zztop11
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Post by zztop11 on Apr 25, 2016 19:40:23 GMT
Just read a post about something odd and I thought it said house. So that got me thinking, what is the oddest or strangest thing about your house?
Nothing much odd about mine, except for the fact that I can keep the window open in the master bedroom even in the middle of winter with the heat off and it doesn't get as cold as the rest of the bedrooms do. We can't figure out why. It doesn't get the morning sun, isn't over the heater. It's about 17ft x 12 ft. Does the large size help to "hold in" the heat? Who knows.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2016 19:44:57 GMT
Probably my driveway. The turnaround at the top, by the garage, has a 10-foot sheer wall of granite going up to the back yard. We had to break up some rock to put in the house foundation, and this huge chunk just sheared off. I have a rock garden planted on top of it.
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Post by freebird on Apr 25, 2016 19:51:38 GMT
It's surrounded on 4 sides by beans. Or corn. depending on the year.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2016 19:55:59 GMT
There is a bank of light switches in the master bedroom. Nothing was labeled, so we had to figure out what each one controlled. But there's one we haven't figured out. After 7 years of trying, we've given up.
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Post by lisacharlotte on Apr 25, 2016 19:56:53 GMT
My 1922 house has Amityville Horror 1/4 windows in the attic and a red room in the basement. The red room used to hold the coal for the boiler, now it's storage and home to our chest freezer.
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Post by craftykitten on Apr 25, 2016 19:56:54 GMT
OMG freebird, do you live in a house like in a scary film?! How close are your nearest neighbours? There isn't anything unusual about our house, I don't think. We have the original wooden front door from the 1920s. That's all I've got.
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Post by miominmio on Apr 25, 2016 19:58:22 GMT
My house has a (tiny) secret room, hidden behind a cupboard in a closet.
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Post by krc11 on Apr 25, 2016 20:00:42 GMT
Why they chose to put a tiny kitchen in a 2400 s.f. house is beyond me. If you have 4 BR plus bonus room, you are probably going to need a kitchen that can accommodate more than 2 people at any one time. You can't even open the dishwasher if someone is prepping food and using the counter.
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Post by joelise on Apr 25, 2016 20:01:07 GMT
I'm surrounded by bulldozers and scaffolding. I live on a building site. I bought a new build on a new estate and we were the first to move in on this street!
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Post by mikklynn on Apr 25, 2016 20:03:43 GMT
We have two sets of stairs from the same level to another level. My grandchildren love to run around from one to the other and try to scare each other.
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zztop11
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Post by zztop11 on Apr 25, 2016 20:04:06 GMT
There is a bank of light switches in the master bedroom. Nothing was labeled, so we had to figure out what each one controlled. But there's one we haven't figured out. After 7 years of trying, we've given up. The same with us. And we've been in our house for 20+ years.
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Post by KikiPea on Apr 25, 2016 20:04:24 GMT
Probably my driveway. The turnaround at the top, by the garage, has a 10-foot sheer wall of granite going up to the back yard. We had to break up some rock to put in the house foundation, and this huge chunk just sheared off. I have a rock garden planted on top of it. This sounds interesting. I'd love to see some pics!
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Post by deekaye on Apr 25, 2016 20:05:16 GMT
It's surrounded on 4 sides by beans. Or corn. depending on the year. When our girls were little they loved to drive past the "Pea House"... 'just an ordinary house in the middle of a pea field on the way to Grandma's. Depending on the season, you could either see all, part or none of the house from the highway.
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Post by mtscrapper on Apr 25, 2016 20:39:12 GMT
My office is in a tiny little closet. We had it built that way. It was originally supposed to be open to the rest of the room with a little nook, but we had them close it off so I could have it private (I'm a medical transcriptionist and need the privacy).
Our house also is in a cul-de-sac but there are 2 houses behind us that are not on the street. We have a shared driveway (our house faces the street, but our garage is on the side of the house) between the other 2 houses. We do have our own section of driveway that will fit a couple of cars on, but we have to use the shared driveway to get to the street, if that makes sense.
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Post by Mystie on Apr 25, 2016 20:45:07 GMT
I live in a very generic 1980s-era colonial. The only weird thing I can think of is that we don't have a basement--I would kill for a basement! Most homes around here don't, because the water table is too high. I grew up in the Midwest so a house without a basement is very weird to me.
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Post by Merge on Apr 25, 2016 20:45:19 GMT
Hmmm. The dishwasher is placed so that when its door is open, you can't open the storage drawers underneath the oven or reach the cabinet next to the oven and above the counter - which makes unloading the dishwasher kind of a PITA. There's also one skinny drawer next to the oven that can't be opened unless you open the dishwasher first, because it bangs into the dishwasher door handle.
I also think the kitchen is too small for the house, which is 2400 sf like the one mentioned above. The house was gutted and remodeled before we purchased it, so there is ample space that could have been used in the entryway or dining room to make the kitchen a bit larger. I don't get it.
I do love the house overall, though.
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Post by freebird on Apr 25, 2016 20:49:04 GMT
OMG freebird , do you live in a house like in a scary film?! How close are your nearest neighbours? There isn't anything unusual about our house, I don't think. We have the original wooden front door from the 1920s. That's all I've got. haha... no there's a road going by our house. We're just out in the beans. It's great on corn years because you can see nothing but corn. Great privacy fence. I contemplate growing 6 rows of corn around my property every year just to keep the nosies out. haha. I'm about 1/4 mile from my neighbors so they could hear me scream in the night
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Post by mommaho on Apr 25, 2016 20:49:10 GMT
We live in an old school house and the family who bought it in 1917 put in some false walls to hide their moonshine from the revenuers! Also, there was an old Chicken coop behind the house that had a false wall, move some hay bales and a staircase appeared, down to the stile (? spelling?). It is all torn up now though . . .
