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.

https://www.patrice-besse.co.uk/ads/character-houses-for-sale-touraine-region-in-france-30-minutes-from-tours--pb644576

@weirdestate do you know about unteriors on tumblr
@kouett I do not! I'll have a look, thanks.
First, I like looking at architecture fails so I appreciate the [accidental] Tumblr blog recommendation. And, on that same line I recommend @/hometoursandotherstuff, ‘other stuff’ is sometimes nightmarish stairs and a little more rarely architecture fails

@weirdestate They’re fixer-UPPERS.

get it?

@weirdestate i dont like these stairs. But i like em better than the neotroglodyte we flight of certain death
@weirdestate 'where's your toilet, please?'
'Upstairs, then turn right.'
'You know what, I think I'll just hold it til I get home.'
@weirdestate yet these are beautiful stairs worthy of careful restoration.

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No, no. Well-designed stairs make you complacent. I appreciate stairs that are clear in their hostile intentions.

@weirdestate That's not a spiral staircase, it is a vertical auger.
@weirdestate the blunt & rounded treads ensure that the staircase itself is not the cause of death, deferring life altering injuries to the floor or sharp cornered bench underneath
@weirdestate what sort of semi-humanoid being were those stairs intended for?
@weirdestate Spiral staircase aside, it’s a gorgeous house. I would live there in a heartbeat.
@Sylvhem @weirdestate That's a broken neck waiting to happen.
@Sylvhem @weirdestate a bargain at *checks notes* half a million euros
@weirdestate I like the fact that if you fail that staircase in just the right way you’re going to get gored by a liquor cabinet.
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Just like the fortune teller predicted...
@weirdestate Ah, I would simply die on the day I moved in. Which would save unpacking I suppose.
@weirdestate It's ok: the bovine art object will break your fall
@weirdestate "bovine themed death trap"

@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.

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@weirdestate The staircase looks like the time I went to Strawbery Banke on an elementary school field trip and attempted to make a candle.
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So was the place last week a fully troglodyte house?
@weirdestate okay besides the staircase, which ontop of being glaringly unsafe is also weirdly organic, like when you pour wax down an anthill? this house is actually super cool! hope it goes to someone who appreciates its character

@weirdestate that's a stripper pole with extra steps.

(I'll see myself out.)

@weirdestate that

is just a shitty ladder, twisted

@weirdestate definite "bond villain on a budget, but effectively used" vibes
@weirdestate @jalefkowit I believe that style is called "code violation"
@weirdestate I would have thought semi-troglodyte was the term for what you’re left with after a troglodyte tries to use those stairs
@dale_price @weirdestate I’d like to speak with the troglodyte who thought those stairs were a good idea 😭

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*This segment of the House on the Rock tour has been closed to the public due to safety concerns.*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_on_the_Rock

House on the Rock - Wikipedia

@jovikowi @weirdestate the House on the Rock is still plenty weird without it. That place defies easy description

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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 I think that is called an "OSHA violation," or more colloquially, a "death trap."

@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 “The Widow-Maker”

@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.

@weirdestate there hundreds of cave houses in Spain and its islands. If you go to Granada, check them out. They are fresh places in Summer and cozy in Winter.
@weirdestate that thing is one bracket up from rope ladder
@weirdestate there's an old troglodyte village you can visit in France that's super cool.
No terrifying staircases in those!
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Looks like a serious damp problem on the outside wall.
Where is this? Could be France?
@weirdestate I love how it has skateboard tape to counteract the stupidity of polished aluminium
@weirdestate it is spiraling the other way around
@weirdestate can't see the staircase, who wants a cow shaped chest in their living room 😱
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The stair is called M400, by the designer Roger Tallon (he also worked on the high-speed train TGV) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Tallon
Roger Tallon - Wikipedia