are located in basements). I didn't understand it at first either when H and I were house hunting but he explained it because he had done something similar when he'd had his first house built. It is easier and cheaper to have the builder plumb a toilet, sink, shower at the time they are building the house then trying to add it later not to mention that you typically have to go with special grinder type toilets and raised floor if you are plumbing it in a basement with cement/concrete floors. My H is really handy so he counted on the builder to do the plumbing and then after he was living in the house he framed out/finished the basement with the bathroom, office, kid's playroom which saved him a ton of money in the long run.

cupcait927 · November 2014

luckya23 said:

sophhabobopha said:

Our apartment has a thermostat in every seperate room. I've never seen that before, but maybe it's normal?

Do you have electric heat?
Seems that is the only way that would work!

My apartment senior year in college had that. It was actually pretty great because our living room was so small that even two people being there would heat up the room so we kept that thermostat really low. Our bedrooms were all set to our individual preference.

Kahlyla · November 2014

This isn't that weird because we live in an old elementary school (which, okay, is a little weird), but we have a secret room under the stairs that you enter via a blast door. It's off the utility room (where we have 400amp service and this huge soaring wall of electrical *stuff*), which also has its own blast door off the hallway.

The main utility room used to have an actual boiler, so the outer door makes sense, but why-for the secret room? It even has its own radiator, power, light, and this little hatch to outside. Even water access if we could somehow hack the old well.

It has shelves so we've started stocking the joint.

So we're definitely all sorted for the Zombie Apocalypse, or just about any other apocalypse really.

AprilH81 · November 2014

Before we remodeled the kitchen the stove was in the peninsula which wouldn't have been a big deal except there was no vent/hood and the breakfast bar was 6 inches from the stove. It didn't make sense, the breakfast bar would be unusable while someone was cooking (no kids doing homework for example).

So we gutted the kitchen. lol

Before:

After:

amelisha · November 2014

I'm really feeling a lot better about my incredibly stupid pantry, everyone, haha.

jenna8984 · November 2014

@aprilh81 I have never had a range/ hood vent. My houses have all just had cabinets above the stove. I never found a problem with it, but I see your point as I've never tried to sit down and do something 6 inches from it. Looks really great, is that your new house or the one you sold?

theartistformerlyknownas · November 2014

Our family room was converted from a breezeway that connected the kitchen to the garage... but they fucked something up when they poured the slab, or something. Going from the kitchen there's a step, but going from the doorway near the front door there's a tiny little slope. There are also no heat vents.

Our garage has a second garage door on the back, and an asphalt pad. I guess the prior owner worked on cars in the back yard. Super classy.

And they installed the door to one of the bedrooms backwards, so the light switch is behind the door instead of on the open side.

Thankfully H demoed the kitchen and bathroom before we met, so we don't have the awful 50's tiles everyone else has!

cupcait927 · November 2014

AlisonM23 said:

jenna8984 I think it was built in the mid 60's, someone flipped it and modernized a lot of it before we bought it a few years ago, but apparently didn't feel the need to add in an outlet! YES! Super annoying.

Ooh also, our living room had no lighting (like no ceiling light at all), and its a pretty big sized room so we had to get like 3 lamps and bright ass light bulbs.

With the exception of the kitchen and bathrooms, not a single room in my house has overhead lighting. My living room is long and narrow and we currently have 3 lamps in there and it's not enough. I'd love to put overhead lighting and ceiling fans in upstairs but it would have to be all recessed lighting and no fans since the ceilings are so damn low (stupid 1 3/4 story house).

AprilH81 · November 2014

AlisonM23 said:

jenna8984 I think it was built in the mid 60's, someone flipped it and modernized a lot of it before we bought it a few years ago, but apparently didn't feel the need to add in an outlet! YES! Super annoying.

Ooh also, our living room had no lighting (like no ceiling light at all), and its a pretty big sized room so we had to get like 3 lamps and bright ass light bulbs.

Yeah, our formal living room and bedrooms upstairs had no overhead lights/fans which is a big pet peeve of mine. We hired an electrician to come install the wiring and lights for us. No regrets on spending that money!!

hellosweetie1015 · November 2014

Sooo the new house has a random ledge. It is PERFECT for sitting, with the one little problem that it's completely inaccessible without a ladder. I don't know what the lightswitches all do yet, because it seems like EV-UH-RY single light has at least two switches. Some have three. Why, I don't know. Three lightswitches is overkill. It has one of the TV cubbies that clearly was meant for the old-school TV sets, and it has an alarm system that flashes a specific number depending on which entry door is open. So far, we've figured out that door number 1 is the door into the garage, door number 4 is the front door, and door number 5 is the back door. We don't have any other doors that I know of in the house, and I don't think the windows are linked to the system. However, door number 3 flashes randomly and makes the system ping. It's weird.

The OLD house - upstairs toilet was connected to the hot water, so if you were showering and someone used it, you got a cold shower. Downstairs shower - there was a storage room over it, and the floor in the storage room was knotted pine, and there were two holes in the floor directly over the shower, through which my brother and one of his friends peeped once. (Only once; mom took care of that.) We think the original house was only three rooms, even though it was originally built in 1987 when there was a standard of more than that. There was a square spot in the porch that was lower than the rest of the porch and filled in with dirt. It had a "potting shed" in the woods that was just full of beer bottles, and a real shed that had electricity but no heat. It had ONE closet with a door, and the rest were open. I don't think any of the doors locked. The downstairs bathroom had a foyer, but the front entrance didn't.

It never had a bathroom in a weird place though, at least to my memory. So there's that.

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