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Post by myshelly on Apr 25, 2016 20:53:00 GMT
I'd love to know which post inspired this thread.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2016 20:58:37 GMT
Our house is a 4 bedroom, built in 1976. One bedroom is in the interior of the house, so it has no windows at all, but 3 doors.
Lana
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Post by PepsiGal on Apr 25, 2016 21:01:42 GMT
There is a bank of light switches in the master bedroom. Nothing was labeled, so we had to figure out what each one controlled. But there's one we haven't figured out. After 7 years of trying, we've given up. We have the same thing but in the foyer. We have three switches - one for the inside light and the porch light and the third is "just there". The builder of the house lives next door but he is 80 years old and can't remember what it is for. Also the house was remodeled eleven years ago and we bought it before asking what gives. If I switch it by accident I will make the comment - I guess I opening someone's garage door now. (We have a carport).
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Post by 505scrapper on Apr 25, 2016 21:03:53 GMT
I have one whole section of my house that has bad wiring. Don't know how it passed inspection, but it all worked for just over a year after I moved in (after the warranty for the inspection ran out). So this section of the house goes from the Kitchen, bathroom, bathroom, bedroom. In the kitchen on the wall that shares with the first bathroom, there is an outlet that my dishwasher was plugged into. It no longer works which means the dishwasher isn't being used. This one actually went out right before the warranty ran out and they came out to fix it, but it went out again after the warranty ran out). In the bathroom, one of the lights (there are regular ceiling lights and a heat lamp in each bathroom) quit working. I had an electrician in for that and that is when we realized the wiring was screwed up. He had to redo some wiring and set up lights above the sink that are wall mounted. Next bathroom that shares the same wall as the first bathroom we have the same situation. One of the ceiling lights works but the other one does not. In the bedroom attached to that bathroom, the outlet on the same wall as the bathroom does not work.
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Post by AmandaA on Apr 25, 2016 21:10:12 GMT
The house I grew up in was a replica of a house in Salem from the colonial era. On the second story, right above the main entry/foyer was a small room that was useless for us- my mom displayed an antique cabinet and rocker in it- but was supposedly where the judge would be for the witches in the original Salem house. It had a wall of large windows for the judge to watch them according to the legend.
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Post by lesley on Apr 25, 2016 21:10:22 GMT
There's not very much that's unusual about my house. I do know that there is not another one like it in my town, as any time we have tried to have it valued, estate agents say they have nothing to compare it to. There is a deep pit in our tandem garage, dug there by a previous owner who used to hire out vintage wedding cars. He must have done his own inspections and maintenance. (Either that, or he had very naughty children! )
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Post by AmandaA on Apr 25, 2016 21:13:42 GMT
It's surrounded on 4 sides by beans. Or corn. depending on the year. Us too. Out in the middle of a 127 acre field! I am pretty sure the time a tech guy told me to just "hop into one of my neighbor's wifi networks" he thought I was lying about that not being an option! We will have beans this year and I am going to miss our privacy fence. Funny how exposed we feel when the corn is harvested and we can see all of the cars on the road and they can see us.
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Post by anonrefugee on Apr 25, 2016 21:14:01 GMT
My house seems fairly dull. My fifteen year old is the oddest thing. My office is in a tiny little closet. We had it built that way. It was originally supposed to be open to the rest of the room with a little nook, but we had them close it off so I could have it private (I'm a medical transcriptionist and need the privacy). Our house also is in a cul-de-sac but there are 2 houses behind us that are not on the street. We have a shared driveway (our house faces the street, but our garage is on the side of the house) between the other 2 houses. We do have our own section of driveway that will fit a couple of cars on, but we have to use the shared driveway to get to the street, if that makes sense. Do they call your house the flag lot?
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Post by Dori~Mama~Bear on Apr 25, 2016 21:20:07 GMT
The oddest thing about our apartment is there are 4 large windows and a glass door in my bedroom and there is one small window in the living room.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Apr 25, 2016 21:21:40 GMT
probably the courtyard-- our house is shaped sort of like a "blocky-C" with a formal dining space in the front (at the bottom of the C), a hallway (the vertical part of the C) to the back of the house where the family room and kitchen is (this would be the top of the C)... off the hallway is this tiny little courtyard (in the empty space of the C).
A courtyard would be okay but our lot is so small that the courtyard looks directly at the block wall and at the neighbor's 2-story house, which is only about 15 feet away. That courtyard is pretty much useless to us. (except one of the dogs poops there...)
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Post by jemali on Apr 25, 2016 21:24:41 GMT
At my inlaws old house, the light switch for the bathroom is in the hallway. So you have to turn the light on before you go in and close the door. Took me a while to figure that one out.
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Post by snappinsami on Apr 25, 2016 21:26:06 GMT
There's nothing weird about our current rental house at all. It's boring. I won't miss it when we move out in a few weeks.
Now the house I grew up in is another story. It was built in 1939, and when we moved in in 1977, we were only the second family to live in it, having bought it from the builder's daughter. We bought some of the original furniture from her. When we stripped off the 40 year old wallpaper, we could see the original pencil markings on the plaster walls. It was an incredible house.
But we all swear it was haunted, most likely by the builder himself, Mr. Baker.
There were always weird things going on in the house. Attic windows would be open after we knew we'd closed them. Strange sounds. Lights being on when we got home that we knew had been off when we'd left. Things like that. He never bothered us and we never saw him. But to this day, we're pretty sure the house was haunted. (Not sure if my parents put that in the disclosure when they sold the house a few years ago... LOL!)
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