L@@K! Photos from Real Estate Listings (see remarks)

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.

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!

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), 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.

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.

Stairs = bad for getting old and/or mobility disabled. One-level living = better age-in-place layout.

of course. i know plenty of people that have dealt with that.

I'm 49 and I can see how our stairs (that don't have full railings) could be an issue in 20 years.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2432-Fair-Rd-Abilene-KS-67410/113177058_zpid/

oooh nice find

woah

oh yes please

“My power distribution substation or yours?”

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

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

Drop off at Vivos Xpoint Elementary is a real pain in the ass, but the test scores are high

380k!

always wanted to live in a quake level

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

always wanted to live in a quake level

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.

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.

After you spend the $500,000 it would probably take to make that place habitable and palatable

it's in total shit condition!

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.

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

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.

is there something i should be looking at? oh wait

https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/115/bigphoto/727/22208727_36_6.jpg

lol
https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/115/bigphoto/727/22208727_38_6.jpg

haha.

I was all, "and they even made it go under the bike."

that feels like the stage for an ace attorney murder

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/416-William-St-Mount-Washington-PA-15211/11516283_zpid/

the painting with the butt cheeks that are balls of yarn??

is there something i should be looking at? oh wait

🖼

Same

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/416-William-St-Mount-Washington-PA-15211/11516283_zpid/

Well. Don't know about you all, but I know where I want to trip acid next.

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

jfc when will somebody come along and stick a screwdriver in the "deep fried HDR" button on those real estate agents' cameras? Do they honestly think it makes things look better?

i think that is one of the worst i have seen on this thread. there have been a lot of bad ones but it's just a vomit of brown and gray for rich people reasons. with some of these even if it's ugly you can get the impression it made the owner happy but this looks miserable. i can't believe the things people spend money on sometimes.

it's really bad. there's a blue glass chihuly-vomit light fixture in one of the all grey-brown rooms. the whole thing screams in pain lol. i get get the feeling that the people responsible for this are deeply troubled, and they decided a long time ago to lean into it.

I should mention that when I say, "Impressive," I meant in a bad way lol

mammy in kitchen raises an eyebrow

You know you've got a busy kitchen when you're able to just plunk one of those down on the counter and have it blend in with everything else, including the pig with wings.

stick a screwdriver in the "deep fried HDR" button

I just assumed that's what it always looked like in Pittsburgh.

is there something i should be looking at? oh wait

I can’t tell what is going on here.

― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 23 May 2022 21:40 (yesterday) link

Same

― calstars, Monday, 23 May 2022 23:24 (yesterday) link

It appears to be the classic youtube thumb nail red circle to show the viewer where to look, instead it is an actual object in the room.

thumbnail*

but what the object is i still don't know, a giant hula hoop?

anyway it does look like kind of a dope house, i want a shaded plaza, mirror art and a commuter bike

Just out of frame is a giant bust of Mr. Beast with his mouth open.

> but what the object is i still don't know, a giant hula hoop?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zprVQusb2o