Today I learned the term "semi-troglodyte house" which means a house partially built into a cave.
What I did not learn is a term for the worst spiral staircase I've ever seen in my life.
Today I learned the term "semi-troglodyte house" which means a house partially built into a cave.
What I did not learn is a term for the worst spiral staircase I've ever seen in my life.
@weirdestate They’re fixer-UPPERS.
get it?
No, no. Well-designed stairs make you complacent. I appreciate stairs that are clear in their hostile intentions.
@weirdestate I'd replace that terrible staircase with a fireman's pole and just use the back stairs if I needed to go up. The house is completely glorious otherwise.
For that house, I'd learn French.
@spiegelmama @weirdestate if you need more space, just start digging into the back
(Apparently how they did it in medieval Newcastle, according to a tour I went on)
@giflian
They do that in Cooper Pedy.
"Just adding another room and building a big deep swimming pool"
Ohh look some opal. Pity there is a ban on mining in the town.
@weirdestate that's a stripper pole with extra steps.
(I'll see myself out.)
That's a Jacob's Ladder.
@weirdestate that
is just a shitty ladder, twisted
*This segment of the House on the Rock tour has been closed to the public due to safety concerns.*
Hidden fact: The staircase is motorized.
When it's up to the full 600RPM, it really cools the place down, and you get used to the sound, eventually.
@weirdestate this is exactly what Bilbo Baggin's house would been if Tolkien had been French.
The staircase is clearly a gift from Galadriel.
@weirdestate My first assumption with troglodyte associations was it’d be made out of the ribcage of a large animal, likely a whale, arranged at an angle.
Zooming in on the picture, I think the ribcage would be safer.