it looks nice but it's probably still kind of shitty is my point though
― call all destroyer, Monday, 14 February 2022 03:19 (two years ago) link
Yeah, inside is nice for a split. The best feature is the triangular windows up under the eaves, which give it the feel of an Eichler house.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Monday, 14 February 2022 11:57 (two years ago) link
Budget for painting the doors red, then blue, then red, and so on, with neither really working.
― Bixby in a Samsung I know it's Siri-esque (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 14 February 2022 12:28 (two years ago) link
Whole exterior def needs new paint
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 14 February 2022 13:26 (two years ago) link
I'm in what must be a very small minority of people who like the 70s split levels. My elementary school best friends lived in side splits, which felt so much more spacious and varied than the bungalows in the neighbourhood. I like the sense of separation/distance you get from the levels, plus the two lower levels had options to partition the floors into separate spaces. I'd live in one! The real dream is a house with a sunken living room though.
― salsa shark, Monday, 14 February 2022 20:30 (two years ago) link
The second house I bought was a 1964 split level and I loved it, it just felt so different and modern compared to all the normal two-story early 1900s houses I knew growing. Given the choice between that and the 1938 two story I live in now I'd take the split level without even thinking about it.
― joygoat, Monday, 14 February 2022 20:58 (two years ago) link
like all my friends in my hometown lived in these split entry houses where you go in the front door and there's immediately half-staircases down (to a finished basement) and up (to a normal 1 story house layout). is that a 'raised ranch'?
i never got to host anything because i was the only one without a finished basement (the only acceptable hangout spot for teens)
― ciderpress, Monday, 14 February 2022 21:51 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I really enjoyed split-levels. Don't know why anyone would complain about them.
― peace, man, Monday, 14 February 2022 22:27 (two years ago) link
you lose living space to a garage (this is not unique to this layout, but it sucks).
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 14 February 2022 22:37 (two years ago) link
A row of split levels on small lots will form a housing band structure where everyone can move freely between houses (if they are warm enough, wearing a sweater)
― Bixby in a Samsung I know it's Siri-esque (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 14 February 2022 22:48 (two years ago) link
not necessarily! many splits in my home town (and prb other western Canadian places) have detached garages. those are the best ones, otherwise yeah the house frontage is too dominated by the garage (like the one linked above).
― salsa shark, Monday, 14 February 2022 23:41 (two years ago) link
My house is a split level built in 59. I really like the layout of it. My area is very sloped so it kind of fits the landscape - first level is the front entrance, second level opens right to the back patio.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 01:10 (two years ago) link
i never got to host anything because i was the only one without a finished basement
I've always been jealous of you Yankees with your finished basements!
― pplains, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 02:20 (two years ago) link
β longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, February 14, 2022 8:10 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
This is the best way to do a split level. Gives it the architectural interest/changing views that are missing for me when it is just a box on a flat parcel.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 02:33 (two years ago) link
my issues with splits are disliking bedrooms and living space being on the same level, and too much finished space on the lower level which rarely gets good light. the side-split multilevel which someone mentioned is a cooler design, but at least here they're much less common.
but my happy place for home style is somewhere in the 19th century (and occasionally the 18th century) so i recognize my bias here.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 03:01 (two years ago) link
Stairs = bad for getting old and/or mobility disabled. One-level living = better age-in-place layout.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 03:11 (two years ago) link
of course. i know plenty of people that have dealt with that.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 03:12 (two years ago) link
I'm 49 and I can see how our stairs (that don't have full railings) could be an issue in 20 years.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 03:14 (two years ago) link
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2432-Fair-Rd-Abilene-KS-67410/113177058_zpid/
― Look closely, that is all. (doo dah), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 01:48 (two years ago) link
oooh nice find
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 01:55 (two years ago) link
woah
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 02:23 (two years ago) link
oh yes please
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 02:53 (two years ago) link
βMy power distribution substation or yours?β
― calstars, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 02:57 (two years ago) link
I was so close to posting this on the Noise Colony thread:
https://i.imgur.com/rBneO85.jpg
https://www.terravivos.com/secure/vivosxpoint.htm
― pplains, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 03:14 (two years ago) link
But it's a little creepy.
if my survival is contingent on my moving to south dakota i'll just see you guys later i guess
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 03:23 (two years ago) link
Drop off at Vivos Xpoint Elementary is a real pain in the ass, but the test scores are high
― Bixby in a Samsung I know it's Siri-esque (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 03:23 (two years ago) link
380k!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 04:15 (two years ago) link
always wanted to live in a quake level
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 15:35 (two years ago) link
Southwest South Dakota would be one of the most irradiated places on the planet after a nuclear holocaust, due to fallout from strikes on (I assume) launch sites in Montana https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fallout_map_USA_(FEMA).jpg
― Dan I., Wednesday, 16 February 2022 19:13 (two years ago) link
― calstars, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 19:14 (two years ago) link
This facility has lots of potential in whatever way you choose to go. A home, apartments or a Bed and Breakfast are just some ideas.
I know it's not what they actually meant, but I love the idea of someone turning that bunker into a bed and breakfast.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 17 February 2022 02:07 (two years ago) link
Or maybe it actually is what they meant? "Facility"
I think it might be what they actually meant, like a novelty thing. I would imagine it is pretty profitable when you get spotlighted on one of those "Weirdest/coolest Airbnb" type lists.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 17 February 2022 02:23 (two years ago) link
After you spend the $500,000 it would probably take to make that place habitable and palatable
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 17 February 2022 03:11 (two years ago) link
it's in total shit condition!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 February 2022 04:03 (two years ago) link
both doo dah's missile silo and pplains's creepy survivalist bunker link are kind of staggering in different ways. the bunker people really are disturbing... all these references to "the event" and "the outside." i know there's people who think like that, and i've read post-apocalyptic novels with compounds of scary nuts living in places like that, but to see it rendered as a sales pitch in the present day gives me the willies.
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 17 February 2022 11:59 (two years ago) link
i got those same willies when i read this article, enough that i still remember feeling 'em a few years later:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 17 February 2022 19:31 (two years ago) link
I stopped short of posting the SD bunkers the first time when I saw their promo material began with the George Floyd protests.
But hell, send those people out into the middle of nowhere and bury them in the dirt. I don't care.
― pplains, Thursday, 17 February 2022 19:34 (two years ago) link
is there something i should be looking at? oh wait
https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/115/bigphoto/727/22208727_36_6.jpg
― marcos, Monday, 23 May 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
lolhttps://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/115/bigphoto/727/22208727_38_6.jpg
― marcos, Monday, 23 May 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link
haha.
I was all, "and they even made it go under the bike."
― pplains, Monday, 23 May 2022 20:17 (one year ago) link
that feels like the stage for an ace attorney murder
― ciderpress, Monday, 23 May 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/416-William-St-Mount-Washington-PA-15211/11516283_zpid/
― Look closely, that is all. (doo dah), Monday, 23 May 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link
the painting with the butt cheeks that are balls of yarn??
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Monday, 23 May 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link
is there something i should be looking at? oh waitπΌ
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 23 May 2022 21:40 (one year ago) link
Same
― calstars, Monday, 23 May 2022 23:24 (one year ago) link
Well. Don't know about you all, but I know where I want to trip acid next.
― pplains, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 01:22 (one year ago) link
Bathroom wallpaper with the faces coming out of it sealed the deal for me.
Pretty impressive, mammy in kitchen raises an eyebrow but it keeps with the tenor of the whole thing, a sort of neo-Baroque imperial nightmare
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 02:04 (one year ago) link